⭐️Best DOLLAR TREE DIY Decor You've Seen This Year!

Today is the mystery box challenge, but last night I had nightmares about troll hair and pencils. If

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is the first time we've met, I'm Natalie Callahan and my goal is to help you feel more powerful in your DIY and home

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ating. let me explain about trolls so if you've been watching my channel for a while you've

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me participate in the mystery box challenge it's one of my favorites so what happens is another diy youtuber sends me a package of stuff that I've never

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it before, my job is to DIY with what's in the box.

Well, I received my package from Shannon at the Daily Diyer. She is amazing and talented, so if you haven't seen her channel, I will link it below. She sent a creative. The cheap one is a pencil with troll hair and she had to make it yourself so I have no idea what's in

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box but I'm a little nervous about opening it but whatever's in here we're going to be cool even if she sent me troll hair. I have a few ideas up my sleeve so here we go, if you have any ideas on what she sent me as challenge items you should let me know in the comments section below, okay then we have a card.

Hi Natalie, I love your work. I can't wait to see you get creative with these Dollar Tree items, especially the challenge items. I love Shannon. The challenge elements I'm so nervous about. So here we go, we have challenge number two and challenge number one, and we're going to set them up. Other than that, we'll do the last ones, yeah, so these succulents are clips. I'm kind of excited about that. I think I can do something really fun. I have other succulents in my stash and then a little box. I love it. and then we have an Easter basket.

I'm not a big fan of yellow, but who cares, we can change it. I haven't seen them in my store, but I love them so this is a really fun find. These are always useful. For a reason, and by the way, we get a fun little twist in this episode. We have been challenged to use a secret item. I'll share with you what it is in a moment, so stay tuned for a little candle. warmer and I have the perfect thing to put this up in a second ok jute cord oh fun ok so these hanging baskets I think we could do something fun with this good work Shannon ok a hanging hook , she sent me two of these, maybe a shelf. how cute is this, now it's time for challenge items, let's all take a moment of silence and say a quick prayer that there is no troll hair, okay, challenge item number one, a giant garden bag, it's okay, this is a good challenge, it's not all troll hair. right, it's a good challenge, although it's small, it can be scary, so it's a fish, okay, okay, we can do this, so I'm going to think about this and then I'll be right back, so it's been a few days and I've had some time to think about the articles they sent me.

I'm just going to get one of the challenge items out of the way from the front and that was this giant green lawn garden bag, what do you do with this? I came up with an idea that I'm really excited about and I'm going to work with a medium I've never worked with before. We will be using this Elan bag to create a cement planter that I have never worked with before. cement in my life, so this could get a little dangerous, we'll see. I've had this type of cube floating outside for a while, if it gets completely smashed in this process, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

I actually had to tape it in a couple of places because there were cracks and I didn't want the concrete to leak, so I used some gorilla tape and then of course we sewed this bag so there was only a couple left inches all the way around, we don't want a hundred pound pot that just wouldn't work, so I hope we get the good size now. I have no idea how this will go, but I have high hopes, so I'm going to take this bucket and we're going to put it on the ground under these bags.

I'd better put some cardboard down. I'm also going to put on gloves because just touching this cement mixture irritates my fingers a little, so we don't want to. that then I'm going to put on gloves and let's open the sand mixture I really hope this turns out I'm filming those are called sandhill cranes and they are very loud sometimes apparently they don't know I'm filming a YouTube show here so don't worry for my pile of wood here we're working on it honey yeah in my last episode I talked about how I need to get rid of this pile of wood so we're going to be I'm making some projects out of that and I just bought this cheap shovel at Dollar Tree because I thought I could throw it away when I'm done and I have water and we're supposed to mix until it looks like oatmeal apparently and we're going to mix it and I can already tell this isn't going to be enough.

I think I need a lot more. I feel like this is like an adult version of making mud pies. Adult Mud Pie Mix. This is a good workout, okay, it's as close to oatmeal as I think we can get. I don't think I've fully explained what style I'm going for. I saw this inspiration photo and thought, "That's really cool." To try to get that look, but there are no instructions so I'm blind by the seat of my pants. Ideally you would get a bag of rice or a burlap sack and make this pot, but this is what we are working on.

With a mystery challenge, I have my cooking spray here and we're going to spray the inside of the bag and the outside of this. Hope that helps, we'll just rub it in and then spray this on as well. I hope this helps free it when we're done. I'm going to put about two inches on the bottom and hope it gets back to the right consistency. Mud pies. I don't know if this will work, I really hope so. does it now let's set this up we're going to try to center this just trying to distribute this evenly this could be my first epic fill I don't know there are those annoying screens that are animating me so I'm going to sacrifice this for the cause here because I feel like it might make our lives a little easier with a last stitch effort.

I'm going to finish the bag and one of the things that was on it was there was a

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ative rope and it was cinched like a bag would be, so I'm going to go ahead and take my big rope here and tie it off and see if that helps hold it up. a little bit and I can if I can shape it. Around that or not, I think this will be the front, we'll attach the rope. Oh, I just got it all over my face now that we have that rope there. I hope we can shape it like the bag we have.

I'm trying to get it, I'm just massaging it well at this point, I don't feel very confident to be honest with you, but we'll just let it dry and hope for a little miracle that turns out and it looks amazing. I let it sit for about 36 hours and we're going to take it apart and see what it looks like. I don't have high hopes that we'll see it, although I'm very surprised that it actually turned out and I think it really does. really nice, I think we'll be fine, so we've got a couple of loose fibers here, I've got some scissors and we'll try to trim them off and then we'll let it dry a little bit. longer and then we'll get a new rope, tie it up and plant it with some pretty flowers that I'm probably going to kill, but this time we're going to try really hard to stay alive.

I'm pleasantly surprised so I mentioned that this is part of the mystery box challenge that was created by Courtney from Creative on the Cheap and she has put together this amazing group of people who are very talented and at the end of this episode I will send you to one of my favorite youtubers and I'll let you know who he is at the end of the episode, so on my next

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we're going to use some of these hanging baskets. Now she sent me one and I have another. I have in mind that we can make a decorative scale similar to an imitation of a farmhouse.

I've wanted to do this for a while and this was the perfect opportunity, so I have a spindle here and now I'm going to use a power miter. saw, but if you have a miter box and a drill, you can probably do it, so you don't need any big tools, but it makes life very easy, so what we're going to do is use this as the center support and this will be kind of false scale and let's cut this. I first cut the spindle to 18 inches leaving about an inch and a half at the top before starting to spin, then I cut our wood. dowel up to 18 inches as well and then we're going to drill a hole through this and hopefully that will work just make sure our dowel fits, it's a little tight like we want it to just run it through very carefully and then we go to glue two wooden rounds, one three inches and one five inches, and let it dry for a couple of hours while it dries, we're going to work on the scale part, we're going to take the baskets and cut them out. the arm that has the little loop on the bottom will act as a screw hole.

I only used wire cutters, but honestly, if you have tin snips this will make cutting a little easier, you'll need a total of four. Of these pieces, two for each side, then with my hand I flatten them and bend them in the opposite direction so that the sharp edges fit into our little three inch wooden rounds, then you will find the center and make a line across he. and take it to the side so you know where to put the screws, then you will take a small drill bit and pre-drill the holes. I just used some short screws I found in my stash. i have a wider head at the top then you slide the screw through the loop and drill it into place now just for a little extra security i add a little bit of hot gorilla glue as a backing do this on each side do you? do you see what we have?

We're building here, I know this may seem a little complicated, but I hope it all makes sense in the end. Now I take a link of the basket chain and we are going to join it at the meeting point of these two arms using black. electrical tape which I twist in and out of the tape on each side now looking back at it being 20 20 I wish I had used some air drying clay to hold it in place but this worked then we took our hook and four chain links plus a small basket clasp and hook it onto the top of the individual chain link like I'm showing you here.

Now we have two false scales. It's time to finish assembling. I'm going to use a threaded dowel. To attach it to our stand we pre-drill some holes then put the dowel screw into the drill and drill it in place until it stops drilling and then you hand tighten the shaft into the dowel pin, now it's time to add some embellishments and grab a daisy that I made out of air dry clay that I will show you in more detail in another DIY that will be done in a few minutes. Make sure it has dried for probably about 24 hours.

Now let's heat it up. I glued that in place with hot gorilla glue, then added a little wooden finial on top, then I just dug around my stash to see what else had little odds and ends and found a couple little wooden stars and little decorative finials that I glue on each side when all is said and done, you won't even be able to tell they are stars but they will just be a small decorative element, then I pre-drill into the bottom of the dowel about two and a half to three inches in a hole to a hook for the eyes and we twist them into place by hand now with our scales hanging from it, we painted everything with satin black spray paint now, before we show you the final look, we have a very quick DIY that is going to go over the top from the scale so let's do it now so our farm scale needs something to weigh and Shannon sent me this bell and we're going to get another one and we're going to elevate it for our next DIY now.

These bells are made of plastic and it's especially noticeable on the bottom, so I took them outside, primed them and then painted them black to match our scale, then stole some

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pots from some succulents at a DIY which comes here in just a second and I take the bases of those and I spray them with a robin's egg blue color and I let everything dry now we're going to put them together quickly and I just grabbed a couple of pink silk peonies from the dollar tree that in They actually look pretty good and stick them in the floral foam and then place them inside the newly raised plastic bell and I just place them on the scale and here is the final look of the scale and the pink peony bells, including the bells and everything .

I have a little more than ten dollars. This is not so bad, but what do you think a fish is and it moves? Shannon sent me two shelf brackets and I actually got a shelf bracket in my last mystery box challenge, so if you want to see what I did with that, I'll link to it. Next I thought this would be a really good opportunity to use up a bit more of my scrap wood so we're going to make a shelf, but I wanted to make it a little fun and I think we're going to do something with this. garden fences that they sell at Dollar Tree, it's actually very nice, Iloves.

Now I take all the metals and plastics I'm going to use outside and spray them with a flat black chalkboard paint so they're all the same. Finished now, my big part of the shelf was already the right length to start with. I was lucky it was in my scrap pile that way and I think it was 24 inches. It was originally cut from a 1 by 8 and then I cut a 1 by 3 about 2 inches shorter than our top shelf to accommodate the brackets, then we need to cut the plastic to fit. I make sure to leave some faux iron behind the piece of wood so that if I have something to staple to later, I lay everything on top again and line up our brackets to see where we need to make those cuts in the iron and then I remove that area and then join them together. pieces of wood using some wood glues and some finishing nails, as this is going to my entryway where I set up my bench for my last episode.

I used the same old wax to finish the wood and then I take my staple gun and staple the plastic sheet into place. I'm going to attach four hooks that I bought at Walmart and line them up with the arrow part on the offset work and screw them into place and then paint the whole thing with clear coat and let it dry before installing it. This rack costs about five dollars in supplies, but you would never guess that in a million

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s. This shelf is amazing and will provide so many functions in my entryway. I absolutely love how it turned out, so let's make our next dollar tree. use this hello love sign and then I'm also going to use some more of this garden fence, isn't that amazing?

I really love this, so don't be surprised if I bring this up in future episodes because I just think it's a really cool look, it's pretty convincing. I can't take credit for this idea. This is something I saw on Pinterest, but when I saw it I thought, "Oh, I have to make one of those that's really cute, so I'll do it." Link my inspiration for this project in the description box below. You will need two of these garden fences to complete this project because we are going to cut four complete sections, one for each side. Now I would recommend the smaller seasonal signs that are made of mdf for this because they are a little smaller than this piece and fit perfectly on the garden fence, but we are working with the hello love sign that they sent me and it is a little larger , so to accommodate this we are going to cut four square wooden dowels for each of the corners, now we end up using a ton of Gorilla hot glue to make this project happen, so be prepared for that, normally this is not my style, but in the end it worked.

I like things that feel a little more substantial and stable, but all this glue that I used really made it feel stable and we basically just hot glued this into every corner, every place we could and then in the corners I took some sticks. of ice cream that was the secret element that we were all asked to use and include in one of our designs, so I just use them to hide some of the mechanics on the edges and once it's fully assembled, we take it outside and paint all. sew it in a black chalkboard paint, making sure to cover everything really well, I styled it with a dollar tree hurricane vase and a candle and then used some lamb's ears from Walmart and some pink peonies just to fill it up a little and I think this looks so cute, it has a high end look and we got a little over three dollars on this chandelier and it is so stunning, especially when you consider that price, and I also think these would make really cute wedding centerpieces. you think it's yellow, I mean it's definitely Easter, but we want it to look like a high-end decoration, so what we're going to do to elevate this piece is we're going to remove the handle first and since it's plastic, I feel like I should add a little bit of primer, so that's what I do.

I print everything inside and out and then spray everything with black spray paint. Now you can choose the finish you want in this case. to use a satin finish and let it dry completely. Now the cool thing is on the top, it has some kind of band that looks like metal eyelets and it looks really cool, so we'll leave it exposed, but come on. to cover most of the rest of the basket with rope because it's still at this point it looks like an Easter basket so we're going to take some rope that I had on hand and one way I like to finish off the edges of the rope is to make a dimpled tie on the end and this just helps prevent fraying and instead of just using a bunch of glue on the end it just gives it a more finished quality and the way to do this is to make a loop and you tie it all the way to the edge of the rope and then you wrap it around itself about five or ten times and then you cut the jute twine and then you put that end through the loop that you started with and then you pull that loop. inside the tie like you see me doing here and then you pull it from both directions to create a knot that is hidden under the jute twine and then you cut off the excess and then to wrap the rope we are going to use a little hot glue and I use it around the bottom leaving a little bit of that folded edge exposed at the bottom and then I wrap it tightly around it and then we use a little bit of hot glue on the top and then we finish the We finish the same way we started with the first edge with that tie and then I just take a couple of eucalyptus bushes, bend the stems and throw them in and for about five dollars we have a really nice greenery, very easy to put together. just a few supplies and I love this and it was a very easy lift so when Shannon sent me these succulents I was very excited because I had been wanting to make a succulent arrangement for a while so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity and of course In fact, every time I go to the dollar tree I have been collecting a ton of succulents so we are going to have a little fun with this, it will be a super easy arrangement to put together and it is also very temporary.

I start by taking a ball of dough that you've seen me use here on this channel before and I simply fill it with a couple bags of black stones that I get from the dollar tree and then spread them evenly. I take my collection of succulents, the one she sent me and the ones I've been collecting, and if they're on a clip I take them off, if they're in a pot I take them out and then I start putting them up. the container and I feel like a couple of them I needed to use hot glue and stick them on a rock to keep them in place but the nice thing about this is that it will come off easily later so it's not permanent but it is.

I kind of get the job done for now and the rest of them I just sat on top of the rocks and stuck them in between the rocks and varied the colors and the textures. These colors and textures are so stunning. It's easy to put together and would look great on the dining room table or anywhere you have a little place for something like this and the

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part is we can change it up and do something different with them because nothing is permanent. this arrangement, what do you think of this beautiful rainbow of succulents? Okay, for our next dollar tree DIY we will be using the “This Is Us” sign.

Now we'll use some more of those popsicle sticks. These big guys actually sell the home improvement store, I bought this package at Lowe's for only 99 cents, but don't quote me on that, I don't remember for sure, I take the frame apart and pull out the "This Is Us" model and then we go to cover us the blue design by gluing our ice cream sticks diagonally using wood glue. My first thought was to cut them all and then glue them together, but then I decided to go ahead and glue them all together and let them dry completely and then I'm just going to cut them out using normal scissors.

One or two came off but then I put them back together with a little bit of wood glue and let them dry and then I painted the whole thing with black chalk paint and I had these little wooden beads that I'm going to hot glue on the top. bottom of the frame to create a rising effect and they turned out to match the frame perfectly, so I didn't do anything else with the frame and then once. our chalk paint was dry i replaced the center in the frame and secured it in place now i really think this would be a nice place to keep keys or you could put little trinkets in there or maybe little plants on top but for less than two dollars you have many options and I think this looks very cute on our shelf, what do you think?

I've been joking a little bit about this fish, but I honestly have a really awesome idea, so if you want to see what it is, stay tuned a little longer, okay, so for our next DIY we're going to use this craft box, so I wanted add embellishments to the top of this box and I recently ordered these clay molds on Amazon. Aren't they so cool? The instructions say to put lotion on your hands so that's what I did and then we just took a small piece of this clay, rolled it out and pressed it into our mold.

Now I didn't know exactly what ornament I would use. I wanted to put the top on them so I selected a couple and then took them out and let them dry, I'd say for a good 24 hours to be honest while our clay dries I take a few strands of pearl stickers that I got from the dollar tree and we wrap them around the top and bottom of the lid and also the base of the box just to give it a little extra detail. Then once our clay piece is dry, we hot glue it on top and start painting everything. thing in this beautiful sea green color, once it's dry I add some vintage going back and forth using black wax and this really pretty gold folk art color until I'm happy with a look, it's a pretty simple update but I think This It could work great as a jewelry box or fun gift box and costs just over a dollar.

How wonderful. What comes to mind when I think of a fish. I think of two things. I think about sushi and me. I think about fishing and when I think about fishing I think about my cousin Alec Alec was seriously the most amazing little guy you've ever met in your life and he was diagnosed with cancer many

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s ago and he fought very, very hard, honestly, seriously. Such an amazing kid because no matter how much pain he was in, he never once complained never asked why I was literally probably too perfect for this life because he outgrew it at just 12 and Alec loved fishing and his make-a - He even wanted to go fishing in Alaska, which he did shortly before he passed away, so my idea for this fish is to make a trampoline in the garden in his honor and then send it to my aunt for Mother's Day, who is not there very far away, so what I'm going to do is take you outside and we're going to do this with concrete, a little more of that concrete, so I start by mixing a little more concrete for our shape.

I decided to use a Pot Liner that I picked up in a three-pack at Dollar Tree. I spray it with some cooking spray again and pour some of our concrete, then I grab a refreshing cookie rack from the Dollar Tree, grab some tin snips and cut them up. Lower it so it fits inside our form, this just adds a little more stability to the trampoline. Now I don't know if it's really necessary, but I figured it wouldn't hurt, so I poured the rest of our concrete on top and smoothed it out. and my plan for the fish is to make an impression with it and for that to work we need it to be a little firmer but still a little moist.

I let it sit for about two hours, then I take our fish and push it out. I place it in the bottom third of our stone and let it sit for 24 hours, then remove it from our container to make the template easier. First I spray it with a clear coat and that will help me be able to leave my stencil down and not let the cement flake off and I took a stencil that I made on my Cricut machine and then I also mixed some black exterior paint with some paint gray to soften it a little. and then I complete our stencil, I decide after the fact to also add three additional fish on the bottom and then when we're done painting it, I add an additional clear coat.

Now, when I saw this little fisherman, he immediately reminded me of Alex. silhouette and this is definitely my favorite project from this episode because it means a lot to me and I know it will also mean a lot to my aunt teresa. Alec may have passed on to the other side, but he will never be forgotten here on earth by those. who loved it, so I really loved this project and I hope you found inspiration in it and now, the moment of truth, who do I send you? It's Jennifer, from a slightly calm and crazy pop, move on to her video, next. link it in the description box below and if you enjoyed this episode, here's another one that I think you'll like too and to all my DIYers I just want to remind you that you are more powerful than you think, we'll see. your next time goodbye