Repurposing and upcyling old clothing and other items around the house to new treasures.
Today’s fun craft that doubles as a toddler activity is to repurpose old t-shirts to make DIY toddler tissues. First of all, what is it with my child and tissues? And napkins? Every time she finds a tissue box, she has to take every.single.tissue out and rub each one on her face. And when she’s…
My mother-in-law loves coffee, and she will only drink it with individually packaged International Delight Vanilla creamers. When she visits our house, she even brings her own tiny creamers for her morning coffee! For her birthday, I decided a great gift idea would be a homemade DIY french vanilla coffee candle. I had seen a…
While I was making dog toys out of my husband’s old, ratty, white t-shirts, I only used the body of the t-shirts. I had ALL the arms left over and had no idea what to do with them. I hate wasting anything that could one day come into good use, so I saved them. And…
My husband goes through a lot of white undershirts. Every couple of years, I’ll buy him a few weeks’ worth of new shirts, and then he will wear them until they are stained, shrunken, and threadbare. I absolutely HATE waste, and while I could donate the shirts, they are in awful condition and at the…
I want to let you in on the secret of how we made a DIY lovey for my daughter from her favorite muslin blanket. When we first brought baby girl home from the hospital, we tried to swaddle her in those adorable flannel receiving blankets we had gotten as a baby shower gift. Unfortunately, if…
Well, Nicole and I were quite the collectors when it came to those TY beanie babies from McDonald’s back in the 90’s. Our mom humored us and allowed us to eat McDonald’s Happy Meals wayyyy too frequently just so we could collect one of every mini beanie baby. I mean, we were going to get…