Are you plotting about how to spookify your house for Halloween yet?  I have a kind of creepy aesthetic when it comes to Halloween decorating, so I was almost a little giddy when I saw these witchy spell books by Corie at Design DNA.  The spines are labelled as spells, curses, and potions.  She used some decorative wooden books that she found at a thrift …

 
Candice from Crafty Concoction stumbled across an amazing pair of tie up sandals, and was inspired to make her own version of the sandals with stuff from Dollarama.  You can tie the laces in many different ways – you are only limited by your own imagination. Thus, we bring you the Infinity Sandal tutorial.
Infinity Sandal Tutorial
by Candice, Crafty Concoction
 

I found these sandals at Topshop for …

I’ve loved decorative patio lights ever since I was a kid.  I remember going to visit my grandparents in Florida and seeing strings of bright plastic flamingos and tiki heads and flowers decorating the awnings of all the campers in the RV park.  While I still love fun lights, my tastes have refined a bit over the years.  (Okay, so I secretly still like the …

The other day I was looking through the school supplies and educational whatnots at Dollar Tree when I found a memory game with weird, blocky animals on the square tiles.  I looked at it and immediately saw it as a package of 60 chipboard squares with rounded corners, just begging to be turned into ultra-cheap pendants.   I rounded up a few other odds and …

Feathers are popular right now (have you seen those funky feather hair extensions?), and reader Nathalia Rojas found a way to make her own dangly earrings with colorful feathers. Inspired by a pair of earrings she saw on the cover of Seventeen, she took a pair of $1 earrings and added colorful feathers. She bought her feathers at Hobby Lobby, but you can often find …

Want to dress up your laptop for just a few cents? Go no further than your local dollar store, where you can find oversized wall decals for one dollar. My friend Brian from Teenormous sent me this idea. The best thing about these decals (beside the low, low price)? They are removable so you don’t have to worry about leaving sticker residue on your computer.
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I love Halloween parties!  I’ve thrown a few good ones, and I’ve been meaning to do it again for years.  I’ve started a Halloween party ideas pin board on Pinterest, which includes these adorable ghost marshmallow favors from The Gaines Gang.  Blogger Kate needed a last-minute treat for her daughter’s class last Halloween, so she dug into her stash of different shapes of bags and …

Remember the so-ugly-they-were-cute trolls with the big tufts of hair?  That’s what I first thought of when I saw these paintbrush-headed figures!  Doris at The Art Annex created them using paint brushes, aluminum foil, and clay as a base, resulting cute little monsters with crazy hairdos.  Make a classic monster, like these Frankenstein and Dracula dolls, or go crazy and make up your own creatures.  …

I’m of the school of artsy thought that believes the messiness quotient of a project is directly proportionate to the amount of fun to be had.  The perfect example of this phenomenon is finger painting!  While it’s fun as an activity on its own, you can add an extra crafty dimension to finger paints by making your own.  Angie from The American Homemaker has a …