How-To: Holiday Fabric Placemats
Looking to add a personal and crafty touch to your holiday table? Be sure to check out this tutorial from the folks at ReproDepot. I love the effect of the trim around the edges. See how they create it here.
Home Decor
How-To: Arm Rest Organizer From Napkins
Cathe of Just Something I Made shares how she transformed two cloth napkins (each under $1) into this handy arm rest organizer for her sofa. She’s even provided the vintage clip art in case you want to decorate it like hers.
How-To: Book Clock
Disney from Ruffles and Stuff shows how she harvested clockwork mechanisms from an inexpensive clock and used them to transform an old book into a new, beautiful clock.
Tanis Alexis’ Urban Felt Rug
This is a lovely detail from a felted rug, handmade by Tanis Alexis. Tanis is a fiber artist, mom, contributor to Feltique, and a spectacular artist. She creates classic pieces of felt, but with a multimedia twist! Each rug is wet felted from 100% wool, and then the city scene is added with a limited […]
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors By Wendy Tremayne With more people recognizing the value of scrap materials it can be hard to find great stuff in the waste stream. These days I rely on the surplus store as much as the curb. Surplus stores often carry industrial waste materials: tough, oversized items […]
How-To: 3D Blood Spatter Halloween Decor
Meg from Threadbanger’s Decor it Yourself is on this week’s Etsy How-Tuesday to make some 3D blood spatter decorations for Halloween, like in the TV show Dexter. Bring a little forensics to your Halloween party!
How-To: Soap Cupcakes
Debbie of Soapy Love has a tutorial on the Soap Queen for making these cute cupcake soaps. Just be careful no one tries to eat them!
