35 Farmhouse Dollar Tree DIYs | Pretty Farmhouse DIYS | EASY Dollar Tree DIYs

Hello friends, I'm Heidi Samba, let's start creating. These are the supplies we will be using since they are all from the Dollar Tree. It always amazes me how when you take a bunch of random things and put them together, some can be created. Really cool stuff now it all comes from the Dollar Tree except the long painter's sticks which you can get at any home improvement store. I bought mine at Home Depot and they were a

dollar

, I think they might have been a

dollar

twenty. five and there are three in a package and they are very long so what we are going to do is remove everything that is three dimensional on these signs and we are going to go down to the main motherboard, now I know.

These were very popular around Easter time and they sell out very quickly, so if you have other holidays that have passed with signs that have this shape, you are in good shape, you can totally use them, so go ahead and cut everything out and then you can see them here. which I have a piece of foam core board and that's because we're going to use it as a base to glue everything together and I cut it to the size where there's a nice border around the boards and I'm going to I have these painter's sticks and you can see here that I'm marking it because I want to cut the corners with my miter box.

I'm going to link that box below and my little handsaw. I get asked about this all the time and I have a lot of videos here on my channel where I show more in depth how I use it, it's a tool that I recommend using all the time in your craft room because look how cool it is to be able to take that little saw and cut it. without having to do something super scary and intimidating with big chainsaws and you still get that fun, cool framed look, so here I am, just making sure I glue all my painter's sticks on first and then I'll glue on.

Underneath those half length signs we're using and I'm doing this because if you try to glue the science on first, you might have a little bit of an overhang or things just won't come out right, so it's best to do the framing first. and then make the signs, add lots of hot glue to make sure everything is nice and sealed and in place. Now you're going to take some charcoal and some of this putty that you would use to fill in the nail holes whenever you're taking pictures. when you're moving around or just moving images around in general in the artwork in your home, I'm going to take that and fill in all those cracks and joints so it looks really finished and polished when we start painting it.

Once you have everything there and it's dry, you can take some sandpaper and just scrape off anything that's showing up or giving it texture that you don't want there and pound it into dust. now let's grab some white paint. You can see here that I'm using house paint because I'm trying so hard not to leave our house. We've actually been inside our house a ton for about three weeks and then this. Last weekend we had to go to the ER because my daughter put something up her nose and we thought it was a pink bead from one of her jewelry that she likes to play with and it turns out it was a little pink furry pompom .

It was from a DIY that I did a while ago here on my channel and well, that got stuck in his nose and luckily we were able to get it out and anyway it wasn't, it was an event that we'll just see but we haven't been away from his house, so I'm trying to use things that are inside and I recommend everyone to stay home too. Now that you've seen here, I stained the wood with a little bit of water and painted it the color I liked. and now I'm hand drawing my letters. I'm using my ruler to make sure everything is nice and level and spaced how I want and now I'm going to start with my black paint and a fine tip of the brush and take your time.

I really love hand lettering. I talk about it a lot here on my channel for all of you, if you come back you know I love hand lettering. I just think they're very funny. a Cricut and I love my Cricut and eventually I'll show everyone some DIYs soon with that Cricut so those who have them can use those ideas, but I always want to encourage everyone to practice their hand painting and lettering because it really is super therapeutic and just fun and handwriting practice, so once you've painted something and taken your time to cover all the pencil sketches you've made and let them dry, you're ready to move on.

To put your little baskets back in, these baskets are from the Dollar Tree, they have them in all of their bin sections and I'm just going to make some pencil marks where I know I need to drill some holes so I can attach the wires. these baskets so they don't fall and are nice and safe on our board. I want to be able to put fruits and things that weigh more, so we really want to make sure we put this in. to make it actually usable and not just decoration, now we're going to take our wire and we're going to slide it through the back and we're going to use two wires for each basket and then once you have those wires, you're going to make sure to thread them right into your basket and you're going to twist them, you'll twist and turn and make sure you have them in there tight and then, because you don't want anything.

To poke, you're going to go ahead and take your pliers and you're going to twist and wrap all the wires that are coming out and then to make sure it's really, really, really secure, I like to touch it. down very well and then add hot glue. I found this very funny. They have these in their garden section right now. These darling little wooden tags or tags. I'm adding a little bit of hot glue and then I put them on the back and just to make sure. it doesn't fall off, I'm also gluing the back so it's all wrapped around that wire basket and to complete the look, using some sandpaper and sanding it down for our next project is something I'm really excited to share because I haven't seen it.

Can anyone do this? This was an idea that occurred to me when I was wandering around Dollar Tree. I saw these cutting mats one day and thought I could turn this into something really cool, so I'll tell you what's on the end, hang it there so you can see all the steps. First, we'll grab some paper. I'm just using an old dictionary that I use constantly and tearing out pages to do it yourself or use to paint over. and I'm going to make a little pattern, so I glued four pieces together and then made two That line is how I make a lot of my patterns and I get things to be even on both sides once I get to the point where I like it and it looks the right size.

I went ahead and grabbed my Sharpie marker because it worked the best on these cutting mats, by the way, there are two in a pack so it only cost a dollar to make this, just wait, you'll be so excited when you see this one because they sell for so much that I can not believe it. that we can do this for just a dollar and it's so

easy

to do, go ahead and grab your scissors and cut right on that line, don't worry about a little bit of that black showing through on your marker because we're going to paint it anyway , so once you've cut that part out, you're going to take the second piece and we want to create an opening like a pocket that comes out because I'm wondering if you all can guess it.

At this point because we're going to turn this into a cute wall hanging flower container and you'll see in just a second what kind it is, so at this point I'm going to move it over an inch closer on each side. up to about an inch and a half where I want to be able to make a big enough opening when I curve it because you want it to be curved so go ahead and cut it all out, you can see here I measured it just like I showed you and now you have your two pieces, in this period you're going to take out your stapler, just a regular old stapler that you keep in your house, in your office area, and you're going to staple all the way.

All the way around the edge If one of the staples doesn't go all the way, all you have to do is just push it down on the other side and then follow a straight line and staple all the way to the end if you're hungover. Cut it out and then you will fold the plastic back to create a fold line so you have a nice rounded edge. Take it to the other side, staple the top and bottom so you can position it correctly, and then staple everything together. again, are you starting to see what I'm doing here?

Now you're going to go ahead and fold the plastic over on the other side. They really want to make sure they bend it to create that domed feel wherever they can. Put the flowers inside or whatever you want to display inside, so here I am, where I have my front and back figured out, now we need to do the bottom, now you're going to take that piece where you cut out. Take out the second piece that is curved at the top and you will find the spot that has the extra you need to be able to create a background for your flower container and you will simply trace around it to create enough.

Line and cut a little bit if you want it to stick out a little bit, we'll trim it down once everything has finished drying so you'll take a little bit of e6000 and a little bit of hot glue to keep it in place for the short and long term. finish and you will simply set it aside to let it dry. I let mine dry for about six hours and then it was good for me to go ahead and start trimming off any excess and then if something pulled back you can add a little more of the e6000 as you like so here I am where I let it dry and I'm trimming off the excess so that I have a good seal on the bottom and then, like I said, if anything it all lifts up. what you have to do is just add a little bit more, but mine held up really well and I was able to remove that extra, then once you spray paint it you can go ahead and start adding some different shades of gray that you'll see.

Here I go in first with a medium gray type, not too dark and not too light, and I'm just patting it on because we want to give it that corrugated metal look and we're going to keep adding to it. I'm blotting it first with my brush and then I come back with a napkin and I keep hitting it, hitting it, so I'm making everything a gray color, first hitting it all, I set it aside. Since I'm doing two for today, I'm going to let this side dry and then I'll come back with an even lighter one and you'll keep playing with it until you get the look you're going for. so you don't have to go all the way down and you definitely don't have to do the back because it will be hanging on a wall or however you display it, you can do that if you want and then I went in with a very light color, a very light gray and then a even lighter white and I keep touching it until it looks like that metallic look that these flower containers would normally have, isn't that so crazy at this point?

Each of these only cost me $1 to make, so here I am. I'm still playing with it and having fun, and I want you to keep in mind that you can make them any shape you want, you can make them longer and thinner, you can make them any length, height or width. If you want them to be like this, once you've dried everything, you can go ahead and add some of those Dollar Tree squares and then add some flowers of your liking. I was very neutral because I want to keep them that way. All year round I have a place in my basement.

I think I'm going to put them up, so I wanted to make sure they were durable and added some boxwood stems from a long garland I have at Hobby Lobby. I'm just always cutting it. I paid 10 dollars for that long garland. It was the best investment. You can see on the back that the foam squares were there. I didn't spray paint the back because, again, no one will see it. If you wanted to spray paint it, you could keep playing with the layout of the floor until you get to a place where you really like it and it looks really

pretty

and have fun with this part again, use any florals you want.

I want you to not have to do it like I do now, this is an important part if you decide to put a little label on the front like I did. I decided to cut a small flap and then added some hot glue to the inside. That way, the foam stays there permanently. I pushed the flap back and then added a little more hot glue and added a cute little tag to the front. I think the label that's on this blends even more high-end, something you would do. I see from Magnolia's house. I love them so much now on the back you'll want to make sure you cut a hole too so you can hang it anywhere in your house and I think they are How cute with two of these paired up on a wall today is my mega

farmhouse

DIY video where I'm at taking all my best ideas over these last two months and condensing them into one big mega video;

There will be some that will be your favorites. so leave a comment below when you see them and let me know what you think and there may even be some that you've missed over the past couple of months. I hope you enjoyed this video and found it inspiring as you make your own craft room remember those canvases that we were using before well now we're going to remove the rest of that fabric that we cut and left over and we're going to go ahead and just leave the staples that we didn't even You don't even have to remove those, in fact, if some of them come off from the corners, make sure to staple them just to keep them nice andstrong, but we will use four of these canvas framed wood pieces and turn them into a tall storage basket that is very

farmhouse

inspired.

I was sitting there looking at this and thinking what can I turn this into that would be really cool and I thought, wait a second, I can make a really tall basket with this, so I'm taking some popsicle sticks and I cut off the ends that are on them. rounded and I'm gluing them first and then stapling them as you can see in each corner and you're going to have two in each corner and then you're going to take the next one and you're going to slide it in and you're going to lay it on its side and then you're going to start gluing the sticks in place again and stapling them and you can see that the end of the stick is at the end of the side of the frame that you don't want it to be on. hanging because we're going to double up to move on to the next layer so when you have them all glued together it should look like a little box at this point then you're going to add a few more sticks and a little more hot glue and a few more staples and you'll continue giving all the turns and once you're done, you'll get the next frame and add more to it. once again, so you're just going to slide that in, hug it, glue things into place and staple them into place and we'll do this like I said several times until you're completely out now.

You can make this as low or as high as you want, but it's cool to see what you can do with these frames and with popsicle sticks, so once I get to the last one, you can see that I have all four. Together here, now I'm going to add chicken wire, now you don't have to make chicken wire, but I thought this would be cool and I bought some chicken wire a while ago because I have some DIYs that I want. to do, but here's the trick with chicken wire, it's very difficult. I'm not going to lie, it has a tendency to want to curl up like you saw here, so I'll recommend it if you've never used chicken wire before. and you want to try it, I recommend having someone with you while you get the space right and fold it so my husband's hands are in place, making sure he's not giving me a hard time and reaching back and scratching my hand, and?

What I'm doing is inserting this chicken wire inside my wooden frame that I just created, so I'll cut off any excess that I don't need and fold the sides over to create the box itself. Once you've folded all the sides to the actual length you need them to fit nice and snug, you'll take the ends and bend the ends of the wire, roll them up, and pinch them. instead and you'll see me do it here in a second because you don't want to have any loose wires so here you can see I've created my box frame and I'm just taking them and curling them down and then pinching them to make sure they're nice and locked that way so that nothing can get scratched or torn or whatever you put inside your little box.

Now this is what I know this one is more advanced, but sometimes I like to show some things that are advanced because I want everyone to see what their potential is. You don't have to start with something so challenging, you could decide to just make the box and put some fabric inside. There are many different ways to do this, but I wanted to show you everything you can do with these frameworks. These are all Dollar Tree supplies that I have sitting around and I'm turning them into something super cool. so people pay a lot of money and it's just about having that creative idea of ​​hey, I wonder what I can do with this if I keep pushing myself and my creativity, so once I have all the wire in and you can see it's nice. and snug I'm going around the frames and I'm stapling the chicken wire to the frames so it's nice and secure and if you have any staples that don't go all the way in just take a small hammer and tap them gently put them in place now we're going to take this sign that I haven't been able to use either and I'm going to cut it to the right size so that it can be the base of my box and I'm just going to mark it with My knife and then I go over the edge of something and break it if they break very easily and then I go I'm going to take some more burlap and I'll glue it on.

I will cut the excess that we don't want. or I need to and again here the burlap has a tendency to let the hot glue go through it so make sure you use a popsicle stick instead of hitting it with your hand and then now I'm going to stick it to the bottom of my box so I can create a nice end so things can be stored in it otherwise they'll just fall out and then I'll staple it all in place once it's nice and secure. I went ahead and bleached the basket at At this point now I will say that I regret something.

I wish I had painted the inside of the basket before putting up the chicken wire. I got impatient and really wanted to see it with the chicken wire and once I put it up. stapled I thought Oh Heidi, come on girl, you know her best, you should have bleached the inside first, but hey, now that the stuff is inside you won't even notice it, but I noticed it, so if you do this, keep it. Keep in mind to paint on the inside before adding chicken wire, okay, and then I'll just paint the bottom so it has a nice finish and on the top sides I'll add some rope to pinch it. together, I rolled it and pinched it and then I'm going to take another piece because I thought it would look unique and fun and

pretty

.

I'm going to take a thin piece of this rope. I just unrolled the three that are on the ropes from the Dollar Tree and I'm just going to wrap it around to give it a nice full look on the rope and then make sure to fry the ends because I think it looks really pretty and it's just one of those little details that people love it when they see that I'm going to take this item that I found at the habitat of humanity and bought it for 10 dollars. No, I think this is called Newell. I'm not sure about anything, but it was used at the bottom of a staircase.

I've been eyeing these for a while and I wanted to make them into something special and they are very expensive so I found this one for $10. They usually cost between eighty and one hundred and fifty dollars so I sanded them first. Sand lightly, you don't want to sand too much because it will cause it to bleed since the stain is very dark and when I painted it white, I went ahead and painted everything white and before I painted, you saw that before. I took the brush and right before I put paint on it, I dusted it off and made sure to clean the surface because you don't want that to stick to the brush when you're painting, so once you've cleaned all your surfaces off, you can move on. and start painting everything white.

I did three coats of white paint once I covered it enough and liked the finish. I took some sandpaper and then just roughed up the edges to give it that farmhouse style. See, I really loved that and I just went to where the corner surfaces were. You can find them naturally when you go over the surfaces, the sandpaper will hit it without any problem and if you remove too much you won't. It's not like you can always go back and add a little more white paint. Then when I was done doing that I went ahead and added a hook so I could hang a wreath or banners however I want to decorate with them.

Please give this video a chance. Thumbs up, it really helps my channel every time you cook it and if you're on Instagram, come say hello. I love to know what you are doing in your craft rooms, so tag me in some of your projects so I can see them and leave you a comment. Our project that we are going to work on is to create a cute little corner shelf for your kitchen counter or anywhere like a sideboard that you may have, so I have these two posters that I chose. Recently, in fact, since Dollar Tree I felt ready to go out.

I needed to go shopping and while I was out I went into Dollar Tree and I was so proud of my community. Everyone that I saw, I will say 95% I saw that I had masks and gloves on and I only touched what I needed and it was a great pleasure to go out and be among my community for a little time and it was a nice gift friends, I can't say. Enough is enough, I won't recommend going out to anyone who doesn't feel comfortable but I went out just to treat myself so here I am you can see that I have created with these round signs these two lines these two cut lines because we are trying to make, as I said, a shelf corner and you're going to mark those lines twice and then you're going to break them in one direction and close them again in the other direction and that's because they break very easily and they're great once you put them up you can create any shape you want starting from the existing shape and then any undercuts you see, just go ahead and cut them out with your scissors.

Now I'm going to take the one that I cut first and I'm going to lay the pattern side by side and trace it and cut a second one and that's because we want to make a nice sturdy shelf so having two of these is really great to be able to still do that stronger, so now what we're going to do is uncover the legs of our little corner shelf. Now you can see that two inches are too wide or too tall and one is too short and stubby, so I'm going to use one and one. half inch mark and I need to do that three times now, make sure you measure with the idea of ​​cutting that rounded edge and your plumber's stick because it's rounded and you don't want it to be on one of them because I'll do it where it's a crooked shelf, like this So I cut that little bump on the end that's curved and then I cut out three little legs like you can see here and then you're just going to take a little bit of hot glue and at the bottom of your sign, you're going to add a good amount and you're just going to move it around so that the Glue comes out the sides and presses into the leg, which will create even more support and then make it even stronger.

I'm going to take your staple gun and link it below because everyone always asked me about it and I try to link it every time sometimes I forget, but I'm going to link the staple gun below and you can see it here. I'm putting two staples on each leg and when you turn it over you shouldn't have gone through the sign, it should go through the leg, so make sure you measure that carefully and then on the second sign, we're going to put some hot glue . and place it pattern by pattern so we don't have to deal with trying to paint over glitter and have all that extra texture and then we'll just squish them together, line them all up and once everything is nice and glued together. together you can see here that it looks like a coroner's shelf and then we're going to resize our staples to be a little bit smaller so they can only be long enough to go through those two posters that we just cut out and then I stapled them together, then I painted it white and came back with a distressing light gray with a dry brush technique and then a little bit of brown just to give it some depth and texture on my counter.

I can't express how excited I am. I'm talking about this DIY and I'm going to share with you something that I saw a long time ago that was selling for a ton of money and I thought I could make it super super super cheap so I bought these. spoons from the Dollar Tree and I'm going to use five of them and what we're going to have to do is hammer the spoon flat just like I'm doing here and once you have it nice and flat, then you're going to take some pliers and bend it twice, you'll bend it down a little bit at the handle and then come out a little bit, fold it one more time. time and you can use whatever you need to be able to make these curves.

I found that the lower you go down the spoon handle, the harder it becomes to bend, so if you need maybe some strong muscles, maybe you know how to go up. Someone at home who can do this part, but this is a really fun project and just wait until you see what it's going to turn into, so here I am, I'm just grabbing my spoon and I'm just leaning in. I took it out and made sure to shape it and then lined it up with the next one to make sure all the curves were in the right place.

Now in the next part I'm going to warn everyone to be careful when you're drilling, you're going to want to make sure you're drilling some type of wood underneath as a base and then the other thing is you're going to want to be careful when you're drilling into it because the spoon you might want to turn and If your hand is in the way and gets hit, it could cut your hand and it could also hurt a lot. In fact, it happened to me twice while I was making this and let everyone tell you, it actually hurt a lot, so once you have enough holes drilled, you're just going to make one in each spoon and then set them aside. .

I learned in that first hole I drilled and then I was very cautious, so I'm just telling you everything. It's very

easy

to do with a drill, but just make sure you don't hurt your hand by holding it out of the way. Now we're going to move on to that wood and I just sanded it lightly to make sure there were no rough edges and then I used some black water paint and brown paint to create a stain real quick and then I'm going to take some screws and screw them all in. my spoons to the wood because we are making a hanging rack and you can use this for many different things, but today I have a theme. what I'm doing, which will be DIY cooking using supplies from Dollar Tree.

I thought it would be really fun to do something a little different and focus onthe kitchen and the things that we can put in our homes in the kitchen. They can be used daily, in fact they have this theme that I'm going to move to the next day, which is Wednesday, so come back if you want to see more kitchen DIY projects, but for today I think these projects are so cute and this one. It's totally my favorite that I made, which is why I'm sharing it first, so once you have all the spoons there, make sure you push them into place, place them correctly and then you're going to take them and flip them.

Now I needed something to hang them on and then I thought, wait a second. I can use one of those little handles you use to open a soda can, a washer, and a screw. I don't know why I got like that. I got excited about this but for some reason it popped into my head and it worked like a charm, it was so perfect you'll want to put something under it to make sure it's held or you can also put this on before you make the spoons and then you'll just screw it on. its place and it will be perfect to help hang it.

Now we're going to make it even cuter because I just can't help it. I myself could stop here or we could continue and you know me. I love following here on my channel, so I'm going to grab these little garden labels. You've seen me use them a lot here on my channel recently. I'm going to add a little bit of wood glue to really make it stick well and then I'm also going to add a little bit of hot glue for that long and short term fixation, like I talked about a lot here, you want to make sure it lasts forever, but also It can dry quickly with that hot glue, so I'm going to put one in front of each spoon.

I think this is so cute with these little labels and again, I couldn't help myself. I could have stopped there, but I decided to. I also painted numbers on each tag so I decided to use a 1 2 3 4 5, but how could this be if you put an initial for someone's name if they wanted to hang? You know, your coat on the front door or you could hang it in your kitchen like I plan to use to hang all of our towels and washcloths to let them dry, and we use them while we wash dishes or just general cleaning and it looks so pretty you could also hang crowns on this.

You can do so many cool things, so here it is, are you ready to see it? I'd love for you to join me here on my channel, so hit the red subscribe button if you like what you see and let's be friends. I bought this Goodwill bike for $2 and I even feel like it was a bit of a scam because it was in bad shape, it was clear someone donated it and they didn't want it anymore and maybe they were thinking it was Goodwill that someone could replace the tires, but friends, this was not in good condition, so what I decided to do because I had gardening on my mind.

I wanted to do something a little different. I don't plan to fix this so my daughter can. ride it. I'm planning to use it in one of my garden beds here at our house outside. I thought it would be really pretty if it was all spray painted white and they just fixed it up a little bit so here's the plan and what I did and I say we because my husband actually spray painted it white while I worked on other things. This has been a busy week crafting and trying to post videos, so she was really sweet and helped me with the spray.

I painted this bike and then removed the handlebars so I could wrap this very thick dollar

tree

rope around the two handles and then this crossbar on this handlebar, so here I am. I made the first line of hot glue. through the bar and then I pulled the rope back and then I started winding it from there that way I would have a really clean finish on both ends and you'll see how I'm going to finish it on the back so I just added a little bit of glue hot and keep wrapping it over and over and then add a little more hot glue and then keep adding.

I don't think you need hot glue every turn, I think just once in a while, so here I'm at the end, I'm just adding more hot glue and I'll take a popsicle stick and just smooth it out and then I'll add even more hot glue so that have a really nice smooth finish and you don't see it on the front. I'm doing this on the back of these handlebars and I did the same thing with the handles as well. I guess I only have gardening on my mind because it is spring and in fact on this date there was a big storm and we had high winds, if you look at the

tree

you will see all the things blowing.

I hope with the weather we have outside right now it will still stand, but when I was done I put rocks around it and made it shine. How cute, so here it is outside, all spray painted, the handlebars again and I also found this basket that was pretty beat up. You can see here that it's broken and it actually worked so perfectly because it sat right under those bolts that held the handlebars on the bike, so I'm just going to grab some zip ties. I used four of them and just tied it to the handlebars sticking it right under and now I'm going to fill it with dirt.

Now friends, this idea is all over Pinterest. I've been looking at it for a long time and wanted to make one myself so know that I was not the creator of this and I think you can even buy these bikes in certain places in the garden. It's crazy to take an old bike and just spray paint it white like I'm doing here or whatever color you'd like for your garden, so once I filled the little basket with some soil, I now add some new earth. florals, we finally have fresh flowers in our garden centers here and since I was outside and when I went I was the only person there, it was really nice to get out for a few minutes just to walk around a garden center with my gloves and my mask on. obviously to be safe, but it was very nice to touch the flowers and the final look.

Oh, I'm very happy with it. I love how it looks. The supplies we will use today are some of the things I have chosen. During these last few months, remember, don't rush out and buy these, stay home, stay safe, but if you have them on hand or want to save them for later, you can always do this project later, but I'm using these wire baskets . rope on these hanging chains that you can get right now at Dollar Tree, this all came out of their total cost to make this was about ten dollars and twenty five cents because I'm going to use some little bit on the annual seed, but What are you going to do?

First is to take your chains, lift them into the backpack and count the desired length you want. Now I counted twelve of these little jumps. ring chains and then the extra one I'm going to leave aside because I'm not going to need it for this project, so what you're going to do is take your three chains and I'm going to hook them to these little wire baskets that you can hang in your area of container. I guess they're like little trash cans or little fruit baskets, and then I'm going to grab some rope. I'm going to get into it.

In the center hole I put a little bit of hot glue and then I'm going to start taking my rope and winding it. Surprisingly, this actually sticks to the basket because the hot glue falls around the metal mesh of the basket and then the hot glue does too. It's attached to that on the rope so it's really secure there and when you take your time to wind the rope properly, it's going to look really high end and really pretty when you're done with the final look so on each basket. I used about three of these string bundles.

I needed just a little bit like it's not even one of the full string so I'm going to say three and a quarter of the strings and then what you're going to do is you're going to start at the bottom first because that's where you can get that cleaner look and not you want to start where the top of the chains is because you want to make sure the rope ends up on that side. I'm going to show you why in a few minutes, but it starts from the bottom and then starts to slowly roll up.

This was a very fun therapeutic project. I really enjoyed making this and you are going to make two of the baskets. I guess you could make as many as you want. I want to, but I'm going to do two for today and then once you get to the edge you'll start slowly moving towards the side, when you get to a point where the rope ends just glue it in place and then take the next rope and glue the button right next to it and I left the little ribbon because I didn't want it to come undone, which can happen over time so you don't even notice.

I didn't even notice a little bit of tape there, so once you've gone all the way around and reached the top, this is where you need to make sure why you're doing the bottom. First up, you will go to the top where you will see that little hook that you hooked to your basket, you will take your rope and go through the actual hook so that the hook is sitting. there, all right, make sure you don't hot glue the chain, you want to make sure it's free and then once you've got it over, you're going to add a little bit more hot glue, everything in place, and this will allow it to look like store bought and very high quality instead of just being like hot gluing a rope to a basket and then continuing along that edge to the next one and then repeating the same process you are You will thread the rope and thread it through the hook that is hooked to the basket and it will look really cool so make sure you do this with all three hooks and then once you get to the end. that then you will go to the other side, which I will also show you so that you don't miss any of these steps.

This was a really fun project and it didn't take me that long to do, so I think anyone can do this if you have a hot glue gun and these supplies, but again I just want to stress to you guys that you don't feel the need to go out and buy these. things right now. They can always save this and these are items that they have. throughout the year, the chains are not the change they brought them for their spring gardening section, but the rope and baskets they have out all the time, so once you've gone all the way, you'll be sure be you The hooks that are on the basket are out of the way and make sure they're in the right position and then you're going to take some glue and hot glue the rope around the inside of the basket now where it is. you're going to keep that chain locked in place and you're going to do that all over the rest of the inside of the basket and to finish the look, this is where I was saying there could be a little bit more. string that you may have to wrap around the inside of the basket one or two more times to get it to go further down into the basket so that it has a nice full look, but in general, three packs of string works great for these baskets I just wanted to make sure mine went down a little bit inside the basket too.

Once you have all those ropes attached, you're going to take that chain that you had and connect it to a second basket so you can see here where I stopped my rope so I could chain those little jump rings together, so I went ahead and opened it last. I opened it, put it on, and then pinched it into the basket. This will allow it to look very high quality, so you can see here. Make sure that when you put the chains in they hang evenly, that you have them balanced and that you have the chains balanced and in the right points, so here you can Look I have the chain and we have reached the edge of the basket.

Now I'm going to take that glue where the chain attaches, where that jump ring hooks onto the basket. I will add. a little bit of hot glue and go over the top of the chain so you can see right there. Once I've done that three times around, I'm now going to run the rope through the back of that jump ring. that we attached to the basket so all you will see is just that little black hook at the top through the rope, you won't see anything else and it will look so cute so make sure you take your time. around the top place hot glue and don't burn your fingers.

This is one of those projects where you can burn your fingers. I was taking my time so I didn't burn my fingers. Now here is the next thing you can use. this part of the hooks or chain you had before, but I wanted my basket to be much longer so I'm actually using a second set of this chain hanging basket and I'll just hook them together and you'll be able to have a double basket for hang and you can make as many baskets as you want. This chain is a very strong chain and looks so cute hanging.

I love this thing and then. This is the last part I said, which was like 25 cents. I grabbed some of these little garden sticks that you can put in your flower beds or when you're growing plants and I'm just going to remove those back sticks because I really wanted to. to paint some little prices for the baskets I thought this made this look even more farmhouse chic and I thought why not just a cute little fun touch so I'm going to hand paint some numbers that I'll put 25 cents on and then I'll also put $1 in and then I'm going to stick them in the basket to complete the look and when you do this just make sure you take your time.You can draw with a pencil first to make sure the look is as symmetrical in the center as you want. to look at, but I'm doing it freehand with paint and I'm using a small tip brush, then once you're done and they're dry, you're going to put some hot glue in your basket, make sure you find that center. write them down and glue them and then decorate the inside of them.

Our next project will be to use these chalkboard signs and this is mainly because I have wanted to use them for quite some time. I'm using these thicker popsicle sticks to depress the tongue and We're also going to need a foam cord board from Dollar Tree. I actually had someone over last week and a couple of times before they asked me why I keep calling it foam cord board and I'll tell you why it's called that. If you look it up online, you google it and you will find that it is actually called foam core board because it takes two cards and the root core of this board is a foam core board, so the core is foam and that's why it's called. foam core board I'm kind of an old school nerdy art lover and I've been using this stuff since I was a teenager when it was first really popular and kids were using it for high school projects and of all Anyway, that's why it's called that.

I can see there that I put all my popsicle sticks and my signs because we want to create that space between a lot of people making these big chalkboard signs. The problem with them is that the boards are next to each other and you lose a lot of that valuable real estate to use it from here, board sign and then they become very small, so I took a board, measured everything just as you saw me and now I'm cutting all the popsicle sticks to size that I had hangover and I'm using e6000 and hot glue on the board to make them really stay firm and then I'm using just regular hot glue for the popsicle sticks and that space between them will allow You should be able to leave a space not too deep between the board so that the tongue depressor sticks do not stick together and adhere well.

This will create a little rise in the middle, so the popsicle sticks can stick together but not eat up that space on your board. I really put a lot of thought into this project because I've seen that mistake happen a lot with other inspirations online that will say and this This will allow you to be able to make your chalkboard sign bigger when you write on them so here I am, I'm just finishing up the last three, we're doing nine spaces to make it look symmetrical and I'm just putting like I said a nice little cluster of this e6000 and it's really funny.

I was at the end but I'm so determined to be thrifty with my crafts and money but I was like squeezing the last out of this 6000 to make sure I got my money's worth and then I'll turn it around and put it in or those popsicle sticks were lined up for me and this is also great because it will help you place these popsicle sticks. between this will create that perfect space that you need so that nothing is crooked or crooked and it will just space it out really nicely so here I am at the last six thousand and I'm really trying to get my money's worth. worth it I actually had a new tube when I went out while I was picking up you know some of these new supplies I got at Walmart which is where I usually get my e6000 and it's a really good deal there I think it's like I think it is like 450, I could be wrong, it could be like 495, whatever, you know, in dollars, since the amount is what they normally mark at Walmart, but here I am, I'm putting on the last one and taking the last one out of the value of that money and Then I'll finally be able to throw this tube away and move on to a new one, so I'll put the last one in and then I'll frame it with those popsicle sticks just like I showed you, because again, like I said, I want to be able to create that support underneath that will hold the sticks. thicker sticks and you won't lose that space on your board, so once you've glued those last few in place, you'll grab the thicker sticks. and you're going to cut the rounded edges just like you saw me do here and there on the board.

We're doing that so that everyone is really cool with each other and makes it look like a really nice frame. so make as many as you need to cover the entire board. I'd even say just cut a bunch and then come back if you need more, but you'll just line them up along the edges anywhere. where you have those smaller, thinner popsicle sticks that show that you're going to glue them in place and see what I'm saying? Look how little we're going to spend on having to glue those blackboards and the best. The thing about this too is that this will actually lock those whiteboards so they never come off and you know, they'll just fall apart if you drop them by accident, because let's face it, you know, the glue we're putting down.

Along with, I try really hard to make my things look super strong and sturdy, so one of the other things I like to do is with these popsicle sticks, if you see any of those little cracks or seams in the middle, just add a little that putty putty that you can also get at Dollar Tree. Now here's what we could paint this white and normally I would give it a coat of white paint, but I was feeling a little disheveled this day and needed some color in my life. So I decided to go with this pretty green and I really loved the way it turned out.

Now you can paint it any color you want. Help, it could be if your kitchen has a red or teal theme and you can really just Customize this board however you want and then what we're going to do is grab one of these dog tree chains. You've seen me use this. You've all seen me use this here on my channel. I kept saying hold on to the extra chains don't get rid of them and that's why you can take these extra chains and use them to hang signs that need a little bit sturdier support than just a rope so you can see here I drilled two holes at the top and then I'm changing this chain and they're normally used to hang pots and they're in the garden section of the Dollar Tree, so now what we're going to do is...

I'm going to take it a little further, you don't have than to do this. I thought this would be really pretty on the bottom. I have a bunch of this gray Buffalo plaid ribbon and bought it for Christmas. I bought it for something crazy. A really good deal where it was like 80% off so I bought a bunch but if you have some ribbon it would be really nice to put it on the bottom and it fits perfectly between the popsicle sticks and the board so Just we're going to add a little bit of glue and then we're going to put it in there and how cute this little added detail, it almost makes it look like a little ready made kitchen window curtain, but I don't know, I really liked it, now I'm going to come in and I'm going to distress my a little bit. green just to make it look more farmhouse or like it came from an old school.

I thought it would be really cute and I'm going to use my ruler and trace the word ice cream because I wanted to hand paint every day of the week, now I'm going to use this for a menu board or for, you know, a shopping list in my kitchen . I think it's really cute, so once you've got all your week's names painted, you're ready to hang it. Allow me the next project. I'm so excited to share it with all of you because these are traditional things that you can get all the time from the Dollar Tree and I think a lot. of us look beyond.

I'm taking two of these candy boxes or popcorn boxes and some of these hooks that you would use for shower curtain rods and I'm taking this tool that I've had for years, it's a scrapbooking tool, It's called a crop-a-dile and it's because we are keepers of memory. I'll link it below if I can recommend you pick up a new tool or gadget for your craft space. I have shown this here on my channel. before it would be this, this tool is the best because it drills plastic through metal and it will do it without destroying it or cracking it, so you can see here that I was able to get through this plastic container and drill through it without it. crack it or break it is the best thing I can have on hand and I use it all the time on my maybe you'll see it a lot more here on my channel because I think it's time to introduce you all to some new and fun things.

So this is a really affordable tool. I'll link it below and you can get it all over the city. They have it in all craft stores and online. What I'm doing now is I'm taking some cable and I wanted to. To create a handle on the side of these little buckets I thought it would look so farmhouse chic again because I love that look. I'm taking some wire, twisting it twice and running it through the two twisted holes on the inside. I cut it. He stuck it underneath and then added a little bit of hot glue to make sure that no one knows to reach their arm or anything over it when they get inside if they're going to store things inside, and here it is with the little handles.

Isn't it so cute? Now you can make it clear, but I have decided to really transform it. I took three coats of spray paint and took my time so it didn't drip and it really looked like a farmhouse. cube at this point now to wear it down a little bit more, I'm taking some black paint and I'm going to go around all the edges, the scallops on the bottom and on the sides slightly like a little thin band of black and that. litt makes it look more I don't know, I just love the way it looks.

I can't think of what this style is called, but it's just farmhouse metal, like a farmhouse metal bucket that you would see where they have the black and white on the edge like that, so you'll take your time with a paintbrush and just hit it. the edges of your bucket wherever there is a corner, you will follow it with the black paint which You could skip this part if this is not your thing and you want to leave it white or you want to spray paint it a different color, which is also fine. Once the paint is completely dry, you will grab a ruler or at least that's how it is. what i did i took a ruler and wrote a font style made into an array.

I just took my time doing it and sometimes when I write freehand like that, I like to leave an example on the side so I can make sure I'm doing it right, but I'm going to write the word flowers because I thought it would be perfect for this and I'm going to take my time with a small brush and I'm just going to go over what I wrote with my pencil. I love doing hand lettering. You can see here that it's not super perfect and I think that's the fun part about the Raiden font is that it's not a perfect font.

It looks very handwritten and I just think it looks really cute on the front of this little farmhouse cube, so I decided to make two of these because why didn't I have the time and resources at home? I was just putting out things that you know I have in my craft. room because I'm not going to the stores right now we've been inside for about two weeks and our family is hanging in there there are days when I feel like you know mmm I'd love to go for a walk and I think Dollar Tree would suit me He misses him as much as I miss him, but here I am.

I'm just writing home sweet home because I'm so grateful for our home right now as we shelter in place and try to stay healthy as a family, so once you do. You already have all your things written, if you are writing your words, now you can beautify the inside. You can put little trinkets and things inside that you would like to use in your home or you can put some plants in, which is. what I'm going to do because why don't I have many places I could put this in my house, so I'm putting down a block and a half of foam and then I'm using these little twigs that came from a long time ago. garland twine that was from Hobby Lobby that I got with a 40% off coupon and I like to cut it, you really save a ton of money doing it this way so you can see with those I made some holes and then put some of hot glue and then place all those twigs, those boxwood twigs right inside those holes and now I'm starting from the center.

I took my tallest spike flower, put it in the middle and now I'm building around it, really full. along with many pretty spring flowers. I'm also using a succulent plant stem that I found at Dollar Tree a couple of weeks ago. All of these flowers are from Dollar Tree, except for those little boxwood twigs I cut off. garland, but have fun with this, fill it out. I'm going with a lot of purples and blues that have really been on my mind. There's something so peaceful about it once you take it to a place you like. everything is ready and you can display them anywhere in your house.

Our next DIY is something I've featured here before grabbing these wire hanging baskets for your outside garden area and these are from Dollar Tree and I've shown myself making bird cages with them and small fruit baskets and today, continuing with the kitchen theme, let's make a potato basket because why not make even our potatoes look pretty in our kitchen? What I'm doing is I'm cutting that inner circle with my wire cutters and I'm just going back and forth and they break pretty easily. I would say that theFirst six are very easy to cut and then towards the end your hand is going to start to feel a little bit sore so maybe take a break in the middle if your hand starts to hurt then what you're going to do is take, we're just going to cut one, as you can see me doing here the On the other one we'll leave it like that, but we'll take those wires and we'll start bending the back and no matter how many times you try, you'll see that wire explode right there just because it's kind . of a sensitive area, so I'll show you in just a second how to fix it, but we're going to go ahead and straighten those wires so they're nice and long and this is the cutest basket when we're done, no I don't have to just put potatoes in it, you can put whatever you want on it realistically, but I thought how nice it could be to put this inside my pantry with potatoes in the corner so they're nice and dark and safe and they're out of that funky bag that drops things anyway, so I thought this would be so cute, so I heard I'm fixing the last one of them and then to fix that problem, you're just going to take a piece of twine and you're going to add a little bit of hot glue right on the tip and, surprisingly this stays on really well and then you're going to grab some of the twine once the hot glue has hardened and you're done.

We're going to wrap it up and the reason this is going to end up nice is because later on you'll see that you're going to add thicker rope on the edge and we're also going to put chicken wire around all of this. basket so just wrap it up, glue it in place and then temporarily forget about it because we don't have to worry about it right now and just let it dry really good so you can see here I'm just adding a nice amount of twine to make it nice and strong and I'm just going to glue it in place, so once you've glued everything in place, cut off any excess that you don't need and then we'll start assembling. the two pieces together, so what you're going to have to do is get your pliers and you're right at the top, you're going to curve it down to create a little hook and We're going to go around all the baskets, put all these wires together that we straightened out and just we're going to curve them all down like I'm doing here and this is because we're going to hook them to the one over there on the left that way it creates a nice tall basket because at this point you can't really put potatoes in that smaller basket with the height it is, so here I am, I'm just curving it all down and then I'm going to take it and you can see the hooks.

I'll take it and hook it in that other basket. The best thing about this is that these potato baskets are very expensive and once you put the chicken wire on them. the rope is very sturdy and strong and can hold all the potatoes you put in it and we're only making it for let's say four dollars because we put chicken wire on it, so two dollars for each basket, one dollar for the rope and then one dollar by chicken wire. I mean, it's crazy how much they charge for these baskets and when you realize, it's nothing they're using for materials, so here I am.

I missed the footage of me putting up the chicken wire. the two piles, but this is one I made a couple of weeks ago and then here's the basket with all the chicken wire. You can see I went all the way around and it's very easy just be careful when you put it on and make sure you take your time and if you have any points that you're worried about you can use a little bit of hot glue if you had a hard time getting the cable down and that's it. seal it and then take it. outside and you're going to spray paint it whatever color you want.

I chose black. I think it looks very pretty and very rustic at this point and now I'm going to take that rope that we talked about and just finish it. from the top and you're going to glue it in place and keep wrapping it until it's all done and then to make it even cuter I'm going to take some of the thicker rope and I'm just going to add some handles by rolling them up and gluing them over that edge and then taking a piece of the rope. I split it from the Dollar Tree, there's three on one of the ropes, so I just split it and then I wrap it to give it has a nice finish on the handle, so when you pick it up it's nice and sturdy, and this basket is really strong .

Our next DIY will be inspired by this fantastic and adorable Etsy shop I found online. The cutest thing ever and I wanted to make my own version at the Dollar Tree price. I'll link the Sierra Etsy shop below, go check them out. They have a lot of other cute things that you should definitely check out but what I did was I went online and created my own printable with some old strawberry free images that I found and turned them into a printable that is free for all of you below if you want to make this especially now that Teal Barn has so many other nice ones. signs go and check them like I said, but this one just had to do it.

I could not avoid it. I wanted everyone to be able to get this free printable and make one for yourselves for just a dollar fifty, not including. the ink, so make sure you keep that in mind when you print this, it could be a little bit more, maybe like 250, but it's really not that much and I will say that I printed on cardstock to make the paper a little bit. a little strong and sturdy so once you've printed everything go ahead and cut it all out and use an exact knife where needed to get to those little spots and just make sure you cut all the way down to the image that I've put together for you in the free printable linked below.

At this point we're going to take a small fine tip brush and some very light gray paint and start creating some overlapping lines, take your time, don't. It has to be perfect. I didn't even use pencil stroke lines. I just went over them very lightly with my paint and once I had them where I liked them I took some even lighter gray paint and now I'm dry brushing just a little bit of texture to make it look like wood, once you have that, you're going to go ahead and take that printable that you cut out earlier and start putting it in there in places that you like again.

We leave with the inspiration to show everyone how these types of signs are so doable and so cute to be able to bring into your home if this is not your thing and by making them, you can always purchase them, especially in cute Etsy shops that I linked below and the inspiration from which this came, but I love these types of signs. I think they add a lot of personality to a room and they're fun, they're really fun once you have all the letters down. instead you're going to go ahead and start using some Mod Podge and you're going to start painting a little bit and then you're going to press your letters down, make sure you're trying to get all the air bubbles out, naturally it's going to want to bubble. because that's just what happens when you wet the cardstock, so keep playing with it until it's nice and smooth, but take your time to make sure it's down and once you put it down, keep in mind that you don't want to move it. again because it can tear the cardstock you are working with.

Here's a tip: Once you've glued all your stuff to the back and it's time to seal it on the front, you'll want to grab a good amount of Mod Podge and you'll want to make sure you don't go over your image too many times. The green and red will naturally want to bleed onto the back of your cardstock if that happens to you. You can wipe it off a little bit if you see it bleeding, but be very careful to put too much on your brush and try to make as few strokes as possible away from the backing of that foam cord board because you just want to make sure. which is a nice clean picture and it doesn't look like it's bleeding everywhere so take your time with this, have a little white B handy, if it bleeds a little you can wipe where you need and just keep going until you get to the whole board.

Once you've sealed everything and you're done, you'll grab one of those Dollar Tree stickers. I love these number stickers and know many of them. we have them, you're going to go ahead and take the number five or whatever you want to charge for your berry patch strawberries and you're going to go ahead and stamp that with some of my paws. I imagine this is something I would do. I won't make a printable just because a lot of us have those stickers and then I will also take the very small stickers also from the Dollar Tree and spell them out at the bottom and personalize my sign differently than the inspiration was just out of respect for the artists who created this sign in their Etsy shop.

I will put your fresh fruit every day. I thought it was a really cute thing to put there at the bottom, but you can really put whatever you want. If you want, you can even put your family's name. How nice it could be to have this in your home during the spring and summer. So since I decided not to put anything on top, I customized it and made it my own. I took about two and a half off it. inches from the top and I just used my exact knife to cut now we're going to start working on the edge this is where we ended up saving a ton of money making this sign because I took another foam core board and took two inches thick and I went the entire length of the board so I could make these long strips that will go around our frame.

You'll see here in just a second, but what I'm doing is I'm taking some brown paint, black paint and white paint and I'm mixing them together and I keep going over them with different strokes playing with them until I get the look that I want it to look like where it matches. With inspiration, make sure you get the sides and top because you don't want to have that white border, people will know right away that it's a foam core and not wood. Here's one more tip on these foam core boards when working with Mod. Naturally, they're going to want to start bending because when the glue dries it's going to tighten up, so make sure you bend it back a little bit to straighten it out and then here I am with these edges you can see. here I'm putting them under and I'm going to make sure I have them all nice and aligned.

I'm going to add some hot glue to the back of the poster. This is the easiest way I found to do it. so add hot glue and then flip the poster over and place it on that brown border we created. You will do the top and bottom first and then the sides. I like to do it this way because that way, it fits really well and you don't have any problems with these things trying to put them together, so once you have one side, you turn it over and do the other side and you're using a good amount of hot glue.

Then you'll take your craft knife and cut off those extra tabs hanging over. We don't want those parts in there because we want it to look, we want it to look basically like a frame, so go ahead and cut them out and then before you wash your brush and the paint that we were using before for the frames, you can see that where we cut now there will be some exposed parts, so go ahead and just grab your brush. and tap and paint those areas cleaning up anything extra that looks like you obviously added more paint and when it's all done you can display it somewhere super cute in your house.

This first DIY will use these supplies from Dollar Tree and the wood that I just cut at Home Depot on their big machines there and I started by sanding the wood because every time you cut it on a big machine it can have all the splinters so I left it very okay and then I gave it a new coat of white paint because I am building a little shelf that will go in my daughter's room, she is very interested in dressing up right now and I wanted to create a little dress up corner for her where she can reach her pretty princess dresses this rack will be made for $4 the racks can be very expensive and it will be so perfect if she can put her tiaras on it and hang her dresses so at this point I'm going to grab a rod or a barrette. glue whatever you want to call this from a plunger from the Dollar Tree and I'm just going to cut out the part where you have the textured wood screwed on where you would screw it into the head of the plunger and once that's done I'm just going to give it a coat of white paint as well, like this that once you have everything painted and dry, you will go ahead and start calculating your measurements with these wall hanging tapestries.

These are typically used for hanging plants, plant hooks that you would place outside, perhaps in your garden or even inside your home. I use them all the time here on my channel. I love these things, we're going to screw them into the wood so make sure you have that measurement or it's the same on both sides, this is very easy to do, just make sure you measure it with your ruler and then you'll go ahead and drill them. Keep in mind that you want them to be spaced the correct way apart for the peg you're going to hang them on now, at this point you can see I'm going to take that long peg or stick and I'm going to press it down into the second, larger hook. it's too loose and then you're going to have to try to figure out how to fasten it and this fit is so tight that you're just going to press it down there and it won't even come out it's so tight so now we're going to go and figure out where the studs are on the walls of the room to make them nice and secure on the wall and then we will make little markers where we need to place tabs tohang up, once we have all that.

I found that you can take it into the bedroom and go ahead and drill it into the studs so that if she is tempted to want to hang on to this thing, it won't fall on her head and it will be nice and safe for her. so make sure you have the level and measure to make sure it's nice and straight, and using two screws, attach them to the wall studs, it already looks so pretty, doesn't it? And it only cost four dollars for our next DIY. one is so easy, I can't wait for you guys to see how easy it is, grab a can or two, some fabric you like, some flowers from the Dollar Tree and a square of foam, start by using white paint and putting it all over the corrugated metal. that you see in the middle of these cans, we don't worry about painting the top or bottom because we'll do something with that later, but right around where that bumpy part is, once that's dry, then you're going to grab some paper of sandpaper and you're going to sand it so that it has that corrugated metal look, which is really nice when it's all done and sanded, just like I'm doing here, so go over the entire surface and then place it. aside because next we are going to use our plaid fabric that I have here again.

I bought this from Joanne's with a coupon. I always use coupons when I go to stores. I love coupons. I love getting things on a budget, so go for it. Go ahead and cut a little slit and then just tear all the way down so you have a nice strip to work with and then set it aside for just a second and take some twine and just wrap it around the bottom, remember what I said before: let's paint the bottom because we're going to add something or we're going to add this string to the bottom, cut whatever you don't want for the extra strings because we won't. it's going to be the back, so you're going to take the fabric, fold it in half and just wrap it around the top where the back seam is, it's the same place where you tied that knot before. it'll be on the back and then you'll just turn it over and hot glue it in place and then once you have some foam inside the cans and glue them in place, you'll add your flowers.

I already said this before. I like to cut my flowers off their stems just because I feel like you can play with them more and they look more realistic instead of keeping them in that weird piece of plastic that holds them all together. I'm just a big fan of cutting them. loose and then placing them at the height or look that I want, so once you have filled all the cans with these beautiful purple flowers, you will take a little more twine and add it where the plaid fabric is. es and we're just going to put some hot glue on it twice to finish the look, we're going to add a simple bow and hot glue it into place, these are the supplies we're going to use today in this previous post. from a stair railing that I bought a while ago, I bought it for 50 cents and then the rest of these four supplies are all from Dollar Tree and I've had some of them on hand for a while, but some are newer.

I like this garden chain that you can hang a plant with and this black hook that you can also use to hang a plant, so what we're going to do is grab our hacksaw, this little travel mini that I love. this thing and it's a little miter box. I'll link everything in my description box so everyone can find this and what we're going to do is remove this little bump at the end and then we'll find a spot we like on the opposite side and we'll cut that out as well. When you're done cutting those pieces and you've gotten it to the height you want, you're going to go ahead and start putting it together now, this sign. again it came from the Dollar Tree and I love this one because it has that hollow base where you can see the edge allows you to have things underneath without it scratching the table so I like this one because I can screw it in So I'm taking out the core and sanding some of the that vinyl that they put there and then I'm drilling a hole in the sign right in the center and besides the post you want to make sure that you're right in the center so if you need to measure it that's good and then you'll take your drill and just them you're going to screw in while you're screwing it in, your sign will spin in the air a little bit so make sure it's raised up a little so it doesn't hit your table and then once it's nice and snug you're ready to paint so here it is all painted white and ready to go and now I'm going to take this by hanging a wire rack.

I know I forget what it's called, but basically this black hanger that you can get in the garden section of Dollar Tree. I marked where I wanted to drill holes and you can see how I attached a piece of painter's tape to my drill bit. Make sure you don't go too far and then I'll just screw it into place in this post. Now I decided to dress it up a little. I love that coastal farmhouse look so I decided to grab some. rope and I wrapped it around that heart too now we're going to take that wooden plaque from before and I painted it white too and I'm drilling two holes in the top and this will become our sign that it's going to hang me from the chains that We're going to assemble in just a second so here I am with my hands free.

I made a ruler to make sure I stay in the right place so I don't move and now I'm going to write the name of our family, it says Samba Family and then the year my husband and I got married, which was 2001, so we we established in 2001. I really like to pencil first whenever I hand paint just because that way I make sure my space isn't bad and it really helps in the long run when you're hand painting this way so if you have a cricket or a silhouette, you can cut them out completely and do it that way, but I really love hand lettering and so I'm just taking my time with a small brush and some black paint.

I wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Kathy on my DIY. She was actually the one who originally came up with this idea. His was a little different than mine. Different supplies from the Dollar Tree, but I had this wooden pole in my hands and wanted to use it since I'm trying to use the stuff in my craft room, so I'll link the video of it below. You must go see it. maybe you have some of her supplies, it's super cute, worth seeing once I have my sign painted. Now I'm going to take my chain, I'm going to figure out how long I want it to be and then I'm just going to use some pliers to unhook the rest of the chain that I don't want, then I'm going to roll it up and pinch it into place and hook my sign.

Now the best thing about this is that you can make all kinds of different signs and have them all year round, something for the 4th of July, Halloween, Christmas. I thought this was so cute. Now make sure my jeans don't slip and eventually scratch that black paint off the hooks. I use some e6000. and it will stay in place forever, okay, let's move on to our next project, remember that sign from earlier when we took out the bunny, well, we'll use it with this little windmill, they all came from the Dollar Tree and we. You'll need three of them, so go ahead and remove the rest of those bunnies and set them aside because you never know when you might need a bunny and these bunnies are so cute that the glitter actually does a good job of not coming.

As for that, I felt like Dollar Tree did a good job of listening to that this time because sometimes their products have glitter all over them, so what we're going to do is take the three signs and a long piece of foam cord. board which you can also get from the Dollar Tree, cut it to size like I did here and then you're going to take your three signs and glue them to the core of the phone and make sure to use a lot of hot glue. So that it doesn't come off over time, you want this to really stick and stick to it and just like I'm doing here, I'm adding a lot of glue and then putting it in there now, as you want. they really stick well without any air pockets so I'm using this painter's can and I'm just going to put it in there to give it that extra pressure and then when you do that you're going to move on to the metal part and repeat the same process move the can, let it sit there for a moment while you move on to the next one and then keep putting these signs up to make sure everything is nice and attached very tightly to the telephone cord and this will also hold it so you know it won't come off when everything is dry and sealed on that foam core board, so I'm going to grab some paint now that I'm running out. white paint because I'm not going out shopping.

I'm trying to be good and stay home, so I'm going to grab some of this paint for the house, why not? It works the same and I'm going to apply white paint with a brush. In this whole thing I decided to do two coats once everything is painted. I'm going to take some black paint and some white paint and I'm going to mix in a nice slate gray color. I'm also going to take my fine brush and I'm going to make very rough lines right at those connecting points on the sign so that it looks like an overlapping sign and we're going to distress it.

I show you how I distress it and my painting process, so here I am. I did all my lines first and then I'm going to go in with three different Grave tents, I have my slate gray, I have a medium gray and then almost a white gray, you're going to start with your darkest color first and dry almost all of the paint because we're going to dry brush first in that dark gray. You can see here that it has a lot of stripes. You want that? look and keep going back again and again, adding slightly because it's creating a texture that almost looks like a piece of driftwood on the beach and once you've completed it completely, you'll move on to the next gray. and at this point I changed the direction of my brush instead of leaving it flat.

I leave it sideways down to make thicker, longer stripes. You feel comfortable with your brush and you realize that there is a plane. way to rub a brush and then one side and that's what I'm doing here. I'm just changing the direction to make sure my stripes aren't all exactly the same once I get that second layer of that second gray. color there, I'm going to take a little bit of brown and I'm slightly blending it with the gray and I'm going to go over different spots to make it look like it has that look again and I'm going over all the edges with the brown to make sure it has that nice look worn out and then at the end you come back with the lighter gray color and just lightly go over it once again.

Now I'm going to take these three letters that I printed. on my computer, I'm going to link them below as printables so everyone can use them if they want, but I'm just going to take my pencil, put it on that piece of paper, and trace it onto the foam core of the letter. It actually absorbs the pressure of a pencil very well without having to make pencil lines and then I'm going to use a sharp blade, which is the trick. When using foam core, be sure to use a sharp blade and cut all my letters. and just take your time with this, put on some music or a movie, this doesn't take long, it actually goes quite fast, but you can see here, never try to force the lyrics.

I like to cut things out of it and then slowly pull out the letters and nothing breaks, so here I am on my H, a small part of the H actually broke off when I was pulling it out, but it's not a big deal if it does , just grab some hot glue and you're done. I just hot glued those little pieces back together, so I've already cut out my M and my H and now I'm going to do the last one, which is the e. Now I think at this point you're probably realizing that the windmill is going to replace the O and it's going to look so cute, so I drilled a hole in my sign and then hot glued it to my sign, making sure to make it glued really well so it doesn't come off and then that little button that was on the front, I just folded that piece of wire on the back and glued it on top so it looks really nice and finished now for my cards.

I thought this was such a cute thing, whatever color your house is. If you have teal, red or yellow, whatever, I thought it would be really cute to paint your letters in those colors, so I'm going to use black because I have a lot of neutrals in my house and I can decorate things throughout the seasons and change. my colors, that's just what I do in my house, but if you have a specific color, how cute would it be to paint these letters in that color so they really stand out on your wall wherever you hang them, so once you've got everything painted , make sure you get the sides of that foam core and then you're going to let it dry, which you're obviously looking at.

I didn't wait for it to dry, but you will add a little hot glue to it. and place it directly on your sign and then once you have finished all your letters you have finished your sign. Our first craft we are going to make is super easy and has almost no supplies, we will use these pendants. Rex from the Dollar Tree and these long painter's sticks and we're going to start by taking four of them and where their necks are beveled, you can see here. I'm attaching them with some hot glue and then with my staple gun.

I know not everyoneHe has a staple gun. I will link it below if I can promise you that this is definitely worth investing in and it is not that expensive for a craft tool and you will see me using it here all the time on my channel because with painter sticks you can do a lot of cool things with them and Plus, I also like to use them to upholster things when I pick them up at thrift stores. I'll link it below if you're interested. No, let's keep moving forward and you can always do all of this with hot glue and that will work too, so the next thing we're going to do is grab these hanging shelves from the Dollar Tree and they bend pretty easily. so I'm going to fold the top where you would hang this over a cabinet door or even a house door and we're going to make them straight, except there will be four, one on the end. up because we don't want to see that long line, we're going to bend it where we know there's the same distance on both sides, then I take my miter box and my little hacksaw and cut it. curved neck and this is again a tool that I use here all the time on my channel.

I find it very versatile. If you already have other cutting tools, you can do that too, but I love this little tool box. I use it all the time here in my craft room, so then I'm going to take them as long panels or sticks for more and I'm going to cut the neck part, the handle or the collar whatever you want to call it and I'm going to place them on those sides now this is really cool because we're creating a support system so all these hooks can go up and the next step will be even easier just wait here it comes now we're using zip ties so let's grab these hanging shelves that you can get at Dollar Tree and we'll just tie them to our frame and it's so secure that there are no problems with these sliding or moving and you'll see in the end, I can display plates on them, you can hang towels on them, it's a great storage unit just because you can put so many things on it, you can hang mugs however you want, you can even hang jewelry on it and on the The total cost if I did it was 850 because I am including the spray paint that I use.

I didn't use a whole can and you can spray paint it any color you want and you'll see at the end that I spray. I painted mine black so what I'm doing is I'm adding three zip ties on each side and in the middle to make sure it's nice and secure and it doesn't move and then I do it up because you can see here that I didn't bend the sides of these hanging shelves. You can see they are facing up and once you spray painted it everything looks so polished and finished when you're done, so here I am.

I add my last two hanging hooks and make sure everything is nice and secure and that they are really tight and when that's done, just grab a couple of screws and hang this somewhere in your house. Our next DIY is going to be I'll be using this Dollar Tree sign now sometimes when you open them up I wanted to show everyone that sometimes they have factory issues where they weren't put together correctly so to fix that I'm just adding a little of hot glue and I'm going to put that back in the corner and you can see that one of these little triangles that hold the frame pieces is missing, which is okay, it's not the end of the world if that happens, but it just adds a little of hot glue and make sure it fits well. and secure it before we continue, so what we're going to do is take some of your plastic cutlery that they have at Dollar Tree and I spray painted the fork and the spoon and the knife and the sign, all black, and then add with something of texture and that really cute farmhouse look, I took a piece of burlap and cut it to the size I wanted.

You don't want to go all the way to the edge of your sign, you want to have a little bit. of hangover and I just hot glued it on and then removed any of those extra fibers to expose more of that texture on the sides of the burlap, then I'm going to take my spoon, fork and knife and hot glue them on. go down to my sign just like I'm doing here and I'm just positioning them first before I commit to the hot glue because once they go down it's hard to get them back up so make sure you have the position right and then add lots of hot glue so that It doesn't come off and stays nice and secure there.

I started with my knife first to once again make sure it is centered and looks good. If you start with the spoon or fork you might have a problem where they're not centered like you want them to be and then you'll get frustrated every time you look at it in your kitchen, so I started with the knife and then I did the spoon and then the fork and that's it, I thought it would be very nice, you could leave it like this or we could take it a little further. I grabbed one of these sticks from the Dollar Tree, these tongue depressor sticks, and I'm cutting out a little dovetail detail on the side.

I thought it would be really cute to add this and it just adds a little bit of personality and makes it look like a little plaque that almost went on the front and you can paint whatever you want on the front, you can put your family's name on it. you could put your name and your cuisine, so to me it would be like Heidi's kitchen. You could do so many cute things with this and this would be the cutest gift to give someone as Mother's Day is coming up so once you have your sign all painted go ahead and add some hot glue and then you saw there at the extremes.

I was adding a little backing glue to make sure it actually stays there. Now this is the point where you can use vinyl or you can hand it over. paint letters like I said, you can put whatever you want. Heidi's Kitchen or your name, obviously, why would you put Heidi's Kitchen in your kitchen? That would be silly and then I decided to use something homemade. I roughed it up a little bit and then I went back in and touched up any spots that maybe I took off too much paint because I wanted it to look, you know, that chipped look, but not too much because, like I said, that's just my style, so have fun with it. it and personalize it in any way.

Want? I picked up this fancy frame from the Dollar Tree. I thought it was very pretty. Now we're going to take the packaging off and take out the back and the mirror because we want to get to the frame. Hold those mirrors. because I have a DIY in a couple of days where I'll be using those and another DIY, so don't get rid of them, if you have these frames on hand, great, now you'll need five of these. mirrors because we are creating a large and substantial lantern. I think this is so beautiful that you can use them at weddings or in the backyard on a patio table.

I just think they're so pretty, so we'll take the first two. frames and you'll see here that the back corners are touching each other. I'm not going to put one flat on the back of another because I feel like they didn't, they weren't going to hold up as well the back of these frames they don't actually have a flat back because they have that lattice lace look so it's better touch those two corners and then I take a peg and I put it right in that corner to help strengthen it and then to add something pretty on top I put these larger beads that you can also get from the Dollar Tree and I'm putting them on the top and bottom.

At this point it has gotten really strong and is holding up really well. because you added that extra support from that peg there plus the end result of it being in that corner really makes it look really nice, so let's go around and do this with the other two on the other side, add your with pin add your beads and then you're going to put them together once you have them where you like them so now here I'm putting together the two sides that we created with another stick and also with those beads and then again on the other side and then when When you're done, turn it over and add a little more hot glue.

I feel like this is one of those things where adding a lot of hot glue will make it last longer, just be careful. with not having all kinds of threads coming out of your hot glue, that can happen if you see them, go ahead and pull them out because you're going to notice them when you go to spray the pain, so now at this point I'm going to move on. and I put them on this sign I picked up from the Dollar Tree. I think this sign is a six by six size, it could be seven by seven.

I feel like it's a little bit bigger than a six by six, but I took that sign from the Dollar Tree too and now it comes to the fifth square, we're going to take our scissors and we're going to cut it to size and as you can see here, it cuts very easy, just make sure you get the measurement right when you make that first cut and then take two more dowels and you'll put them right where the frame backing used to go. These pegs fit perfectly in this spot, so go ahead and place two of them on the two different sides. and now we're going to go ahead and add the top to the frame.

At this point I decided to use some e6000 and hot glue for that long term and short term drying and that way it will hold together well and not break. because I like to make sure that when I make these projects for all of you, I want you to make sure that they last a long time, so on the inside make sure you use the same trick with the dowels with the top and the sides, see how I do. I'm going to go in and add those extra bars, then I went out with my taupe color and spray painted everything inside and out and now I'm going to take some white paint and I'm going to paint lightly. brush on the top surface of these frames, this will bring out that detail and give it a very romantic feel, very elegant looking and you don't want to dip into the grooves because you want that pattern that you know as texture to appear. when you're going over it with white paint, you want to be able to see that taupe color with the white on top, lightly brushing that paint on, so once you've gone all the way around the frames, make sure you get into all those little crevices and into the beads , I actually ended up using a solid white on those pearls and if you see any of the pearl holes still showing through, just add a little bit of hot glue to that hole and then go.

Done with the painting, now comes the top, so here's the scoop on the top. If you plan to use real candles, I don't recommend putting this top or, if you have it, where you can take it off and put it back whenever you want. We're done because the candle will burn these popsicle sticks, but if you plan on using fake candles, that totally works, or maybe just put flowers inside, whatever you want to do with this, so go ahead and cut the sticks to size I'm going to surround the base box as you can see here.

I'm cutting them smaller so I can go around them completely. I thought it would look really cool to have everything covered with these popsicle sticks and that wood grain color that I like to show off a lot here on my channel using aqua brown paint and black paint. I blend them together to create a stain and then on top, you can see here that I'm gluing my bars back together if you plan on using them. real candles for this, make sure to allow this piece to be removable and reattachable, that's really easy to do, just stick the back with a popsicle stick or maybe even two to keep everything in place without it.

I'm having a problem with it catching on fire, so here I am, I'm taking my water, my black paint, and my brown paint, and I'm mixing them together in a little cup, and now I'm going to go over these popsicle sticks. I'm opting for a very rustic but rustic wood color. I wanted it to be a darker color, but not too dark, almost with a little bit of a gray tint, so I've got that black there and I'm going to continue. Go over it several times until you get the desired look. I want it to almost look like worn driftwood.

It makes sense, so go ahead and go through the whole box and then continue at this point, you can start once, obviously, all the wood. is dry, you can start decorating the inside of your lantern. I went around the sides with a little bit of moss and then on the inside I filled it with flowers and some boxwood stems, just pretty little things, and again remember if you're using candles. I'm going to say it again, make sure the top can be removed and that the flowers don't interfere with the flame. This project has a very simple printable that I created for you all and it is linked below in my description box if you want to get it it is just the letters e 80 and that way we can make a very cute farmhouse sign that says eat for our kitchen.

Now this will be the second part of my series that I will be doing this week with kitchen and storage DIYs that you can do. your space is so cute and a really friendly place to cook and be with your family now for this printable what you'll need to do is just cut out your letters if you need to use an exact knife on some of those trickier areas. Go ahead and take it out, the only real place I noticed I needed it was on the inside of the letter A, but other than that I was able to use my traditional scissors and cut everything very easily without any problems.

You've got everything cut out, it's going to look like this and then we're going to need a piece of foam core board. Now you can see that this foam core board was already pre-cut and what I did was I simply took my printable and laid them all out to get the width of the letters I would need with alittle of that space around, so really the width of the board is about eight and a half inches, about the size of a traditional paper printer. piece and then once I cut the length that I wanted for my letters, I'm going to use a small fine tip brush and I'm going to use a certain color.

I think it's actually called oatmeal, I could be wrong, but I'm using a very light grayish color to create long lines because we're going to make this look overlapping and if you notice that your foam centerpiece is bending a little, I always give it a I turn around and stretch it. a little bit to make it nice and flat and then I used a dry brush technique with that lighter gray color with a little bit of brown mixed two and two and I applied it with a dry brush on that spot once I got my phone cable looking like overlapping and a little distressed not too crazy I don't like it too distressing but I kind of like it then I took some Mod Podge and stuck my letters on so what we're going to do now is move on to these thicker popsicle sticks, these tongue depressor sticks and we're going to cut out the rounded parts just like you saw me do there and we're going to place them all on a sheet of paper and now I'm going to go over With my little dye mix that everyone sees me do here all the time on my channel, I just use black water paint and brown paint and then I go over it until I get the look I want and it's much friendlier. use and use a traditional dye because the dye can stain your fingertips and I don't want to always take off my gloves so I like to use this water paint mix because it cleans my hands very easily so what we're going to do is take those popsicle sticks and we're going to work around our sign so you can see here it's creating a really cute frame on this really cute eating sign that you can put in your kitchen when you get to the top.

You're going to notice that the length of the sticks will have a bit of an undercut, so you'll take a pencil, create a cutting line on one of the sticks, and cut it all the way to the end. size you need and then also go up the other side of your sign when you get to the top, do the same, cut it to the size you need and then glue it when you get to the top of the sign. I'm also going to notice that it's going to be a little too big, so I centered it in the middle like you see here and then I'm going to cut them so that they have a good equal measurement at the top and bottom.

I like the way it looked a lot more compared to trying to have a long piece and a short piece in there and it seemed a little more off center, so take your time with this, put it however you want, but once it's done everything and everyone the sticks are set. I'm going to take some light light gray and apply it lightly with a dry brush over my letters so that the letters look a little worn. You don't have to do this part, but I felt like with the ship left behind, I made it look like I almost started with the black letters and then went around the edges with a little bit of medium gray to brown, basically matching the stain I wanted on my sticks, that way.

I can cover that foam core on the back so when you look at the side angle you don't see that white foam core around the board. Our next DIY will be using the salt and pepper shakers from Dollar Tree. I thought this was a great deal and we knew we could make it even cuter and a little more special for our kitchen, so what we're going to do is just take them out of the package, remove the lid and let's give them some spray paint , I spray painted the glass white to give it that melted glass look and then I spray painted the lids black and when you check the lids take your time not to cover up the holes where the salt is. and pepper will come out if you spray very lightly, you won't have any problems.

So I took some sandpaper and roughed up the edges a little. You can skip this part and leave it where it just has a solid paint color. I know some of you like to avoid sanding, so go ahead and avoid it and then I'll come back with my pencil to plot on an S&P. I thought it would be really cute if we just made two little letters so I know which one is salt and which one is pepper and I took my time. I will say that painting over these on a surface with bumpy edges was a little trickier, so take your time and have fun if you have a cutting machine that you can completely do.

That you can also cut out an S and a P and put those in as well and then to make sure it doesn't come off with the paint and with the vinyl, you can seal it with a little bit of Mod Podge and that will keep it nice. and pretty, once you're done painting, fill them with salt and pepper and put the lids on our next DIY, we'll be using these two shower rings and these burner covers. There are two in a package, one larger and one smaller. one and when I saw this I thought I could turn it into a lazy susan so what we're going to do first is take our shower rings and we're going to mark them so they're the same. on both of them and cut them out so they become the handles and we'll use a little bit of e6000 to put them on so they have that long term bond, but don't put them on yet because we'll turn it over and we'll have that smaller pan that you would use in your oven and we'll center it as much as we can and then we'll grab some dowels from the craft section at the Dollar Tree, cut them out and then attach them with a little bit of hot glue and some e6000, make sure you don't get into the area where the trays will be, but make sure you get the right size and then you will duplicate them, so don't just make one.

I piled on another. on top so it sits a little higher where it's hidden under the pan, it's the perfect size but it will also keep the lid in place, so now we're going to take the shower curtain hook we had before and Let's just put that in there and make it stay for the long haul. You can add a little hot glue. I decided not to do it. I just chose the e6000 because it dries pretty quickly when you turn on a fan. Then, once it was completely dry, I spray painted the two different lids black.

Then what I'm doing is taking a foam core board and going around the perfect sized circle to fit the smallest one, now I know. which these are super popular and you all have seen them with these cake pans, but the thing about cake pans is that they look like cake pans, so when you put these marbles in and you line up this tray on top, it looks exactly like a super expensive Lazy Susan. The next DIY is probably the one I'm most excited to share. I saw another YouTuber have this initial idea. His was a little different than mine.

I'll be sure to give him credit. It will be linked below titled with the lists of supplies that I'm going to put in there, this is actually going to be called a three-tier storage unit, so keep an eye out for that below in the supplies, but what we're going to do What we do is take these cooling racks and we're going to need seven of them to create the frame, but you can make it as big as you want, you can add more cooling racks and again, these are only a dollar in the end. Dollar Tree and when you zip them together it's so sturdy and strong you can see here I have the base where the little legs of the cooling rack are facing down on the floor so you have that little support there.

I put both. On the sides and then the back I'm putting two of the cooling racks in and you can see they're overlapping just a little bit to create this perfect box, then I'm going to put a zip top on it and then cut out. Remove any of those extra zip ties that we just don't need and that are all over the place and then I'm going to place that middle shelf, right in the middle point, it's going to zip tie on another shelf and make sure you're generous with the zip ties on both of them. sides and I used five zip ties on each of them so you can see the front and the back on the right side, the front on the back on the left side and then one on the same back so it holds everything together very tightly and sturdy so once you cut everything out I took mine outside and gave it a coat of spray paint because I wanted mine to be black and then I took an extra one and traced it on a cord board you will need three of these pieces and then I'll grab this really nice contact paper that they have at Dollar Tree.

I love the print of this. I try to use it a lot. In fact, here on my channel, whatever it is, I'm going for something prettier and I'm just going to wrap the foam board piece like it's a gift, so I make sure everything is nice and tight and smooth. and I'm going to cut off any excess that I don't need so that it folds nicely on the sides, tuck in those little flaps, add a little bit of hot glue and then pull it nice and tight so it all fits in there nicely. and now it looks very nice.

I'm going to take my Sharpie marker and I'm going to draw some little holes that I know I'm going to drill. I'm using my crop-a-dile again. You could use a traditional hole. a hole punch for this or even a craft knife, but I have my crop-a-dile, so I'll do that and then I'll tie it to my frame so you can see here that I've spray painted it black. and I think at this point it really takes it from just Dollar Tree supplies to high, especially by putting this little shelf here. I love how it looks so this is my original version, the other friend who made it.

This on your channel ended up just having wired shelves with some storage stuff that you put inside and I wanted to make mine a little more elegant, a little more rustic and elegant I guess, or maybe a little rustic and elegant, I don't. I don't know, I don't know what I would call this, but I think it's really pretty, so here I am, I'm cutting out those black zip ties and I'm going to make this three shelves so I have the bottom one in the middle and then on the top I'm going to have it too. to put in and once you see it all together it looks so pretty you would never know this came from the Dollar Tree and at this point I have only spent 850 on These storage units are super expensive and basically come from very little supplies to make them, so if I could recommend this, it could be great for a dorm room or for a college student or just for extra storage like in your laundry room, there are so many.

Cool things you can do with it now is where we'll make it even prettier. We'll grab these cubes from the Dollar Tree storage section that they have in their store and I'll just grab these really cute ones. garden tags and I'm going to remove those back sticks and add a little bit of e6000 and a little bit of hot glue to make sure it has that long term and short term seal and I think this looks so cute and stinky adding this little tag on the front and then I'm going to go around the sides of my container and I'm going to drill several holes.

I actually needed a hole larger than the size of my crocs, but you just drill a few times and you'll get the hole size big enough to put the rope through, which is why I love this tool. I can go through plastic and metal and you can see here that it cuts through it like it doesn't even have a problem, so I'm going to take my rope and I'm going to cut it to size and I'm going to put it through that hole and I'm going to hot glue everything together and When everything is ready and you put them on the shelves, it will be the most beautiful thing.

The total cost of the storage unit for me to do everything was, I think, 1250. I'm going to say just a total of 13 dollars to do all of this and what a beautiful project. Okay, our next project, this one is more advanced, but I want to promise you all that this one is worth the work and a lot of fun to build. I really enjoyed it quite a bit and I wanted to share this one too because sometimes I like to show some really easy ones here on my channel and sometimes I like to show more. intense stuff, so what we're doing is we're taking some 8 by 10 squares, we need 4 of them and we're going to use more of those painter sticks because everyone knows I really love those painter sticks and now What I'm doing is cutting the frame first with my exact knife, all the canvas that's on it and take out that extra so I can keep those pieces of canvas later and use them for other DIYs on another day.

Now that I've cleaned them all and the staples are all out I'm going to measure these long painter's sticks again and you can see here I'm cutting them with my miter box again and I'm going to make sure the size is right and once I have the correct size I'm going to make sure to cut the rest so they go along the bottom. Now you can see here that we don't want to see this part that has the holes for the staples. We want it to be nice and finished on top. I'm going to go ahead and add a little bit of wood glue and hot glue to be that long term and short term seal so let it stay there until everything is completely dry and then once you have the two frames together, I'm going to turn it around and I'm going to create kind of a shiplap look by spacing them out and stapling them to the bottom of this little box that we're creating now, this is the best because so far this is super affordable and very cute now we're going to take one of those long painter's sticks we are not going to cut this one we are going todo right here on the side of this box we're going to drill two holes and once you've drilled both holes completely, you're going to add some screws because this is going to turn into a tiered tray that's going to be really cute, they're super expensive and I love you.

All to see that with some products from Dollar Tree and some painter's sticks you can make the coolest things, so once you've got that first screw in, make sure you change it so it's nice and clear. My diet of drills at this point so I had to switch to a regular screwdriver and you can see here that once the two screws are in, it's very sturdy and I put one on each side. Now here's another one of those boxes. I have built two. Sometimes the boxes can be a little small. even because the frames can be a little crooked there at Dollar Tree for a reason, sometimes they can be a little uneven in their size, so I just took a popsicle stick, cut it to size and put it on that part that saw me . showing at that point what I'm doing is now I'm just making sure the measurement is correct before I drill my next set of holes to add on the second level to this little tray I'm building.

I just think this would be so cute displayed on a table or you can also use it during parties and put food on them. I just love these and they are super cheap to make, so now to make sure we really secure everything I'm going to make. add a couple staples to the frames we glued on you don't have to do this but I wanted to make it really strong and sturdy and I have a staple gun so I went ahead and wove it in now I'm going to take my plunger rod yeah I said plunger Dollar Tree sells plungers and they have wooden dowels so I removed the plunger part and took the dowel and cut it back to size with my miter box and am drilling holes so I can add some screws so we can have a handle on the top of our step tray, so go ahead and start with the first screw on your painter's pole.

I always like to drill to make sure I don't chip anything and then once I have it in place. Go ahead and drill everything together, now this dowel will want to twist and turn on you so make sure you hold it as tight as you can while you start screwing it in. Now at this point you can paint it whatever color you want first. I started painting it white and I always paint everything white and then I thought, well, wait, maybe I'll give it a little bit of blue because the coastal farm has been on my mind a lot since I'm so looking forward to summer here and I want arrive.

It's so bad outside, so I'm going to choose a really pretty icy blue and then I'm going to distress it with a darker light blue, almost teal and a little bit of brown to give it that beach weather look, so I'm just going to go around all over. of the handles and the outside of the boxes and decided not to paint the overlapping painter's bars that you see on the inside of my tiered tray boxes. I decided I wanted to give it a wood look so it would have a more beachy feel. once I had that first layer of blue, I'm going to go back and apply a darker blue and I'm just dry brushing a little bit of darker blue to make sure I give it a really nice textured look with those different blues, almost like It had discolored for a while and faded over time.

Now I'm going to take the same mixture from before and I'm going to use water brown paint again and a little bit of black and then I'm even going to have a little bit. a little bit of brown paint here because I want to keep adding it while also adding that watery mixture and it just makes it look so beautiful once I'm done with that first top level piece, I'm going to move on. and move to the bottom now you want to make sure you don't make it too runny because that can start dripping everywhere so take your time and let it absorb.

I went over each piece probably about twice to make sure The paint really soaks in the more you play with it and add the brown and black with the water, it really makes it look like that beautiful driftwood from the beach, so once that you have it all painted and it starts to dry, then you can Come back with some brown paint, this is when I start to deteriorate things and you can see those colors really start to come to life and then where the screws are, I wanted them to look like A little rusty, so I headed a little. a little bit of brown paint and then you don't have to do this part, but I thought it would be cool to add some numbers on my tier tray, so I'm going to do a one and a two and technically you could put whatever. you want to paint them or not paint them at all, but first I drew my number and now I'm going to go back and I'm going to hand paint my numbers with some white paint and a fine tip brush one more time and just take your time because every time You paint across these wooden slats it's easy to do, it gets a little tricky where those joints meet and you have to take your time right there so once you have it's all set and the white paint is dry, then you can go back in and sand it to roughen it up, so again it looks like it's been out in the sun and been used for many years, which I love that look and then we'll wear it down a little bit more with some brown paint and You can give it the style you want for many seasons.

Our DIY will use this 11 by 14 frame I bought from the Dollar Tree and this one. free printable that I have designed for you all, be sure to grab it, it is linked below in the description box before you leave today, go ahead and print that printable, place it on a piece of foam core and trace the size that you are going to need then with your craft knife go ahead and cut it out trying to make your lines as smooth and straight as possible and to stick them in I'm just using a little bit of Mod Podge.

I put in a pretty decent amount, not too much. but it's enough to ensure it sticks and I like to put a little more in each corner while that's set aside and dries. I'm going to take my frame, turn it over and we're going to take everything out of the frame we're trying to get to the frame itself we're not going to need the inserts but you're going to want to hold the back because we're going to take the back and make sure we're sized correct foam core that we're going to insert into the frame, so go ahead and use that black back piece, trace it, cut it out and then check that it fits inside the frame and you can see there that I even lifted up those little tabs that hold it in because it we're going to glue everything together later, so go ahead and take them out too now we're going to take that phone cord and we're going to cover it with some Burlap I love using this light tan burlap.

I think it's really pretty, so I'm adding that burlap with a little bit of hot glue to make sure it's tight and once I have all the sides down, I move on. and we cut out the center because we want to make sure that the "be humble" sign sticks well to the frame and you'll see it in just a second, but here I am, I'm adding hot glue inside the frame and I'm putting the phone cord to rest with the burlap inside the frame and now I'm just going around with a little hot glue on the back to make sure it stays there and has a nice clean finish on the back once the glue heats up. it's all dry, you can see it's all nice and tight and now we're going to go back to our humble printable and we're just going to go around the corners with some rope.

I loved how it turned out, I thought. It was such an elegant country house that it almost seemed shabby chic and glamorous. You'll see when it all comes together at the end how pretty it's going to look, so I'm going to wrap it around twice with this thick rope that you can get from the Dollar Tree and so far at this point we've spent. I'm trying to think that the rope cost $1. You get a piece of foam cord that you can use for all of this. The printable is free, so about three dollars to make this and it's so pretty and they are very expensive.

These types of signs are very expensive at HomeGoods or just home decor stores. I think this is very pretty when it's done, so here I am. I have gone all the way around with the rope. I've added a good amount of hot glue to the back and right in the center and we're just going to squish it in there to make sure those two foam cores fit together nicely. I was worried and I didn't want it. having trouble sticking to the burlap and eventually separating, which is why I wanted to expose that foam core in the middle, so go ahead and hold it down.

I'm cleaning up any of those threads that come off from the hot glue and your hot glue and just double checking around the sides and once you've held it down for a while, go ahead and grab some white paint. Now you don't have to do this part. You could leave the frame black, but I wanted to. To give this a really quite elegant look, so I'm going to add two coats of white paint. I'm walking around the frame, taking my time. We could have painted this before putting on the metal part. I totally know I did. mistake, but once you've painted it all and it's dry, grab some sandpaper and sand it and you'll be ready to display it somewhere in your house for the next DIY.

I bought this big hurricane from my thrift store and then these other four. The parts are from Dollar Tree. Now it's pretty funny, this hurricane I bought at the thrift store is the exact same shape as the little one from Dollar Tree, so I really scored there, but I wanted to show everyone how to make a bigger one and a smaller one from these hurricane mounts. I think they are really pretty for spring and summer, so what I'm doing is taking some e6000 and some hot glue. Now six mil bonds the glass very well and then that hot glue holds it for the short term while the e6000 hardens for 24 hours once it's all dry.

I took them outside and my candle holders and I went ahead and spray painted them white so here you can see me adding the smaller hurricane to one of those candle holders and then I'm going to repeat that process with the larger one and add a little bit of texture and make make it look more sophisticated, something you would see at Pottery Barn or Pier one Imports. I went ahead and took some twine and wrapped it around certain parts of the candle stems and then added some candles and some small stones or shells inside to finish the look.

Our first DIY, we are going to take this garden divider. I don't know what this thing is called, but this thing. from the garden and these long painter's sticks and we're going to turn them into a very nice piece of art that you can hang on your wall, so what we're going to do first is take these long painter's sticks and we're going to cut them to the right size and we're going to use my saw and my miter box. I'll link it below. Many of you have been asking about it. I love this tool. I usually show you in the video how they cut it first and then.

I move closer to my rug because it doesn't slide as much. A few people have asked me that's what I actually do, but I'm cutting it, but I'm just showing you that this is basically how I cut my pieces and then I move onto the mat, so once I've cut all of mine in both ends, I'm going to go ahead and take those mitered edges and I'm going to join them together with a little bit of wood glue and a little bit of hot glue, so I've got that. long term short term seal where they will actually hold together like a nice frame.

I really like doing high end dollar tree DIYs here on my channel and I like to try to challenge you all to push yourself towards new creativity and just have fun. doing things that are outside of your comfort level and learning and growing with every new project you do, so once you have that glue in place, you're going to add a little bit more and then you're going to take these little pieces of The triangles will come off when you cut the pieces of wood and you're just going to lay them down to help support those corners because you don't want them to break.

We want this to be nice and sturdy like I said, so it's high end and then you're just going to staple it into place at the four corners and you've created your own frame. Now we're going to go ahead and start cutting this again. I do not know what it is. it's called, but it's basically for flower beds and you can put them around the edges and it makes them look really pretty, but we're going to take it and we're going to cut it out so you can see here that I cut this out. rounded part and I'm cutting off the little extra edges that I don't want to make it as smooth as possible and we'll do it four times and those will go in each corner of this frame so make sure you take your time cutting them, they actually cut quite easily, but you can accidentally cut too much if you go too fast, so go very slow, as you can see here.

I'm just taking my time. I did it. speed it up so the time in this video isn't too long, but again take your time and you know, cut around those edges and make sure you keep an eye on that curve because that's probably the trickiest part you're going to have.cut it out, so you're going to need two of these items from the Dollar Tree, these garden flower bed dividers and we're going to cut them all out, so now that we have those four rounded pieces, we're going to go to the bottom of These garden dividers we're going to cut them out and you can see here that you want it to almost look like a tea.

This is the bottom of this item that we're cutting out and that's because we're going to use it to push underneath. the frame that will become the thing that will actually support all of this and hold all of these pieces together without it falling apart and over time breaking, so you can see here that on the back I flipped it over. first put some hot glue on and now I'm going to staple it to the frame so it's really strong and sturdy that way so there's some of this cool lattice work on the frame and then other pieces get glued on and everything's nice and secure , so once I have all four secured on the frame, I'm going to go ahead and start heat gluing these rounder pieces, they're curved with a little curly piece and this little arrow we're going to place right in the corner. and hold them on with a little bit of glue and then on the back, on the front, you saw me put hot glue on and then on the back, I'm going to add some e6000 just to make sure it's hot glued and durable. stuck together now let's take the second one we have of these garden flower bed dividers please tell me what it's called because I'm going to use this in another DIY and it would be great if someone could tell what this is called I just can't remember and then we're going to take the next piece, you saw how I cut out that little part that is an arrow and also these rounded pieces because we're going to take them and create a circle so you can As you can see here, we need these two pieces that we just cut out and the circle It is very easy to assemble.

You're just going to take three of these curved edges and stick them all together with a little bit of hot glue and then just push them all into place and they'll form a perfect circle. Now these other pieces like the ones I just showed you I cut so you can see here I'm going to point the arrow now and this is the same as We cut that first cut that was rounded and placed it in the corners, we just removed that part rounded top and then we'll just snap it in and see how I flipped it over and put them underneath. that piece that's in the corner you want to make sure everything is nice and glued together really well and then these additional pieces of that shirt that we cut earlier with the little curl we don't want those long pieces that I've decided Just go ahead and cut them out.

You can see here that it slipped and moved a little bit. I need to hold it down a little longer with some hot glue and while it dries I went ahead and cut the last of those long pieces off. we don't want them to be there and then once we've cut everything out and everything is glued and held in place and nice and sturdy, go ahead and flip it over and now we're going to take the circle and we're. I'm going to hot glue it and add it to the center of this really cool art frame, so the cool thing about this is that it's actually very strong and sturdy because I reinforced it with six mil and hot glue and I recommend it. trimming it one more time on the back and adding more hot glue where you think you need it, it will be really sturdy the more hot glue you add on the back and then when you're done just pull up all the little threads. because you're going to have strands of hot glue everywhere when you're putting this together, so take the time to remove them all.

Now you're going to go ahead and take some white paint and paint the frame. I will say what I wish. which I had done this before I started putting in all this black lattice work, but you know I've been filming, I don't think about things as I go and I just make sure everyone can see. What I'm doing here is the final look using this basket I picked up from the Dollar Tree. Finally I sneaked out to go to the shops. I was very cautious and paranoid the whole time, but I just wanted to get out of the house. for a few minutes because friends, I have been inside my house for over a month, so with my gloves, my mask and my hand sanitizer, I went to the stores very cautiously and only touched the things I planned to buy, so I picked up. this little basket because all of their Easter stuff is completely on clearance at Dollar Tree and I went ahead and knew I could turn this into a really pretty glazed look so I'm grabbing some painter's tape.

You saw I used my scissors to cut those little tabs, we don't need the ones that hold the handle, those can disappear and I'm using painter's tape and sent saran wrap to cover all the white. I'm trying to just keep that orange part exposed that I don't want us to paint that black in just a second, so once you've got everything covered, take it outside with some black spray paint and spray paint around that edge to create a glazed appearance. This basket now I thought was very pretty because well, you and I know this was supposed to look like a basketball hoop.

It really looks like a lattice when you spray paint around the black side and any spray paint that can be applied to it. You can actually scrape it into that white, that's how I removed any spill that might have been left under the painter's tape that I maybe didn't press all the way down, so once you've got all that taken care of, go ahead and take some . more of your burlap that you have on hand and I wrapped it to get the right size and then I cut out what I didn't want and then I put it in my cute basket now that it has that glazed trellis.

I just thought this turned out really cute and then we're going to take some foam squares and we're going to put two in there because we want to get that height, we can fill it with all kinds of really pretty things. so I'm going to grab some of these ferns that I picked up from the Dollar Tree a while ago. I'm going to take my pliers and I like to make a hole because it's a little hard to push these ferns down. this film, so I like to make those holes in there and then fill it with hot glue and then stick my ferns and bend them in the direction that I want and then once I have that first layer, I'll just keep adding and adding and adding and adding until It makes for a really beautiful arrangement.

You can see here that I'm adding some of these little boxwood stems. I bought this very long garland at Hobby Lobby a while ago and I still cut off pieces when I need them. I also ended up adding some white hydrangeas and some of these tall white flowers. I thought the green and white were really pretty too and then I grabbed a little more rope from the Dollar Tree that went through the side and took a little more. rope and I wrapped it really nice and then I went to the other side and did that too, then at the top I also tied a knot.

I liked the way it looked with a knot on top, you'll see at the end what that knot looks like, but it was just a simple coiled knot, then on the front I took one of these wooden garden stems, these little garden signs that you can stick in your flower beds and I glued it right on the front to give it that simply elegant touch. farmhouse look just chic I found these three containers at Dollar Tree for a dollar each, they were bright orange so I think a lot of people would overlook them, but I brought them home and gave them four coats of white spray paint and then I added these stickers that are also from the Dollar Tree and that number the fronts one, two, and three really made them look so cute and gave them all kinds of personality and then I'm going to take some black paint and I'm just going to paint the edge the top of this container to give it a farmhouse glazed look.

I think these styles would be really cute on a bookshelf or in an office or just in general and some kind of cute shelf you like to decorate farmhouse things on. So once you've gone all the way around the edges, I also finish by lightly tapping the bottom and side corners and you'll see in just a second where I did that, but once all the black paint is dry, go. Go ahead and grab some Mod Podge and seal all the paint and sticker so it sets really well, you might want to get chips on this type of plastic even with spray paint but when you put the Mod Podge on it it really seals it well and tight today we're going to use these two different garden basket holders where you can put plants inside them and hang them on your porches outside or even inside and we're going to cut this ring out of the middle.

That is holding all the wires in the center to be able to hold flowers. This is because we are going to turn this into a very cute bird cage. This idea came from someone I saw online and I want to make sure I give them credit. They went more glamorous with theirs and I'm not going to do that today so I'm going to go ahead and link their video below where they have their inspiration so you can see how they embellished it and turned it into a chandelier. I'll link it below where I put the supply list for this bird cage, so once you go ahead and use your wire cutters and cut that circle of wire in the middle, then you'll straighten out the wires in your basket and make sure they're as straight as possible now here you see it broke right where I was putting my fingers it's because that's the joining ring of this larger circle don't worry if that breaks I'm going to show you how to fix it no matter how many times I tried to straighten them without breaking that part, this happened naturally every time, so I'll show you how to fix it in just a second, once you have all the cables. cut that circle, you're going to go ahead and straighten them out like I said, it's the best you can and then you're going to pull them back a little bit so they move away, they naturally want to curve from them. being molded that way in the store when they made it, once you've got it all out like that, then you can take some twine and use hot glue and you could probably use some e6000 as well, but that will take longer to dry. so I don't think it's necessary.

I'm just taking a little bit of hot glue to hold it in place to make sure it dries and then I'm going to take some twine and wrap it around it to make sure it's all nice and stuck. You can use electrical tape if you have any of that so you don't have to worry about spray painting it, which is what I ended up doing. I wrapped it in this and then sprayed it. I painted it and the thing is you can go all the way around and wrap around this whole ring, but I decided to just do this little dot and spray paint it and once it's spray painted you don't even notice it.

Everything's already broken or had a problem at this joint, so once you've wrapped everything nice and tight, just make sure you have a good finish and everything is flat, then what you're going to do is go. grab your pliers and you're going to create a little hook at the end of each of these long pieces of wire that we just straightened out the best we could, so here you are with your pliers and you're going to work it all out. Going all the way around the circle, you don't want to have a super big hook and you want to make sure that the hooks are the same height all the way around because otherwise when you go to attach it to the part that you did it on.

If you don't cut the one on my left, you'll see that the bird cage might be crooked, so make sure all the hooks are the same height all the way around and then what you're going to do is just take that other part, the one you didn't cut in the other basket and you're going to hook them in completely on the same line at that same joint. You can see how my wire lines match each other. another one and then you're going to take your pliers again and you're going to bend them and squeeze them into place.

Now the great thing about this project is that each of these baskets costs a dollar. It comes with this really cool thing. chain that you can use for another DIY and reuse it later, but it costs a dollar and making a bird cage is actually only two dollars and maybe fifty cents because you'll see some things that I'm going to put at the top to make. It looks like a bird cage with a small handle on top, but this is the easiest project. How cute they could be, like a wedding reception, how cute they could be decorated for any time of year in your home and I'm so excited because I think I have some ideas for Halloween to do some things with this craft and this idea, once you have all the wires tight in place and you want to make them as tight as possible, you're going to take this flat part that comes from those lids of those glass jars, you can get them on glass jars or dollar tree lids that they have as well and then you're going to put them in the top and you will use a combination of e6000 which will seal it long term and then hot glue to hold it in place while the e6000 is drying I like to make sure I turned each of those little bumps over to make sure it was right and sealed it so that it really had a good bond and then I took a popsicle stick and I'm I just apply it where I'm rubbing it against that black metal rod that goes up and I just rub it all over to make sure everything's good andsealed and try to make it as nice and clean as possible, then I'm going to grab one of these ping-pong balls.

I thought this was the funnest thing to put here, but you know, sometimes the most random things can turn out so beautiful and seem real, so I just made a little crop. it's very easy to cut, make a little circle, it doesn't have to be perfect and you're making this little plane on top of the lid of the can and you're going to add a little bit more of this This sticks out all over the ping- pong ball and you're going You're going to tighten it up there really well and you can add a little bit of hot glue once again to make sure it stays in place while it dries.

Now, here's the next thing you could do is make this bird cage as tall as you are. If you want, you can make two tiers, three tiers, four tiers whatever you want and the more you play with it, it's great to make different heights and stack them all on one table. Our next craft will be another DIY organizer from Dollar Tree Supplies. these for garden trellis wire racks, I think that's what they're called, each one is a dollar, so we're going to take them and right at the bottom bar we're going to connect them and you can see here that those sticks that would go into the ground, I'm going to bend them down and then I'm going to zip tie everything and tighten it so it's nice and secure in place.

I'm using black zip ties. In fact, I also bought them at Dollar Tree. all of my supplies in this DIY are 100% from the Dollar Tree and it's so cute when we're done that I ended up picking up these garden buckets too. I thought they were so cute, now I'm going to use a tool that I also feature a lot here on my channel it's called crop-a-dile, it punches through metal, it's actually designed for eyelets but it can go through metal, this is the strongest tool and great and my husband really likes to use it all the time.

He'll tell me where that pink metal-piercing tool is, which is my harvest. So you can see here that I'm grabbing these darling cubes from the Dollar Tree. I'm using three of them and I'm making four holes in it so I can tie it to this really cute lattice wire rack that I just put together with two of them and you can see the four holes here, it cuts so easily there are no problems. and it's a really great tool for someone who may have very sensitive hands and may also have arthritis. I love this tool. I use it all the time and my hand never hurts when I use it, so here I am.

I'm just going to go down the three cubes drilling those four holes and then I'm going to go around the back and create a figure eight, so I'm going to check my cube first. You can see here that I've gone all the way or that little flange is closed and then I'll come back out and go through the hole again wrapping one of the bars coming out of the second hole and then wrapping the bar around to the other side creating a shape. eight so that it's really secure in there and you can put a lot of heavy things in there and this without it having any problems, so make sure you tighten it really tight and then cut off anything that's left over from your zip tie that you don't use.

I don't want to so once I had a bucket on it's very simple at this point you just move down and do the other two buckets guys this is a great DIY to make as a storage unit in any situation you can Place it in a bathroom or kitchen. a child's room, even in your bedroom, is such a cute thing and you can really decorate it and have fun with it and the possibilities are endless because you can put whatever baskets you want in it and geology has a couple different metal containers like this. They are so cute, our next project will be to use these three adorable glass jars that I found in your home glass dishes section.

I don't know what that section was called, but I love these three jars. I thought they were so pretty. I love the details so I took them outside, spray painted the glass white and spray painted the lids black and you all know I love that farmhouse look so you could decide not to chip away at the paint but I'm going a, you could stop at that spray paint spot or go a little further like I'm doing here and I'm just going to scuff it up with some sandpaper real quick and give it some character because I wanted that design to come through.

It looks so much like the 1940s. I don't know how else to explain it. I love the way this glass looked and then since they had that perfect rectangle on the front I thought it would be really pretty to paint numbers and these could be so cute in your kitchen so you can put some treats in them or you can use it for display utensils you want so I'm going to go in with my black paint and you can see here if you're a long time follower of my channel. You know I love hand lettering and I use the lid on my paint bottle because I feel like I have better control and I'm painting my letters and numbers, but I'm just going to go in and take my time with my little one.

Small fine point brush and I'm just going over those pencil lines and coloring them like you would in a coloring book and I get so many people all the time saying I'm not good at hand painting, but I wasn't good. Whether it was at the beginning and I just kept practicing and practicing and the more you do it, the more muscle control you will have in your hand. Once all those numbers were dry, I took some Mod Podge to seal them in for good because I think this just shows through. It's very nice and I never want to change it.

I made sure to go over the entire white surface, except where the lid would screw on. I wanted to make sure I didn't gum that area up so it would screw. and they go off perfectly and when you're done you can display them so cute in your kitchen. I can't wait to show everyone how we're going to make this item, so we'll take this top piece of the lid, not the screwed part. but the flat piece and then we're going to take some chicken wire and we're going to start shaping it around these garden baskets. Now I use this a couple of days ago to make a bird cage.

I'm going to link that video at the end of this video so you can see how I turn this item into a bird cage, but today we're going to make a fruit basket out of this, so we're going to take this chicken wire and slowly start working on our way. Pushing it down twisting the wire into place making sure everything is nice and secure because chicken wire can scratch and cause it to catch on your clothing can do a lot of things but when you do it right and take your time. and you keep turning it and turning it and making sure all those little sharp pieces are down, that makes a farmhouse DIY look cooler, so here I am, I'm just grabbing my pliers, working around my basket and pushing down the cable once you have everything secured and twist it into place.

I'm going to take that cap and with a little bit of e6000 again and a little bit of hot glue for that long term and short term hold, I'm going to make sure it's nice and secure there with that glue and then I'm going to take another long piece of wire and I'm going to rotate it in two places. You're going to want to create a kind of V opening because we're going to place one of those glasses. candle holders that you see a lot at Dollar Tree, now you should be able to rub your hands all over your basket without any wire touching your fingers, that's how you know you've done a good job making sure it was nice and safe to have outside to use as decoration, so here I am, where I'm going to bring those glass candles like I mentioned a second ago and we're going to put them right on top of that lid that you're going to want to spread out. they open up a little bit more than what I had there because you want to make sure that the glass goes under that wire and it's nice and secure and stays there for the long haul, once it's all done and you can see that everything is in place. place, set it aside, let it dry and then go ahead and spray paint it all black.

Once it's spray painted black it takes on a whole new life and looks so stinky at this point. Now I decided to go more farm-like with this. and I wanted to wrap some rope from the Dollar Tree around the top. I thought it looked great and finished the basket for the next project. It's a super simple project. I picked up this little block house from Michael's dollar section, they actually have a dollar section too and they have a lot of wood crafts inside so I bought this there, this little heart was from a big package I bought at Hobby Lobby and you can also buy hearts at any craft store basically and then I'm going to grab some cream paint, but you can paint this any color you want, you can use a soft pink and make a white heart, you can make a little red house with a heart white or pink, there are many options for Valentine's Day and the colors you choose, once you have painted your house you will wrap some twine around the bottom to add that farmhouse look and then place glue on your little heart .

This is a great starter project for someone who wants to try their hand at being crafty and aren't quite sure what their style is yet, leave a comment below to tell me what you think of these projects I made today. Thank you so much for being my friend and then say goodbye to the next episode. friends