Art & DIY Lifestyle

DIY cotton facial cleaning pads

There is already a post about such DIY pads on this blog, but these are different as they don’t require a sewing machine. Granted, their apperance isn’t as pleasant as the properly sewn ones, you can’t really gift them, but for personal use are just as useful. Unless, of course, you are very good at …

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DIY cotton pads
Art & DIY Lifestyle

DIY cotton pads

Take a piece of fabric, best if it’s 100 % cotton, no elasthane or other materials. Just recycle a shirt or maybe bedsheets that you’ve worn out and don’t intend to use for what it’s originally meant for anymore. Cut out the shape you want, mine are circle, but you can go out of the …

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DIY coasters
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DIY coasters from old CDs

Do you have any old CDs lying around that you’re not using anymore, wondering what to do with them? Here’s a useful idea about how not to throw them away just yet. I was decluttering the other day, which included testing if some CDs I had stored, still worked. It turned out most of them …

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diy gift idea quote notebooks
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DIY gift idea – quote notebooks

One night at the beginnig of December I went to bed thinking what I could give as new year presents to my closest friends. Some of them are really hard to find the right kind of gifts for. So this idea jumped to my mind – a very personal gift. A notebook containing hand written …

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DIY earring display
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DIY earring display

It’s actually only partly DIY, here’s why. 🙂 You know how we sometimes get presents on a beatifully decorated piece of cardboard? Usually there’s a card or a small jewelry box or mainly something small on it. It’s just to represent and sort of show off the gift. I like decorating gifts and sometimes make these …

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