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From Brown Bag To Bird's Nest

We are in full Spring mode and being ready to say good-bye to winter for another year, we're ready for chirping birds, budding trees and daffodils poking up from the soil. Looking for a craft that g...

Fabric Photo Mat from a Pizza Box
Home Hacks

Covering a photo mat with fabric is a simple way to add color and interest to a photo display. You can easily cover the mat that came with your frame or, if you'd like to have some extras to swap ...

Repurpose Your Shoe Boxes
Good Idea

Here in DC we're about to be clobbered by another heavy snowstorm. In preparation we've been hoarding craft supplies and looking for good ideas when we stumbled upon this photo....

Wicker Chair Makeover

We spotted this cute personalized chair over at Shelterrific. It took a moment for us to notice that it's really one of those ubiquitous white wicker chairs....

Make a Winter Village with Cereal Boxes
How To

Wreaths, trees and garland are all nice and fine, but our favorite seasonal decoration is a winter village. It's like having your own Who-ville for kids to play with. The only problem is that most ...

Just Between Friends: Local Kids Swap & Shops

We love hearing about ideas that were created out of necessity, especially when the need was to spend less and reuse more! 2 women from Oklahoma took their regular "Just Between Friends," living roo...

Spotlight: Adoptabot On Etsy

We would consider ourselves to be robot nerds in our house, so when we came across these found item robots from Brian Marshall, there was actual audible squealing going on! Brian started the Adopt-...

Broken Crayon Monograms

Over at Dollar Store Crafts, they've come up with a great way to put those short, stumpy broken crayons to use (besides melting them) and making something fabulous for your child to hang up proudly i...

Juice Box Boats

A picnic, playdate or party at our house usually results in several empty juice boxes. We've already showed you a great way to reuse your glass baby food jars. How about scheduling your own regatta ...

Packaging As Toys

By now we're all familiar with the popularity of recycled and recyclable cardboard toys and kids furniture. Before the recent cardboard trend, we used to hoard shoe boxes to create a stacked apartmen...

Mini Blinds Turned Garden Stakes

We spotted this fabulous kid friendly idea over at My Paper Crane, where mom Heidi Kenney had her kids help label this year's garden... with discarded mini blinds! It's super kid friendly and a terr...

Blogging NYT: Hey, Kids! Don’t Eat the New Lunch Trays

If cafeteria food doesn't turn your stomach, this statistic surely will: New York City’s public school system goes through 850,000 polystyrene cafeteria trays per day. That's about 4 million a we...

Look! Two Recycled Cardboard Dollhouses

We used to make simple dollhouses with fold-out album covers. They were sturdy and could be configured in many ways, but, inevitably it meant that the dollhouse walls were adorned with the lyrics t...

Green Ideas: Drawer Organizers

We all have a junk drawer (or two) and your kids probably have junk stashed away somewhere as well - arts and craft supplies, small toy collections, etc. Bella Dia has devised a super simple way t...

Freepeats.org

There's a new swap in town! So many baby and kids items have a lot of life and utility left once your family is done with them. You may have a group of friends, relatives or local parents who pass ...

How To: Make Lidmen

We saw these in the latest issue of Small (an online magazine whose Winter 07 issue is out now) and were delighted to learn that not only can you buy them from the creator, she's willing to share ho...

Swaptree

One of the most common New Years' resolutions is to clean, organize and declutter. Swaptree can help you get rid of your stuff - of course you'll get stuff in return so your resolution may be short...

Treecycling

What's that they say about Christmas? Next to a circus, nothing packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. The same can probably be said about the tree your family carefully selected ...