I’m always on the lookout for things that fall into the categories of bright or funky when I visit the dollar store.  Recently, a bouquet of bright pink and yellow silk flowers caught my attention.  Having just redecorated the bulletin board in my entrance hallway, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them: turn them into fun push pins!
This project is perfect for …

Here’s a cool update on the French memo board idea! This version uses mini bungee cords to create the gridwork that keeps your keepsakes and notes up on a board. This is a great idea for a more masculine (or neutral) office space, or a dorm room or boy bedroom. I like the circuit-board look of the bungee cords! If your budget is really low, …

If you have little ones in the house, you know how those precious pieces of artwork can multiply daily.  It feels so mean to just throw some of them away, but your fridge is only so big, right?  Here’s a simple, and CHEAP, way to display a few more of those masterpieces.

Over at my blog, Mad in Crafts, I have been showing how I have been …

You have to admit, there’s nothing quite like the feeling you get from a well-organized space. While you CAN spend a lot on organization, you don’t HAVE to spend a lot to keep your space in order. The dollar store has quite a few tools for organization, including a whole wall full of storage bins and baskets. You liked the ideas in our first …

Most things you get at the dollar store are not huge. If you’re only paying a buck, things can only be so large. One way to get bigger impact is to combine small pieces into a larger one (kind of like Heather did a My Frugal Family with this mind-blowing art piece – click to see it). When I wanted to approximate this PB rustic …

This super simple project will take you about 15 minutes to sew (plus about an hour if you want to cut a stencil): a Placemat Mail Sorter. Mine is made to hang from a sash rod on a bulletin board (project forthcoming!), but you can hang this mail sorter just about anywhere. I’m going to put my bulletin board and mail sorter next to the …

I’m happy to have Heather from My Frugal Family guest-posting a tutorial today! I first became aware of Heather’s dollar store crafting skillz when she posted some great projects at the Dollar Store Crafts facebook page! Heather is a black-belt frugal crafter who has a lot of great ideas, so go check them out over at her blog. And now, on with the tutorial! – …

I’ve been meaning to make a dollar store phone charging station for awhile now. I was going to design a project that looked more like this, but when I found an endcap of metal desk organizers at the dollar store, I knew they would work for different kind of docking station. You can make this station slash organizer for less than five dollars, and it …

Make a ton of custom stationery with a roll of pretty gift wrap from the dollar store. Right now, my local dollar store has several nice prints on brown kraft paper that make great stationery or printer paper. You’ll get many sheets of paper for only a dollar and a little bit of work preparing the paper. You can use the paper for all kinds …

Joy from Joys of Home took some plain wooden tags she found at the dollar store (I have some of these – you get about 8 for $1) and painted them with chalkboard paint! What a genius application! She made mini chalkboard tags useful for all sorts of things. You can use them for gift tags, to hang on doorknobs, to write notes to special …