Easy crafts make gift-giving and decorating a breeze.
We know you want to live a more DIY life—it's just that you don't have the time to weed through the hundreds of projects, directions, and ideas that crowd the internet every week. But don't worry: we have the time. Every Friday we bring you the best do-it-yourself plans we've seen over the last week, so you can spend your time doing projects instead of just searching for them.
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Get Organized with DIY Storage Boxes
If your spring cleaning efforts have left you scrambling for cute, coordinating storage boxes to fill out your new shelves, try these MUrban Nest instructions for simple bins made from cereal boxes and bright fabric remnants. (via Craft)
Image courtesy of Urban Nest.
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Cool Down with Five-Minute Ice Cream
Homemade ice cream is one of summer's most essential treats, and this post from Instructables shows you how to make it in five-minutes flat?without a fancy appliance, sore elbow, or rock salt. (Via Lifehacker)
Image courtesy of scoochmaroo/instructables.com.
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Dress Up Your Home with Decoupage
It sounds like a senior center activity, but the right materials can make decoupage chic enough for any room; these ideas and techniques from Re-Nest let you turn salvaged furniture into must-have conversation pieces.
Image courtesy of Mitch Aunger/istockphoto.
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Put Old Buttons to Use
Turn a boring Ikea shade into a flashy lamp; keep your keys safely buttoned up; and create a one-of-a-kind house-number mosaic with found or vintage buttons using these ideas from ReadyMade.
Image courtesy of Béatrice Pautaire/istockphoto.
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Make Your Own Crayons (and Coloring Books)
Melt down old crayon nubs into new coloring tools and sew up plain-paper booklets that let the young (or old) creative types in your life keep all their inspirations close at hand with these DIY guides from Craft's How-To Tuesdays.
Image courtesy of Jenny Ryan.
