Another creative cafe happening in my building. We do DIY projects that have a sustainable theme. College students have cereal boxes. These are great way to create something with what you have. Or you can get supplies cheap. Great as a gift. I included the instructions I created for myself and my staff to run…
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Whipped Body Butter
Decided to make some DIY Whipped Body Butter. I was inspired by two different recipes. 1. from Wellness Mama 2. From Life Ann Style I love how Life Ann Style incorporated upcycle into this project using old candle jars. I didn’t have those. The recipes make a lot so make sure you have many jars…
Flyer example. This was inspired from another picture I had seen for diy-reed diffuser. My end result looks nothing like the original. I always need to start somewhere with inspiration. Used PowerPoint. Created a shape as bottom layer size of page. filled the shape with a picture I found online. When you do this you…
I have been doing research on lotion bars for quite some time. This may be due to my current obsession of searching diy stuff on youtube. GOLD MINE! Finding gifts for friends and family has become tricky over the years. I prefer the homemade and functional gifts. For some peeps beauty products are the perfect…
Cleaning again and found some old bracelet trials I had made. Had an idea to use them with a t-shirt scarf to dress it up. Old or broken jewerly is great for making new accessories. This is a extra large t-shirt so the scraf is supa long. You can loop it to make it smaller….
I was cleaning today. there was a t-shirt on my counter. my crafty brain said stop cleaning and create. Combined two ways to make a no sew t-shirt bag. Had some duct tape that needed to be used. Did the tie bottom instead of using safety pin to thread the bottom. you can see my…
I Dye: How To Make Natural Dyes From Wild Plants
Learn how to create your own dyes for clothes and more – with ingredients straight from Mother Nature herself! I Dye: How To Make Natural Dyes From Wild Plants
Instead of telling you how to print of burlap easily I have searched and found a great video from Maryann of Domestically Speaking. I haven’t done too many projects with this technique, but I plan to. The one example I have is the door decorations I did last year for my staff. You can see…
This plate was from ikea. 5.99. Used a stencil at first then continued to free style. The oil based sharpie pink keeps it color. Check out my other sharpie post here. These are set by baking them. handwash only. I would mostly be using these for decorative. Maybe plating some desserts.
The first new pictures are the colors before baking. 425-435 for 30 minutes. Start it in a cold oven. See all the details for my other posts about sharpie baking here 9" bowl 2.49 from Ikea. Made a stencil on my Cricut. Only used it a few times until I was comfortable drawing the leaves…
Another diy sharpie mug. This was a special request from a student of mine. He is student teaching this semester so he plans to use it as he teacher mug. I put a message to him at the bottom of the inside of the mug. I don’t even remember how he got the nickname robo…
Maple syrup glass bottles turned into functional items for the home. Soap dispenser and oil container. Supplies Glass bottles. I used maple syrup bottles. Whole food brand pure maple syrup bottles. Soap pump from a retailer or do what I did and reuse one you had from old plastic soap dispenser bottle. Tablecraft Hinged Flip…
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