Holder for Charging Cell Phone (made from lotion bottle My husband and I both have cell phones. And both of us have phone chargers. And that means lots of obnoxious cords. You never know when one of us may be moving phone cords around, to give our phones an extra charge while we’re chatting away……… or trying to charge our phones up before running errands or something. (Okay, and how about when you’re in a hotel or visiting family/friends. I was looking around on the internet for a solution and found this. It made the perfect little holder for my cell phone while it’s being charged. Holder for Charging Cell Phone And no more phone hanging down from the outlet while in this room or that room……..the cord and phone are now up off the ground, and tucked away into the little holder, while the phone drinks up a full charge. And of course I couldn’t just leave the poor little holder alone……I had to Mod Podge some fabric right onto it for some kick. If you look closely, you can see that the orange print is fabric. And turns out, it’s pretty useful.
DIY Natural Room Scents Don't miss my follow-up post to this one withNATURAL ROOM SCENTS FOR DIY GIFTS & CENTERPIECESCLICK HERE This post was featured in the April 2013 issue of Woman's Day magazine. Here's the thing. I'm married to a man who hates artificial scents of any kind. Turns out that King-Man may just be ahead of his time. But, the air in my house gets stale sometimes. There is a simple, all natural, truly lovely solution. Keeping the supply list simple. How to Make Natural Room Scents Fragrant items for naturally scenting your home: citrus -- I've tried other fruits. view whole spices on Amazon: cinnamon sticks, anise stars, allspice, cloves, vanilla beans Five Natural Room Scent RecipesThese are all scents that my nose likes. General procedure: Combine the ingredients in a 2 cup (pint) jar or container, or in a pan on the stove top. view on Amazon: ♦pint jars ♦plastic lids for jars Scent #1: Oranges, cinnamon & cloves (allspice and anise are optional). Scent #2: Lemon, rosemary, & vanilla. Gift them!
radical possibility: Easy Anthropologie Confetti Tumblers Thank you all so much for such amazing feedback and for helping this project circulate all over the internet! My cups have held up pretty well due to not being used too often (they are currently just holding bobby pins in my bathroom) but several readers said after a little wear and tear, the paint comes off. Other readers have found that using paint specifically for glass leads to a much longer life! In the comments, readers have specifically stated that Martha Stewart Paints and DecoArt paints have lasted the best. I have used both, and love them both! The process of making them will remain the same, but these products should help prolong the life of your glassware. xo, z Here's the thing about Anthropologie; everything is gorgeous. Let the knockoff begin! The internet taught me that I can use acrylic paint on glass as long as I seal it afterwards, so thats what we are going to do here. In true knockoff fashion, I did one rainbow confetti, and one each of red and blue. xo,
Make Your Shelf at Home: Revamping a $10 Bookcase Our sunroom houses my little home office, but it didn’t originally. When we moved in, it was more of a room-we-don’t-know-what-to-do-with-so-we’ll-put-all-the-extra-boxes-there-until-we’re-done-unpacking sort of area, and at the end of all the moving in, four boxes remained, forming a tower that loomed over me as I worked. I hung curtains, got houseplants (now long dead of course), and put art on the walls, but there were the boxes, ignored and despised. They stayed there for about a year. Living with them sucked, but looking back, we deserved it. We do the dumbest stuff. One day, I looked directly at the tower of boxes for the first time in ages, and I realized I had the power to remove them. Thirty seconds later I began brainstorming ideas to fill the space. By the end of the day, I’d announced my plan to grab some kind of cheap secondhand unit. Pretty hard. Personally, I liked how weird it was. So I took it home and got to work. Sanding sucks so much. See? But I’m happy with it.
DIY Dollhouse Jewelry Oh my god, you guys. Do you find yourself making squealy squee noises when you see dollhouse stuff, like you might die from how cute and tiny it all is? I do. I can’t walk by without picking up all the tiny things and admiring their perfect tininess. But I don’t have a dollhouse, so I don’t get to have the tiny things. This week, it was finally time to take some tininess home for myself. If you’d like your own necklaces to harness the power of all the tiny littleness in the world, here’s how I made both of mine! First, a tiny tea set is simple to make into a cluster necklace. A miniature tea set, or any set of tiny objects, ideally with handles or other loops.Jump rings.Two pairs of pliers (needle nose or chain nose pliers are easiest), for opening and closing your jump rings (here’s how).Additional charms or beads on head pins (optional).A long chain to hang your tea set on. Use the above photo as your guide. Piece of cake, huh? Some tiny tools or other miniature items.Memory wire.
Six paper flowers It got into my head that I needed to make some paper flowers. I don’t know why. But I figured it wouldn’t be a big deal because the Internet is a veritable smörgåsbord of craft tutorials, and all I had to do was fire up Lappy 5000 and pick one out. About 300,000 search results later, I was no longer any more confident in my ability to make a paper flower than I was in my cat’s ability to retrieve his stupid mouse instead of staring at my hand after I throw it. There were just too many choices and although I could compare the photos, they didn’t reflect (1) how good each tutorial was, (2) how closely my flower would resemble the picture, or (3) which flowers would look nice together. It was terribly overwhelming. Then again, I thought, if anyone is supposed to try every single one, it might as well be me. After some consideration, I decided that 300,000 might be a few too many to take on, so I narrowed it down to the six most promising and got to work. That’s all there is to it.
Crazy Quilted Paper Cloth Bookmarks I recently acquired the excellent book Stich Alchemy by Kelli Perkins and immediately became obsessed with making her crazy quilted paper cloth bookmarks. So of course I did.... The process for making the paper cloth is much like what PurpleHeather details in her fabulous tutorial. I used a base of cotton muslin well soaked with diluted glue then topped with 2" torn strips of pattern paper-I really like the graphic qualities of the pattern markings (and I also can pick up old patterns for 10 cents at the thrift store!) On top of that I brushed on more diluted glue and random bits of torn text/letters/maps. Then the top layer of more torn strips of pattern paper. After the sheets dried the real fun starts I laid on base coats of paint then spattered/stamped/stenciled/inked/sprayed glitter ink/wrote on with white paint pen/gilded with joss paper. Then I cut some tiny random shapes, about 1 1/2" - 2".
Junior Varsity Quilling Tutorial I learned the basics of quilling years ago but never advanced to varsity level projects and rarely found the inspiration to pull my supplies out of hiding. Fortunately, Craftster is blessed with members like littlecircles and mezcraft who are both incredible quilling artisans and all the inspiration I need to practice my own skills. I don't claim to be an expert quilling artist, frankly, I'm not good at all!! But I am excited about this craft and wanted to share my very basic knowledge. Quilling is an ancient craft (also known as paper filigree) that's done by wrapping paper strips around a quill to form a coil. - Quill- Paper strips- Foundation for your art (I use card stock)- Glue- Pin or toothpick for glue dotting (optional) The quill is a small round tool with a forked point at the end. To begin a coil, place the end of a paper strip between the two prongs of the quill. Next, you twist, twist, twist the paper strip around the quill! Here is a looser version of a coil.
The Walking Dead patchwork bag My first post on this board! \o/ Heehhee, it feels like something worth celebrating. For the Walking Dead swap I participated in recently, my partner had a lot of bags, particularly Teesha Moore (?) Et viola; a printed patchwork bag! Side one; and two; It's a mix of the show and the comics, featuring quotes and motifs and images from both. Thanks for clicking my link and taking a look. A Sewing Box from an Old Book - CRAFTSTER CRAFT CHALLENGES I found a tutorial to turn a book into a sewing box HERE and I knew it would be perfect for my partner in the Book Lover's swap, which I had just started organizing when this challenge was announced. So she got a new sewing box, and I got something I could enter in this challenge! Win-win! It started with this big, thick volume of Shakespeare I found for $1 at my local library. (People donate old books and the library sells them to fund their programs.) First I removed all the pages--it was actually very easy to do with an X-acto knife: just one cut along the inside of the spine at the front and the back, and they all came out together. Then I glued book-themed scrapbook paper to the inside of the covers, sandwiching in some ribbon to tie the box closed. I glued more of the scrapbook paper to the outside of the balsa wood to give the box a finished look. I painted the top edges of the wood with gold paint.