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Magazine. Home Improvement and Remodeling: This Old House. Page 4. Gallery. Project Cost - Hang a Wallpaper Border. How to Make Non-Obnoxious Alphabet Magnets. Okay, okay.

How to Make Non-Obnoxious Alphabet Magnets

Non-obnoxious isn’t a word. But neither is unobnoxious. Not really, anyway. I’ve come to embrace this part of my life where I have a baby and a toddler. I can’t carry a nice handbag because sippy cups leak and goldfish crackers leave goldfish cracker dust on everything that enters my bag. There will be toys. A multitude of them. However, for the sake of my sanity, I try to make it look like we all share the space together – adults and tiny ankle biters – as opposed to Jack and me just unrolling sleeping bags in the middle of a Toys R Us.

Enter alphabet magnets. Hard plastic. And the floor. Just kidding. But Rembot loves alphabet magnets. A win-win situation: non-obnoxious alphabet magnets. I picked up some flat wooden disks, magnet strips (these work really well, too), and rub-on letters. 1) Spray paint both sides of wooden disks. 2) Lightly spray paint one side with white spray paint. 3) Spray with blue spray paint. 4) Rub letters onto each disk. Like them? Super cheap craft. Diy - Lifehacker. 7 Creative Uses To Recycle Wine Bottles. 7 Creative Uses To Recycle Wine Bottles Free shopping list and step by step instructions for 4 popular holiday wine crafts What do you do with your leftover wine bottles? Do they make their way to the uninspired recycle bin awaiting their fate in a fiery furnace? Maybe you’re like me and save a few of your memorable bottles and they adorn the tops of your kitchen cabinet.

I still have the bottle of wine that we were drinking when I proposed to my wife. Here are 7 creative uses for your wine bottles. Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts. Core77 / industrial design magazine + resource / home. Design*Sponge. Fonts O - the best free fonts found Online. Free Vintage Clip Art - Paris Advertising Ephemera. Mask-graphicsfairy004.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600x798 pixels) - Scaled (71. Mod Podge Rocks! Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. Deck of Cards-Vintage Wall Decor: Free Digital Downloads. Mod Podge’ing paper to pre-stretched canvas is nothing new in the craft world, but deliberately allowing paper to moisten, crinkle, oversaturate, and images to smudge & deteriorate for the sake of art, might be a bit different than you’re used to.

Deck of Cards-Vintage Wall Decor: Free Digital Downloads

The combination of Mod Podge Matte finish for paper and vintage typewriter paper that’s been run through the printer make for a pretty cool effect when laminated to canvas. An effect, that in most cases, would have you in tears, so be warned that this is NOT a project for the perfectionist, we’re going to get messed up on this one to create very cool faux antique wall decor. I found an old and grungy deck of playing cards with fantastic graphics. I gotta tell you, getting my hands on this discarded old pack was seriously just short of a full-on dumpster dive, though I’ll spare you the details. But it just goes to show you that you can find beauty in the least of places. Bathroom. Articles 11 - 20 of 25 | 2 | Mod Podge Soap Pump Tutorial If you're tired of looking at the same old soap pump and are looking for a replacement soap pump, check out this Mod Podge Soap Pump Tutorial, which will show you how to create cheerful liquid soap dispenser pumps, perfect for a bathroom pump soap dispenser.

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How to Make Lavender Sachets The smell of lavender helps to relieve stress and bring calm while trying to get to sleep. Heidi Borchers of Inspired at Home teaches us how to create our own lavender sachets to keep by the bed or even to drop in the bath. Autumn Berry Branch Mirror Spruce up your square mirror with decorations.

Creative DIY Tips & Project Ideas For Homemakers. Decor8 » decorating. Let’s talk about plants (again).

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Okay so I’m not a plant person, I’m a total flower girl. And this has NOTHING to do with not liking plants and more to do with killing them quicker than I’m betting any human can possibly kill a plant. I was raised with plants in the house, my mother loves them, and my husband has a windowsill full of them in his home office which he cares for beautifully.

Me, well I have a single aloe vera plant on my window and in the kitchen, a few unknown species and some succulents, and I’ve even managed to kill succulents so you can already see that something wasn’t wired correctly in my head. It’s really lame honestly and breaks my heart a little bit that plants never became part of my decor or life in general because I’m a bit intimated by them. Via Albatross By the way, what kind of succulent is the first one shown far left on the above bench? I love nature, I mean I love it. Via Stylizimo Via: Broste Copenhagen Via IKEA Via Derek Shapton Via: D*S. CraftyPod.