JAMs Creative Blogs — easy projects

Changing A Lampshade Can Change the Whole Look of a Room   Do YOU have a lampshade that could use a makeover? Try adding doilies… These 4 lampshades can be found at Dishfunctional Designs By Laura Laura has many more ideas on doily lampshades for YOU to admire and to give you some creative ideas for YOUR own lampshade…   This is an easy way to update a lampshade. This is called Decoupage. Karen shows YOU how easy this is on her blog at Mother Earth News Here is one that I decoupaged.  YOU can find it here… After Decoupaging...

Where Are My Wine Buddies? Do YOU have a stash of empty wine bottles lying around? If so, YOU are going to LOVE this Blog full of ideas on what to do with them… Paint them YOUR favorite color and decorate them.  Use them to hold candles or just as they are…      LOVE these…Yarn covered bottles (or paint) then decorated with the letters for LOVE…   More ways to decorate YOUR bottles… Suzanne At SprinkledNest.Com Shows YOU how easy these bottles are to make…   Do you paint?  If so, then paint a garden of flowers on them…...

 I am not talking about the special ones that are worth a lot of money…just plain old books. Have YOU ever thought about ways to use them besides putting them on a shelf or stacking them on a table? Here YOU go…a few ideas of what to do with old books.  If I had researched this earlier, I had a ton of old textbooks I could have used for some of these projects.  I tossed all of my textbooks away or gave them to another teacher...I wish I had kept a few.   Dishfunctional Designs Laura’s blog has oodles of...