DIY & craft things

DIY Minibar in a Jar from the Shabby Creek Cottage.

And if cactus DIYs that are crocheted, knitted, cupcaked, wired, pincushioned and pillowed aren’t enough, I give you the DIY Cactus Pouf Tutorial from the Ohoh Blog.

DIY $5 EL “Neon” Cactus Tutorial from Shrimp Salad Circus here.

For a roundup of my 12 Favorite Cactus DIYs go here.

DIY Spool Knit Knotted Coasters Tutorial from My Poppet.

An automatic cord knitting machine is used for these DIY knotted coasters, but links are provided for making handmade knitting spools and how to knit an icord.

What is spool or French knitting?

DIY EL Wire Neon Sign Tutorial from I Spy DIY.

Use cheap electroluminescent wire (EL wire) to make neon signs. Because this EL wire, you can easily bend it into whatever shape you want.

Another really good tutorial for making an EL wire sign is from A Practical Wedding here.

I posted about this $5 DIY Neon Cactus from Shrimp Salad Circus here.

EL Wire has long been used in fashion and costumery. I posted this DIY EL Wire Hair Bow Tutorial from Adafruit Learning System here.

For an extremely detailed tutorial, check out this DIY EL Wire Sign from The Poopers here.

If you have the supplies, this DIY Knotted Bracelet takes 10 minutes to make.

DIY Snow Globe Ornament Tutorial from It All Started with Paint.

All you need to get started making this DIY Snow Globe Ornament is a large plastic ornament ball that opens down the middle.

DIY Pumpkin Pie Fudge Recipe from Studio DIY.

Some of the ingredients for this DIY Pumpkin Pie Fudge are pumpkin puree, white chocolate chips, and marshmallow fluff in graham cracker mini pie crusts.

For really easy fudge recipes (2 ingredient strawberry fudge), eggnog fudge, etc… go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/fudge

For another pumpkin fudge, try this DIY No Bake White Chocolate Pumpkin Fudge Recipe from Texanerin Baking. This is an easy recipe 5 minute fudge that is microwaved.

For a DIY Roundup of 40 Fudge Recipes from Artsy Fartsy Mama below.

DIY Message in a Bottle Tutorial and Template by Jessica Marquez for the Etsy Blog.

Make a DIY Message in a Bottle with embroidered messages. This is a good gift idea for someone special in your life who appreciates thoughtful, unique DIY gifts. 

The messages pictured above all use the back stitch. It’s a simple embroidery stitch and you can find out more about embroidery stitches at Sublime Stitching here.

Make a DIY Agate Cheesecake using royal icing, food coloring and vodka.

Photos from Alana Jones-Mann, GIF by me using my favorite GIF generator: makeagif.com.

For DIY Agate Slice Cupcakes from Alana Jones-Mann, go here.

I also posted Alana Jones-Mann’s tutorial for DIY Gemstone Cupcakes here.

DIY Oil Lamp Tutorial from A Piece of Rainbow.

The post title for this DIY Oil Lamp is “Magical Mason Jar Oil Lamp” because all you need are decorative items, glass bottles, the right type of wick (click on link to the original source), and 1 tablespoon of oil.

The magic part is that 1 Tablespoon of oil will last 2 hours.