Articles for category: Crafts & Hobbies

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Faux Painted Modern Stainless Steel Kitchen Chairs

Faux Painted Stainless Steel Kitchen Chairs are the easiest way to create a modern retro and updated look in the kitchen in your home for less than $50. This is a simple Faux Painted Stainless Steel Kitchen Chairs project; you don’t need to have any experience with glazing or even painting. These Faux Painted Stainless ...

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Recycled Glass Art

Glass makes up a rather large percentage of annual household waste. With the exuberant amount of items that come in glass containers or just the general amount of household items made of glass, the amount of the substances in landfills is growing. It is extremely wasteful to allow glass to pile up in landfills and ...

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Free Bookshelf Quilt Block Patterns

I have seen the bookshelf quilts in competitions at Belle Plaine, Kansas’, Tulip Time Quilt section of the arts and crafts fair and at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas. There have been different variations on any one of the bookshelf quilt block patterns. I have seen quilts made from one quilt block pattern. ...

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Ten New Uses for Old Clay Flowerpots

I make the rounds in my neighborhood during the change of the seasons. This year, I picked up a 24″ wide clay flowerpot that in the store would cost nearly $75 for free. It was set out for garbage pickup. I knocked on the door and asked- the owner said to take it. I got ...

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How to Remove Crayon from Walls: Cleaning a Crayola Mess

Many years ago, I was babysitting for a family. The family I was babysitting for had 7- and 3-year-old children who really enjoyed doing arts and crafts while I was at their house watching them. Their favorite Crayola items they loved using were, marks, colored pencils, and regular and erasable crayons. Let me tell you ...

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How to Make a Clock with Some Old Piano Sheet Music

This is a fun project that can add a great designer touch to a music room, library, home office, and even a bedroom. You don’t have to play the piano to make this project either! Piano sheet music is a so pretty, especially aged music where the paper has turned yellowish. Whether you have some ...

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5 Tips for Using a Radial Arm Saw

A radial arm saw can do anything that a table saw can do and somewhat more. At least, it can do some things easier than a table saw. What a radial arm saw does best is what it was invented to do. It can make very accurate crosscuts on long pieces of lumber. Radial arm ...