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DIY Puppet Theater Tutorials

Katar — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:00:04 +0000

What a great gift idea for kids! Here are a few tutorials that show you how they made their own puppet theaters. Click on the photo to go to the tutorial. Enjoy!

Tutorials:

How to Make a Toy Theater: Puppets in Melbourne

Puppet Theater Tutorial: AllThingsMadeByKelly

Doorway Puppet Theater: Poppies at Play

Shadow Puppet Theater Tutorial: Giverslog

Tension Rod Puppet Theater: SycamoreStirrings

Technicolor Puppet Theater: Craftster

DIY Puppet Theater: Living With Lindsay

DIY Kids Tabletop Puppet Theater for Under $5: Childhood 101

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Adventures in Puppet Land: A Forest Frolic

Puppet Theater: AngryChicken

Some Theater: Fuoriborgo

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

DIY Christmas Recipe Tutorials

Katar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:00:22 +0000

I absolutely hate making ‘boring’ food, as I enjoy calling it. If I’m gonna bake, the end result has to look like something! This post includes a ton of recipes that serves as an edible display that is interesting to look at. I think I may need to borrow my fiance’s nieces to make some of these some weekend!

I just love these recipes – they all look yummy and really fun to make! Click on the photo to get the how to.

For a huge list of Christmas desserts from Family Fun, check out their Delicious Christmas Desserts Recipes

Appetizer Tutorials:

Christmas Package Cheese Snack: FamilyFun

Cheese Ball Santa: FamilyFun

Frosty the Cheese Ball: FamilyFun

Mini Bagel Wreaths: FamilyFun

Chocolate Church Mice: FamilyFun

Chocolate Cherry Mice: FamilyFun

Jolly Snowman Bread: FamilyFun

Crunchy the Snowman: FamilyFun

Wrap 'n' Stack Sandwich Tree: FamilyFun

Pizza Pocket Wreath: FamilyFun

Pine Tree Fruit Kabobs: FamilyFun

Candy Tutorials:

Jelly Bean Christmas Trees: FamilyFun

Red-Nosed Reindeer Lollipops: FamilyFun

Cookie Tutorials:

Nutter Butter Rudolph: NapTimeCrafting

Holiday Hello Cookies: FamilyFun

A Light Dessert: FamilyFun

Sweet Tortilla Snowflakes: FamilyFun

The Elves' Snickerdoodles: FamilyFun

Sweet Macaroon Angels: FamilyFun

Sugar Cookie Windows and Doors: FamilyFun

Santa Hats: FamilyFun

Santa Hat Sugar Cookies: FamilyFun

Santas and Heavenly Angels: FamilyFun

Mint Cookie Pops: FamilyFun

Meringue Snowflakes: FamilyFun

Kris Kringle Cookies: FamilyFun

Holiday Wreaths: FamilyFun

Candy Cane Cookies: FamilyFun

Frosty Graham Crackers: FamilyFun

Gingerbread Family Kit: FamilyFun

Cupcake Tutorials:

Snowman Cupcakes: Martha Stewart

Donut Tutorials:

Doughnut Snowmen: FamilyFun

Drink Tutorials:

Hot Chocolate Cones: FamilyFun

Marshmallow Tutorials:

Candy Cane Marshmallows: Martha Stewart

Homemade Chocolate Chip Marshmallows: CraftZine

Popcorn Tutorials:

Peppermint Popcorn: Make it Do

Popcorn Ball Ornaments: FamilyFun

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Old, Boring T-Shirts: What Can I Do With Them?

Katar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:00:30 +0000

I saved so many of my shirts from going to concerts, vacations, summer camps, etc. because I wanted to make a sweet t-shirt quilt one day. So far, that hasn’t really happened. However, I do recommend an AMAZING book if you do want to make a t-shirt quilt. It is extremely easy to understand for beginner quilters like myself, and is really interesting! It’s called: The Extraordinary T-Shirt Quilt: A Scrapbook You Can Sleep Under by Lauren Kingsland. You can pick up the book for as low as $15.50! Pretty sweet.

Oh yeah – and I have the biggest collection of BORING shirts. They have basically been sitting in my closet unworn for years. Something MUST BE DONE… and SOON!

Making a quilt and donating your old t-shirts is awesome and all – but aren’t these tutorials for what you can do with your old, boring, or meaningful shirts awesome as well? Check ‘em out! Click on the photo to go to the tutorial.

Accessory Tutorials:

T-Shirt Memory Scarf: CraftZine

Cures for Boring Shirt Tutorials:

Puffed Sleeves Tutorial: Dana Made It

Quick and Dirty Knit Neckline Refashion: Hoppobumpo

Jeweled Tee Tutorial: Still Dottie

Flower Collar Tutorial: KatieDid

Rose Petal Tee: The Storque

Women's Shirt: Make It and Love It

T-shirt Refashion into Ruffle Madness: My Mama Made It

Ruffle Necklace Waffle Shirt: Ruffles and Stuff

Argyle Shirt Tutorial: LuBirdBaby

Side Panel Shirt Refashion Tutorial: Crafterhours

Home Decor Tutorials:

Recycling T-shirts into Rugs: Fat Bottom Bags

Halloween Tutorials:

Recycled T-Shirt Door Witch: Craftbits

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Felt: What Can I Do With It?

Katar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:00:18 +0000

Who would have guessed? I always thought felt was crappy – but that was before I found all of these kick-ass tutorials! I LOVE plushies Here’s my tutorial list!

Oh hey! Looking for more stuff that you can do with other fabrics or scraps? Check out my post: Extra Fabric or Fabric Scraps: What Can I Do With Them?

Stitching Tutorials:

Blanket Stitch Tutorials: FutureGirl

Tutorials:

Accessory Tutorials:

Home Decor Tutorials:

Halloween Tutorials:

Thanksgiving Tutorials:

Felt Food: Made

Christmas Tutorials:

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Felt Tree Wall Hanging: JavaMama on Craftster

I will be adding more felt tutorials to this post as I find them If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Wire Hangers: What Can I Do With Them?

Katar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:00:10 +0000

Spoon gets all of his work shirts dry cleaned every couple of weeks, and when we get them back, there’s a white wire hanger on each one. We have accumulated more wire hangers than the clothes we have, so I started thinking about what could be done with them.

So far, all we’ve done with them involved cutting them and bending them to make stakes to hold down our Halloween decorations into the ground. They worked really well and none of our stuff blew away. Yay!

But hey – I still have a TON left, and more are coming. I did my homework – here are some fun and awesome things that you can make or do with your wire hangers. Yay!

Click on the photo to go to the tutorial.

Contents:

Home Decor Tutorials
Hanger Cover Tutorials
Mobile Tutorials
Toy Tutorials
Baby Shower Tutorials
Valentine’s Day Tutorials
Easter Tutorials
Halloween Tutorials
Christmas Tutorials

Home Decor Tutorials:

iPod Dock from a Metal Hanger: Instructables

Hanger Lamp: Instructables

Make your own vintage Wire Basket out of Coat Hangers: Associated Content

Tissue Box Hanger: Instructables

Tissue Paper Butterfly: San Diego Zoo

Wire Hanger Lamps: Cut out and Keep

Coat Hanger Wine Rack: Guardian.co.uk

Wire Coat Hanger Toilet Roll Holder: Instructables

Lion Face: San Diego Zoo

Wine Glass Dryer from Coat Hanger: Instructables

Simple Book Light: Instructables

Ergonomic Laptop Stand Made from a Coat Hanger: Instructables

Dream Catcher: San Diego Zoo

Multi-Purpose Clothespin Hanger: Instructables

Make Your Own Razor and Shaving Brush Stand: Instructables

Recycled Wire Hanger Yarn Dog: Thrifty Fun

Denim Jeans Windsock: Craftbits

Wire Hanger Book Rack: Someday Crafts

Hanger Cover Tutorials:

Yarn Covered Hangers: Exploring Womanhood

Handsome Hangers: Family Fun

Braided Coat Hanger: All Free Crafts

Stylish Cardboard Clothes Hangers: Instructables

Coat Hanger Cover: Craftbits

Personalized Wire Hanger for Baby Clothes: Instructables

Mobile Tutorials:

DIY High Contrast Baby Mobile: Instructables

How to make a stable Airplane Mobile: How Stuff Works

Pac Man Paper Mobile: Instructables

Whale Mobile: Enchanted Learning

3-D Fruit Craft: Enchanted Learning

Butterfly Mobile: Craftbits

Toy Tutorials:

Make a Whirligig in a Box: ThinkingFountain

Baby Shower Tutorials:

Baby Shower Room Wreath: Craftbits

Baby Shower Announcement Wreath: CraftBits

Baby Shower Baby Towel Pram: Craftbits

Valentine’s Day Tutorials:

Wire Hanger Fabric Wreath: San Diego Zoo

Key to My Heart Hangup: Craftbits

Easter Tutorials:

Baby Bunny Baby Basket: Craftbits

Halloween Tutorials:

Making Halloween Corpse Hands: WetCanvas

LED Spiders: Instructables

Wire Hanger Pumpkin: San Diego Zoo

Ghost Halloween Decoration: Cut Out and Keep

Recycled T-Shirt Door Witch: Craftbits

Fall Scarecrow Decoration: Family Crafts

Bat Mobile: Family Fun

Butterfly Wings: Cut out and Keep

Halloween Fairy Wings: Knitting

Fairy Wings: Cut Out and Keep

More Fairy Wings: Cut out and Keep

Bat Wings: Cut out and Keep

Wire Hanger Bow: Instructables

Christmas Tutorials:

Wire Hanger Christmas Ornament Wreath: eddieross

Glow Ball Ornament: Instructables

Recycled Coat Hanger Christmas Tree: All Free Crafts

Coat Hanger Christmas Tree: Kaboose

Christmas Card Mobile: How Stuff Works

How to make a Christmas Coat Hanger Wreath: Do It Yourself

Make a Christmas Wreath: Little House in the Suburbs

Wreath from Recycled Bags: Craftbits

Wreath from Fabric Scraps: Craftbits

Coat Hanger Christmas Wreath: All Free Crafts

Candy Wreath: Family Crafts

Pine Cone Wreath: Family Crafts

Wire Santa Mini Wreath: Family Crafts

I <3 the vintage wire basket. I must try it!

And, OMG – the corpse hand is genius. I mean.. how freaking creative! I will definitely mess around with that project for next Halloween

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. As I’ve said above, I have hangers coming into the house every week, so I need to keep up with them in crafts – thanks!

Photo Credit: SilverFuture on flickr

DIY Outdoor Halloween Decoration Tutorials

Katar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:00:11 +0000

Tutorials:

DIY Halloween Wreath Tutorials from my previous blog post here
Lowe’s has several tutorials for outdoor decorations, which I have blogged about here
Looking for indoor or party Halloween tutorials too? Check out my post here
How to Make Glow Water: YouTube

: How To Distress Clothing: Skull and Bone

Owl Trio: BHG

Crystal Ball: BHG

Scaredy Cats: BHG

Holiday Light Ball: Born2Haunt

Halloween Bat Windchime: Inspired at Home

Haunted Birdhouse: Plaid

Contents:

Coffin and Graveyard Tutorials
Ghost Tutorials
Mummy Tutorials
Skull/Skeleton Tutorials
Witch Tutorials
Scary Tree and Pumpkin Tutorials
Sign Tutorials
Doorway Decor Tutorials
Luminaria Tutorials

Coffin and Graveyard Tutorials:

How to Make Tombstones for Halloween: YouTube

How to Make a Coffin: Spooky Blue

How to Make Glowing Weathered Columns for Your Yard Haunt: ElliottZone

How To Make Creepy Tombstones: BHG

Make Your Own Halloween Tombstones: Cathie Filian

Scarab Beetles Crawling on Tombstone: BHG

Hot Glue Gun Web Shooter: Scary-Terry

Ghost Tutorials:

Easy, Do-It-Yourself Ghost

Ghoulish Ghosts: HGTV

Ghost Family Circle: HGTV

How to Make a Halloween Ghost: That Artist Woman

Ghostly Halloween Greeters: BHG

Mummy Tutorials:

$30 Mummy Fashioned After the $100 version at Party City: Tripod – MUST SEE!

How To Make A Mummy: BHG

Mummy Head Statues: BHG

Skull/Skeleton Tutorials:

How to Make a Halloween Corpse: Video Series: eHow

Barrow of Bones: BHG

Witch Tutorials:

Illuminated Witches' Broomsticks: HGTV

How to Make a Witch's Broom Out of Yard Waste: Curbly

Easy Bubbling Cauldrons: BHG

Witch's Cauldron: Make it Do

Scary Tree and Pumpkin Tutorials:

Halloween Tree: AranaMuerta

DIY Pumpkins: Stolloween

Tree Faces: Stolloween

Sign Tutorials:

Please Help Yourself to Halloween Candy Sign: DudeCraft

Bewitching Plaque: The Swell Life

Witch's Hat Hanging: BHG

Beware Broom: Plaid

Witches Broom Sign: BHG

Witchy Welcome Sign: BHG

: Witch Parking Sign: My Big Mouth’s Blog

Scrap Wood Sign: ThirteenForHalloween

Decoupaged Halloween Plates: BHG

Doorway Decor Tutorials:

Creepy Spider Web Doorway: Crayola

Window Spooky: BHG

Spooky Warning Window Sign: BHG

Trick-Or-Treat Garland: BHG

Pumpkin Rug: BHG

Happy Spider Doormat: Plaid

Spooky Stairs: BHG

Ghostly Garage: BHG

Luminaria Tutorials:

Skeleton Luminarias: HGTV

Reusable Halloween Luminary: Thirteen For Halloween

Bucket Luminarias: BHG

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Photo Credit: Roadsidepictures on flickr

Old Keys: What Can I Do With Them?

Katar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:00:16 +0000

Yep. We all have old keys. Keys that don’t go to anything. Keys that you just don’t throw away, because in your mind you’re thinking, “There’s GOTTA be a use for these.” Well. There is. SURPRISE! hahaha. well. Let’s just get started.

Tutorials:

Embellished Altered Keys Tutorial: Squidoo
Altered Key Tin: Ink on My Fingers Blog – Although the key isn’t the main material used, this is a great idea for keys in the use of art focuses or accents.
How to Make a Key Wind Chime: Associated Content
Key Wind Chime: Kaboose
Key Wind Chime Video Tutorial: Piece of Craft 3 on YouTube

Christmas Tutorials:

Santa’s Magic Key: Family Crafts – Looks great as an ornament or to hang on your door for Santa!
Santa’s Magic Key Craft: DLTK

Inspiration, Ideas, and Photos:

Altered Key Jewelry: Genies Art World Blog
Altered Key Blue Photo on flickr from CreativeSpirit1
Altered Key Pendant on flickriver from Barty2008
Zoey 101 Key Necklace: ThisNext
Dragonfly Altered Key: Arts for All – For Tiny Keys!
Small Skeleton Key Windchime from howdoesyourgardengro on Etsy
Key Wind Chime on flickr from rivulette
Key To My Heart Wind Chime: Target
Key Inspired Wind Chime: Megster Meter’s Blog
Skeleton Key Wind Chimes on flickr from liquidskyarts
Key Valentines: A Bit of Heaven’s Blog
Painted Keys: CDWood
Key Ornaments: CDWood
Framed Key with an Old Postcard: RoboMargo
Craft Uses for Keys: ThriftyFun
Ode To Your House: Kari & Kijsa’s Blog
Key Necklaces: Salvage Life’s Blog
Old Keys and Silverware Clock: FineArtAmerica – um.. this is freaking awesome.
Use them to embellish different items.
Use them as zipper pulls.
Display them in a shadow box.
Decorate a frame!

I need to find me some skeleton keys. The keys that I have are plain ol’ house keys. Not as fun! I’m sure I’ll do something when them though – there are so many different options!

I’ll be sure to post the results of my key craft experimentation in this post when I do!

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Photo Credit: “T”eresa on flickr