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Introducing the DIY Sponge Manicure. You’ve likely seen the ombre trend gracing your Pinterest feed in the form of hair, makeup, clothing, accessories, and even cake.

Introducing the DIY Sponge Manicure

But what about getting your nails involved? Well, with the help of a sponge or two, we’re pleased to bring the gorgeous gradient trend to our nails in the form of a DIY Sponge Manicure. My Merry Messy Life — Offering free crochet patterns, DIY green living projects and tips, family-friendly recipes, arts and crafts, and more! DIY: 10 Things To Do With an Old T-shirt. Ten great DIY projects you can make from an old T-shirt.

DIY: 10 Things To Do With an Old T-shirt

If you’re anything like me, you have tons of old T-shirts laying around in your drawers collecting dust. Instead of dumping them all in a collection bin, turn them into something useful. You’ll be amazed at how many things you could actually make from a humble tee. Here are ten of our favorites. Wrapped Bracelets You can never have enough bracelets, and there are so many great ones you can make yourself.

Market Tote Plastic bags are slowly but surely being banned in cities around the country. Scarf If you have a sewing machine, this DIY scarf is very easy to make following this tutorial by wienerdog tricks. Green...Easy Knit Produce Bag. AsktheExterminator.com - Tips and help from a real pest control expert. View All Photos < Great ideas for home shelves, shelving units. Olive bites home of uncorked + polarity: Upcycled Tutorial - Drawer Repurposed into a Map Shelf - Xmas Gift Countdown Week 2.

This week's easy peasy upcycled gift is a beautiful little shelf repurposed from an old drawer.

olive bites home of uncorked + polarity: Upcycled Tutorial - Drawer Repurposed into a Map Shelf - Xmas Gift Countdown Week 2

There are really countless things you can make shelves with, but an old drawer creates lots of little cubbies and crannies for your whatnots and the background can easily be fitted with something amazing! (in this case a vintage map of Europe) you will need: drawer, map, spray adhesive, scissors, tape measure, yardstick, hammer, sawtooth hangers This is one of those measure twice, cut once projects - so measure your openings (easiest with a tape measure) and then mark and measure your map (easiest with a yardstick) - the idea is to have the map look like one solid piece when hanging so cut your interior pieces so they line up with each other. 31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects.

Whimseybox. Style Reload by Virginie Peny. 25 Awesome DIY Ideas For Bookshelves. Give! How to De-Crapify Your Home: A Start-to-Finish Guide. Food Hacks News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker. Some big ones were missed, and ones I've had extremely good luck with.

Food Hacks News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - Lifehacker

Here are mine: Live close to where you go: The vehicular society we have seems more apt to spend $30,000 on a hybrid that gets 40mpg so they can commute 20 miles each way to work, than moving closer to work. In the past 10 years I've always lived within 5 miles of work for a multitude of reasons, but it's probably the smartest thing I've done.

Why? Upcycled / The multi-talented crate. Pixelated popup card. The Paper Mama. Our Suburban Farm: Christmas Craftiness. Well hello there!

Our Suburban Farm: Christmas Craftiness

Did you think I forgot about you? As I rush around finishing up getting ready for Christmas Eve, I had some motivation to post about my recent Christmas craftiness! The first idea I found on Pinterest a couple weeks ago and really wanted to try it. I have SO much wrapping paper and so many wrapping supplies, so I didn't do it for ALL the presents, but I did pretty much one for every person like this. Unfortunately the first person who pinned it, didn't pin it directly from the site so I cannot give credit to the original user! The photo on pinterest: Make a Dress from a Button-Down Shirt.

Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. Brother XL2600i Sewing Machine Review Sewing Machines for Beginners – Reviews and Comparisons. Meet Virginia. Now that we have "I'm a Thriftaholic" we thought we'd share weekly, our thrifted treasure!

Meet Virginia

Thrifted treasure could be an item(s) you have thrifted: thrifted clothing you've worn in outfit posts, thrifted home decor, really any thing you thrifted and want to show off is welcome! Remember this really is a support group in reverse, we don't want to kick our thrifting habits, we want to embrace them and show them off. And most importantly we want to have fun in the process! So if you have a thrifted find that you are dying to share, this is the place.

Every Tuesday we will have the: "Thriftaholics Weekly Link up. " Thanks to all those who linked up last week, it was a blast seeing all of your thrifted finds! My Thriftaholic of the week is: Monica from Ask The Duplex Ok first thing is first, if you guys haven't heard of the blog: Ask The Duplex you are really missing out! The guidelines for linking up weekly are easy: Link up a post about your thrifty finds, be sure to link the direct post. Sweet Verbena. Refashion. WOO HOO!

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Call me a big nerd but my heart's pounding because i'm so excited and honored to be here!!! My name is Sarah and i keep a blog over at Welcome to the gOOd life. it's a diary written by me (and sometimes by my hilarious husband) of the good and the ugly as a wife, a stay at home mom, raising two kids under three-just a year apart, and also my weekly DIY sewing projects. so should we get on to my DIY project? Inspiration: squeezebox top from anthropologie picture from an anthropologie review blog. i think i literally gasped when i saw this top online. i instantly fell in love and knew i had to have it! I bought 2 white shirts, one in xs which is my size and one in large. i got the large shirt in round neck for more fabric while i got the xs in a scoopneck. Inspiring Creative Bliss One Step At A Time.

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Tops/Dresses. Accessories. Shoes. Sites.