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Exciting Links for Boring Days. How to Make Sculpey Clay. Jenny's Faux Corner 3. Crafts Center - How To Crafts. How to Make Easter Refrigerator Magnets Looking for an inexpensive Easter Craft idea for your next project?

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This craft project costs less than .75 cents per refrigerator magnet and takes less than 20 minutes to make. Inexpensive Easter Baskets Easter is a great time of the year to celebrate. Here are some ideas for Easter gifts. 5 Quilting Tricks Quilting is a social hobby; it’s been proven to improve your health and it leads to some gorgeous results—but sometimes you just want to make things a little easier. 10 Best Knitting Tips One of knitting’s secrets is to be very familiar with all of the little tips and tricks that you can use for any project. Goat Milk Soap With Natural Colors Goat milk soap has many interesting characteristics. Telling A Story Through Quilting: Then and Now Everyone has a story. How to Do Paper Mache When you learn how to do paper mache, honestly you will become addicted.

Keep the Beauty of Valentine’s Day All Year Long Create Your Own Lavender Bath Bag. DIY - Try at Home. Embroidery Designs at Urban Threads - Projects. Crafts. Recycling materials. Sewing ideas. The world's best sewing tutorials in no particular order. Alina's Adventures sew everything A P indicates a printable tutorial or pdf pattern.

The world's best sewing tutorials in no particular order.

An F indicates a personal favorite. PET CARECatnip fish toy (Martha Stewart)Clothespin apron (Pick Up Some Creativity)Cool and cozy pet bed (Sew4Home)Country gent dog coat with pattern (Craftzine)Collapsible travel dish (Craft Stylish)Color spectrum pet bed (Design Sponge)Custom-fit doggy coat (Pretty Little Things)Dog leash (The Purl Bee)Embellished doggy sweater (Miss Lovie)Fabric dog coat pattern (Cut Out & Keep) PFabric pet bed (Inspiration & Realization)Fabric pup tent (CasaSugar)Family connection writing center (Craftzine)Fleece dog bed (Dog Under My Bed)Pet pouches (The B Line)Sweater dog toys (Craft Stylish)Squeaky doggie bone (Laura Griffin)Water resistant doggy coats (Martha Stewart)

Sewing tutorials. 101 Sewing Tutorials for Summer! Directory of Free Sewing Patterns, Tutorials and Projects. Sew Mama Sew! Paper Crafts for Kids. Maybe Matilda. Tutorials. DIY Dress-Up Ideas: 5 Sexy Ways to Upcycle Old Clothing. Upcycled designs often emphasize radical do-it-yourself transformations, but some of the most simple ideas can have dramatic impacts.

DIY Dress-Up Ideas: 5 Sexy Ways to Upcycle Old Clothing

These clothing conversions illustrate the ease with which people can upcycle ordinary objects and make them extraordinary, turning formless junk shirts clothes into elegant tops, bottoms and sexy dresses. Mari Santos does more than just recycle small-scale clothing extras into new, well-fitting and sufficiently stylish upcycled outfits – she shows how much potential exists in upcycling extremely plain everyday objects, things we would normally trash without a second look. A baggy t-shirt is one of the most ubiquitous items of excess clothing you can find in almost any closet. These ill-fitting and over-sized extras have a lot more potential than most people realize – from make-your-own dresses to two-piece tops and much more. Most favorited all-time. Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make! Crazy paper thing. Seven Flowers. Awesome Pop Up.

Thelongthread.com. Page corner bookmarks. This project comes to you at the request of Twitterer @GCcapitalM.

page corner bookmarks

I used to believe that a person could never have too many books, or too many bookmarks. Then I moved into an apartment slightly larger than some people’s closets (and much smaller than many people’s garages) and all these beliefs got turned on their naïeve little heads. But what a person can always look for more of is really cool unique bookmarks. Placeholders special enough for the books that are special enough to remain in your culled-out-of-spacial-necessity collection. Page corner bookmarks are cute, practical and deeply under-represented in the world.* They’re easy to make, easy to customize, and will set you apart from all those same-same flat rectangular bookmarks. If you like this tutorial, here are a couple others that might be up your alley. For the monster-loving adults in the room, try some googly-eyed paper monster wine charms.

What you’ll need: Putting it all together: 1) Follow steps 2 and 3 from above. 80 How-To Sites Worth Bookmarking.