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Felted Stuffed Animals. Craft Ideas, Kids Crafts, Recipes and More. How-To Tuesdays: Vintage Teacup Pincushion. Thrift stores and yard sales are full of orphaned teacups, and I can never resist bringing them home.

How-To Tuesdays: Vintage Teacup Pincushion

However, I don’t think I could ever drink enough cups of tea to make my collection really worthwhile. So I found a way to repurpose these pretty vessels and turn them into something I’ll use every day: a pincushion! The supplies to make these are cheap, but the results are adorable, making them an ideal last-minute gift. Here’s how to make one of your own. Materials Thrifted teacup Bamboo fiberfill stuffing Fabric scrap Needle and thread E-6000 glue Old paintbrush Scissors Directions Step 1: Trace and cut a circle that measures about 4″ larger than the diameter of your teacup.

Step 3: Before cutting your thread and removing the needle, pull the threads to gather your fabric into a pouch. Related.

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Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. Trading Company - Handmade Button Bags, Frames, Bowls & Vases from Vietnam. Cocktail-Glass Flowers. Homemade Wine Glass Charms. Follow our easy instructions to make your own set of wine glass charms.

Homemade Wine Glass Charms

Material: Wire Ring (Jewelry Department at Craft Shops)Beads of ChoiceE6000 or Crafter's Goop Glue How to: These are very easy to make and quite charming! They are a wonderful way to keep track of who's who when it comes to identifying each guest's wine glass. I made several sets of these using different colour beads and different themes.

Decide the order of your beads and begin feeding them onto your wire ring. You'll find that the charms can pull apart so you can add them to the stems of your wine glasses while concealing the loop end of the wires behind the final decorative beads. Kid's Craft For Passover: Bejeweled Wine Glasses and A Cup For Eliyahu. Here's a simple Passover/Pesach craft that the kids can make themselves!

Kid's Craft For Passover: Bejeweled Wine Glasses and A Cup For Eliyahu

Decorate your Passover table with beautiful jeweled wine glasses in which to drink the four cups of wine/grape juice during the seder, and use a large wine glass to make the cos shel eliyahu. And if you're not a kid, you can make an even nicer version of these using epoxy or any heavy duty, high tack glue. You'll Need: wine glasses, regular sized ones and one extra large goblet size (plastic glasses for very small children)glass mosaic beads, mine are from the dollar storedouble stick foam tape, or mounting tape of some kind (or possibly clear silicone/caulk, read below)scissors How To: Place a bunch of the glass pieces on a strip of tape, cut into sections and then cut around the perimeter of each bead such that there is just a circle of tape on the the back.

Craft+Wine Glass. I have had a couple of people ask me how I made the wine glasses for our girl’s weekend.

Craft+Wine Glass

Well I got the idea from a glass I had already had and it’s VERY EASY to do! You will needGlass paint-make sure it’s GLASS paint! Painted Wine Glasses. Holiday Craft Ideas These painted wine glasses are an easy and classy way to dress up inexpensive clear wine or champagne flutes for your New Year's Eve party!

Painted Wine Glasses

Holiday craft ideas such as this will make your next party stand out. How to make wine glass candle lamps. Wine glass candle lamps from WEDDING PLANS, WEDDING CRAFTS NOTHING SETS THE MOOD LIKE CANDLELIGHT, especially candlelight glowing through translucent paper.

How to make wine glass candle lamps

Inexpensive wine glasses become fancy candle lamps when topped with vellum shades. Use them as dramatic lighting at each place setting on the head table. Pretty in pink: a cute little vase. Madigan made... 'deep' thoughts about pink and a cute vase. Did you know that Pantone labeled "Honeysuckle" as the color of the year for 2011? When I first heard about this color, I was unsure what to think about it. Normally, I am not a "pink" girl. Pink can be a dainty color. But after re-styling the bookcase in my den, I realized that I do like pink. Look at my grandma's china and the botanicals I have next to my bookcase. As I was putting together that bookcase, I concluded that I needed another small pink accessory for the shelving. I could not find anything that perfect shade of dark pink... so {surprise, surprise} I decided to make something. I grabbed a little vase from the dollar store... and a 99 cent bottle of nail polish.

I recently made my milkglass apothecary jars, so I was inspired to paint the inside of the glass again. This is after one coat. There were still a few thin spots. I just followed the instructions from the manufacturer for the leaf. I love it. What about you?

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