Craftiness: Designed For Life

Designed For Life

DIY Tile Coasters

This would have to be the easiest DIY I have shared to date, in fact the only reason I call it a ‘do it yourself’ is because the only thing you have 'to do’ is go to a tile store and purchase any small tile of your chosing. Mix match styles, colours, shapes and textures or stick to a common theme for a afforbale and interchanging coaster idea. Love it!

May 20, 2016

4 Ways To Reuse Your Old Magazines

I’m subscribed to several different home magazines and have ended up with a stack dating back a few years piled up in our garage. Which is why I love these fresh (and incrediably easy) ideas to reuse old magazines shared by Ikea’s interior designers.

1/ Hanging art

Tear a page from your catalog and cut it length-wise into your desired width then staple the ends together. Repeat this with as many pages as you like, clipping them together to form small bundles. Arrange the bundles together to make a larger piece.

2/ A DIY coaster

Take a catalog page and keep folding it over itself to get a inch wide strip. You’ll need about 25 strips to make a standard sized coaster. Swipe the inside of each with a glue stick and start rolling the strips. Kick back, enjoy a drink, and admire your handy work.

3/ A garland

Start by folding a piece of paper, cutting any shape you want (making sure to have two layers attached at the fold). Fold the paper over the string and glue the pieces together with a glue stick. Repeat, repeat, repeat!

4/ Paper lantern

Start with a REGOLIT paper lamp as your base.Fold a couple of catalog pages in half and cut thin strips, stopping ½ inch or 1 inch from the top (see image at right). Carefully cut the pages along the spine using a craft knife. Cut each set in half, crosswise, to make two short sections rather than one long one. That way they’re easier to handle. Glue them in rows to the lamp, and poof up the strips a bit, for more body and dimension.Done!