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Wire Keys Frame In 3 Easy Steps

Wire Keys Frame In 3 Easy Steps

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Keep Your Keys All Framed Up With a Wire Keys Frame Keep all your keys together and within easy reach on a wire keys frame smart key holder. This one costs almost nothing to make if you have an old … Read More

Craft Ideas, Misc, Wire Art craft ideas, decor, diy, keys, wire
Magic Lanterns 4 Ideas

Magic Lanterns 4 Ideas

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How to Make Magic Lanterns   Easy magic lanterns Easy magic lanterns – you can take a set of plain glass tumblers and turn them into stunning magic lanterns. They’ll sparkle and shine for evening meals during warm summer nights … Read More

Craft Ideas, Making Candles, Paperwork candle holders, craft ideas, decor, lantern, light, paper crafts
Make Lace Windows-4 Steps

Make Lace Windows-4 Steps

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Make Your Own Covering For Lace Windows Looking after lace When making lace windows then you must treat lace fabrics in the same way as you would other home furnishings by laundering according to fiber content. Most heavy lace fabrics … Read More

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Cut Paper Tablecloth In 8 Steps

Cut Paper Tablecloth In 8 Steps

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How to Make a Cut Paper Tablecloth   A paper tablecloth with straight edges often looks dull. A cut-out border around the edge will instantly make it look more attractive. If the tablecloth is then laid over a slightly larger … Read More

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Pleated Paper Lampshade In 10 Easy Steps

Pleated Paper Lampshade In 10 Easy Steps

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How to Make a Pleated Paper Lampshade     Paper lampshades are attractive accessories which will fit into most decorative schemes. They are fun to make yourself and require no sewing skills, so you don’t need to be an expert … Read More

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13 Steps For Two Nifty Notepads

13 Steps For Two Nifty Notepads

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How to Make a Nifty Notepad   A nifty notepad you say! Well even in this smart techno rich world today keeping track of appointments and memos with pencil and paper should not be a problem in any busy life. … Read More

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5 Steps For An Embroidered Gingham Tablecloth

5 Steps For An Embroidered Gingham Tablecloth

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How to Make an Embroidered Gingham Tablecloth   Lay the kitchen table with a stunning embroidered gingham tablecloth and give mealtimes a lift. The fabric is a red-and white-check, which is perfect for a country style home, with an embroidered … Read More

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Treasure Trove Display Boxes

Treasure Trove Display Boxes

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All About Treasure Trove Display Boxes   Treasure Trove Display Boxes Display treasure trove boxes are useful and appealing. If you have a prize collection of trinkets or memorabilia hidden away in the back of a drawer or cupboard, now … Read More

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Make Painted Tin Cans In 8 Easy Steps

Make Painted Tin Cans In 8 Easy Steps

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Decorate With Painted Tin Cans   Don’t throw those old tin cans away, recycle them and make painted tin cans and use them to decorate with. Handy containers in which you can store items such as kitchen utensils, make-up brushes, … Read More

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12 Steps How to Make a Dough Basket

12 Steps How to Make a Dough Basket

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How to Make a Dough Basket   This is how to make a dough basket the easy way. This charming wall basket, overflowing with foliage and flowers is the perfect decoration for a country home. Made from salt dough and … Read More

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Rag Rugs to Riches 10 Steps

Rag Rugs to Riches 10 Steps

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How to Make Rag Rugs   This is how we make rag rugs. It’s hard to imagine that this impressive rug could have been made from fabric scraps, but the pile is simply constructed from narrow strips of fabric hooked … Read More

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8 Easy Steps For Padded Picture Frames

8 Easy Steps For Padded Picture Frames

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How to Make Padded Picture Frames   Simple padded picture frames are one of the easiest home accessories to make. With a small amount of fabric and scraps of card, you can make up a set in no time at … Read More

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Barge Painting

Barge Painting

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Traditional Barge Painting   OK, so to do some Barge Painting you do not have to own a barge. For over a century, the inland waterways of Britain and Europe have literally sparkled with the brilliant colors and distinctive designs, … Read More

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Hand Painting Things

Hand Painting Things

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Hand Painting Things   Hand painting things is a wonderful way of adding individual and coordinating touches to your home decorations without spending a great deal of time or money. You don’t have to be very artistic – a playful, … Read More

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Rubber Stamp Printing

Rubber Stamp Printing

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How To Do Rubber Stamp Printing   To do this Rubber Stamp Printing you use a rubber stamp to print out a leaf design and it is a clean and quick alternative to the more traditional method of printing from … Read More

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5 Easy Headboard Ideas DIY

5 Easy Headboard Ideas DIY

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Decorate Your Own Headboard   1. Here Are A Few Headboard Ideas If your bed does not have an integrated headboard you can decorate your own headboard, it can be a distinct advantage. It offers you endless options to invent … Read More

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How To Do Leaf Printing in 4 Easy Steps

How To Do Leaf Printing in 4 Easy Steps

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How to Do Leaf Printing   We show you how to do leaf printing so you can avoid spending a fortune on all those expensive hand-printed papers. Why not have a go at making your own? Turn to nature to … Read More

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Painted Tulip Napkins in 5 Easy How To-do

Painted Tulip Napkins in 5 Easy How To-do

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How To Make Your Own Painted Tulip Napkins   Painting motifs on to fabric, then working simple embroidery stitches over them is a pretty way of making your table napkins totally original. Use this tulip motif or choose a favorite … Read More

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How to Stencil the Easy Way

How to Stencil the Easy Way

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How To Stencil – Get Started   This is how to stencil the easy way. For your first attempt at stenciling, choose a project that is small and unlikely to cause grief if it doesn’t turn out well, but will … Read More

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Christmas Napkins

Christmas Napkins

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Festive Flair Christmas Napkins   Individual Style Delight your guests this Christmas with individually styled Christmas napkins, each one decorated with a winter motif. These napkins will enhance a beautifully laid table and, as each one is made using a … Read More

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Christmas Tree Decorations

Christmas Tree Decorations

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How to Make Christmas Tree Decorations   Making your own Christmas tree decorations is all part of the planning and preparation for Christmas. When in full swing there’s nothing more satisfying and relaxing than making your own Christmas tree decorations. … Read More

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Festive Candles

Festive Candles

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Festive Christmas Candles   Bright red festive candles are perfectly suited to the jollities of Christmas-time. Displayed in brass or glass candlesticks and set against glossy green foliage, they conjure up images of traditional Christmases, with rosy cheeked choristers caroling … Read More

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Symbolic Christmas Tree Ideas 5 Quick Steps

Symbolic Christmas Tree Ideas 5 Quick Steps

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Making a Home-made Symbolic Christmas Tree   This bare and wintry symbolic Christmas tree was made from one salvaged tree trunk but you could achieve a similar symbolic Christmas tree effect by nailing two branches together. Smaller branches are inserted … Read More

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Making a Pomander 3 Steps

Making a Pomander 3 Steps

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How To Make a Pomander Historically a pomander was made of any aromatic bunch of flowers or herbs and spices to ward off bad smells. A present day pomander can be made by using an orange, or other fruit, and … Read More

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Culinary Food Decorations

Culinary Food Decorations

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Culinary Food Decorations – Decorate Your Tree With Food Hey good looking! Look at these delightful culinary food decorations ideas. For a simple effect, decorate your Christmas tree with some food. How to decorate your Christmas tree with food decorations. … Read More

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Christmas Tree Trimming – How To

Christmas Tree Trimming – How To

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Trimming Your Christmas Tree Have you grown up with the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree with all the decorations you have collected over the years? Or loading the branches with as many sparkly baubles and as much tinsel as … Read More

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Christmas Craft Ideas

Christmas Craft Ideas

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Christmas Craft Ideas for Décor   There is something magical about bringing greenery into the home for Christmas: the smell of pine needles on the tree, the glossiness of rich, dark evergreens, like holly and ivy, and the vibrancy of … Read More

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