Crafts
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Striped Round Wood Halloween Wreath
With our annual Halloween party coming up, we are always looking for fun new ideas to create handmade crafty prizes to giveaway. I saw this idea to make striped wreaths over at Pretty Providence, I decided to alter mine and use leftover press board. These wreaths will be a fun addition to our Halloween party prize table. To create your own wood wreath you will need 1/2″ to 1″ thick wood of your choice. I used a 1″ thick press board to make my wreaths. First create a circle template. Using my personal cutting machine to create a 12″ circle template made it easy. You will trace your circle template onto your wood and…
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Wooden Coffin Decorative Halloween Sign
Are you looking for new ideas and ways to decorate at Halloween time? Halloween is one of my favorite holiday’s and I love to go over the top! Adding new Halloween decorations to my house while looking for new ideas is a fun past time of mine. In fact deciding to create a coffin out of old wood flooring that I had was easy for me. I knew that I needed to add something to it because it was very plain looking. Finding this darling saying from Dexter Kozen made the perfect addition to put on my coffin. To make a Wooden Coffin Decorative Halloween sign you will need: 2 wood slats cut 3″…
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Stamped metal and leather cuffs made from old belts
This summer I was in charge of a youth camp for girls ages 12-18 years old. The girls always like making crafts for one of the activities during camp. As I thought about the kinds of crafts the girls like to make. I thought about how much effort goes into cutting wood and supplies for crafts that we have made in the past at youth camps. Often I have found that the girls only liked the items made at camp for a short period of time and then they are thrown away or donated to thrift stores. Wanting to make something that wasn’t too large or took a lot of…
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DIY Fast & Furious™ Stunt Car Travel Bag
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #RevUpF8 #CollectiveBias We are huge Fast & Furious™ fans at our house!!! Did you know that the newest film in the series, The Fate of the Furious DVD was released on July 11th? We are anxiously waiting to watch The Fate of the Furious again. While shopping at my local Wal-Mart I found that Fast & Furious™ has released a new toy line for the first time. We had a lot of fun looking at the different toys inspired by the movie’s real cars and characters. We decided to purchase the Fast &…
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Hobby Lobby knock off Fireworks sign
while scrolling through social media one day, I came across an advertisement for some 4th of July decorations at Hobby Lobby. They had a darling sign that said “fireworks” in the advertisement. After looking more closely at the advertisement, I decide that the fireworks sign was actually a chalkboard that they had written the word on. I knew I wanted to create something similar but, I wanted mine to be a long term piece that I could add to my seasonal decorations. I decided to create a framed sign that looked like it was a chalkboard with writing but, use regular black paint and white vinyl to make it permanent.…
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How to Make Fun Nerf Gun Targets for Shooting!
For Christmas my brother bought my family Nerf Guns with a lot of Ammo! It is always a fun time running around the house shooting one another. Seeing the cousins interacting with one another with these guns is always a good time. My mom gathered all of the Nerf guns together for our annual memorial day camping trip. She asked my brother Jason to come up with some ideas for targets for the kids and family to shoot at. I’ll share a few ideas for Nerf Gun target shooting! This first idea is one that my brother Jason came up with he found all the supplies at Michael’s Craft…
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DIY Polly Pocket Mini Cake Dresses
With summer fast approaching as a mom I am always looking for ideas to keep the kids busy. These DIY Polly Pocket Mini Cake Dresses will definitely keep the kids happy for a few hours. My daughter has been begging me for sometime to help her make a Barbie cake. After watching several tutorials with her I decided that they look like a bit of work. I also am not a huge fan of cake with a ton of frosting! I wasn’t too big on the idea of having a giant cake go to waste or letting my kids devour an entire cake and have a sugar rush! The other day my daughter had brought out her…
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DIY Fresh Cut Flowers Rustic Outdoor Garden Sign
If one thing is certain we love making signs and we love using scrap wood to do it. The cheaper we can create a project the better it is on our crafting budget. This Fresh Cut Flowers rustic garden sign is no exception to using the wood floor planks that we do. Who can pass up free wood? Here is a quick and easy tutorial for this garden sign. First take 3 wood floor slats and cut them 22″ in length. Then glue the tongue and grooves together of each slat using wood glue. The wood flooring pieces are exactly 5″ in width. By putting all 3 strips together the…
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Rustic Wooden Slat Carrot Board Easer Decoration
I often see several ideas for holiday decorations floating around on the web. Usually I see something and I will like the idea and then I will see something similar to it and think hey, If I took this part and this part and put them together. Well that is the story of this Rustic Wooden Slat Carrot Board Easer Decoration. I saw an idea over at a little shop called Pixxie Stixx darling place if you are ever in the Brigham City area, then I saw another idea at Ribbons and Glue. They are very similar ideas but I liked different elements from each decoration. I liked how one was…
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DIY Simple Striped Gold Glitter Wooden Easter Egg
Something about spring time gives me a renewed energy. I’m not sure if it’s the fresh rain kissed air, sunshine, or the abundance of blossoms. I’ve gotten to work and the creativity is flowing, I m excited to get some fun spring crafts done. This past weekend I was on a roll and was able to finish up several projects that were half done. After I had finished all of these projects I wasn’t ready to quit. I found a scrap of wood and cut out an egg shape and then this DIY simple Striped Gold Glitter Wooden Easter Egg came to life. To create your own DIY simple Striped…
