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I hope you'll find something here to enjoy. As I think of more craft projects, or come across new ones, I'll share them here, so check back often!

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Fun and Easy Home Crafts

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Recycle Empty Paint Buckets

Turn empty paint buckets, of any size, into planters, crayon keepers, toy savers, or any other use you come up with. Let your imagination bloom and have some fun. Put a plant in one, and it makes a nice gift! Complete instructions included.




Make Your Own Ornaments

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Mix, cut-out, and bake your own ornaments for packages, Christmas tree, jewlery, or anything your imagination so desires! Recipe included!



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Rag Hearts


Choose from two types of decorative, easy-to-make rag hearts. All you need is some scrap fabric!



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Keep Jack-o-Lanterns Fresh

Help keep your Jack-o-Lanterns fresh longer with this simple recipe!


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Tee-Shirt Pillows

Make use of those precious keep-sakes!


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Recycle Empty Paint Buckets


Thoroughly clean the inside of the paint bucket with soap and water, remove the outside label. Using Elmer's spray adhesive, decorate your can with fabric, lace, rick-rack, or any other trim your imagination comes up with. You may also choose to use candy wrappers or other decorative paper to cover your can! It's just that simple. Then fill with a plant, flowers, individually wrapped candy, crayons, buttons... uses are limitless. These are really cute planters! I have given these for gifts and were well received. Have fun!


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Make Your Own Ornaments

Recipe
1 cup Cinnamon
3/4 cup Apple Sauce
2 Tbsp. Tacky Glue
~ Mix well, 2 - 3 minutes
Form a ball
If it's too dry, add more apple sauce
It it's too wet, add more cinnamon
Roll out 1/2 inch thick
Cut out shapes with cookie cutter
Make a small hole in top for string or hook
Bake at 250 for 1 - 2 hours, or
Air-dry on waxed paper for 24 to 48 hours.

When placing the string/ribbon through the top, add a miniature candy cane, pine cone, or holly leaves!
** NON-EDIBLE DECORATIONS **


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red heart  Rag Heart 1:  red heart


Take a metal clothes hanger and cut off the hook, or, if you do not have wire snips, use pliars to untwist it. Form the wire into the shape of a heart.
Cut 3 x 1 inch strips of fabric (preferably with pinking sheers).
Tie each strip of fabric around the wire heart, as close together as possible.
Hang with ribbon.


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red heart  Rag Heart 2:  red heart


Cut three strips of fabric, about 1 yard each in length and about 1 inch wide. You can experiment with length for different sizes of hearts.
In a large dish ( like a baking dish ) mix Elmer's Glue-all with water. Mix approximately 1/4 cup of glue with 1 tsp. water.
Dip your strips of fabric in the glue/water mixture and squeeze out excess. Put a clothes pin on one end, holding all three strips together, and hang from clothes hanger, or place a heavy object on the ends to keep it stationary.
Braid the three strips, then lay it on a flat surface, shaping it into a heart, and leave it to dry over night.
Once dry, you can tie the two ends together with a ribbon and hang it on your wall!

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Keep Jack-o-Lanterns Fresh


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To help keep your Jack-o-Lanterns fresh, try this simple recipe:

To 1 quart of water,
add: 1 tsp. Lemon Juice
1 Tbsp. Vinegar
Brush on carved surfaces


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Tee-Shirt Pillows

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To preserve and make use of those precious keep-sakes, here's an idea for your children's special tee-shirts. Such as, sports shirts, school shirts, dancing shirts, etc...
Simply sew together the bottom and sleeve holes of the shirt, stuff generously with pillow stuffing, then sew the neck opening together! Makes a cute throw pillow for their beds, or yours.


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