Butterfly Embroidery Jeans: Ideas Worth Stitching Onto Denim You Already Own
Every idea below puts the butterfly on a line the jeans already have: a pocket edge, a felled outseam, a hem, a knee that has … Read more
13 Stamped Clay Gift Tags With Natural Twine, From Fern Prints to Advent Numbers
Air-dry clay loses between five and ten percent of its size as it dries, and it shrinks around the hole you punched as readily as … Read more
13 Painted Wood Slice Ornaments for a Minimalist Tree
Most wood slice ornament designs are painted for a full tree, where forty pieces blur into texture and no single one gets looked at. A … Read more
Dried Cranberry Garland for a Rustic Mantel: Ideas That Survive Past New Year
A properly dried cranberry is roughly half the size of the one that went into the oven, matte where it used to be waxy, and … Read more
How to Make a Cranberry and Popcorn Garland for a Vintage Christmas Tree
A single strand of popcorn and cranberries covers about four feet of tree and costs roughly what a bag of microwave popcorn does. It is … Read more
Air Dry Clay Ornaments With Pressed Fern and Leaf Imprints
The fastest way to make one of these ornaments look like a school craft project is to press a real leaf into the clay and … Read more
10 DIY Denim Christmas Garland Ideas to Make From Old Jeans
Most denim Christmas projects start with the darkest jeans in the pile, on the theory that deep indigo is what reads as denim. On a … Read more
Upcycled Christmas Gifts You Can Make From What You Already Own
The standard advice on upcycled gifts is that anything can become something, and that the thought is what counts. It isn’t. An upcycled gift fails … Read more
12 Denim Christmas Tree Skirt Ideas to Make From Upcycled Jeans
Cut the legs off one pair of adult jeans and you get four flat panels of heavyweight cotton, each wide enough for a wedge of … Read more
12 Upcycled Crafts to Sell That Hold Their Margin at Markets and on Etsy
The crafts that sell are rarely the ones that look hardest to make. They are the ones with a wide gap between what the materials … Read more