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Why Didn't I Think of That?

Cool artsy craftsy stuff I want to try to make someday

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Double-sided tape and glitter combine to make easy Christmas craft.

Print pictures onto vellum, slip into frames with no backs, hinge together with cloth tape and stand around a candle in a glass holder.

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Sharyn Sowell Beth, haha, guess what's coming to my Surtex booth!?!

Carved stamps from old wine corks..- for texture or patterns on clay work

Stencil pie crust! Anyone can do this one - all it takes is an extra minute to apply cinnamon sugar or powdered food colors on your rolled out pie crust top then bake as usual.

felt fish...adorable!

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Deb Grogan I did felt fish and filled them with catnip. Eight hours later my 3 cats where all drugged up and there were tiny bits of fish felt from one room to another :)

Cute paper flower wreath from used wrapping paper, cards & scraps

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To make your own mercury glass simply spritz glass with water then spray with Krylon "Looking Glass" spray paint and voila!

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how to drill a hole in a bottle (for twinkle lights) I'd like to try this project with that mercury-glass-look paint effect...!

hi. OMG it's Sweatercats' weird big brother. Love. I need to make a whole family.

Rain chains with rocks & wire - cool!

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Festive lights made using clear plastic cups, fabric scraps, modge podge, and a string of white lights. I am so making these, oh my gosh.

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Hahaha this is awesome

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Beach Bag or Produce Bag - Out of T-Shirts

Duets ... much smaller and not electrified

Rugs from old tee shirts....how cool is that?

Junk Chandelier - ooh this is a good one...

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This looks like it takes a lot of shirts and a lot of cutting but what an awesome, good-old-fashioned repurposing project - and cute rug.

Another Madeleine Boulesteix chandelier - gorgeous.

Love these "found object" chandeliers...wow.

Madeleine Boulesteix Chandeliers. Wow. Maybe I could at least try to come close to this kind of fabulousness...

I could get lost messing around with something like this. Awesome...

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Dye your own "instant antique" glass jars. This tutorial is honest about the imperfections in the process & result but still looks worth a try, cool!

button bracelet, easy peasy

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crepe paper roses tutorial. I don't remember the ones we made in Bluebirds back in the 70s looking this cool...

DIY Bunny finger puppets - these are cute.

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Deb Grogan I will send you felt, make mousies :)

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Beth Logan ooh mousies would be good!

Winter trees made with lace

ooh the possibilities are endless here...my old lamp frames may someday have a life beyond their current tomato-cage job!

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A tutorial for making these easy amd darling paper lights

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Drawings on stones. Why not?

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