Craft Your Happiness

[...] make them any color for any holiday. Everything you need can pretty much be bought from the dollar store. (All a Dollar is my favorite for best selection.) I made mine into a decor item by adding a [...]

[...] Regular plastic Easter eggs or any plastic egg. ( You could even use silly putty eggs from the dollar store.) Low temp hot glue gun with small nozzle. Fine sand paper. I had a sanding sponge and used [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. This was an item I found during one of my thrift store / dollar store runs. I love [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Makeovers don’t have to be huge to be fun. These two items are from a batch of stuff I [...]

[...]   I was hooked on them way back in the 70′s when I first read Tolkien’s The Hobbit. My daughter Jennifer seems to have an affinity for them also.  She  manages a full service Pet Store ( [...]

[...] series. (All the links are at the bottom.) It is a photographic tutorial of a cake our daughter Jennifer made for her niece.  The photos were taken long before I decided to do this series so I’ve [...]

[...] , when  this was done I did not get a detailed tutorial. <kicks self in pants> My daughter Jennifer, whom you’ve no doubt seen much of her creativity on this web site, did this for me a few [...]

[...] them “Cootie Catchers” when I was a kid. I made this one just for Halloween.  My daughter Jennifer did all the artwork shown.  I’ve provided a downloadable pdf that you can print, [...]

[...] appetizing but in reality is very tasty. Cornmeal is a gluten free grain and can be used in a huge variety of ways. (I love fried polenta slices with my favorite healthy sweetener, Xylitol, sprinkled [...]

[...] kit used in the example bottle. They are super fun to make and can be decorated in a huge variety of ways! I’ve included some printable tags and adornments but you can use your own items [...]

[...] .  You can adorn them however you wish with buttons, ribbons, appliques etc. Fleece comes in a huge variety of colors and patterns so you could literally have a wardrobe of arm warmers. I use them in [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Here’s one more item I pulled from my dollar store / thrift store run [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. This was an item I found during one of my thrift store / dollar store [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Makeovers don’t have to be huge to be fun. These two items are from a [...]

[...] to display. (No I’m not kidding.)  I found the perfect solution! Bell jars made from plastic soda bottles.  Great way to recycle and upcycle. They are very simple to create, the most difficult [...]

[...] carry all containers for storing just about anything that will fit!  Supplies Needed Plastic Soda Bottles, straight sides preferred. Aprox. 32 oz size is shown. X-acto Knife Goo Gone Material Pull [...]

[...] are very useful with a couple of decorator items tossed in. All of these crafts use plastic soda bottles of various shapes and sizes and tow use only the lids.  Most bottles are the 32.8 [...]

From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. This was an item I found during one of my thrift store / [...]

From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Makeovers don’t have to be huge to be fun. These two it [...]

From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Here’s one more item I pulled from my dollar store / th [...]

[...] Here are some fun and easy ways to upcycle those soda bottles in a useful way. They make a wide variety of cute planters including one that water’s itself! [...]

[...]   Another great upcycle project using  soda bottles and one also using a  CD. You can make some pretty nifty containers with these to hold office [...]

[...] Remember the wonderful bell display jars we made from soda bottles? Well they also work wonderfully as Halloween Specimen Jars. I hit up the local Dollar Store [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. This was an item I found [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Makeovers don’t have to be [...]

[...] From the Chic Tweak Series where we give facelifts to thrift store and dollar store  items. Here’s one more item I [...]

[...] . Paint or glitter for decorating if desired. Remove the label from your bottle and use Goo Gone to remove residue. Cut off the bottom of the […] [...]

[...] line (for hanging rather than staking) Drill if your hanging it. Remove the label and use Goo Gone to remove the residue without marring the surface. Roy designed this for […] [...]

[...] .   Plus you can paint them all colors! Supplies Soda bottles, any size Spray paint Hot Glue Goo Gone X-acto Knife CD or DVD Glitter and any other decorating items Washi Tape Remove labels from [...]