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Do you want a DIY solar light post? With just a few inexpensive materials you can make your own and save tons of money!

Awesome and Easy DIY Solar Light Post

Do you want to make a DIY mushroom for your yard or garden? Look no further! With just a few items from the dollar store, you can create one that glows.

Easy Dollar Tree DIY Mushroom Solar Light Decor with Video

Do you love Dollar Tree? Me too! I sharing fantastic Dollar Tree Candle Holders DIY with you that are easy and inexpensive.

Super Easy Dollar Tree Candle Holders DIY To Light Up Your Life

Have you ever wanted to make some DIY garden mushrooms? All you need is a few items from the thrift store and you can make some on a budget.

Super Easy DIY Garden Mushrooms on a Budget with Video

3. place the can in the freezer

Easy and Terrific DIY Punch Tin Lamps For Your Backyard

Do you like turtles? If so I have a super cute and easy terra cotta pot DIY for you that can be placed in your home or garden.

Super Cute Turtle Terra Cotta Pot DIY For Your Home

Do you want to make your own garden sphere? I have an easy DIY for you that is inexpensive, easy, and will glow at night.

DIY Garden Sphere with Video

I let it dry completely and love how it turned out.

DIY Candle Holder Solar Light Decor

Now I have a bird feeder for my yard.

5 Easy Upcycling Ideas for Your Garden

Your solar chandelier is ready!

Easy Flower Basket to Solar Chandelier

Here are a few other things I’ve converted.

Easy & Beautiful Vase Lights

If using inside, be sure to crack a window for oxygen flow. Never leave a lit flame unattended.

Easy DIY Indoor Fire Pit and Fire Bowl with Video

I let it dry for 24 hours and now it sits on a table on my front porch. This is just one way to use solar lights outside.

3 Ways to Use Solar Lights Outside

That's it for the first one. Make sure to place this somewhere where your solar lights will get plenty of light.

How To Make Solar Light House Numbers

I let the silicone harden for 24 hours and then it was finished.

Top 14 Ways To Use Solar Lights In Your Home

Ever wondered how to make an easy cinder block bench for your outdoor area? I had built this outdoor bench years ago and it was time to fix it up.

How To Make A Cinder Block Bench

I put my yard stake out in my yard, and simply hung the watering can on it. Stake is 3 feet & the watering can is 8 inches.

Watering Can Yard Decor

Many people know I love thift stores and solar lights. Put them together and I can create some great things for my yard. Do you have an old chandelier you don't know what to do with? I picked up a few from thrift stores, Facebook Marketplace, and Nextdoor.com, and I'm turning them into solar chandeliers.

How To Make An Awesome and Easy Outdoor Solar Chandelier

Do you like wind chimes and wonder how to make them? I had . Using a flower basket from the dollar store, some utensils from my husband's grandma and my grandma, I was able to create Dollar Tree Wind Chimes.

How To Make Super Fun Dollar Tree Wind Chimes

Do you want homemade garden decor ideas? I have 4 easy projects for you that can be created and adapted using items from the thrift stores.

4 Easy Homemade Garden Decor Ideas on a Budget

Once the sign was dry, I put it on my front porch for display.

Amazingly Easy DIY Front Porch Welcome Sign For Your Home

Now I have a bird feeder for my yard.

Easy Thrift Store Makeovers

Once they're dried (and again make sure to check the cure times), place them outside to enjoy! You can see more of my dish flower creations here - https://chascrazycreations.com/garden-flowers-made-from-dishes/

How To Make Garden Dish Flowers

I bought some candle holders from a thrift store, blue mason jars from a garage sale, and put them together with some solar lights to create a beautiful light up sidewalk for my home.

Mason Jar Solar Light Sidewalk

If you want the tea cup stand to be more solid, dig a little hole and bury the stand bottom in the ground.

Pouring Tea Pot & Tea Cup Decor

Here is the easel option if you’d rather not hang it on your door.

2 Easy and Important No Soliciting & Message Board Signs

Silicone a vintage cup and plate together and let that dry. Put bird seed on the plate, water in the cup, and set it somewhere outside.

DIY Bird Feeders with Recycled Materials

Easy Thrift Store Upcycle (11) add solar light

Easy Thrift Store Upcycle

Solar Silverware Flowers (4) complete solar light from top

Solar Silverware Flowers

I found this fun taper candle holder at IKEA. I siliconed solar lights into the taper candle holders and let that dry. I added some dangling crystals I found at the thrift store for added sparkle. I hung this in our tree. It hangs low enough to get plenty of light.

Repurposed Thrift Store Items For Your Yard

Upcycled Items For Your Yard (2) solar owl

Upcycled Items For Your Backyard

DIY Upcycled Porch Decor (6) Solar Chandelier

DIY Upcycled Porch Decor

Mosaic Terra Cotta Flower Pots (8) displayed pot

Mosaic Terra Cotta Flower Pots

Here’s a picture of the fountain running. Be sure to refill the water as it evaporates. I also clean out the class and wash off the fountain as needed.

Cheap & Easy Do It Yourself Solar Fountain For Your Yard

7 Easy Garden Globes & Gazing Balls (11) dollar store rocks on bud vase

Easy and Awesome DIY Gazing Ball Garden Globe for your Yard

Garden Flowers Made From Dishes - flowers in display

Garden Flowers Made From Dishes

Easy Two Dollar Welcome Sign

There are different head attachments you can use on the solar fountain if you like.

Fondue Pot to Table Top Solar Fountain & Fire Pit

I really like the way the beads glow.

Repurposed Can to Lantern

I let the silicone harden for 24 hours and then it was finished.

From Candle Holder to Solarabra!

Use it to light up your porch, patio, walkway, etc.

Candle Holder to Solar/Cup Holder

We put our fountain under our gazebo. We eat outside a lot when the weather is nice and enjoy the sound of the fountain. We recently had a friend tell us the sound was relaxing and was putting them to sleep.

Easy and Inexpensive DIY Water Fountain/Feature

Maybe you have a need for a solar chandelier too...

Upcycle an Outdated Chandelier to a Solar Chandelier

I'm so excited to share with you my repurposed shower curtain & jeans into no sew outdoor pillows with a journal and pen pockets!

No Sew Outdoor Pillows With Journal/Pen Pockets

Vintage Bundt Pan to Solar Flower!

See how I repurposed a plant stand and patio furniture. The plant stand was turned into a side table. You can use these steps to update your own plant stand or patio furniture.

Repurposed Plant Stand and Patio Furniture

I added 3 solar lights from the Dollar Tree between the bottles. The lights on the right and left are stuck into the ground. The one in the middle I wanted a little higher so I removed the stake and put it in a clear mini bottle.  After looking at this for a period of time I ended up adding crystal beads to the front to look like it was pouring.

Re-purposed Wine Rack to Solar Yard Decor

Hang it outside on a garden hook.

Vintage Dishes to Bird Feeder

Plant some flowers in it. Great for a gift too!

9 Things To Do With Tea Cups

Place birdseed in some of the cups and water in another and you have a new bird feeder.

Candle Holder to Tea Cup Holder – 3 Options

Turn your lights on and you're done.  Leave it inside or out.

Fireflies and Cattails

That's it, your done :)

Pouring Teapot & Tea Cup

Once we got home & I changed up the solar light. I opted to not spray paint the candle holder for now, but you certainly could.

Candle Holder to Traveling Solar Holder

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