This is a quick and easy Christmas decoration project that takes practically no time to make. I streamed a couple of movies on Amazon Prime Video and before I knew it the project was done!
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Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Monday, November 14, 2016
How to Make a Quick and Easy Christmas Pennant Garland
I excavated my craft room and found some cute red and green fabric scraps I’ve been moving from storage place to storage place in my sewing room. That put me in a sewing mood. I decided then and there to use those quirky fabric scraps to sew a cloth pennant Christmas garland.
This is a quick and easy Christmas decoration project that takes practically no time to make. I streamed a couple of movies on Amazon Prime Video and before I knew it the project was done!
This is a quick and easy Christmas decoration project that takes practically no time to make. I streamed a couple of movies on Amazon Prime Video and before I knew it the project was done!
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Friday Favorites Linky Party - Week 346
I am trying to knock out as many spray paint projects as I can until it becomes too cold to spray paint. I can't tell you how many clothes I've ruined with paint because I didn't take the time to change into my painting clothes.
There is an answer for that.
It is called an apron.
If you have a sloppy crafting, paint, DIY, or cooking habit you can protect your clothes and buy my This is how I roll apron in my shop LNW Creative Gifts! It features pockets to hold everything that gets lost during a project or recipe and makes a great gift for you or someone you love.
I showed you my latest project. Now you show me yours!
There is an answer for that.
It is called an apron.
If you have a sloppy crafting, paint, DIY, or cooking habit you can protect your clothes and buy my This is how I roll apron in my shop LNW Creative Gifts! It features pockets to hold everything that gets lost during a project or recipe and makes a great gift for you or someone you love.
I showed you my latest project. Now you show me yours!
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Friday Favorites Linky Party - Week 344
We had so many fantastic projects and recipes added to our Linky Party last Friday, it was hard to pick a favorite to feature!
So let's just dive in, shall we?
So let's just dive in, shall we?
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
Fall Wine Cork Porch Decoration Ideas
I have this visually dead corner on my front porch. Trying to find something either practical or pretty to fill it gives me fits.
Storage space for new autumn decorations is practically nonexistent in our condo. So I did a little summer and fall decoration shuffle from backyard fall patio decorations (take the fall patio decorating tour here on Condo Blues) to the front porch now that it is too chilly to eat dinner outside on the regular.
Killing one of the mums I bought for the backyard actually worked in my favor. I used the pot of dirt in the metal planter to anchor the wood flagpole I used to hang the quilted scarecrow I made forever ago and haven’t found a good use for until now.
I traced the metal container and cut a circle to fit inside the metal planter with a hole in it for the scarecrow pole to keep it centered in the planter. The flower pot isn’t as deep as the metal planter so I chucked a couple of Husband’s empty protein powder containers in the pot to keep the cardboard from sinking into the planter so I can cover it with decorations and hide the cardboard lid.
Storage space for new autumn decorations is practically nonexistent in our condo. So I did a little summer and fall decoration shuffle from backyard fall patio decorations (take the fall patio decorating tour here on Condo Blues) to the front porch now that it is too chilly to eat dinner outside on the regular.
Killing one of the mums I bought for the backyard actually worked in my favor. I used the pot of dirt in the metal planter to anchor the wood flagpole I used to hang the quilted scarecrow I made forever ago and haven’t found a good use for until now.
I traced the metal container and cut a circle to fit inside the metal planter with a hole in it for the scarecrow pole to keep it centered in the planter. The flower pot isn’t as deep as the metal planter so I chucked a couple of Husband’s empty protein powder containers in the pot to keep the cardboard from sinking into the planter so I can cover it with decorations and hide the cardboard lid.
Keep reading for more decorating ideas and pin this post for later!
Sunday, October 2, 2016
How to Make a Reusable Light Up Teal Pumpkin for Halloween
Handing out Halloween candy and ooh-ing and ah-ing over every costumed person who comes to our door is one of things Husband enjoys most on Beggar's Night.
That and testing our Halloween candy for Quality Assurance while waiting for the Trick or Treaters to come to our porch. That was one of my favorite parts of Halloween until I because a card carrying member of the Food Allergy Club. Sad face.
It is a bummer to find almost everything in the candy aisle at the store is something I shouldn’t eat but has to worse for a kid on Halloween. The minute I found out about the Halloween Teal Pumpkin Project I added allergy free treats for the food allergy kids to what we give out on Halloween.
The only thing missing is a teal pumpkin to let food allergy kids and their parents that we have their back this Halloween.
That and testing our Halloween candy for Quality Assurance while waiting for the Trick or Treaters to come to our porch. That was one of my favorite parts of Halloween until I because a card carrying member of the Food Allergy Club. Sad face.
It is a bummer to find almost everything in the candy aisle at the store is something I shouldn’t eat but has to worse for a kid on Halloween. The minute I found out about the Halloween Teal Pumpkin Project I added allergy free treats for the food allergy kids to what we give out on Halloween.
The only thing missing is a teal pumpkin to let food allergy kids and their parents that we have their back this Halloween.
A Quick and Easy LED Teal Jack o Lantern Tutorial
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Friday Favorites Linky Party - Week 339
Last weekend, I did a Last Blast of Summer Tour by skipping up the road a bit to attend Bloggy Conference 2016 at Cedar Point.
Tiff knocked it out of the park organizing and planning the conference this year! I learned quite a bit and paid it forward by being the Squad Leader for DIY bloggers during our community breakout sessions. What's also nice about BloggyCon is being able to spend the evening in Cedar Point after our sessions finished for the day.
Sponsor Lake Eries Shores and Islands gave me the excuse to wiggle my toes in the sand of Cedar Point Beach (how I miss it!)
I hugged a big cow named Big Cow and tagged it #Big #Cow for a very meta experience courtesy of Ohio made sponsor Udderly Smooth (if you follow me @condoblues on Instagram you would have seen it in real time!)
Not to mention, I named my new Rexy friend Snuggles and asked Husband if I could bring him home with me because we have the same smile. Husband and Lacey vetoed adding Snuggles to our family. Sad face.
Let's party!
Sunday, September 18, 2016
How to Make a Quick and Easy Wine Cork and Mason Jar Centerpiece
After I decorated my outdoor patio for Fall, I took a step back and realized something was missing from my DIY chalkboard patio table and DIY bottle cap mosaic chairs.
I need an Autumn table centerpiece!
My Fall centerpiece idea was heavily influenced by the growing number of empty mason jars drying in the dish rack (not to mention Husband’s do something with these will ya? look when he empties the dishwasher) and the wine corks in our kitchen wine cork basket waiting for a craft project (and more Husband’s do something with these will ya? look when he sees them taking up counter space.)
I need an Autumn table centerpiece!
My Fall centerpiece idea was heavily influenced by the growing number of empty mason jars drying in the dish rack (not to mention Husband’s do something with these will ya? look when he empties the dishwasher) and the wine corks in our kitchen wine cork basket waiting for a craft project (and more Husband’s do something with these will ya? look when he sees them taking up counter space.)
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Friday Favorites Linky Party - Week 338
Happy Almost Weekend everyone!
I am loving the unseasonably warm weather! I decorated my patio for fall and plan to eat as many dinners outside until the snow flies.
Ready to party? Show me what you got!
I am loving the unseasonably warm weather! I decorated my patio for fall and plan to eat as many dinners outside until the snow flies.
I love, love, love when thrifting and shopping the house comes together in a new to me design!
Ready to party? Show me what you got!
Sunday, September 11, 2016
How to Make a DIY Fall Flower Wreath
I used to design a door wreath by buying all of the cute flower picks I like and then figuring out what to do with them after I got home. That almost always lead to me making something I wasn't happy with because it often looked like a Hodge Podge of unsymmetrical stuff that didn’t always coordinate in color, size or texture.
Because I bought a Hodge Podge of unsymmetrical stuff that didn’t always coordinate in color, size or texture for the project and didn't think about them beyond, "How pretty! I'm buying it!"
I knew I had to change my ways after reorganized my craft room and finding more wreath making supplies than my small house can hold.
Because I bought a Hodge Podge of unsymmetrical stuff that didn’t always coordinate in color, size or texture for the project and didn't think about them beyond, "How pretty! I'm buying it!"
I knew I had to change my ways after reorganized my craft room and finding more wreath making supplies than my small house can hold.
How to Make a Wreath
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Friday Favorites Linky Party - Week 337
I am taking an online Bead Embroidery (w/Myra Wood) craft class from Craftsy (I am including affiliate links for your convenience) to learn how to add a little bling with beaded flowers and designs to my hand embroidery projects. This is something I've wanted to to for awhile.
Funny thing buying the class lead to another craft organizing hack I've been wanting to do for awhile. After spilling beads out of my plastic bead organizer box similar to this one on Amazon while removing it from the storage drawer - again - I told myself I couldn't start the beading class until I reorganized the my bead stash.
I spent a rip roaring party time evening streaming movies on Amazon Prime Instant Video
and organizing my craft beads into empty prescription pill bottles I've randomly tossing into my bead drawer along with baby food jars, and film canisters. Remember those?
I have more loose beads than I realize. Is is rude to ask your family to get sick enough to require prescription medicine so you can repurpose the bottle? I'm asking for a friend.
Funny thing buying the class lead to another craft organizing hack I've been wanting to do for awhile. After spilling beads out of my plastic bead organizer box similar to this one on Amazon while removing it from the storage drawer - again - I told myself I couldn't start the beading class until I reorganized the my bead stash.
A big chunk of my beads came from my Grandmother. I've done big beading costume projects with them ever since.
I spent a rip roaring party time evening streaming movies on Amazon Prime Instant Video
and organizing my craft beads into empty prescription pill bottles I've randomly tossing into my bead drawer along with baby food jars, and film canisters. Remember those?
Under Lacey's watchful gaze of course. Or maybe she just likes to binge watch The Sarah Jane Chronicles too.
I have more loose beads than I realize. Is is rude to ask your family to get sick enough to require prescription medicine so you can repurpose the bottle? I'm asking for a friend.
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Thursday, September 1, 2016
Friday Favorites Link Party - Week 336
How can it be Labor Day weekend already? Do you have plans? One last BBQ blast? Watching fireworks? Football, football, and even more football?
I have some DIY projects planned and time set aside to to watch my favorite guilty pleasure and Labor Day tradition streaming the movie Serial Mom on Amazon Prime. (This is an affiliate link for your convenience)
If you aren't familiar with the movie Serial Mom, Kathleen Turner plays a soccer mom who tries to make the world a better place by murdering people over such
vile and heinous crimes as wearing white shoes after Labor Day.
Basically it's like if Martha Stewart had a dark side that included bludgeoning the neighbors with a leg of lamb for not sorting their recycling and she got rid of the evidence and murder weapon by having a dinner party featuring an award winning leg of lamb recipe while all of the guests rave over the impressive recipe and think she is kind and wonderful to invite them to impromptu dinner parties.
It is also the reason why I am afraid to where white after Labor Day.
Let's party!
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Sunday, July 17, 2016
21 Unique Bottle Cap Crafts to Inspire You!
I remake and makeover a lot of things using bottle caps but as our collection grows I need new recycled DIY ideas.
If you look at my Pinterest Crafts board you will see I have bottle cap projects on the brain. It seems like after I complete one bottle cap decorating project I see and pin a bunch more. (Follow me @condoblues on Pinterest pretty please?)
I can’t be the only one that doesn't this, can I?
I thought I’d share the bottle cap craft love and show you some of my favorite recycled bottle cap projects from around the web to inspire you.
You can just drool over them like the bottle cap house. I doubt my Home Owner’s Association will let me do that or Husband for that matter.
If you look at my Pinterest Crafts board you will see I have bottle cap projects on the brain. It seems like after I complete one bottle cap decorating project I see and pin a bunch more. (Follow me @condoblues on Pinterest pretty please?)
I can’t be the only one that doesn't this, can I?
I thought I’d share the bottle cap craft love and show you some of my favorite recycled bottle cap projects from around the web to inspire you.
You can just drool over them like the bottle cap house. I doubt my Home Owner’s Association will let me do that or Husband for that matter.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
How to Make a Bottle Cap Mosaic Chair
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The cute little mosaic tile bistro set on our patio has lived outside in the rain sleet and snow for a very long time.
How long?
Long enough for the elements to take their toll and dry rot the wood base of the table and all of the chairs.
Well, when I can’t buy I DIY!
Recycled Bottle Cap Craft Tutorial
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Zipper Yoga Mat Tote Bag Tutorial
Yoga is my favorite form of exercise. Husband thoughtfully gave me a better and slightly thicker sticky yoga mat so I didn’t have to borrow his mat anymore. Awww. What a guy!
He offered to buy me a new yoga mat bag too. I told him I had all of the materials I need in my craft room to make a yoga mat bag.
Three months later I finally got around to making it.
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My bloggy friend Jen Goode from 100 Directions asked me to be part of her National Craft Month celebration. Jen’s blog collaboration was the kick in the seat I needed to design and sew the yoga mat bag I planned from recycled and stash bust craft materials.
He offered to buy me a new yoga mat bag too. I told him I had all of the materials I need in my craft room to make a yoga mat bag.
Three months later I finally got around to making it.
Pin this post for later!Monday, March 7, 2016
How to Make Bottle Cap Tiles
I want another ear phone, phone, and table charger organizer for the living room to hold the overflow from the Cigar Box and Wine Cork Storage Box I made last month.
I found a decorative Indian spice box during a 10 minute tidy in the kitchen that will a few quick tweaks will fit the bill just fine thank you.
The interior wood dividers easily popped out of the box in my hand. I wanted to add feet to the bottom of my DIY decorative storage box. What to use?
Bottle caps!
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I found a decorative Indian spice box during a 10 minute tidy in the kitchen that will a few quick tweaks will fit the bill just fine thank you.
The interior wood dividers easily popped out of the box in my hand. I wanted to add feet to the bottom of my DIY decorative storage box. What to use?
Bottle caps!
Pin this post for later!Sunday, February 21, 2016
12 Things I Do Not Buy and What I Use Instead
Like most of you, I buy things on sale to save money where I can. Unfortunately, I’m just as guilty as anyone else who ran to the store to
buy two things and came out with a buggy of stuff because I found a sale or a deal.
Sometimes I saved money and often times I didn't. The light bulb went off when I decluttered and
organized the basement of our old place. Most of the Donate Pile was
stuff I bought on sale because I thought I was saving money at the time.
The easiest way to stop those intermittent money leaks disguised as saving was to stop buying things I didn't need even if they were on sale. I either gave up using it, found a reusable for a disposable, or repurposed something to take its place - all are extremely green, painless, and low cost options!
So scoot over to my food blog Lazy Budget Chef to read my post:
Make sure you read the comments. A bunch of super smart folks shared their money saving tips there too!
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The easiest way to stop those intermittent money leaks disguised as saving was to stop buying things I didn't need even if they were on sale. I either gave up using it, found a reusable for a disposable, or repurposed something to take its place - all are extremely green, painless, and low cost options!
So scoot over to my food blog Lazy Budget Chef to read my post:
12 Things I Do Buy
Make sure you read the comments. A bunch of super smart folks shared their money saving tips there too!
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Monday, February 15, 2016
How to Make a Reversible Valentine’s Day and St Patrick’s Day Garland
I don’t decorate for Valentine's Day or St Patrick’s Day very much, if at all. I’m not hating on either holiday. I don’t have much room to store extra decorations that will be up for only a few weeks for Valentine's Day only to take them down and put up new decorations that will be up for only a few weeks for Saint Patrick's Day.
I got a flash of inspiration when I saw the servants hall in Downton Abby decorated with colorful cloth pennant garland in a recent episode. I know I’m a little late to the cloth garland party but a Valentine’s Day decoration I can flip over and reuse as a Saint Patrick’s Day decoration will solve my storage and holiday décor problem nicely.
Let’s get our DIY on!
I got a flash of inspiration when I saw the servants hall in Downton Abby decorated with colorful cloth pennant garland in a recent episode. I know I’m a little late to the cloth garland party but a Valentine’s Day decoration I can flip over and reuse as a Saint Patrick’s Day decoration will solve my storage and holiday décor problem nicely.
Let’s get our DIY on!
St Patrick’s Day and Valentine’s Day Garland Decor Tutorial
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(No dog Project Mangers where harmed in the making of this project.)
Pin this post for later! Thursday, January 28, 2016
DIY Cigar Box and Wine Cork Storage Box
More often than I want to admit, phone and table cords, earphones, and eyeglasses are strewn about the side tables in my living room. I put the stuff away. The next evening we need the stuff to read books or watch movies on our tablets and plop it on a table before heading off to bed. I put the stuff away…
It’s a never ending cycle.
A friend found a bunch of empty wood cigar boxes in the basement of her wine shop. I was drooling when I found out. Old cigar boxes are the gold standard of recycled project material just begging for an upcycle!
Needless to say, I made my way over to her shop and came home with a cigar box to make into a decorative storage box with wine cork feet to contain the flotsam and jetsam littering the living room.
It’s a never ending cycle.
A friend found a bunch of empty wood cigar boxes in the basement of her wine shop. I was drooling when I found out. Old cigar boxes are the gold standard of recycled project material just begging for an upcycle!
Needless to say, I made my way over to her shop and came home with a cigar box to make into a decorative storage box with wine cork feet to contain the flotsam and jetsam littering the living room.
You have no idea how much work it took to to win the eBay auction for these vintage metal frames. I had my optimist fill them with my prescription. I love them!
How to Make a Decorative Cigar Box Storage Box
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Project Me: Pick a Personal Word of the Year
When I stopped making New Year’s resolutions for the sake of having one on New Year’s Eve, it became easier for me to keep them. I often make New Year’s resolutions but now I do it at a point in the year when I need it.
It is my way to keep New Year’s resolutions that works.
The same can be said for choosing a personal word for the New Year. I thought about doing it last year when I saw all of the other cool blogger kids were doing it as a way to keep or instead of making a New Year’s Resolution but couldn’t come up with a word with meaning. The only word I came up with at the time was vague and too general. I knew I’d forget about it soon after January so I didn’t do it.
This year, I picked a personal word of the year a few weeks after New Year’s by happy accident.
Learn how to make my New Year’s Memory Jar from a recycled salsa jar on Lazy Budget Chef here!
It is my way to keep New Year’s resolutions that works.
The same can be said for choosing a personal word for the New Year. I thought about doing it last year when I saw all of the other cool blogger kids were doing it as a way to keep or instead of making a New Year’s Resolution but couldn’t come up with a word with meaning. The only word I came up with at the time was vague and too general. I knew I’d forget about it soon after January so I didn’t do it.
This year, I picked a personal word of the year a few weeks after New Year’s by happy accident.
Learn how to make my New Year’s Memory Jar from a recycled salsa jar on Lazy Budget Chef here!
Thursday, January 7, 2016
DIY Recycled Bottle Cap Zipper Pull. So Easy!
I keep my dance, color guard, and yoga gear organized and ready to go in separate string backpacks. I am extremely fortunate to get the little backpacks from marching band events. That makes it a zero cost organization system. The downside is all of the bags are from the same sponsor. Is too easy to grab the wrong bag for the wrong class. Whoops!
I can fix this by making a unique handmade zipper pull for each backpack so I can tell them apart.
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This is a quick and easy recycled craft that is fun to do with kids. Sourcing the materials might be the best part of the project because we are reusing bottle caps. Enjoying a soda treat in the name of recycled organizers? Don’t mind if I do!
I can fix this by making a unique handmade zipper pull for each backpack so I can tell them apart.
Pin me for later!
This is a quick and easy recycled craft that is fun to do with kids. Sourcing the materials might be the best part of the project because we are reusing bottle caps. Enjoying a soda treat in the name of recycled organizers? Don’t mind if I do!
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