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• Paper Flowers: 35 How-To Instructions & Templates: Here’s a lovely assortment of paper flowers to make, I’ve organized them in a few sections for easier browsing: Bouquets & Centerpieces, Tissue Paper, Crepe Paper, Origami Paper and the rest under general tutorials. Many of these have free templates to download and most are surprisingly easy to make! Just click the picture to visit [...]
• Cut Wine Bottles & Etched Glass: {DIY}: Today’s feature is from Curbly with this clever & crafty way to turn empty wine bottles (or any colored glass bottle) into something really special, How To: Cuttin’ Glass and Taking Names: Ever looked at a wine bottle to admire its shape, color, or translucent qualities? These features shouldn’t go to waste in the recycling bin. [...]
• 11 Goals To Enhance Your Life This Year: I love the beginning of each new year, for me it’s always meant rejuvenation and an opportunity to look at new goals for personal growth and overall life skills that enhance daily life. By the end of the year it’s amazing and uplifting to reflect on all that you’ve accomplished, experienced and added to life [...]
• Have You Been Missing Tipnut?: There’s been trouble over the last several days with many daily subscribers not receiving email and rss updates from Tipnut (via Google’s Feedburner service) but Tipnut’s still been going strong. Here’s what’s been happening lately on Tipnut in case you missed it: Cooking Bacon In The Oven: How-To 21 Tempting Coffee Cake Recipes Spider Plant Care & Growing [...]
• Recycled Grocery Totes: {Tutorial}: Today’s feature is from So You Think You’re Crafty with this crafty & clever Grocery Totes Tutorial: Ready to go green? Then say goodbye to your old grocery bags by melting them into something cute. Afterall, plastic is the new plastic, right? We’ll be fusing layers of old grocery bags together to create a stronger “fabric” for [...]
• 15 Holiday Wreaths To Make: {Crafty}: Free Tutorials For Holiday Wreaths *Click pictures to visit individual tutorial page
• DIY Wrap Up: 101 Gift Tags, Toppers & Wraps: Newly updated for 2009! New freebies added, dead links have been pruned. Everything you need for wrapping and presenting gifts with a little homemade flair is on this list. Enjoy! Gift Tag Printables Adorable Penguin Gift Tags: Seriously.Cute.Printables! Mitten Gift Tags and Background: The scatter of mittens was designed to be a pattern on the reverse of the [...]
• Crafters Medley: 25 Neat-O Projects To Make (November 2009): Embroidered Housewife Needlecase: (As seen in picture) So sweet! Also see 21 Free Tutorials For Needle Books & Cases. How to Hand Dye Silk Play Scarves: Kool-aid, silk scarves, mason jars and vinegar turn oridinary scarves into something fun. How To Transfer Inkjet Images To Wood: All you need is some Mod Podge, Elmer’s washable glue, and [...]
• Crafters Medley: 28 Neat-O Projects To Make (October 2009): Hex Pincushions: (As seen in picture) Pretty patchwork design. Added to the big pincushion pattern list. DIY Cell Phone Recharging Station: Quick & clever project that uses a cardboard ribbon organizer as a recharging station. Paper Winebag Tutorial: Cover that wine bottle gift with this pretty bag you can whip up at home. Reusable Felt Gift Wrap: Cute [...]
• Crafters Medley: 25 Neat-O Projects To Make (September 2009): Little Letter Needle Book – A Tutorial: (as seen in picture above) How cute! This little needle book is designed to look like an envelope–complete with postage stamp! Added to 21 Free Tutorials For Needle Books & Cases. Free Pattern: Pear Tawashi: A tawashi is a Japanese traditional scrubbing brush. This scrubber is crocheted with acrylic [...]
• 20 DIY & Craft Projects: {Pets}: Lucky Dog! Wrap Pillow: (as seen in picture) Create a homemade pillow for your favorite four-legged friend. How to Make a Raised Dog Feeder: A glue gun, wooden shadow box picture frame, napkin rings and voila! nice little station for your pet’s eating area. Weekend Warriors: Mr. Sambolini’s Solution for a Messy Litter Box: A litter-box enclosure [...]
• Free Dishcloth Patterns: Crochet: *Click on pictures to get your copy of the patterns. Prefer knitted dishcloths? See this collection: Free Dishcloth Patterns: Knitting. Do you want to brush up on your crochet skills? See my guide here: Learn How To Crochet – Free Resource Guide.
• DIY Recycled Wine Bottle Torch: Today’s feature is from Gerardot & Co. with this tutorial for a clever Recycled Wine Bottle Torch: It’s been a record year for mosquitoes here in Indianapolis, Indiana and I’d been wanting to add some Tiki-esque torches to the patio to combat the little buggers, as well as provide some ambiance in the evenings. After searching [...]
• How To Store Seeds: If you’ve tried saving seeds from your garden in the past and didn’t have much luck with them germinating in the Spring, chances are you didn’t store the seeds in the environment they needed. Storing garden seeds in optimum conditions can keep most varieties viable for several years, following the steps below can increase the [...]
• Get Rid Of Wasps: Traps & Tips: If you’ve ever been stung by a wasp, you know they live up to their reputation of being aggressive and having painful stings. When you regularly spot wasps in your yard, chances are there’s a wasp’s nest on your property or nearby. These are not pests that you want hanging about, especially if you have [...]
• Punched Tin Garden Lanterns: How To: Today’s feature is from Fine Gardening with How to Make Garden Lanterns: I’ve made candle holders from antique tea cups found at thrift shops and from inverted garden cloches hung with twine from tree branches. My favorites, however, are my punched-tin lanterns. They add a folk-art touch to the garden and are fun and easy to [...]
• 35 Reusable Grocery Bags You Can Make: Free Patterns: **Updated List** Sure you can buy some trendy brand name shopping bags, but why not make your own bags for cheap (and even free!), they can be as chic and cool as you like (and original too)! Here’s a bunch of free patterns and tutorials to get you started, I have them sorted in three sections: [...]
• Homemade Ant Killers: Recipes & Tips: When trying to get rid of ants, it’s helpful to first have a basic understanding how ants live and thrive: Ants live in colonies and one class of ant within the colony is the worker/gatherer/forager. Worker ants make up approximately 10% of the colony and it’s their job to go out, find and collect food then [...]
• Paper Crafts Saturday: Freebie Printables (List 3): FREE Download of Mini File Folder Make A Booklet With A Pocket Round Labels for Spice Jars Kind Over Matter Fortune Cookies Recipe Wrap-Up Project Paper Dolls Downloadable Party Favor Cone Paper Cake Tutorial Tags, Stickers & A Notepad Printable Calling Cards Pretty “Quiet Please” Door Hanger Chick Chic Bookmark Colorful Book Plates Pretty Garden Seed Packets Recipe Cards With A Little Fuji Flair Free Printable Snail Stationery Set DIY: FREE [...]
• Crafters Medley: 32 Neat-O Projects To Make (May): Postcard Train Case: Print off some sheets of your favorite graphics, get out the Modge Podge and turn a plain old case into something gorgeous! Reversible Flowerpot Wrap Tutorial: Quite a cute little wrap/cozy for 4″ terracotta pots. There’s a pdf download available for the template. DIY: Chic Fabric Covered Magnetic Board: Here’s how to cover a [...]
• How To Make Homemade Stick Deodorant: Today’s feature is from Little House In The Suburbs with this how-to for Homemade Stick Deodorant: But aluminum crammed in your pores cannot be good for you, and it seems in recent years that store-bought deodorant is becoming less and less effective anyway. This deodorant uses a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and [...]
• Crafty Idea: Repurposed Wool Potholders: Today’s feature is from Craft Sanity with The Best Potholders Ever: Potholders made from felted wool are the bees’ knees! Two layers of recycled, felted wool blankets or wool sweaters make it impossible to burn yourself. Wool potholders can be machine-washed when they get gunky, because the felted fabric has been pre-shrunk. And, wool is naturally [...]
• Quick Household Tips & Resources: Here’s a mix of tips, resources and projects from Tipnut, other bloggers and from Tipnut readers… You can clean a curling iron by mixing 1/4 cup warm water and 1 TBS liquid fabric softener. Wash with a clean cloth, the hairspray and gunk should wipe right off. Use a q-tip for hard to get at spots. You [...]
• Tipnut Catchup: As requested, here are the projects, tips & recipes posted the past couple weeks for those who may have missed them due to site problems, enjoy! 2009 Calendars: Freebie Printables Easy Neck Sock: Free Knitting Pattern Recycle Used Wrapping Paper Into Thank You Cards Winter Craft: Lace & Ice Recipe Hit List: 12 Breakfast Casseroles Pretty Ruffled Totebag: Tutorial Free Gifts In [...]
• Recycle Used Wrapping Paper Into Thank You Cards: Today’s feature is from Eco Child’s Play with Recycle Your Used Wrapping Paper Into Special Thank You Cards: Now that the presents have all been opened many houses are covered in torn pieces of wrapping paper, ribbons, and tags. You can gather it all up and toss it in the recycling bin, or reuse it [...]