Crafts
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Backyard Swingset/Firepit Combo
What a great way to save space! Combine your swings and firepit all in one small space!
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Living Umbrella
Love this living umbrella idea. It is so pretty and natural!
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Flower Vase or Pencil Holder
If you are making a vase, hot glue pencils all the way around a glass jar that is fairly tall and cylindrical. If you are making a pencil holder, a can will work perfectly. Tie a pretty ribbon around it, and you have a wonderful gift for a teacher, mom's…
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Vintage Crackled Flower Pot
Clay pot Scrapbook papers Decoupage medium One-Step Crackle Antiquing gel Dark brown paint Soft cloth UV Protectant sealer spray Cut paper into strips 4-inches wide. Use a large paintbrush to brush the decoupage medium onto the pot, just in a section big…
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Mosaic Wine Bottle
Empty wine bottle, labels removed, washed and dried Scrapbook paper in two different patterns Americana Crystal Gloss Enamel paint Gloss Mod Podge Choose a color paint that coordinates with your scrapbook paper. Crystal Gloss Enamels dry where you can s…
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5 Craft Ideas for Kids Using Crayons
1. Completely color every inch of a piece of white construction paper with at lease 5 colors, pushing hard on the crayon. Cover completely over the first layer of crayon with a black or a dark crayon, pushing hard. Use something sharp like the end of a pa…
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10 Ways to Celebrate the Fourth of July
1. Make pinwheels out of red, white and blue decorative paper, bamboo skewer and a cork. 2. Place little American flags in flower pots in the shape of a pyramid. 3. Make little lanterns from red, white and blue construction paper and hang on a clotheslin…
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10 Seashell Craft Ideas
1. Beach vacation memory jar. 2. Decorate a sturdy cardboard box or a wooden box to make a jewelry box. 3. Glue shells around the frame of a mirror or a photo frame to decorate. 4. Glue shells inside of a memory box from a craft store and hang. 5. Use as…
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Crafts With Mason Jars
1. Turn a classic mason jar into a soap or lotion dispenser in your bathroom. 2. Make a vase. 3. Tie 6 mason jars together with twine, 2 jars by 3 jars, and treat as one vase with whispy fowers in each. 4. Stack old wooden crates on top of each other and…
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Inexpensive Leather Headband
1. Cut two 15"x 3/4" strips from an old purse, cosmetic case, or tote. It doesn't even have to be real leather. 2. Start folding into two loops, a larger in back, and smaller in front, and mirror for the other side. 3. Put a dot of glue between layers.…
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Frayed Flower for Hair Accessories
Materials: a piece of fabric, 2 1/2 inches wide and about 45 inches long. hot glue and hot glue gun a small piece of felt. Cut the fabric approximately 2 1/2 inches wide and as long as you wish. For flower, Icut the length from selvage edge to selvag…
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Silk Scarf Maxi-Sac Handbag
Lay scarf out flat. Take 2 opposite corners and cross over each other. Pull to meet other 2 corners. Tie corners. Now you have a beautiful lightweight purse!
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Braided Silk Scarf Bracelet
Start with a scarf that is 9 inches by 60 inches. Create 3 "strands" for your braid by folding the middle, keep the ends slightly longer than the middle strand. Use your finger, or whatever is easiest, to anchor your braid and create a loop at the top. B…
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Pleated Little Girl Purse with Button
1/4 yd. (or fat quarter) of outer fabric (Any kind of fabric will work. Quilting cotton is good to use. If you use a thicker home décor type fabric, you can skip the interfacing.) 1/2 yd. of lightweight iron on interfacing. Pellon featherweight is good t…
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Art Idea for Old Crayons -Stained-Glass Look
2 pieces of waxed paper, each about 8-12 inches square old crayons with paper removed hand- held pencil sharpener iron scissors old newspaper Place one piece of waxed paper down on flat surface. Use pencil sharpener to shave different amounts of differe…
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Homemade Glow-In-The-Dark Bubbles
* 1 cu. water * 1 tbl. Dawn dish soap * 1 tsp. glycerin * straw or bubble wand * 1 clean glove or sock - to keep the bubble from popping * 2 tbl. Water Based Glow in the Dark Paint If you know that you have Hard or Soft water you will need to use distil…
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Homemade Lavender Soap
Goat’s milk soap base-about 13 cubes Lavender essential oil & soap colorant (can be purchased at Michael's) dry lavender Soap molds In order to make three lavender soap bars, you will need about 13 goat’s milk soap cubes. 1. Cut soap into cubes and plac…
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The Absolute Best Homemade Dry Skin Cream
13 oz pure petroleum jelly, like Vaseline 15-16 oz baby lotion, not oil 16 oz vitamin e cream, not lotion Using your hands or a mixer, combine all products in large container or bowl until smooth & vaseline is not lumpy. Store in covered containers, lik…
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Homemade Body Sugar Scrub
fine granulated sugar, salt, or brown sugar oil, extra virgin coconut oil, baby oil, olive oil, etc. a bowl or jar essential oils, optional spoon loofah mitts Salt or sugar can be used, but sugar is gentler on the skin, just choose a sugar or salt that…
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Homemade Scented Candles in a Jar
candle wax of your choice Candle wick Jar Hot glue gun A piece of card stock A double boiler or a saucepan and a glass bowl big enough to sit over the pot A food thermometer Oven mitts Fragrance oil Colorants- not water based Container with spout (optiona…
