Vickie Howell shows you how to make a a Fourth of July Picnic Blanket made from recycled sweaters in a video for new site CRAFTED by Lifetime. Vickie writes: Starting now, each holiday season will be webdazzled (the internet’s version of “jazz hands”) by 5 new craft segments hosted by 5, very different designers (yours […]
Apartment Therapy LA posted about SleepyHappy’s inspiring wall garden, made from spray-painted repurposed tin cans. As she notes in her photostream: Pizza restaurants go through dozens of these cans every week, just ask. Painted with rust paint these looked pretty good for two years, the third year I did touch ups on the rust that […]
Peter writes in about Instructables user adlabens, who shows us how to make a really classy tire swing. I agree with one of the commenters suggestions, though, to add plastic tubing or garden hose over the lower sections of the chain to protect little fingers from pinches.
Jennifer points us to this clever craft: a pincushion ring made from a carton drink container pull-tab. Full instructions can be found on the Early Bird Special blog, who got the idea from Flickr user niki’smami.
Confessions of an OCD Knitter shows us how to make crafty jewelry from Starbucks cards, everything from earrings to this cute bracelet above. Shelly writes: My friend works as a Shift Manager at a local Starbucks and gets a TON of dead cards. She’s managed to make some VERY cute jewelry from cutting them up […]
Craftster Sharon.S collected some furniture curbside, deconstructed two found chairs, added a headboard and wound up creating this amazing looking bench.
Anjali of Giant Jeans Parlor shows us how to take an ordinary bread pan and turn it into this fabulous succulent planter.
