Hey, the holiday spirit is starting to hit me and I’ve been thinking about ideas for handmade Christmas gifts.
We have fun coming up with new holiday creations every year and I always love getting handmade gifts. If you have some more ideas, please share them with us.
Gifts in a jar
These are great for cookies and [...]
I’m not sure why but some kids are into skulls and hearts even when it’s not Halloween. This is an easy and fun way to dress up a plain baseball cap.
They’re actually iron-on rhinestone studs and they come in all different shapes and patterns. I found them at Michaels craft store but you could probably [...]
I had a couple boring white cotton pillow cases with dainty little flowers on them. They’re pretty but they were getting old.
I just grabbed a few plastic squirt bottles that I had used to make tie dye t-shirts, put a little dye in the bottom and added water.
There was no rhyme or reason to the [...]
These striped candles were easy and I’m quite pleased with the pretty results. It does require some patience though because if you don’t wait long enough for one layer to harden, the colors will seep together.
Mason jars work well for container candles and it only costs about $7 for 12 of them. Container soy wax [...]
Martha Stewart has helped me with so many wonderful DIY projects, recipes and gardening tips over the years. Martha’s blog is going strong but I think she deserves a shout out anyway.
It was generous of her to offer blog reviews so I thought it was worth a shot. See how to create your own blog [...]
I made this in between catching up on laundry, assembling acceptable lunches for school and running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
It’s just a little wooden laptop tray I grabbed for a couple bucks from the craft store but it saves your legs from getting burnt.
It’s not quite dry but I’m happy [...]
We have so many soup and coffee cans to recycle so I thought I would explore different ways of reusing them.
Bake bread. Soup cans make cute little round slices of bread. Try banana bread, zuchinni bread, raisin bran or carrot cake muffin/cake recipes.
Use them as a candle mold. Either insert a tabbed wick and fill [...]
Instead of pitching all your paper in the recycling bin, try some of these creative ways of recycling.
Wallpaper
Use old wallpaper to decorate boxes, photo frames and shelves. Create a makeshift crate out of a sturdy wallpapered cardboard box or decoupage a candle. Make and decorate a dollhouse with cardboard and wallpaper.
Magazines
Make gorgeous beads out of [...]
I love looking at children’s sidewalk chalk art but it doesn’t take long before all you have left are tiny chalk stubs. It’s no fun when the rain interrupts a hopscotch game either.
You can make your own chalk using plaster of paris, water and tempera paint. Toilet paper tubes make perfect molds and all you [...]
