1-Hour Projects. Arrow & Apple - Arrow & Apple - Editorial and Wedding Photography - Weekend DIY! Here's a quick DIY idea that you can use for either nesting your cute house, or use as centerpieces at your reception! Either way, these bookpage jars look so charming with a candle in them at night. They're easy to make, and I can almost guarantee you already have everything to make them.
Need: old bookpages, drawings, maps, woodgrain contact paper, anything paper! Mod-podge & a brushjars (make sure you can fit a candle inside them first) or hurricane glass Step 1 - Rinse out your jars and remove labels. Step 2 - Pick out your pages and glue them with mod-podge onto the jars. Step 3 - Let your jars dry on wax paper for a few hours. Step 4 - Do extra decorating if you like - tie ribbon or string around for a little more color! Step 5 - Put candles in and you're done.
Anyone else have any other DIY centerpiece ideas? A Painted Spoon : DIY. Look! DIY Platform Bed With Storage. DIY: Succulent Tea Cups. DIY Hanging Plant Garden. Hanging air plant containers. I never can manage to come up with them myself, but I love super duper simple DIY projects. I have such admiration for people who see something and then, boom, a couple minutes later they have turned it into something totally different. Quick, easy, no muss or fuss: three-step projects are awesome. I’m going to make it my mission to hatch ideas for some this summer.
This is a fantastic example, and it will serve as the inspiration for my goal. Currently based in the UK, Tempest from Ellomennopee is a PhD student by day, artist and blogger by night. Have a DIY project you’d like to share? Read the full how-to after the jump . . . Perhaps because of the pervasive austerity trend, low-maintenance plants like tillandsia and other air plants (epiphytes) have made a comeback. Materials Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. The Brick House. The other side of the living room needed something large. A statement piece I think real designers would call it. Well, I fell in love with the bookshelves in the lobby at The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs and thought, “hey, I could build that”. And I did! We sold the old wall unit and embarked on the master planning of the new plumbing conduit shelving unit. The unit is 8’8″ wide by roughly 7’6″ tall and 11 1/4″ deep Here is the supply list:Plumbing pipe and fittings (all at 1/2″) Supply list: Fittings: 18 – 90º Elbows 14 – 3-Way Tees 8 – Base Flanges Pipe: 6 – 12″ 7 – 18″ 1 – 32″ 3 – 30″ (Custom cut at home depot) 1 – 43″ (Custom cut at home depot) 14 – 8″ 4 – 9″ (black gas pipe for the top flange connectors) Wood Shelves 2 – 1″ x 12″ x 10′ pine planks (cut down to 8′8″) 2 – 1″ x 12″ x 6′ pine planks (cut down to 4′8″) Minwax Stain 1 – Dark Walnut 1 – Walnut (Mix 1/2 and 1/2 to get the desired color) Rustoleum Gloss Spray Paint 3 – Black After that it just all screws together.
Ariel's DIY Bookshelf Surprise I Suwannee. Wine Bottle Planter. DIY Bottle Centerpieces. Wednes-diy. UPDATE: This post originally ran on March 23 2011, but with summer winding down we wanted to bring it back up for some late summer inspiration! A fellow fp girl sent this to me a couple weeks back and i’ve been thinking about it ever since! I can think of a million reasons why these would be awesome… as apartment décor, as outdoor party décor, and – wouldn’t they be the best thing EVER for camping in general or at a festival? Just let them sit in the sun all day, and they’ll last all night! I am absolutely going to make some to bring with me to bonnaroo this year. you can buy a sun jar here, but you can make your own for much cheaper!
I am not good with technical things, like putting together a solar power cell, so i found the easy way :) what you need: a mason jar with a clear glass lid like this one from ikea, a solar garden light like the ones pictured above, which i found here, adhesive and glass frosting spray. last image. Trending on FP.com: How To Make a Lace Patterned Coffee Table. Recently Kinsey had a super cute idea for a DIY coffee table that we could use in the dressing room area of our boutique! I loved it so much that I asked her to share her cute idea here. Here's how she made this pretty piece. How To Make a Lace Patterned Coffee Table/ 1-2. Supplies Needed: A coffee table in imperfect condition. I love the perfectly imperfect texture that this technique created! Thanks for taking a peek! DIY Marbled Glassware.
When graphic designer and artist Joanna Bean Martin shared with us her technique for marbling the bottoms of glassware with nail polish, we couldn’t wait to try it ourselves. Who knew it would be such an easy way to add color and pattern to your next tablescape or party? Remember, the brighter and bolder colors you use, the more the glasses will radiate and glow. Have fun! You’ll need:flat bottomed glasswarevariety of colorful nail polishclear nail polisha disposable plastic containernail polish removerpainters tapetoothpicks Mask off the bottom of the glass with painters tape. Fill a disposable, plastic container with water. Layer the colors one on top of the other.
Submerge the bottom of the glass into the polish. Allow to dry completely before applying a layer of clear polish. Once everything has dried, remove the painters tape and touch up with nail polish remover and a cotton swab. Your glowing glasses are finished! Bottoms up!