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Thread Wrapped Love Necklace. Wedding High: DIY Cloud Lights for your Wedding. Custom Color Chalkboard Paint - Martha Stewart Organizing Crafts. Thanks to paint that dries into a chalkboard finish, your board can be whatever size you desire and placed wherever you like.

Custom Color Chalkboard Paint - Martha Stewart Organizing Crafts

Store-bought formulas come in traditional green and black. But you can also follow our recipe to mix your own batch in any shade. Cleverly applied chalkboard paint means new places to track appointments, keep lists, and leave messages. Or simply use the surface to draw or doodle, which will appeal to kids and the kid in everyone. Choose from the following ideas or come up with your own homemade chalkboard location. Tip: Start with flat-finish latex paint in any shade. Wall Calendar. Grow your own sweet potatoes. Have I told you yet about my love affair with sweet potatoes?

Grow your own sweet potatoes

Have I explained how they are the ideal plant for a front yard vegetable garden; the perfect combination of beauty and ease and taste? Have I mentioned their attractive foliage and their purple flowers? Oh. Yeah. I did. Ok, then. [Update: There's more!! Here, in northern Virginia (USDA Zone 7a), we can plant our regular potatoes in March.

If we don’t plant the sweets until June, why am I writing about them in April? [Note: You can skip this whole thing, and just order sweet potato slips from a quality nursery or seed company. To make new sweet potatoes, we start with an old sweet potato. [Don't think organic makes a difference here? Ok. Magic Braided Leather Tutorial. Seriously this tutorial is magic.

Magic Braided Leather Tutorial

I’ve been wanting to share it with you for about a year now, but it’s taken me so long to sit down & figure out the best way to explain myself. See, I discovered how to do this while mindlessly watching an episode of House. My mother-in-law has a rad purse from the ’70s or so; it’s leather with a very cool handle. Parts of the handle are braided & parts are smooth. DIY...DIY...DIY... / Amazing round up of 60 projects to create using recycled cans!! Do you like to "do it" yourself? / I love this!!! Date night jar :) Do you like to "do it" yourself? / . Honey We're An Organized Home! Today's reader clearly has a love for organizing.

Honey We're An Organized Home!

And an eye for design. And I love how she combines the two! "I'm Megan from Honey We're Home and am really honored to be visiting Jen's blog today. I'm all about keeping things neat, clean, and organized in our home, which isn't always easy while juggling life with my husband, a lively 2-year old son running around, and a full time job. But keeping our house organized truly gives me such JOY! I've got a solution for organizing your jewelry, specifically, the necklaces. I wasn't sure if my idea was going to work, so I didn't photograph it step-by-step, but all I did was apply my pretty paper to a piece of foam board and attach pushpins at the top to hang the necklaces on. WalMart had a really cute selection of push pins in different sizes and colors {hot and pale pink, light and dark aqua}.

DIY DIY DIY / diy braided necklace. DIY Braided Necklace. 232357661994356071_Vl1wtAol_c.jpg 553×1,335 pixels. 118008452706179986_ZeurVGTs_f.jpg 554×415 pixels. LAURA PARKE: DIY: PAINTED WOODEN BEAD NECKLACE. Today I'm sharing a simple project with some bright colors.

LAURA PARKE: DIY: PAINTED WOODEN BEAD NECKLACE

Perfect for spring! -necklace chain (mine is about 28" long) -ten 1" wooden beads with predrilled holes -paint (I used DecoArts Americana paints in these colors: Sea Breeze, Royal Fuchsia, Orange Twist, Bright Yellow & Neutral Gray) -paintbrush -painters tape STEP 1: Sometimes the wooden beads have shavings on the inside. STEP 2: Eyeball the center of your bead, and using the painters tape, wrap the bead horizontally, making sure the ends meet to allow half of the bead to be exposed for painting. STEP 3: Paint the exposed part of your bead. STEP 4: Once the paint is dry, peel off the painters tape.

STEP 5: Now it's time to string the beads. Close the claps and you are ready to wear it! Painting wooden spoons! Yesterday was STRESSful for me.

painting wooden spoons!

I know I will sound like a complete wuss but it was. Aaron had his first dentist visit and came out with SIX cavities. :( That completely bums me out for him. Add to that the verbal scolding I feel like I got from the dentist and his helper and I was in the pits yesterday. It completely baffles me...Moses and Aaron have the same diet essentially and one has perfect teeth and the other apparently inherited both my super soft teeth and Doug's close together teeth. Not a nice combo for keeping cavities away. DIY CD favour place setting for your wedding. Music is such a big part of your wedding day, and many of you are spending more and more time deciding what live music you’ll have, and also what your wedding playlist will be.

DIY CD favour place setting for your wedding

It’s common now to ask your guests for suggestions for the playlist on your Save The Dates. It’s a great idea as it makes your guests feel like part of the celebration from the word go and it helps to ensure a jam packed dance floor on the big day its self. 101 Simple Handmade Gift Tutorials. These simple handmade gift tutorials will make any crafty person’s heart sing with joy!

101 Simple Handmade Gift Tutorials

You don’t need special skills or a bunch of time because these can all be done super fast! Simple and cute…that works for me! Oh, and think of all the money you will save making these gifts. 123BEAD - Beaded Jewelry Making Instructions, Tutorials, Projects & Kits. The jewelry you make from this design is yours do with as you please.

123BEAD - Beaded Jewelry Making Instructions, Tutorials, Projects & Kits

You may make it as often as you like without any restrictions. For example, you can make this jewelry for yourself, for friends, or to sell. Diy {bird nest necklace} I have been seeing a lot of bird nest jewelry around lately.

diy {bird nest necklace}

They are beautiful and I love the trend so I thought I would try making my own. These turned out to be really easy to make and require just a few simple supplies. Jewelers & Metalsmiths. Video Gallery - Sakura Of America ... Power To Express. Agosto 2011. Com papéis pra Scrapbook, fitas, tesoura, cola e muita criatividade!!! P.s: as fotos encontrei no Google, não são minhas! LEGO Lime Green Love Heart Necklace by KorpseCrafts. DIY Hex Nut Diamond Bracelet : DIY Fashion by Trinkets in Bloom. I love finding supplies to make jewelry at the hardware store. Picture. Basket Weaving old tshirts. I love a simple top with a twist. The strips were a bit time consuming because I sewed them together to create a more tailored look. I kept the front plain, but you can flip it to be worn either way... Make strips using similar jersey. DIY geometric felt bookmarks. Remember the boxes I made with stiffened felt from the craft store?

I found it was easy to cut the stuff by hand with an X-acto knife, so I used the leftover scraps to make bookmarks with geometric cutouts. Kinda like the laser-cut items that are really popular right now, but without the laser. DIY : Celtic heart knot necklace // Collier ficelle à noeud en coeur. This is a tricky DIY but also a quick one if you get your head / fingers around it. You probably have all you need at home already, i.e. a couple of hoodie strings or any other rope or string. String necklaces are extremely popular this season and there are so many different types you can make yourself in no time.

DIY DIY DIY / Bunting in the binding.