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    How to Arrange A Basket Wall for Beginners

    11:23 AM - By 

    I am glad you’re here. I want to encour­age you that if you’re new to this whole bas­ket gallery wall trend that you’re not alone. I have had many peo­ple ask how to arrange a bas­ket gallery wall. Where do you find bas­kets? And how dif­fi­cult is it to cre­ate one? I am here to show even the absolute begin­ner how they can arrange a beau­ti­ful bas­ket gallery wall with a few easy tips and tricks that I used with almost every gallery wall I cre­ate. I hope this easy step by step tuto­r­i­al will leave you feel­ing mor con­fi­dent in…

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    How to Make an Easy Patriotic Banner with Ribbon

    2:24 PM - By 

    I am excit­ed to share with you just how easy and beau­ti­ful this patri­ot­ic door hang­er can be with just a lit­tle wood plank and ribbon!  For me, patri­ot­ic decor around the home­stead always seems to be lack­ing. Sum­mer hol­i­days always seem to sneak up on me and I find myself scram­bling around last minute to come up with a few good sum­mer­time decor ideas. This project start­ed with a pre-dis­tressed board from the Wal-Mart craft cen­ter and a pack of 6 lit­tle wood­en stars from the same isle. I’m sure the same sup­plies can be found at your local craft…

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    How to Make Wood Bead Tassel DIY Decor

    2:19 AM - By 

    I am always look­ing for home decor to cre­ate on my own. Don’t get me wrong I love doing all types of crafts but I espe­cial­ly love the ones I can dis­play in my home year round. This is exact­ly why I am excit­ed to teach you how to make wood bead tas­sel DIY decor. Not only is this one sim­ple but it incor­po­rates one of my very favorite elements…wood! I have var­i­ous wood bead gar­lands, tas­sels, cut­ting boards, bowls and more scat­tered through­out my home and I am excit­ed to add this cute lit­tle addition. Materials *these ar affil­i­at­ed links…

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    4x4 Scrap Wood Firecracker Ideas

    1:54 PM - By 

    Have you seen all these adorable 4x4 Scrap Wood Fire­crack­er ideas cir­cu­lat­ing on Pin­ter­est? Me too! Along with about a mil­lion oth­er scrap wood block projects for your home. These lit­tle things are just so darn cute to add to your July 4th décor or oth­er patri­ot­ic holidays.  I have gath­ered a few of my favorites right now from oth­er cre­ative dec­o­ra­tors like your­self and I hope they inspire you to dig into your own scrap wood stash! Where Can I find 4x4 Blocks of Wood? Don’t have acrap wood handy? That’s ok! I may have just the ticket! I put wayyy…

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    How to Make Homemade All-Purpose Lemon Cleaner

    5:09 AM - By 

    Mak­ing home­made clean­ers is not as hard as it sounds. You can make this Home­made All-Pur­pose Lemon Clean­er in just a cou­ple easy steps and you might even get a pitch­er of Fresh Squeezed Lemon­ade while you’re at it. I am very hap­py to add this fresh smelling, grease cut­ting all pur­pose clean­er to my arse­nal of home­made clean­ers. If you’re like me, then keep­ing a clean and home is impor­tant to you but harsh chemicals…not so much. Lemons are acidic. The acid serves as an antibac­te­r­i­al and anti­sep­tic, much like bleach but a lot bet­ter smelling. That’s what I call a…

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    Beautiful Scrap Wood Projects for Your Home

    4:58 AM - By 

    Here on the farm we have a nev­er end­ing sup­ply of scrap wood. This makes it my go-to choice for inspir­ing you to make beau­ti­ful scrap wood projects for your home. We live sev­er­al miles from town so it’s not easy to hop in the car to go decor shop­ping, plus I enjoy get­ting my hands dirty while mak­ing some­thing myself. Do you feel the same way? Insert the scrap wood pile. Here is my (un)offi­cial def­i­n­i­tion: a pile of wood­en good­ness just beg­ging to be beau­ti­ful again! I am def­i­nite­ly that per­son that sees an idea on Pin­ter­est and I…

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    How to Make Wood Conditioner with Beeswax

    1:31 AM - By 

    I have a love for using wood­en uten­sils in my kitchen. Wood bowls, wood cut­ting boards, rolling pins… you name it. And while yes they are pret­ty to look at, and work well with just about any type of cook­ware, they do require a lit­tle bit of main­te­nence. What’s the solu­tion? An easy-to-make home­made wood con­di­tion­er using beeswax or as I like to call it…Wood Butter! Wood gets thirsty. And when it is thirsty it has a ten­dan­cy to dry out, become rough and even­tu­al­ly crack and splin­ter. This is true across the spec­trum. When wood weath­ers it cracks, it…

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    DIY Walnut Wood Stain

    7:48 PM - By 

    I am so excit­ed to have made this DIY Wal­nut Wood Stain! It is a game chager for peo­ple who love to get their hands dirty and make things for them­self! The best part??? It only requires TWO, yes two, ingre­di­ents to pre­pare! It’s quick, easy and so beautiful! STEP ONE- GATHER NUTS From start to fin­ish this project will take you less than 10 min­utes to cre­ate. I went out and gath­ered about a dozen wal­nuts from the ground beneath my wal­nut tree. I brought them inside and shucked the out­er hulls from the nut.  Keep in mind black wal­nuts…

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    Patriotic Wood Block Decor

    1:26 AM - By 

    There is noth­ing much more prim­i­tive than chunky wood block decor. I have always been drawn to the prim­itve patri­ot­ic look. Not only are they cute but these blocks are about as easy as it gets. Sup­plies 2x4 blocks cut as fol­lows (7″, 5″, 5″, 4″, 3.5″) PURCHASE PRECUT SET HERE stain book pages or craft paper  mod modge paint sten­cils Start by stain­ing your wood. I am using my own DIY STAIN, and allow to cry to the touch. This par­tic­u­lar stain is much thin­ner than a retail stain and drys quick­ly. My favoite part about this stian is the aged look…

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    Easy Wood Block Flag Banner

    12:35 PM - By 

    This project was inspired by THIS ONE I made last year. I decid­ed to try my hand at cre­at­ing some­thing with a more prim­i­tive look. Prim­i­tive and clas­sic has always been my favorite theme for sum­mer hol­i­days. There just seems to be a lot of nos­tal­gia dur­ing the warmer months.  Prim­i­tives usu­al­ly have dark­er shades of col­or with a nice rus­tic feel to them and that is what I want­ed to make sure I cap­tured with this lit­tle ban­ner. Keep in mind you could use scrap wood or even pal­lent wood to cre­ate this look too. Or if that isn’t…