In this post I’ll share How to Make Wood Slice Snowmen Ornaments A few days ago I showed you how I made a turkey from a wood slice. I promised snowmen ornaments and the tutorial is now available, How to Make Wood Slice Snowmen Ornaments. I hope you enjoy these fun and easy handmade ornaments! How […]
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In this post I will be showing you How to Make a Wood Slice Turkey. This is such a simple, easy and quick craft and also so super cute! Supplies: -Wood Slices -Paint (acrylic or latex) -Hot Glue Gun -Clothespins I had a pile of wood slices that I cut from some smaller logs from our wood burning
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In this post, I will be showing you How to Make a Thankful Turkey with a Coffee Can. If you’re wanting to teach your child about gratitude this Thanksgiving season, this craft is a fun way to really concentrate on being thankful. Of course gratitude is something we want our children to learn and experience everyday, but Thanksgiving
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Refinish a Rocking Chair with Stain and Stencils. We recently went to a big flea market. While there we scored these 2 chairs. Aren’t they awesome?! They’re both completely different from each other, but equally fantastic. How to Refinish a Rocking Chair with Stain and Stencils I
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I’ll be showing How to Make a Fall Throw Pillow from drop cloth. As part of our living room remodel, I made curtains for the windows out of drop cloth. The drop cloth curtains were hanging in our living room for a few months, but I decided to change them out for plain white curtains. I ended up having
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Make Fun Log Seats using Stencils. I had an idea about making fun sayings to stencil onto log seats, so that people could have a good laugh before sitting down around the campfire. I wrote out a few phrases that I thought might be fun to see
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In this post I’ll be sharing a beginner’s guide for how to stencil your DIY projects. Have you been wanting to try stenciling and just didn’t know where to start? This post on stenciling is full of steps and tips that will help you get started. My first stencil job was when I stenciled a floral design
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Refinish a Stereo Cabinet using Stain and Stencil. This a fantastic stereo cabinet, that has found a home in our living room. We love listening to songs on it, dancing and singing our little hearts out. The only thing that doesn’t work so well is the record
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In this tutorial, I walk you through step by step in Making JPG Files into Cut Files in Cricut Design Space. I hope you find this helpful when using your Cricut machine to edit JPG files. Can my Cricut use JPG files? Yes! Cricut Design Space has a handy method to take your JPG (JPEG) files
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Repurpose an Old Table with Stencils. I wish I could tell you all, that I found this table on a curb or it was bought at a garage sale, but nope this awful mess of a table is ours, and is the epitome of what a slippery slope
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Get More Out of Your Stencils Using This Simple Tip. I’ve found a passion in stenciling, and have started a small collection of stencils from places like Hobby Lobby and Michael’s. There are times, however, when I start a stencil project, but I really want a different design
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Coffee Table Rescued from the Curb Hey everyone! I’m guest blogging over at my awesome friend, Mary’s blog, The Boondocks Blog, today. I’m giving the details and reveal of the coffee table in the picture below. Can you believe I found this table on the curb, in the rain?! Isn’t it beautiful? Ok so it needs a little something,
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In this post I’m sharing How to Repurpose a Table Top into Wall Art. I had bought this table top at a garage sale a few weeks ago for only $1! It’s solid wood and just had minor holes where it was attached to table legs. There’s so many things that could be done with this
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Repurpose a Glass Shade into a Planter. Two months ago, I took you all shopping at garage sales, and showed you some of my finds. Among the treasures were these glass shades that I scored for 25 cents each. My original plan was to turn them into
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Make a farmhouse-style American Flag Sign Using Scrap Wood. If you’ve been following me for a little while, you know that we remodeled our living room. Part of the remodel meant replacing the windows. We ended up using 1x lumber to trim the new windows. I ripped
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Since it’s spring and the weather is starting to get nice, I decided to make a wind chime. In this post I’ll be sharing How to Make a Wind Chime using Repurposed Materials. I used a cover from the ceiling fan that used to hang in our living room. I’ve been repurposing ceiling fan parts
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We don’t have an entryway closet or hall tree for the entryway, so we would need a coat rack for all those coats and hats during the winter season, so we decided to make our own. This post shows How to Make a Coat Rack using Garage Door Rollers. We had some leftover lumber from
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—Article by Keri This Rustic Cross was so easy to make and in this post I’ll be sharing How to Make a Rustic Cross Using Sticks and Twine. The first thing I did was take sticks from the yard, and wrapped them tightly in 2 bundles, using jute twine. When wrapping, I left the starting end
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Stencil and Stain a Side Table. This table is a part of a set of nesting tables. My mother-in-law bought them at a garage sale, $7 for the pair. I remember she was so proud of them, and the price she paid! I refinished them for her
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In this post, I will explain and show How to Make Beautiful Angels with Old Junk. We replaced our garage door a few weekends ago. While making the switch, I noticed some hinges, and rollers that used to be part of the old garage door. My mind immediately went to wings and halos. I started
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In this post I’ll be sharing How to Make DIY Wooden Bunny Easter Baskets. Many years ago my mom had an idea to make me and my siblings, bunny shaped Easter baskets. She drew up a design and took it to my grandpa, who used a bandsaw to cut out some wooden bunnies. He also
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I’ve been repurposing fan blades over the past few months. I have one left in my stock pile, and I decided to use it for a fun Valentine’s Day Sign. In this post I’ll be sharing How to Repurpose a Ceiling Fan Blade into a Valentine’s Day Sign. I painted it white and then chose
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I was half awake, half asleep the other morning when this idea came to me: to turn one of the remaining ceiling fan blades from our airplane and coffee cup sign projects into a hot air balloon. It has a somewhat balloonish shape, so that’s just what I did. In this post I’ll be sharing
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Recently, I repurposed ceiling fan blades and other materials and constructed an airplane out of ceiling fan parts. I also made some coffee cup signs using old ceiling fan blades we had to take off our living room fixture. With one of the three remaining blades, I made some Christmas decorations. I’m sharing How to
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This is now my second project using repurposed fan blades. The first was the airplane made out of old ceiling fan parts. We’re going to have to replace the blades on the ceiling fan in the living room, so now I have 4 more blades to repurpose. :) For this project, however, I am only
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