Another great project from Amy at Craft Chi shows us how to reconstruct a t-shirt into a racerback tank top using 99-cent doilies.
Use a t-shirt that doesn’t quite work for you and therefore sits in your drawer unworn, but that initially had high hopes for when you got it. Or, if you don’t have any t-shirts to sacrifice, check out your local thrift store, or …

Need a quick and easy activity to entertain your kids this afternoon? Check this idea from Sarah at Stepping Thru Crazy: make stamps out of those little magic sponge capsules. Sarah used them with fabric paint to decorate tank tops, but you could easily stamp card stock and make custom notecards. This is a perfect technique for refreshing t-shirts that have seen better days (strategically …

Poufs have been appearing everywhere on design blogs, including some excellent DIY pouf projects. I wanted to try my hand at making a dollar store pouf, and I did it for less than $5! These nylon throw rugs appear at the Dollar Tree frequently, and they usually have some pretty fashionable color choices to choose from. I think this black and white stripe classes up …

I found THE most ADORABLE dish towels at the dollar store last week, and knew immediately what they were destined to become…  A little pint-sized bathrobe for JellyBean!  The bright colors and fun bold print are just perfect for the job!  Best of all, it only took two dish towels, some twill tape, and less than thirty minutes to make it!  [Come see how!]
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two dish towels, …

We didn’t have Barbies when I was a kid (something about them being “too grown up”), but my Grandma had all my aunt’s old 60s Barbies, so we’d play up a storm with the Barbies (and Midge!) when we visited. Along with the readymade clothes and accessories, making little goodies for Barbie made our play even more fun. We would always use the staircase for …

Lindsey from Filth Wizardry amazes and delights me with every post at her blog, and now she’s guest-posting incredible projects over at AlphaMom. Anyone who has been following the World Cup this year has heard the term “vuvuzela.” (If you haven’t heard it, it’s pronounced something like “voovoo-zella” and it’s the name of the South African stadium horns blown by fans.) Well, Lindsay has created …

If you’re an avid frame shopper, you know that frames are expensive, and the shadowbox-style frames are usually twice as expensive. That’s why Kara at Craftastical caught my eye with her DIY shadowbox made of dollar store frames in the CSI Project Dollar Store challenge. I love that the dollar store has an entire aisle devoted to frames – it has to be one of …

The other day, reader N sent me a link to this CB2 Pebble Mat and said she didn’t have time to work on the project now, but that it would be a fun dollar store craft. I agreed with her: it would be fun (and also, I don’t have time right now either! So many ideas, so little time.) As luck would have it, I …

I wanted to say “make a doggie frame” but this frame is sooo much more, and the principle of making this project can be used for any kind of display you want. Blue Artichoke Interiors posted a tutorial on how to use two dollar store frames to make a unique display item. In this case, a photo of a beloved doggie is in the smaller, …