It’s been a HUGE week here at DSC for big, exciting news!  We’re thrilled about our accomplishments, so please join us for a few moments of self-promotional horn-tooting!

Faux food gifts are a fun idea that’s been floating around out there for a while.  You’ve probably seen diaper cakes or sock cupcakes, but here’s a new twist!  Jolene from Creative Dollar used an assortment of baby essentials to create “sushi”, which she presented all wrapped up on a plate.  Hers was a baby girl gift and included hair bows; for boys, you could …

Everyone put your heads together! Reader Sue has a big question for us:
I recently was given a set of mirrored bifold closet doors. Does anyone know how I could upcycle these into something cool?? I really don’t want to break the mirrors to use on other crafts, but I am at a loss for an idea. They have an ugly silver handle on them. I …

When paper artist Sandy Ang sent me an e-mail and I first saw the pictures of these paper shoes, I fell in love!  How much fun would it be to do these in your wedding colors and use them as favor boxes at your bridal shower, or even your reception?  Or they would be perfect for for girly birthday parties, or a bachelorette party, or …

I’m sure you already know that the dollar store has oodles of picture frames.  But let’s face it, some projects just don’t fit in standard-size frames, and even if they do, sometimes you can’t find one that’s just just the right color or pattern.  Know the feeling?  Check this out: Pradeepa from The Lazy Hobbyhopper made some gorgeous frames out of rolled newspaper, glue, and …

A couple weeks ago, I featured Megan’s Newspaper Nails tutorial, a simple nail design idea using a transferred image from newspaper. You really enjoyed the idea, so I invited Megan to create another tutorial exclusively for Dollar Store Crafts! Today she’s going to teach us how to make a simple flower fingernail. You can often find nail polish supplies at the dollar store, from nail …

Reader Jennifer asked over at the Dollar Store Crafts FB page:
School starts for my daughter next Monday, so what crafty gift should we make this year? She will be going into the 1st grade. I still don’t know who her teacher is, male or female, I haven’t a clue!

Can you tell I’m thinking about back to school? Here’s another amazing teacher’s gift idea from A Bushel and A Peck: a pretty multicolored crayon wreath! I love the way the crayons are arranged by color, but I bet it would look neat if all the crayons were mixed up, or if all the crayons were in the same color family. Take advantage of back-t0-school …

Whitney wrote on the Dollar Store Crafts Facebook Page:
I have a ton of picture frames with no backs and some without any glass, either. Anybody know something clever I can do with these? I hate to just toss em.

We’ve featured broken crayon monograms as teacher gifts before, but middle school and high school teachers are less likely to want gifts made with crayons because they don’t use crayons in their classes. Don’t worry, Cara TX has us covered! She created framed monograms for her middle school son’s teachers using items specific to the subjects they teach. For the computer keyboarding teacher, a monogram …