A Closet Organizer for Her I recently completed a closet organizing system for my husbands closet and it has worked out so well that I thought I would use the leftover pegboard and make myself one. Here is my husbands organizer in case you haven't seen it...take a "lookie" HERE... I am going to show you the finished picture of my organizer and then I will walk you through how I put it all together.. Here is a list of supplies you will need to complete this project: Pegboard4 pieces of 1x2x8 wood. Below are pictures of me assembling the pegboard with the wood strips. Cut a piece of material with a 2" border around the pegboard. After the material has been stapled to the board, I then took some decorative trim and hot glued it all the way around to the outside of the frame..You can see what it looks like finished below... After the board was ready, I took all of my knobs, hooks and baskets and laid them out onto the board to see where the placement of everything would be. Here is how I designed mine... My headbands....
NEON STRIPED COFFEE TABLE As you can see... this table needed some help. Casey had this table all painted yellow and when it didn't live up to her expectations... she started chipping the paint away (off of the top.) Soon enough we bought some spray that made it 1000 times easier to get the paint off. With a blank surface of a table, we decided to take advantage of the situation and spice it up a little... with neon colors. I'll give you a step by step of how we did it. Start off with a stripped down table surface. Sand the table down really well. Paint the legs/ bottom of the table. When the bottom has dried, tape off the top of the edges of the top of the table. We stuck computer paper to the backside of the tape to make sure we didn't get any paint on the bottom of the table. We spray painted the top of our table gray, let it dry a little and then removed the tape and paper. For our table we wanted to do a series of diagonal stripes weaving in and out of each other.
diy wood crate bookcase If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Get the latest posts delivered straight to your inbox for free! Thanks for visiting! i have been pinning projects like this for as long as i’ve been on pinterest and i finally got around to it! last week i shared our new chalkboard wall with you in our playroom/school room/my office/studio space. its a space that needs to be super functional, and because of that we’ve lost a lot of the “pretty”. i decided it was time to add that back in! this wall used to have rain gutter bookshelves. while i liked how they looked, i didn’t like how they functioned. i love the look of the chalkboard wall as is, but since this is our school room, it really needed to function as more than a pretty wall displaying our world map. all the colors of paint i used were ones i found in the garage or in my craft paint piles. i wanted a rainbow of colors, so whatever i didn’t have on hand i made by adjusting existing cans of paint with craft paints.
Long Overdue Fusing Plastic Bag Tutorial I realized this afternoon that I basically explain this technique to an Etsy Labs visitor at least once a day, but had never put the instructions online. So, here it is. Fusing! Plastic! Bags! What you'll needPlastic bags (thin, flimsy ones work best)Parchment paper, freezer paper or plain old copier paperIron (and your favorite ironing surface) Making it Flatten out the bag and trim the bottom seam and handles off. Turn the bag inside-out if it has printing on it. Next, run a hot iron (we set ours to "Rayon", but you will need to experiment a little to see what works for you) and keep the iron moving constantly. Peel a corner of the paper back to see if the plastic is fused together. Peel the parchment paper away from the finished plastic sheet. Here are a few more rad examples of what you can do with this stuff, courtesy of Etsy seller Eclipse Alright, y'all.
Toilet Paper Roll Wall Art Well that’s a mouthful! So the time has come, it’s Pinterest Challenge time again! Every season Sherry from YHL and Katie from Bower Power throw a little link party to get people to stop pinning things and actually start making. This couldn’t have come at a better time because I have wanted to start this project forever and once Miss Kelly made her way into my kitchen I knew it was time to start it. This was the image I saw that sparked me to start saving my toilet paper rolls. I literally have been saving my rolls for. ever. Here’s what my toilet paper wall art turned into! Ok let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Next, I cut them up. Then, I took 4 pieces and glued them together using a hot glue gun. I continued doing this until I had about 40. Then I took the mirror I was going to use (10″ mirror purchased at Joann’s for $8) and placed it on the floor and started adding all the circles around keeping in mind that I wanted to keep it in a circle. Linking Up To: Young House Love Bower Power
Noodlehead: Tutorial: Messenger Bag from Cargo Pants Want to make one of these? From a pair of these? Here's the tutorial! Materials: 1 pair cargo pants (from the going to Goodwill pile of course) 1/2 yard lining material bias tape (store bought or make your own) thread {1/4" seam allowances throughout} Getting started... Take your pair of cargo pants and cut the inseam of each leg of the pants up to the crotch area. Cut the bag exterior pieces: front flap (this is where the cargo pocket comes in handy - cool pockets you don't have to sew!) Cut the same size pieces from the lining material. Make the strap by placing the long pieces right sides together, sew down each side. Now make the front flap. Assembling the lining: Take gusset pieces (2 sides and a bottom) and sew the short ends together. Lay your connected gusset pieces right sides together on top of the front of the bag piece, pin, sew. Lay the back of the bag down and set the front/gusset piece on top, pin in place. Make the exterior just like you did the lining of the bag.
take heart: DIY: embroidery hoop art so, i guess this isn't your typical hoop art… if there is such thing as a typical hoop art. if i had to name it i would call it hoop art picture displays, or something along those lines. i wanted to do something to display pictures and little things i love in our house without using frames. here is what i came up with, and i must tell you, i lalalove it. supplies: embroidery hoops, fabric, yarn or twine, mini clothespins, embellishments for clothespins, whatever pictures or other things you would like to display, scissors and hot glue. step 1: cut long thin strips of fabric. i cut mine about an inch wide but no need to be precise. mine were also not a straight line in the slightest and, i let them fray a lot. i sort of love frayed edges. sort of? all wrapped and prettay. i used two or three pieces of yarn on each one of my hoops. step 6: hang your pictures and whatever else your little heart desires with your clothespins. step 7: hang up your hoop art and admire. happy hooping! linking up here:
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GIVEAWAY + DIY // Gold Leaf Map Art sponsored by Does the fact that this post contains both the words “DIY” and “giveaway” in one place just make you want to explode? I thought so. The lovely Kimberly Moore of Third Floor Design Studio is giving away the a world map of your color choice, and I happened to have gotten my hands on one too. Before we get to the tutorial, we have to acknowledge that no set of prints is worth much if you can’t hang them, so Ikea is also supplying the lucky winner with a $40 gift card to buy the cute frames to accompany them as part of there back to school series! Here’s how to enter to win: Leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite item is from Third Floor Design Studio and Like Sugar & Cloth on Facebook. For additional entries: Leave a separate comment for each additional entry that you do: -Follow Sugar & Cloth on Twitter -Like Third Floor Design Studio on Facebook -Like Ikea on Facebook - Tweet about the Ikea Houston DIY event series with #madeforschool Materials for the DIY:
Faux Tin Tiles Tutorial Recycled crafts are one of my specialties. Embossing disposable cookie sheets is an easy technique and creates amazing art. Beautiful faux tin tiles! This is my second recycled craft idea using disposable cookie sheets!. For this project I used: 2 disposable aluminum cookie sheetsFree patterns from my pattern page* A knitting needle Paintbrush Various metallic acrylic paintsSpray primer A cork bulletin board Thumb tacks Are you new to the Sitcom? Begin by measuring out and cutting (3 ea.) 7″ squares from each cookie sheet. Use the scissors to clip a notch in each corner. I then drew out some patterns on paper. Here the metal tile is shown with the pattern scored into it. Once the piece is indented to your satisfaction, it is time to paint it. Once all the indentions were painted, I added a base color to the raised areas. I used the same color scheme for each tile, so that they all worked together. There are many ways to display your finished tiles. Signing you up!