Monthly Archives: October 2011

31 Days of Hope Auction begins today!

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The 31 Days of Hope Auction at the DIY Club begins today!  Each piece is listed on ebay.
 
The store name is thediyclub.  Click {HERE} to view all pieces.
There are approximately 50 items listed that you can bid on created by fellow bloggers and donated by generous friends. 
Each piece starts at $1.00.  There are 10 days to bid! Including the Pink Angel Ornaments…handmade by me.  🙂 

Please Please Please help spread the word on your blogs, facebook and twitter. . . and bid, bid, bid. Great items to add to your DIY supply closet and lots of lovely gifts for the quickly approaching holiday season!
The DIY Club is donating 100% of the auction earnings to the American Cancer Society and specifically the funds will go towards their Breast Cancer division.
Thank y
ou in advance for your bids! Now: Go shopping! 

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DIY Tulle Peacock Wreath

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Ceelo from Ceelo’s Corner was spending way too much time on Pinterest (like most of us do) and stumbled upon this gem:

{purchase from this etsy shop, the original source}
It was instant love! Then she remembered that she just happened to have a tulle tutu in the closet waiting to see daylight again.
All you need is:
A Styrofoam circle (10″.)
Tulle (Hers was cut already for the skirt so that part won’t be included.)
Optional: supplies for embellishments

(She used tulle, needle and thread, a fancy brad, and a glue gun.)

First, make a loop with your strips of tulle.

 Gather the two loose ends and pull them around the Styrofoam and through your loop.
Pull taut then squish together with the previous pieces. 
Eventually, it will start looking like this:
She varied the lengths. 
Next came the embellishment. Using a tutorial she found online, she made a tulle flower…
Then hot glued a brad on it.
Then hot glued the flower on the wreath and… VOILA!
So pretty and inspiring.  See more from Ceelo at 
Ceelo’s Corner
 

A peek into the life and mind of a lover of all things blue and shiny… who would love to be a glassblower, special effects make-up artist, writer for Torchwood, and connoisseur of all things D.I.Y.

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DIY Project Parade…Let's see your DIY fall projects!

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The DIY Show Off
This past week I worked really hard shopping around for affordable materials and putting together a Halloween costume for my nephew. Although he wasn’t having any part of it so, my 1 year old niece will be wearing it.  I don’t know if it would have fit him anyway.  Here’s what I did…


Chicken Body:

Materials: two onesies, stuffing, 2 feather boas.

Print on onesies isn’t seen. I bought these ones because they were size 24 months. Go a couple of sizes bigger than child’s actual size. 


One inside of the other.


Sew together at the arms and neck and waist. Leave a space open at the waste.


Add stuffing (I killed an old pillow) between the layers of sewn onesies.


Sew hole at waste to enclose stuffing.


Two feather boas hot glued around the stuffed onesie.


Rooster Hat:

 Materials: One white knit hat. One red knit glove. Stuffing. 

Cut cuff off of glove. 


Cut hole in top of knit hat same width as bottom of the glove.  


Stuff the glove. 


Sew glove shut. 


Turn hat inside out. Insert glove inside of hat with seam facing up towards hole in knit hat. 


Sew together making sure all rough edges are ‘caught’. All done. Flip right side out. Embellish with extra stray feathers from boas.

Optional. Add:

Leggings…
Circo <em>Toddler</em> Girls' Knit <em>Stripe Legging</em> - <em>Yellow</em> 4t
Stuff fingers of rubber gloves and slide over shoes…however DO NOT let child wear them for walking, only picture purposes, sitting or costume judging. 
Natural <em>Rubber Gloves</em> Anti C by North Safety <em>Yellow</em> 8
Super cute chicken costume (adorable model!)…

Now it’s your turn!  Let’s see your DIY Fall Related project! 

The DIY Show Off


Rules:

•Create a blog post about an Autumn/Fall project that YOU HAVE CREATED. Feel free to include a past link, however please make a note on a recent post about the DIY Fall Festival to invite ever
yone over to join in or to search the collection of fall inspired ideas.

•Add your project title to Linky party below.  (example: House # Pumpkins)

•Type in the permalink address, not your basic blog address. A permalink is the address that links directly to your specific post. (example: http://thediyshowoff.blogspot.com/2009/08/house-number-pumpkins)

•Please add the DIY button or link to the party in your post to share the party with your readers.

•Although a tutorial is helpful, it’s not required. It just must be your project.  Please only link up same project once to one party.

•If you notice that you’re link disappeared, please make the correction according to the rules above and re-link!

• By adding your link, you give the DIY Show Off permission to highlight your project in a future post. Enjoy and be inspired!



The winner of the BHG $100 Walmart Gift card is…  

Jenna Sue said… 93
That room is pure perfection! So charming.
October 3, 2011 12:29 PM 

Congratulations, Jenna Sue! I’ll be contacting you by email/via your blog! So exciting!

More AWESOME EASY CHEAP DIY FALL PROJECTS:

Super sweet Hurricane Irene Hurricanes
at 

See how inexpensive these were to make at Here’s to Handy Andy…
These are gorgeous!  See the tutorial at Decorating with Cents…



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I am so honored for the shout out from two amazing blog friends this week!

Thanks to Mr. GoodWill Hunting! I love his ability to find amazing things and transform a room magically on a very tight budget! 

and check out this interesting post from Kathy at Sassafras Salvation and what my guest bedroom makeover has to do with the 1960s! So cool! 


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