Handmade, nearly cost-free projects for do-it-yourself types

I love re-purposing recycles or other material destine for the curbside pick-up into functional art pieces. Garage sales and thrift stores also provide a variety of old objects just waiting for new life.

Painted Furniture

Click here to see more examples of my painted furniture.


 

Recycled calendar envelopes

Click here for step by step instructions for making envelopes out of old calendar pages.

Magazine Beads

Cut magazine pages into 1″ wide strips, roll around a tooth pic and glue shut. Apply modge-podge or other clear sealant on outer surface of beads and let dry. Remove tooth pic and use beads for jewelry making.

Accordion photo book, a handmade gift for my father

I gathered photographs from the past several years of my niece and nephew (my father’s two grandchildren) and glued them to some scrap pressed cardboard I had laying around. I hinged the pages together with zebra print paper and hot glued a zebra print ribbon to the front and back cover to make a tied-bow closure.

Wine Bottle Luminaries

Melted Crayon Art