The Best of DIY

Chalkboard Wall Paint is such a great invention! I found this picture on curbly and thought I’d share with everyone. You can find this paint at your local hardware store that supplies paint, Benjamin Moore particularly makes this kind of paint for your walls. I’ve been finding so many different uses for chalkboard wall paint. Real Simple shows you how to make a wall mural for kids to draw on. The DIY Network has a tutorial on how to make an actual chalkboard with a chair rail frame to hold chalk and erasers. This would be great to paint on a wall in your home office or your office at work. If you have a creative type job and you don’t want to keep wasting paper you can draw your ideas on the chalkboard.

Looking for an inexpensive, interesting way to display your photos? Well, I found a tutorial on curbly on how to create this neat wire photo display. This would be really nice looking in your home office. It’s also pretty easy to switch out photos fairly often. I could picture this in a gallery as a way to display your photography.

This is such a great looking rug you can make by felting sweaters. To felt sweaters you have to wash them with the least amount of hot water and a small amount of laundry soap until they shrink. I can just picture this rug outside at a camp or cottage in the summertime. You can purchase a pdf pattern at dulcecreations etsy shop. It’s only $5 for the pattern and if you already have some old sweaters you don’t wear anymore this would be such an inexpensive craft project.

The Ikea Hacker blog has a lot of great diy projects and ideas for Ikea furniture and decorations. Ikea is affordable and trendy to begin with, these projects can give you good ideas to make your purchases original and great looking. I love this one Ikea Hack, you can find a tutorial here on how to decoupage the grono lamps. The lamp is only $5.99!

I’ve been seeing these record bowls everywhere and finally came across a tutorial and thought I’d share. I like how this one looks it’s not a perfect bowl shape. You can find the tutorial on the Cut Out + Keep website. All you gotta do is go to a record store or flea market and buy some really cheap records you would never listen to.

Remember the fortune teller game when you were a little kid? You would choose a color, the person holding the origami game would count out the letters, then you would choose a number and get your fortune. For some reason playing this game came to my mind and couldn’t remember how to fold the paper. I found this site that has a tutorial on how to fold the paper and play the game. The site also has tutorials on other origami kids crafts.