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Hey…What Are YOU Doing With Those Crates Lying Around Over There?

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Hey…What Are YOU Doing With Those Crates Lying Around Over There? Just in case you do not have a bunch of crates lying around and find something in my Blog that you can’t live without you can always visit Michael’s Arts and Crafts, JoAnn Fabric, or Hobby Lobby to purchase a few… As I was surfing the web I found several great ideas on using YOUR crates, so let’s get started… Here is a before and after picture of stacking YOUR crates to make a storage unit.  Just stack, screw/glue them together then paint and/or stain…simple, but very attractive.  ...

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Do They Still Ask If YOU Want Paper or Plastic?

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Do They Still Ask If YOU Want Paper or Plastic? Do YOU Choose Brown Paper Bags? What Do You Do With Them? Here are some creative ideas… Brown Paper Bag Floor Covering See the instructions at HomeTalk How about an Easter Basket made from a paper bag? Here is the tutorial from Lia Griffith… Country Living gives you 3 ways to repurpose paper bags.  The hanging lamp above is one of them. On a Tight Budget and Need Party Favors??? Spit That Out shows you how… Out of Gift Wrap??? Let Mr. Kate Help You Out… OR Learn How to...

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Where Are My Wine Buddies?

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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…...

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Are YOU A Collector of Old Books? (updated 11/9/17)

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 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...

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The Excitement of Opening a NEW Store...JAMsCraftCloset.Com

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First, let me say I am not a writer.  I would like to share the excitement I am feeling as I am getting ready to open my NEW Shopify store.   For weeks I have been working hard to get my listings entered into my store.  I did everything backwards...working on listing first and then working on all of the major frontend stuff.  Because I had so many listings, I thought I would never finish...but I finally did finish.  I thought the hard part was over, but found out that wasn't really true.  Yes, my listing were done, but figuring...

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