When Meg from Mega Crafty started thinking about making Christmas ornaments this year, she thought it would be a fun challenge to decorate an entire tree for under $20. Then she realized it would make a great craft-along challenge, so she has invited her readers to join her! Think you are up to it?

These pretty fabric-wrapped ornaments are a quick and easy Christmas craft project, made by Honeybear Lane. This project would make a great stashbusting project for fabric scraps, and I think it would be a fun one for a girls’ craft night out. Kids could make these as a nicer-looking ornament to give to teachers (or teachers, have your classroom make these for their parents). [how …

Have you started thinking about your Christmas tree yet?  Craft Snob is hosting a month-long series of  handmade Christmas ornaments, including this Christmas wish list ornament by Heidi of Honeybear Lane, inspired by an idea she found on Pinterest.  Wouldn’t this make a cute family holiday tradition?  I’ve been collection empty thread spools since childhood; if you don’t have any laying around, you should be …

Here at Dollar Store Crafts, we’re huge fans of reality shows that stretch the participants’ creativity, so we threw down a challenge… to ourselves (and YOU if you want to participate!). Our challenge, inspired by Project Accessory’s first episode challenge, was to create three accessories that would dress up a plain white t-shirt and jeans. Our supplies had to come from thrift store, and our …

One of our favorite dollar store crafters is Michelle of Mich L. in LA. She has a weekly feature on her blog where she makes a piece of jewelry out of something unexpected — a supply that she usually finds at the dollar store! This week, she stumped us with the components for this fun “Put a Bird on It” necklace. I recognize where those …

I only made one costume for Halloween this year: a 60s-era Batman costume for my two year-old, who identifies anyone with a cape as “Batman.” I wanted to go with the blue and gray Batman because it’s a softer color scheme for a two year-old, and the Adam West Batman seems a lot more age appropriate for a toddler than the more recent versions. I …

Reader Colleen threw down the crafty gauntlet today! She needs a little help figuring out to do with this little goodie she found in the bottom of a Keurig K-cup. It’s a plastic disk with a hole in the center, and many holes all the way around. It’s about an inch across.

While I’m not a huge fan of eating turkey (give me a big ol’ chicken breast instead), I do love Thanksgiving.  Which, if you haven’t been paying attention, has been sneaking up behind Halloween and is now less than three weeks away!  Eek!  Don’t feel too overwhelmed yet though because there are a lot of super-quick projects you can do in preparation for the holiday.  …

Did Halloween seem to go by too quickly for you too?! There was a ton of prep, and then BOOM – it was over! Well, it’s a good thing we have some awesome readers. They are helping us look back at this year’s fun and continue the festivities a little longer. We received more than 20 submissions to our request for crafty Halloween costumes.

As someone who spends several hours a day surfing craft blogs, it’s hard to seriously “wow” me.  That said, our friend PC over at MeiJo’s Joy is constantly impressing me with her ability to make awesome stuff out of junk.  Her most recent incredible recycled craft is a rotating,  multi-compartment storage container that started out as a Pringles potato chip tube.  With the holidays on …