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Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts

February 29, 2012

DECORATIVE LETTERS: H-O-M-E

Have you seen all the big decorative letters that are so popular lately?  I love them, and I have been coveting them for some time now.  I have a stockpile hoard of cardboard boxes stashed next to my washing machine in the laundry room, so I thought I'd see what I could do!  Read on for part one of my decorative letters tutorial!

December 21, 2011

WEDNESDAY CRAFTY TIME: MAGAZINE PURSE AND MAIL SORTER

I love my crafty Wednesdays!  And I did prepare this on Wednesday, even though I am posting it on Thursday.  It was time to put down my crocheting for a moment and just create something fun.  I looked around the net for an idea and I found a lot of people making those bracelets out of candy wrappers.  Hmm...I thought.  That is cool, but I have no candy wrappers and I really, REALLY, don't need to eat that much candy just to get them!  What I do have a ton of is magazines.  So why not cut candy wrapper sized pieces and then have at it?  Sure, we can do this.  I also have a little mail sorting shelf that is terribly ugly and not my style, so I am going to up cycle it.  Let's see just how much fun we can have crafting with old magazines!  Read on my friend, read on...