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Mini DIY Round-Up!

DIY Hanging Herb Garden from Persephone Magazine   Printmaking with Yarn by Steph of Modern Parents Messy Kids on Whip Up ! A hand-stitched card from Freckled Nest

DIY: vintage frame table numbers

With our Wedding and Valentine's market now underway, I've been perusing the wedding blogs as of late looking for simple little d.i.y.'s to share here this month . If you are having a v…

Chakra P. Tutorial: Words as art

Today we are pleased to introduce the first of a few posts featuring D.I.Y.'s (or how-to's) from the talented Rikkianne of Chakra Pennywhistle . Rikkianne as you many of you know, is well-kn…

I made this for you... vol.3

shauna doesn't exactly have a green thumb but, she's managed to keep our small crop of plants alive for more than a year now. we've had a trip planned for a while so she's been worrie…

D.I.Y. Projects

Standing in line at the check out last night I started flipping through Better Homes and Garden's Do It Yourself magazine and loved these two little projects I saw inside. One on this headboard…

DIY Pillows from Out-dated Clothing

Totally loving this DIY project to create pillow covers out of out-dated clothing by Jess Chamberlain of Sunset Magazine who's grabbed the baton from me today over at Design Sponge's guest …

Homemade Peeps!

Love this! DIY Homemade Marshmallow Peeps! From Twig & Thistle . (Via twitter.com/crowandcanary .

Recycled Wood Project - d.i.y.

There's a Canadian daily daytime show here called Cityline where they cover everything from Home & Garden, Food & Entertaining to Fashion & Beauty. And they always have top talent o…

Transform your entryway

This is a great little weekend project (if you have one of these closets just hanging around) from Hallmark Magazine (Feb/Mar issue). Using blackboard paint they tranformed this vintage cupboard…

Make it! Hooped Faux Tapestry Wall Art

While browsing through the fabric store just before Halloween for costume notions, we came upon this fun faux tapestry fabric and instantly stopped. Nearby were these embroidery hoops and voila - in…

arts & crafts

We know Jinnie of Lilacmoon for her polaroids and Poladoodles, and she also likes to make things with rubber stamps. We came across these fun little crafts she made using stamps and asked if she’d …

Clipping Mask Tutorial

Today I'm going off a bit of the beaten path and offering a wee tutorial on making a clipping mask in Adobe's Illustrator CS3. It's one of those things I always wanted to know before I …

make it! downloadable letters to make vinyl decals

Download a letter pdf file here (includes A to Z), print it out on your printer. Cut out letter and tape onto contact paper reversed so when flipped over it reads properly. For the …

Thank you readers! Here's a lemony treat! (a free downloadable poster)

To thank you, our readers, we have created a downloadable art print just for you. We really appreciate you visiting us, and just wanted to send out something. Using the eye chart idea, we put the…

make it! a cool new clock

I thought this d.i.y. up over the weekend for my newsletter and can hardly wait to pick up the ingredients. Inspired by a canvas grandfather clock I had seen here (thanks Fiona ), I came up with a …

book lamp

such a cute idea for a lamp coming out of the june/july issue of bust magazine . it's their 15th anniversary coming up and i just got a sneak peek of this. i'm looking forward to finding it…

felt pendant diy @ d's

amazing little do-it-yourself coming from design sponge's with these felt covered ikea pendant lamps by kate from tape design .

upholstery - decor it yourself!

meg has done it again! this time with a great d.i.y. on upholstery project. she does an amazing slip cover on a foot stool!

julia rothman at d's guest blog

design sponge has a great guest blogger this week, illustrator, julia rothman . being a huge fan of hers, it's going to be a fun week to see all her finds and things. i just had to link up to…

cute d.i.y. at d*sponge

if you haven't already, check out this d.i.y. project over at d*sponge today. cute canister makeover by kate pruitt , an artist based in oakland, california. (they're made from an old anth…
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