I have had the wire form from a busted lampshade sitting in a box for a few years, waiting for some sort of project. I thought I might make a new fabric or paper cover, but I just never felt like it.
Then I realized, with a lot of bags of plastic beads and some 20 [...]
Satin stitch has to be my favorite embroidery technique. Of course, it takes up the most floss and the most time, but I think the returns warrant the extra effort and supplies.
As I promised here, I would show you a thrifty project soon. I’m using one of the $1 pillow cases and “coloring in” the [...]
I think that’s a much better adage than “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” because when are lemons just given? The current price of one lemon at my local grocery store is $0.79! I would love to have life give me any kind of citrus.
What life occasionally does do is break things, like my cereal bowls. [...]
I got this hat as a free promotional gift from Lucky Brand Jeans. The only problem was, originally, it was just plain solid green with the word “ENVY” on the front. I don’t know what they were trying to convey: was the wearer supposed to make others envious of their Lucky jeans? Did they want [...]
I recently finished a project that I’ve been eyeing for a while, inspired by really neat items from Urban Outfitters: a jewelry stand.
Here are some from UO:
and here is mine:
At this point, my boyfriend knows to run it buy me before he throws anything big out, because I will pull things out of the garbage to save them, and no one wants that. So when he wanted to throw away a slightly ripped up towel with a hole at one end, he was nice [...]
I never thought that these things would come together. I mean, recycling and upholstery go hand in hand (reupholstery) and gardening and recycling are common. But how does upholstery and gardening fit together?
Well, if you run out of containers to grow your seedlings/plants like I did, and you want to use a tin can (like [...]
The following picture is NOT chocolate:
I think I’m going to make this a regular feature for Thursdays: Healthy Food. I had 4 bananas that I couldn’t finish before they were going to spoil (they bruised all over being carried home on Monday). So I found a banana bread/cake recipe that had a high banana ratio [...]
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Cambria Bold, a writer for Re-Nest. We both took an upholstery class at The Furniture Joint in New York. Anyway, Re-Nest is part of Apartment Therapy (which is also great) and I wanted to spread the word about her writing and the rest of the site. It’s fantastic how much they [...]
I just saw this article and this is officially on my to-do list.
Sewing Machine Converted to Scroll Saw on Instructables via CRAFT:
I have an old Singer that someone gave me for free. It doesn’t work because the bobbin case and the cover plate is damaged, so the shuttle hook (loop hook, whatever you may call [...]