Try This: Wooden Gems. Try This: Wooden Gems Today's tutorial will set you back a couple of bucks and ten minutes, and in the end, you'll have a handful of little gemstones ready for whatever projects your imagination can scheme up.
Read on for the easy step-by-step and few ideas for how to put these little beauties to use. MATERIALS: wooden rectangles, pencil, fine tip paint brush, craft paints in colors of your choosing, black, and white ONE: Begin by sketching the facet lines as shown. They don't have to be perfect. TWO: Mix up six shades of the color of your choosing using black and white paint. THREE: Use the fine tip brush to carefully paint inside your sketched facet lines. Try out some other colors and use them in all sorts of ways...jewelry, keychains, napkin rings. The Most Flattering Shirt Dress DIY. Hello my Hot Mess Mommy friends.
Ever feel like little girls get all the cute dresses? Well, now it’s your turn. I fell in love with this native-american-esque print gauze forever ago and finally decided to just cut into it. It’s a simple v-neck shirred waist dress, flattering because: V-necks take the attention away from your giant post-baby boobs, and a shirred waist is never too tight and can be placed at your skinniest part (flabby baby belly=hidden). You can totally make this. If you need to get your bearings for shirring with elastic thread check out the Simple Shirred Summer Dress pattern and the Smocked Sundress pattern, then come back here for the full tutorial on sewing yourself The Most Flattering Shirt Dress after the jump…The Most Flattering Shirt Dress 1. 2. 3. 4.
Sew each shoulder together and finish the edges by serging, sewing with a zig zag stitch, or cutting with pinking shears: Then sew up both sides and finish the seams (of course stopping at the armhole notch. DIY Lace Earrings. Dolce & Gabbana‘s Spring ’11 collection undoubtedly furthered our already fanatical obsession with lace.
Honestly, how dreamy is the collection?! We thought we’d make good use of some vintage lace trim we had laying around and turn them into earrings similar to the ones we saw on the runway. And thanks to some tips from a DIY previously featured on Poppytalk, making lace earrings proved be a cinch! Mix equal parts glue to water in a bowl. Cut your shapes from your lace trim or doily, making sure both pieces are symmetrical. Submerge the cut shapes into the glue mixture. How to Make a Mini Bow & Arrow. 20 Awesome Do It Yourself Projects. Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:30 am, Posted by Chris Groves | Internet 20 Awesome Do It Yourself Projects Topics: At Home Project Ideas , Creative DIY Home Projects , Do It Yourself Projects for 2012 , Fun How To Projects , What to Do with Extra Stuff Are you bored and have a bunch of extra little items hanging around here and there?
Well we were in the same boat so we decided to round up 20 different awesome at home projects you can do. Anything from soda pop cap lids to spoons and more. You honestly don’t know some of the creative things you can do with what could possible be junk. Plastic Spoon Rose ∙ How To by EVEnl on Cut Out. Little Things Bring Smiles: .Plastic Spoon Mirror Tutorial. In my spare time I find myself on a particular website just ready for my inspiration light bulb to turn on.
Any guesses what that website may be? ;) Back in April I spotted a pin and I had exactly two thoughts: 1. AMAZING, will definitely be making this! And 2. 37 Easy DIY No-Carve Pumpkin Ideas. DIY Project: Geometric Painted Wall. As someone who loves wallpaper but hates the physical act of wallpapering, I feel indebted to Alecia Stenseth for showing me a fantastic alternative for decorated walls.
Alecia was inspired by a wall in designer Kelly Wearstler’s beach house that was featured in Elle Decor, so she decided to create a similar geometric pattern on her bedroom wall using painter’s tape and house paint. My favorite step in this project is the one where you cover everything on the wall in white, then slowly peel away the tape to reveal the gorgeous ochre lines. I’ve used painter’s tape long enough to know how deeply satisfying it is to see those clean, crisp lines appear out of nowhere. DIY Project: 3D Cube Painted Wall by Donna Yu.
We had a blast sifting through all the submissions from our recent DIY contest, and we were so glad to see that you, like us, were impressed by the wealth of creative ideas.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing full tutorials for some of the finalist projects, and we thought it would be appropriate to start with our top winner! This painted 3D cube design is so amazing — I honesty love it more than any geometric wallpaper I’ve seen, and it’s awesome that with a little patience and precision, you can achieve a whole room of this for merely the cost of paint and tape.
Congrats again, Donna, and thank you for sharing the process with us! — Kate Read the full how-to for the first-prize winning project after the jump . . . Materials. Diy projects. Ten minute no-sew recycled t-shirt bag! Tutorial time!
I got a gig teaching a recycled t-shirt project at the library a few months ago, with a request for a recycled tee bag – the only bags I’d made from tees in the past had required sturdy sewing, and I didn’t want hand-sewing to be the only thing holding the bottom closed in a class version of the bags, so I started brainstorming about some kind of hand-sewing-friendly or no-sew bag idea…. and here’s what I came up with! The simplest version of these bags is great for smaller tees, or the more light-weight kind of girl-tees – just turn the bottom of the shirt into a drawstring and tie it closed! As you can see, even with a not huge tee, this will still leave a significant hole in the bottom of your bag, but for purposes like grocery shopping, this size hole shouldn’t really matter… But to make smaller holes, just make more than one of them! DIY. Dry shampoo has been a MUST HAVE in my daily hair care routine for the past three years.
I’ve gone through countless spray cans of different brands (Psst! , Tresemme, John Frieda, Garnier, Oscar Blandi, Batiste…to name a few), spending way too much for very little product. I started to use plain old baby powder, sprinkling it directly on my roots and rubbing it in, and I found that it worked just as well or even better at giving my hair added volume and combating greasiness. 12 Amazing DIY Nail Art Designs Using Scotch Tape. 3 Kinds Of Nail Art You Can Do Yourself. Valentines Friendship Bracelets.
Last summer I not only conquered my childhood fear of making Friendship Bracelets, but I also developed a new appreciation for them.
They’re simple to make and cute as a can be, but most winningly, they really are great tokens of friendship. So cheerfully reminiscent of childhood and its open declarations of best-friends-forever, friendship bracelets are such a super way to let someone know you’re thinking about them. DIY Braided Bead Bracelet - Honestly WTF. Creative DIY Tips & Project Ideas For Homemakers. Where DIY Meets WTF.