Craft DIY

Party Ideas: Plan Your Own Bricolage Brunch Part 2 – DIY Projects

Bohemian Eggs

What’s a bricolage brunch without the DIY projects? In the last post we featured Part 1 of how to plan your own bricolage brunch, mainly focusing on decoration and recipes. In this post we feature a few food-related DIY [...]

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DIY Project: Foam + Cardboard Deer Heads

DIY Deer Head Project from Chronicle Books

By popular demand, here’s the link to the original instructions for the DIY Deer Heads which inspired one [...]

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Retro Holiday Decoration Inspiration

Book Cover: Better Homes and Gardens (1967)

One of my favourite thrift store finds of all time is a 1967 Better Homes and Gardens: Treasury of Christmas Ideas book with tons of retro holiday inspiration. To get  you in the mood for tonight’s Craft-mas installment in [...]

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DIY Project: Batik Chic Scarf

DIY Project: Batik Chic Scarf

As promised, here’s the easy-peasy DIY tutorial on how to make your very own batik chic scarf using inexpensive materials from around the house.

Batik is a printing technique and type of textile popular in Asia and African countries. Different shapes [...]

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DIY Tutorial: Make Stuff Corkboard Inspiration Wall

DIY Desk Corkboard

Here’s a project if you’re heading back to school this fall or want to spruce up your workspace. You can post inspirational photos, notes, magazine clippings, etc.

The inspiration [...]

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DIY Project: Canada Day Stencilled Pennant Bunting | String Garland

DIY Project: Canada Day Pennant Bunting

So for us Canadians this Thursday is [...]

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Spins & Needles Now Posting DIY Project Instructions Online!

spins & needles - march 2007

Those of you who subscribe to our newsletter know this already – but after getting all our archives organized and all our DIY [...]

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DIY Project: Retro Holiday Wreath

DIY Retro Holiday Circle Wreath 1. DIY Retro Holiday Circle Wreath – Materials, 2. Cut Circles, 3. Arrange Circles, 4. Continue reading DIY Project: Retro Holiday Wreath

DIY: Make Your Own Felted Votive Candle Cozy

Wet Felted Votive Candle Cozy

Wet Felted Votive Candle Cozy – Materials, 1. Pulling Pieces of Batting Apart, 2. Adding (Almost) [...]

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DIY: Last Minute Where the Wild Things Are Mask Tutorial

DIY: Where the Wild Things Are Mask Tutorial

1. 1 – Where the Wild Things Are Mask: Materials, 2. Hair on [...]

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