Thrifty Crafty Girl: Wrought Iron, Except It's Not. Before I start talking about this awesome project, I have to give some props to the blogger who inspired it. Her name is Suzy. She has a sitcom. I haven't found it in my local listings yet, which probably means she held out for the big HBO or Showtime money. Smart girl. See Suzy's blog here. Did you look? Me: Hey, Suze. We sounded more educated in real life. So I did it: That's right... wrought iron. First, you call your family and ask them to save all their toilet paper and paper towel rolls. Once you've acquired a ridiculous amount of toilet paper and paper towel rolls (I didn't count how many I used because I am thoughtless. Cut your toilet paper rolls down the side and unfold it, keeping the curl. Suzy did an awesome quilled monogram project that I would also like to do eventually... but I can only steal one project at a time from her.
I used paper towel rolls for the long straight strips, just cut longways instead of with the curl. Toilet paper roll art. Visit Suzy. Mechanical Engineer. How-to Screenprint, Threadbanger. How About Orange. Here's a look at our upstairs guest bathroom. Last night I covered an accent wall with removable wallpaper. I love it! This bathroom has a peculiar layout. You walk in past the shower stall on the right, and when you hit the sink, you turn right to get to the toilet.
The kind folks at Walls Need Love sent the product to review. Like the Sunburst wallpaper I designed last year, this paper is essentially a giant self-adhesive wall decal, and it's easily to peel off and reposition. I measured the wall and cut a length of paper that would leave a little extra overhang at the bottom. After a couple tries I had it, and then it was just a matter of peeling off the backing paper gradually while smoothing down the paper with the tool provided. I cut another piece to place next to the first panel, overlapping the seam by a quarter inch to match the pattern. Then with a craft knife and straight edge, I trimmed off any overhang that wrapped onto the adjacent walls and baseboard. 27 Wonderful Paper And Cardboard DIY Christmas Decorations.
Black and white Christmas ornaments (via minieco) Paper and cardboard are the simplest craft materials ever. You can handle them very easily, they are cheap and various in colors and textures. You may also craft with your kids of paper and cardboard because it’s simple and they will be delighted. Here are some ideas how to make Christmas decorations of these materials. You can make nice paper tree ornaments of different shapes using various techniques like origami, for example. They may be modern, even minimalist – black and white – or, on the contrary, vintage, of old books pages. Handmade window garland For Christmas (via shimelle) paper ball Christmas ornament (via makermama)
DIY Tabletop Lamp From Old Toys. Personnaliser ses ustensiles de cuisine en bois. Paper Basket Panier en papier. How to make a fabric coil bowl or basket | The Red Thread. Add a pop of neon to your desk or shelf with these woven coil bowls. They’d also make a lovely handmade gift, perhaps a small bowl with a few rolls of washi tape inside? … it’s not long until Christmas! Click on the ‘read more’ link below for the full instructions. You’ll need: Long strips of fabric – anything will work: I used knits, both cotton and acrylic. Cord – the neon orange is ‘Brickie’s Line’ from the hardware store ($5 for 100 metres) – or you can use more fabric or yarn like I did on the pink bowls.
A large yarn needle with a big eye. Scissors. If you are cutting up fabric (T shirts, sheets, fabric yardage, etc) the thicker you cut it the chunkier and quicker your bowl will be. The instructional photos are for the grey bowl with neon orange stitching, so I’ll refer to those colours from now on. Cut a length of orange cord as long as you can manage it without it getting tangled, and thread the needle with it. Overlap the ends of the orange cord and the grey yarn. Finishing off. Pieces of Anna: DIY Wine and Beer Bottle Vases. As I mentioned earlier, I decided to get a little crafty with Christmas presents this year.
While browsing Pinterest, I stumbled upon this image that inspired me to try my hand at making vases out of wine and beer bottles. A little bit of googling turned up handy tutorials on how to wrap bottles with jute. Some tutorials called for using a hot glue gun, which I don't own (and quite frankly, I can't imagine that getting hot glue on your fingers is all that pleasant). Luckily, I found some tutorials, like this one, which claimed that you could achieve the same results using plain old Elmer's glue. The first step was to obtain some empty wine and beer bottles. Some labels came off rather easily, while others required a little scrubbing. Minieco tutorials.