Here’s an easy and inexpensive craft that can be used as a sweet little gift, a stocking stuffer or made en mass as a church bazaar or craft fair fundraiser: Holiday Hairbows! These cute little clip on bows can be made in any combination of ribbons to celebrate a holiday, incorporate a favorite licensed character,… Keep Reading
Make a Duck Tape Lunchbox for Back to School!
Is your teen or tween the kind of kid who likes to be different, to show their individuality and to make things themselves? Then have I got a back to school craft project for them–create a custom Duck Tape Lunchbox out of Duck brand duct tape! The kind folks at Duck sent me a whole… Keep Reading
“Punched Tin” Ornaments from Recycled Canning Jar Lids
Here’s a great way to recycle those single use canning lids after you’ve popped them off your jars of beautiful homemade jelly or tasty home canned beans. Don’t have canning jar lids? That’s ok–ask your friends who can (they WILL have some), pick up an new unused box of canning lids at Walmart for under… Keep Reading
Doctor Who Necklace Revamp
Have a female Doctor Who fan on your Christmas list? Well this 5 minute Doctor Who Necklace Revamp / Makeover is for you! I found this cute British themed charm necklace at Claire’s for just under $10. I thought “Wow, this reminds me of Doctor Who. . . Except it is a red phone booth… Keep Reading
How to Make a Paper Treat Cone
Here’s an inexpensive, easy and fun way to serve treats at your next party, or package them for gifting–Paper Treat Cones! These Paper Treat Cones are extremely easy to make using a standard 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of copy paper, a glue stick and some scissors. 1. Collect your materials. 8 1/2″ x… Keep Reading
DIY: Porch Snowflakes!
It’s winter craft time here at Frugal Upstate and Walmart challenged me to come up with a new take on paper snowflakes. It was perfect–for several years I’ve been wanting to decorate my porch with some sort of “snowflake” theme in January–something to combat the post Christmas decorating “blahs”. That’s exactlg why I had used… Keep Reading
DIY: Branch Display for Holiday Photo Cards
Here’s a nifty craft idea that the folks at the Walmart Photo department came up with! The Branch Display for holiday photo cards: They asked me to recreate this craft and show you all how I did it! Branch Display for Holiday Photo Cards Materials: Narrow Ribbon (1 or 2 colors) Attractive Branch Red Spray… Keep Reading
Pumpkin Carving Time with Walmart
When do you carve your pumpkins for Halloween? We usually wait until the night before Halloween-just to make sure that they stay nice and fresh. Walmart asked me to try out one of their carving kits so this year I did one of ours a bit early. (note: We also made some cool pumpkins that… Keep Reading
Tutorial: How To Make a Custom Magnet Locker Organization Set
Princess is SUPER excited about starting middle school this year. She moves to a new building and is on her way to being a teen–something that she thinks is going to be the most awesome thing ever (as much as I tell her that most of us wouldn’t be teens again for love or money). … Keep Reading
DIY: Make a Sugar Egg Easter Decoration
One of my latest Walmart Mom challenges was to make something “DIY” for Easter. I decided to try something completely new–making a sugar egg! Are you familiar with these? It’s like a little Easter diorama inside of an egg made out of sugar. I remember one year when I was a child my mom had… Keep Reading
