Celebrate the holidays German-style with this modern DIY pedestal Advent wreath made of upcycled materials.
This year, I’m obsessed with Advent wreaths. This German tradition from my childhood has me all nostalgic to count the weeks leading up to Christmas. I cannot. get. enough. of how pretty they are. There’s something so magical about candles and greenery in the wintertime, isn’t there?
Read MoreThese DIY painted arch pumpkins are as cute as they are easy to make!
Have you ever given up on something you loved, for no reason whatsoever? Maybe time got away from you for a few weeks or months, and life continued to get in the way, and before you know it, ages have past since you last took part in that activity?
Read MoreLearn the basics of macrame with these beginner-friendly macrame knots, and see how you can use them in your own macrame DIYs.
Image by Fall for DIY
It seems like a lot of times when I pop on here out of nowhere, it’s to say that I’m working on a super-secret collaboration. Well, surprise! I’m working on a super-secret collaboration. This one is really, really, really epic, and I cannot WAIT to tell you about it!
Here’s a giant hint in the meantime: it involves macrame. I’m finally getting knotty! (Too much?)
In anticipation of the macrame DIY that I’ll soon be able to share with you, today I’m going to round up the best tutorials on how to tie beginner-friendly macrame knots, and gorgeous projects you can make with them. Then, check back next week when I’ll be able to share my own project and my exciting news!
Image by Made in a Day
Every macrame project begins with a simple little loop known as the lark’s head knot. This attaches the macrame cords to…whatever they are being attached to. Rings, dowels, branches, hoops, etc. Made in a Day has a perfect explanation about how to make this easiest of knots, and then goes on to use it to make one of my favorite macrame DIYs, a boho hanging macrame mirror.
Reduce your waste this Earth Day with these beautiful modern DIY upcycling ideas.
Dating myself again, but Captain Planet was my faaaaave when I was a kid!
Fast-forward several decades, and I’ve been trying to be more mindful of how much waste I throw out, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite modern DIY upcycling ideas. Because Earth Day is next week, after all!
Creating art and crafts has always seemed worth it to me — worth the resources produced, worth the waste made. I don’t know if nature necessarily agrees. But we can at least try to craft by those three R’s they taught us in elementary school.
These projects achieve all three!
(Yep, it’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Pushing my glasses up higher on my nose as I type).
+++ Transform glass drink bottles into chic, minimal vases on Make and Tell. Read More
Inside: display your favorite pics in a DIY clay rainbow photo holder, and find out how to participate in the Spring Make It Challenge!
When I was 12, my parents gave me my first camera.
It was a pink plastic Fuji point-and-shoot film camera (I’m dating myself here), and I loved it. That camera went with me everywhere and started off the collection of thousands of negatives and prints I would create from grade school through college.
And then came my DSLR and smartphone, AKA, the Death of Film Cameras. Just like that, I stopped printing pictures. My phone currently has 7,027 photos on it, and I have thousands more archived on my laptop and external hard drive. But hardly a print in sight!
Guys, I’m sick of taking pictures and never looking at them again (or getting sucked into the mindless smartphone scrolling when I do). Maybe it’s due to my recent discovery of modern journaling and scrapbooking styles, but I want to print photos again! Who’s with me??
This FINALLY brings me to today’s DIY. If we’re going to have photo prints around, we’ve gotta have a cute way to display them.
My DIY clay rainbow photo holder is the perfect solution to liberate your neglected photos from their digital prisons. It’s easy enough that you can make a whole batch, and cover your home in sweet little rainbows to show off all your favorite photographs.