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Decor and Decorating

Are you wondering what to do with old blinds? Here are several easy ways to upcycle them and put them to great use in your home.

What To Do With Old Blinds: 10 Easy Ways To Upcycle

Do you love geometric art but not the price tag? I have 3 fantastic and easy ideas you can make on a budget.

Fantastic Geometric Art Ideas On A Budget

Do you want to recycle pots and pans? I was given the challenge to find different ways to repurpose these and here are some of my favorites!

10 Awesome and Easy Ways To Recycle Pots and Pans

Do you want some recycled paper crafts? I took some old magazines and business cards and turned them into a lovely wreath for my home.

How To Make An Amazing Recycled Paper Crafts Wreath

Do you want a display tray for your home? I have 9 DIYs to show you that are helpful for displaying and serving in your home.

9 Creative and Useful Display Tray Ideas for Your Home

Do you love vintage drawer pulls? I found some glass pulls at a flea market and created a lovely jewelry hanger for my home.

Vintage Drawer Pulls Jewelry Hanger

IKEA Cabinet Door DIY Serving Tray

Do you want to know the ins and outs of painting glass? I have done several projects over the years and I'm going to share things you will want to know to be successful.

Painting Glass Made Easy, Answers to The Most Common Questions

Do you love pallet wall decor? With a Plaid Pallet and some Folk Art Stencils, you can create easy and beautiful art for your home.

Stenciled Pallet Wall Decor with Video

How do you make an easy candle holder? These DIY Candle Holders are so easy to make and most of the items you can find at Dollar Tree and the thrift store!

DIY Candle Holders with Video

Do you want to know how to patina copper pennies? I love penny projects and I wanted to try to patina copper pennies and create a fun display with our initials on wooden letters that I had on hand. I'll show you how to patina pennies and then create a lovely display.

How To Patina Copper Pennies – Easy DIY Tutorial With Video

What can you do with glass bottles? Upcycle them with bottle painting and there are so many ways to use the bottle.

Easy and Beautiful Bottle Painting

The dollar section in Target is always fun to look at and they always have fun serving trays. I found a raw wood serving tray and I was so excited to upcycle it for my home!

Target Dollar Spot Wood Serving Tray Upcycle with Video

The awesome thing about this particular paint is that it shifts colors between black and gold in the light. It's best to see in person, and I tried to capture this in a photo for you to see as best as I could.

Acrylic Paint Ideas DIY Mug Rack

Tea Towel Art Hack Easy DIY

It's easy and you can do this yourself, with your kids, girls night out, etc. Use it as a night light or just a decoration in your home, or it's a great gift idea.

Easy & Beautiful DIY Light Up Wall Art for Your Home

My husband is happy to see this sweater every day, and my kids love laying on it which also makes him happy as well.

Easy and Awesome No Sew DIY Pillow Covers For Your Home

DIY Easy Farmhouse Pottery Barn Mirror

How do you cut wine glass bottles? I'm going to show you how to use a glass bottle cutter. The possibilities are endless when it comes to up-cycling bottles. I recently purchased a bottle cutter and now I have even ways to up-cycle those bottles!

How To Use A Glass Bottle Cutter

Put the lid back on and pull one up towards the top.

Easy DIY Plastic Bag Holder

What materials can be used to make a lampshade? How do you make an old lampshade look new? How do you revamp a lampshade? I found a cute lamp at a thrift store and I'm sharing my DIY lampshade makeover.

DIY Lampshade Makeover

What can I make with old curtains? What can I do with an old shower curtain? Here are 5 cleaver curtain hacks!

5 Clever Curtain Hacks For Your Home

Did you know you can make your own hand soap dispenser? I'm going to show you a few ways I made them using a mason or recycled jar! This is a fantastic and useful DIY gift idea that everyone needs.

DIY Hand Soap Dispenser

Did you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Have you wondered how to make a breast cancer awareness wreath? I'm a breast cancer survivor and I am sharing how I created a breast cancer awareness wreath.

Breast Cancer Awareness Wreath

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Pottery Barn Mirror Hack

It sits by my front door welcoming people. I love how I'll be able to change up the words per month, or season.

Farmhouse Decor for Cheap

I turned mine into a brush holder, soap dispenser, vase, toothbrush holder, and cotton ball holder

How To Paint Mason Jars and Distress Them Easily with Video

Here is the other set, and I love how the fairy lights remind me of fireflies.

Mason Jar DIY Lights Easy and Beautiful

Now it has a fun glow. You could easily switch these decals out per season.

7 Easy DIY Makeovers

I bought a couple dollar store soap dispensers and they were kind of plain so I decided to upcycle them with stencils. I also had a couple recycled mason jars that I upcycled into soap dispensers.

Upcycle Soap Dispensers

Here's the completed night light and I love it. Place this anywhere in your home and share the inspiration.

5 Easy DIY Makeovers

I added the snacks I wanted into my snack box and placed it in my office. I was able to add tea, a mug, a spoon, some protein bars, and nuts. I placed it next to a container holding water for my tea. I can fill my cup and place it on my mug warmer.

How To Make A Snack Station

Are you looking for chalkboard placemats? Love to recycle something you already have and turn it into something new? 

Awesome and Easy DIY Chalkboard Placemats With Video

I let them both dry completely. Both candle holders took on a little bit of the tint but not too much. This was just enough to give them that driftwood and coastal look I was going for.

Coastal Wood Candle Upcycle

I realized the candle holders were not completely straight so putting taper candles in them might lead to a big mess down the road.

Faux Birch Aspen Candle Holders

Now I can clip on my recipes easy for cooking but that's not all ...

Easy Recipe Holder

For Winter - add the famous look of the pine tree in the back. I added some LED lights as well.

How To Make A Super Cute DIY Crate Red Pickup Truck

I love the Target Dollar Section and I found a chalkboard and a "Home" garland for just a couple dollars. I turned them into a trendy home sign!

Easy Trendy Home Sign

The great thing about this project is how versatile it is. Think about all of the possibilities with the holidays, season, and stencils this simple idea could create.

Welcome Sign For Your Front Door

Metal Multi Use Tray Upcycle (11) on display

Metal Multi Use Tray Upcycle

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$5 Inspirational Wall Art

I made a variety of these glass flowers just in time for spring.

Upcycled Thrift Store Candle Holders

Flower Pot Hanging Star Lamp - lamp on in dark

Flower Pot Hanging Star Lamp

4 Easy and Useful Clothespin Ideas - place card displayed

4 Easy and Useful Clothespin Ideas

Place the flower somewhere in your house to enjoy.  Looks good day and night.

Easy Decorative Floral Light

Option 2 - Place a battery operated tealight inside it.  You can chose to place it on top, or bury it lower in the glass.  Turn it on and enjoy.

Upcycled Tuna Can Candle Holder

I hung it up in my laundry room and love how it turned out.

Thrift Store Laundry Sign Upcycle

Do you want a DIY Beauty and the Beast Rose? With just a couple of items from Dollar Tree, you can easily make this for your home.

Easy and Stunning Dollar Tree DIY Beauty and the Beast Rose

I placed the lamp in my living room and use the remote to turn it on. Since the light inside is waterproof and well protected by the glass I can also place it under my covered porch to enjoy on a warm evening.

Upcycled Broken Cake Stand to Color Changing Lamp

Hang the bow wreath and you're done.

Holiday and Birthday Bow Wreath

Place somewhere in your home and at times of stress use the backscratcher to make designs in the sand. You can also hold the rocks and rub your fingers on the smoothness or use them to draw as well. Even running your fingers through the sand is calming.

Upcycled Candle Holder to Zen Garden

Place your candle where you want to display it.

Dollar Store Glowing Candle

I put the tray back together.

Upcycling A Serving Tray

Materials Needed: Tray - mine came from the Dollar Tree Folk Art Chalkboard Paint and Paint Brushes Photo Stand, magnets, or something to hang your sign Chalk

Chalkboard Message Board

I let both vases dry completely before bringing them inside.

Anthropologie Vase Hacks

This first display is in a glass flour jar I got from Walmart. It contains shells from a few trips to Florida, as well as a shell from the 1933 World Fair in Chicago of my grandma's.

Beach Keepsake Displays

Once dry you're done. You can place a tealight candle inside and use them as candle holders. You could put gifts inside the jar and give them to someone, or store things in the jars for yourself.

Upcycle Jars to Candle Holders (2 Options)

Let it dry completely and it's ready to go. I love how this one reminds me of sea glass.

Easy Way To Color Glass on a Budget For Any Occasion or Holiday

Do you have a special occasion coming or do you need something decorative to store things on in your home? A 3 tiered stand is easy and inexpensive to make, and looks beautiful!

Easy and Beautiful DIY 3 Tiered Stand For Your Home

Here is it all finished and we love it. My husband and I met on in college on band scholarships - we sat right next to each other. We both have a passion for music and we loved adding this heirloom to our home.

Turning an Heirloom Into a Lamp

Once fully charged, place your light in your bottle.  Twist the light when you are ready to turn it on.

Glass Bottle to Glowing Beauty!

Here is the phone charger all finished.  I can't wait to bring it to our mountain condo!

Up-cycle A Charging Station – Thrift Store Find!

Your bag is ready to go. Grab the handles and fill it up. Optional - if your shirt does not have a design in it, feel free to decorate it. I used some iron ons and fabric paint. You could also use fabric markers as well. Let the kids add some school spirit to theirs or decorate your bags for you.

Make A Recycle Bag From A T-Shirt

Things To Do with a Cardboard Box

Using a Bottle Cutter – Bottle Crafts!

Here is the finished piece, and I love how it turned out.  We'll be using it during Valentine's Day to put our Valentine cards in and any other love notes we want to write each other up until the day.  It has room for small treats too.

Up-Cycle A Vintage Letter Holder

Serve snacks! The vase is holding pretzels and the mason jar is holding m&m's. You could serve chips, guac, etc

Football Party!

Plug them in and they're ready to go!

Easy and Awesome DIY Red Solo Cup Lights

Use the chalk to personalize for the event.

2 Easy and Inexpensive Lap Trays

Buy 1 thrift store sweater or re-purpose an old sweater of your own to make 5 ideas that are easy and will warm your home during the cold months!

5 Items From ONE Thrift Store Sweater!

Upcycle Plain LED Tree to Birch/Aspen Tree

Easy and Fantastic Glowing Angel Craft On A Budget

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