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  • Crocheted Plastic Bag Doily Clock

    Yes, I crocheted a doily from plastic grocery bags and then I realized that it made a really cute clock! Yesterday I shared with the you the 5 minute paper plate clock, so while this one does take just a bit more effort it's certainly worth it! Wouldn't these make great holiday gifts? Once you…

  • Wine Bottle Vases Simplified For Your Fall Table

      A while back I shared with you some lovely painted wine bottle vases, but guess what my friends? You really don't have to go through all that trouble of painting the bottles, especially for fall when dark wine bottles look just fine as they are! And let me tell you, painting those bottles was…

  • How To Cut A Recycled Plastic Soda Bottle For Crafting

    With Succot crafting just around the corner, after the Rosh HaShana crafting, it's time to start saving those plastic bottles so you'll have some of the basics on hand for some exciting DIY Recycled Bottle succah decor. I'd recommend starting to cut those bottles as you save them, to be one step ahead of the…

  • Wine Cork Stamp Rosh HaShana Cards

    Wine cork stamps are super simple to make and a great way to make some quick and sweet Rosh HaShana cards. With the Jewish New Year just around the corner in three weeks, now is the perfect time to make cards so that one can even send them to friends and relatives near and far.…

  • Wine Bottle Vases Decoupaged With Tissue Paper

    Remember those wine bottles that I spray painted white and made a bunch of DIY wine bottle vases? Remember that tissue paper that the kids stamped on to make our own DIY wrapping paper? Remember these DIY pom pom flowers? Well, isn't it nice to combine the efforts from several projects and come up with…

  • Coloring Salt With Chalk: Jerusalem Scene For Tisha B’Av

    Crafting with colored salt that you can make yourself is so much fun, especially for kids who are more process oriented than expressive. While home-made colored salt poured in layers into recycled jars is certainly pretty, and there are lots of oohs and ahhs as the layers are built, I wanted to give more meaning…

  • Kid’s Craft: Jars Decoupaged With Printed Tissue Paper

    Aren't these recycled coffee jar vases sweet? (Snowflake and all in the middle of summer?) And they look so great holding wild flowers, cuttings from the garden that you're rooting, or even candles of course. We made these recycled jar vases using the tissue paper that we printed on last week, here, and some mod…

  • Draw Simple Patterns On Painted Bottles

    Here’s a super simple way to turn painted wine bottle vases (namely the ones I wrote about here) into something a little more bold and decorative. With just a permanent black marker, we had fun applying designs and illustrations to our painted bottles. And the results really are so much fun, and perfect for a…

  • Summer Craft: Wine Cork Boats

    The perfect summer craft for boys. Make sailboats and rafts from simple materials including wine corks and popsicle sticks.

  • Wine Bottle Vases Embellished

    Remember those wine and liquor and olive oil bottles that I spray painted white for the family wedding festivities and shared with you here? Well, there are so many white bottles hanging around our home now that I just had to start using them as canvases for a little creativity. After all, white bottles are…

  • Painted Wine Bottle Vases

    Collect a bunch of bottles and jars in all shapes and sizes and you can make lovely DIY centerpieces for any occassion! I sprayed a ton of bottles of all kinds (wine, olive oil, whiskey etc.) that I'd been saving for centerpieces and used them for a shabbat sheva brachas (festive meals for the seven days…

  • Paper Mache Vases From Recycled Plastic Bottles

    Since we're on the theme of paper mache, I thought I'd show you a  simple paper mache vase project that's perfect for summer crafting, as well as Shavuos! And it's a great way to use all those cute tiny bottles from medicine, yogurt, vanilla etc. And once you've finished your paper mache vases, you can fill them…