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A DIY pin cushion with crocheted top, and a lace bottom. Its holding a dozen pink sewing pins and is sitting in front of a sewing machine. The pin cushion has a crystal stand.
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Beautiful DIY Pin Cushion with Stand

A beautiful DIY Pin Cushion craft you can make in a few minutes with thrift store finds and scrap fabric.

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A flowering bulb pot for Spring with a terra cotta pot and flowering Spring bulbs. Its sitting a white DIY container tied with a green ribbon.
Blog | Crafts | Spring and Easter

Flowering Bulb Pot – Spring Flowers in a Pot

Wow, it is pretty hard to define what exactly to call this rustic flowering bulb pot Spring craft, I then added some beautiful Spring flowers in a pot. To place some Spring flowers in a pot, I needed to create a Spring bulb planter container first. Anyway, you want to call it in the end…

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A collage of four different DIY doorstoppers, one made with rope, another sewn, a third one crocheeted and one made with wood and leather. The test says 30 DIY woodstopper ideas.
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20 DIY Doorstopper Ideas with Fabric, Wood, and Concrete

A DIY doorstop is a pretty simple DIY project to complete and I bet you can make one for free, or for a very low cost depending on what type of simple supplies you already have on hand. This post has 40 different doorstop styles of each with complete step-by-step instructions. There are fabric doorstoppers…

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Three different DIY faux ceramic vases on a mantel. One vase is black, one is brown, and one is cream coloured. The black vase is the largest with a wooden farmhouse string of beads and has branches of greenery. They are all sitting beside a round mirror with metal frame.
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DIY Faux Ceramic Vase Thrift Store Makeover

I am aware that I compare prices all the time on the blog, with a busy life I would love nothing more than to shop and drop decor and often skip the DIY. Unfortunately if your like me and your tastes are much more expensive than you bank account is full you have to pick…

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An upcycled drawer front to a cheap chalkboard serving tray.
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Upcycled DIY Tray with Chalkboard Surface

Start with a long thin kitchen cabinet drawer front in a light colour. The drawer fronts are long and thin making them perfect servers. We purchased ours at Habitat for Humanity for $2. You can make up one or several of these trays for so cheap. You can even do a few of them to…

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Two large floor sized candle holders in white sitting on a fireplace.
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Upcycled Large DIY Candle Holders from Old Table Legs

How to Make Upcycled DIY Wood Candle Holders The old table legs for these upcycled large candlesticks are a gift from one of my very best friends.  He is an antique dealer with 40 plus years of woodworking experience restoring high end antiques.  Every once in awhile I am able to go visit him, ooh…

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A collection of picture frame ideas using old wood frames. Including a succulent planter, a picture frame wreath, empty frames for home decor, and a shadow box made from an old wreath.
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15 Pretty Picture Frame Ideas

Easy and Inspiring Picture Frame Craft Ideas to Try After seeing all these different picture frame ideas for repurposing and reusing old picture frames, I won’t ever look at them the same again. I think you will love these trash to treasure picture frame upcycles. For myself I spent a couple of very happy evenings…

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An old round wooden cheese box in upcycled to become pretty farmhouse storage, farmhouse toy box, or farmhouse nightstand.
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Vintage Wooden Cheese Box Repurpose into Farmhouse Storage Bin

A Vintage Cheese Box Repurposed into Farmhouse Toy Storage We live in the prairie provinces covered with hundreds of miles of farms, but not one cheese factory that I know of.  The only reason I knew what a cheese box was is because I saw a makeover on Waste not Wednesday.  The fantastic thing was…

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