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Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by eclectic on February 26, 2011 in Crafts, DIY with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Hope you have a great weekend!

Crafts:

This week, Curbly shows you how to build a mirror from reclaimed barn wood.

Add eco-friendly crafts to your repertoire by exploring Seven Great Eco Craft Books from Crafting a Greener World.

Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day by creating Luck Letters using E-6000 from Someday Crafts.

An adorable Punched paper chain garland from The Crafts Dept is perfect if you’re looking for an easy springtime craft project.

DIY Projects:

Learn How to Install a Vintage Lockset from This Old House.

In need of affordable art for your home? Check out DIY Art: Framed calendar maps from The Inspired Room.

Spring is just around the corner and that means focusing on the backyard. Try these Easy DIY projects for your outdoor space from the HGTV blog

If you love the sustainable furniture projects from designer Dan Faires, don’t miss this collection of DanMade projects.

Photo credit: The Crafts Dept

Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by eclectic on January 15, 2011 in Crafts, DIY with 1 Comment

Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Hope you have a great weekend!

Craft:

If you’ve got a dollhouse in need of furnishing, this Dollar Store Crafts project is just what you need to create miniature dollhouse books.

In time for the upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, I Love to Create shows you how to make a pillow with the words “I have a dream.”

Love mercury glass but hate the price? Remodel This shares a glazing technique for creating affordable mercury glass.

Get organized by making a Memo Holder from old cereal boxes. We recommend EcoGlue for this project.

DIY Projects:

Learn how to repair a stone patio fireplace from Do It Yourself.

Don’t throw out an old TV cabinet until you’ve seen this project for turning it into a child’s play kitchen.

Need a small, custom desk space? Curbly shares the perfect DIY Desk project .

A new columnist for Decor8 shares this fantastic DIY Branch Pendant project created by a few simple but unexpected household items.

Photo credit: I Love to Create

Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by admin on December 3, 2010 in Just for Fun with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Hope you have a great weekend!

Crafts:

15 awesome before and after projects from Apartment Therapy’s re-nest.

5 crafty Christmas trees from DIY Maven at Curbly.

Handmade holidays from Crafting a Green World, 5 Christmas stocking tutorials. Would be a fun activity to do with the kids!

DIY:

How to remodel a kitchen on a budget from Danny Lipford.  Great tips!

Tips for maintaining your live Christmas tree from Charles and Hudson.

DIY project from Design Sponge - handmade gift wrap!

Modern Christmas tree alternative from Apartment Therapy, a DIY chandelier.

True Value DIY rescue mission from DIY Diva, replacing a trick faucet.

DIY pipe shelves round up from DIY Maven on Curbly.  Love these!

Beat the winter blues with interior painting says Reliable Remodeler.


Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by admin on November 19, 2010 in Just for Fun with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Hope you have a great weekend!

Crafts:

Five awesome coffee can projects from Crafting a Green World.

Crafting a Green World shares Thanksgiving crafts that you can make out of recycled materials.  Cool!

Paper frames never looked so good!  Learn how to make your own from Design Sponge.

DIY:

DIY Decor: Secondhand spray painted plates from Apartment Therapy.

We Heart This made this triple stud ring using E-6000!

Monogram a stationary set for yourself or as a gift.   New DIY project from Design Sponge.

Be amazed by this all-in-one DIY play kitchen from Oh Dee Doh.

Crafting a Green World is helping us prepare for a Green Christmas with DIY gift wrap ideas.

DIY kraft paper thanksgiving  tables from The Kitchn.  Such a fun idea!

Winter’s coming, which means it’s time to get your pipes wrapped!  Great tips from Reliable Remodeler.

Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by admin on October 8, 2010 in Just for Fun with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Have a great weekend!

Craft:

Design Sponge shares how to make your own vintage chalkboard globe.

Dollar Store Crafts shows us how to make a vintage-inspired pumpkin head box and shares some great fall decor projects.

A great halloween project from Craft, make this spider doily embroidery hoop decor.

Make and Takes roundup of halloween projects and ideas.

8 great green halloween kid crafts from Crafting a Green World.

DIY:

DIY inspired dessert bar perfect for a wedding or party from Style Me Pretty!

Curbly featured these DIY mod cinder block wall planters. Don’t they look awesome?!

16 recycled, reclaimed and repurposed products from This Old House.

Love these ideas from Apartment Therapy. How to DIY a stenciled rug and give an old bench new life.

Love this floral tray table spotted at Design Sponge.

How to do fall furnace maintenance from This Old House.

An October lawn and garden to-do list from Danny Lipford.

A great weekend project from On The Level.  Tips for saving your plants through the winter months.

Natural stone retaining walls can last hundreds of years if the wall design and construction is done properly. Great advice from Ask the Builder.

Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by admin on September 24, 2010 in Just for Fun with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Have a great weekend!

Craft:

This rustic twig and wire bowl from Man Made DIY looks awesome!

Good stuff from Dollar Store Crafts this week  - this necklace was made from a recycled plastic cup and make easy wall art with fabric.

Loving these paper-inspired centerpieces from Craft.

Crafting a Green World helps us get  a head start on green halloween crafts and fall crafts using acorns.

Love this idea from Curbly - bent utensil mug holders.

Forget the flower wreaths and make this lovely book page wreath from Living with Lindsay.

DIY:

A sneak peak at a letter light diy project from Curbly’s new featured on Design Sponge.

Easy ways to save energy in your home and how to paint a room like a pro from Danny Lipford.

How to reupholster a dining chair from This Old House.

Cozy up with a portable fire pit.  Perfect for an outdoor tabletop!

Bet you never thought you’d put yoga mats on your wall did ya?  Apartment Therapy likes the way it looks and so do we!

DIY tip from Home Fixated, ‘targeted efficiency‘.

The top 5 must have tools for DIY plumbing and tips to make a stone exterior pop from Charles and Hudson.

NPR’s look at the green building industry.

The best green building practices in developing countries from Matter Network.

Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by admin on September 10, 2010 in Just for Fun with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Have a great weekend!

Craft:

Dollar Store Crafts show us how to make a purse out of a leather shirt sleeve.

New from Craft how to: tin can tea light holder.

Crafty reuse: ten ways to repurpose an Altoids tin from Crafting a Green World.

DIY:

The best DIY ideas from Apartment Therapy Chicago.

Tips and tricks to enhance small living spaces from Charles and Hudson.

DIY Maven shares how to make this adorable ruffled lotus lantern and kitchen makeovers on a budget.

New from Design Sponge, save space with these secret storage books or make a framed display box.

Spotted at Apartment Therapy’s Oh Dee Doh, slatted shallow shelving from old doors.

Importance of following building codes when building a shed from Danny Lipford.

Sticky Business: Posts We Liked This Week

by admin on September 3, 2010 in Just for Fun with No comments
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Here are our favorite craft and DIY links this week.  Be sure to follow us @amazinggoop for daily updates on crafts, DIY projects and more! Have a great holiday weekend!

Craft:

Crafting a Green World made a decoupaged cereal box, which is a perfect organizer for the office.  You can use Amazing GOOPfor this project!

Personalized decor is definitely a favorite. Try these plaster letters from Poppytalk.

Have you visited P.S. I made this? Lots of great, stylish projects!

Seven back to school crafts for kids from Crafting a Green World.

DIY:

Love the plaid fabric on this comfy and stylish ottoman from Design Sponge.

Chevron rugs are a must have, so why not make your own?! Fantastic tutorial from Leaf House Decor.

Lots of great inspiration from this amazing DIY wedding featured on Design Sponge.

This DIY rolling rack would be useful for so many things!

Update a light fixture and make this gorgeous turquoise beaded chandelier from Dollar Craft.

These vintage DIY save-the-date cards are adorable.

Creative re-use ideas for crates from Apartment Therapy.

Tips for removing paint from brick from Charles and Hudson.

How to prepare your home now for hurricanes from Danny Lipford.

Reliable Remodeler takes another look at efficiency remodeling.

Start the year off right with back-to-school projects

by eclectic on August 26, 2009 in Crafts, DIY, Just for Fun with No comments

It’s that time of year… Back to school! We found a bunch of textbook perfect projects that will help you prepare for the upcoming school year.

Get organized!

Parents know that back to school means homework, school activities, sports, and more. Prepare yourself with projects that help you organize homework due dates, sports schedules, and weekend activities.

Organization frames are simple tools to help you and your kids keep track of deadlines and dates. Lowe’s demonstrates how to create a multipurpose frame system in four simple steps.

Create a study space for your A+ students where they can stay organized and focused and take the occasional study break. The study space features a book nook, art corner, and extra credit/homework dry-erase wall.

Kick off the school year in style!

Back to school shopping can get expensive. Why not create your own fashionable, inexpensive school accessories?

Book bag: Learn how to make a chic oversized book bag that’s big enough for books and supplies. Maryssa “Missa” Stumpf of Missa by Design provides a how-to video with simple steps to create this super cute accessory.

Backpack: Make a backpack out of a mens jacket. Threadbanger gives step-by-step instructions on how to create a hip backpack that’s perfect for the new school year.

DIY Sustainable LunchReusable lunch bags: Stop wasting plastic bags and create a cute reusable lunch bag using old clothes. Amy from Progressive Pioneer uses old jeans to create her reusable lunch bag. They’re cheap, durable, and great for the environment.

Teachers pet?

Start the school year right by impressing your teacher with some unique, homemade crafts such as:

DIY Links We Like

by eclectic on July 7, 2009 in Crafts, DIY, Home Improvement, repair with No comments

We know you enjoy DIY – building, crafting, repairing – and sometimes finding interesting, useful and inspirational things online can be very time consuming.

Since we’ve been reading and sharing a variety of projects, innovative ideas and just cool stuff on Twitter, we thought compiling them for you here would be fun, too.  You can join us anytime on Twitter, by the way. @amazinggoop for DIY and craft tweets and @EPI_Industrial for builders and contractors.

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DIY Gardening: Build a Rain Barrel

It’s gardening season and your plants are thirsty. Make your own rain barrel with used plastic containers. Rain barrels are an efficient, cost effective way homeowners can collect and recycle a valuable resource.

33 Clever, Time-Saving, Money-Saving Reader Tips

Readers contributed bunches of tips that speed repairs and save money. You can find the best of the tips from This Old House. Our favorites were tip number 16, place a bag in a paint tray to decrease the mess, and number 30, unclog hairy drains with Nair hair remover. We’d also add #34: Use a good adhesive.

How to Build a Patio Planter

From our buddy, Danny Lipford, learn how to build a wood patio planter with simple instructions. Summer heat doesn’t mean boring entryways. Add simple late summer or fall plants for a lovely addition to your patio. You can make it even simpler, by using EcoGlue Green Solutions Premium Wood Adhesive.

50 Nifty Tricks for Big DIY Savings

Shrink household expenses with 50 simple ideas. Some of the tricks may help you save $500. Some of the tips include shortening your dryer-vent hose and making your own cleaning solutions. And… Of course, add a tube of GOOP to your toolbox for on-the-spot repairs to save some coin, too.

How to Make an Herb Garden from Recycled Plastic Bottles

Reuse plastic bottles and create a fresh herb garden. This clever project would be great to do with your kids and watch your garden grow. Of course, we recommend EcoGlue for the glue used in this project. The steps are easy and you can have fresh basil before you know it.

19 fresh ideas for outdoor rooms

It doesn’t take much to improve a porch, patio or garden. Here are some easy and inexpensive updates for outdoor spaces. One of our favorites is fresh idea number 8: Create a new outdoor room with a simple change in flooring.

How to Decorate a Table with Bamboo Veneer Flowers

Spruce up a coffee table with an organic, floral twist. This article will show you how to make your own pattern from photos of flowers and apply them with bamboo veneer.

Mosaic Birdhouses

Learn how to make stunning mosaic birdhouses that will brighten your yard and make a stylish home for the birds in your yard. This article provide seven easy construction steps and materials. We’ve provided several mosaic projects on An Eclectic Blog and know that EcoGlue or Amazing GOOP both work well.

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