Top 15 Farmhouse Dollar Tree Diys/2021 Dollar Tree Diys

Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to take 15 of my best DIY

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farm projects and put them all together in this video. If you liked today's video, be sure to give it a like. Let me know in the comments section below which one is your favorite and if you haven't already, be sure to click the subscribe button and the notification bell so you'll be notified the next time I upload a new video, each of today's projects will be time stamped in my description box below, if you want to jump to any particular projects, with that being said let's start with these 15

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and they are in no particular order.

I'm using these beautiful glass jars from Dollar Tree and I'm going to go ahead and remove the lid as well as the plastic piece that's inside the lid, so I just used a flat head screwdriver and pried off a piece of that lid. of plastic to the point where I could get my pliers in there and then I just twisted my pliers until the plastic piece came off. I did that for all three covers. Now put the plastic pieces away because we'll be putting them back in later. I painted each of the jars with two coats of my Waverly white chalk paint and painted as well. each of the caps and made sure to let the paint dry between each coat so it would have a nice smooth finish.

Now I wanted my tops to have a wood look so I'm painting them with white chalk paint to start. with a very nice base coat these are absolutely beautiful after two coats of paint so to get that realistic wood look I will be using my antique wax made by Waverly and I have used this technique on a metal cabinet that I will link to. on the cards above as well as the video in my description box if you're interested check it out to see how I get the look of this wood so I'm just going to apply the wax with a brush and then take a fluff. free cloth and wiping off most of the wax and going in the same direction to give it more of a wood grain effect and I applied two coats allowing it to dry between each of those coats and I think this is so beautiful and very realistic and it looks real wood.

I'm going to reapply those plastic pieces to the lid and set them aside since this is chalk paint and I want to make sure I protect the edge because those lids are going to be in and out of there, I want to protect that paint from chalk using a little bit of clear sealant wax made by krylon and I'm just going to apply that with my lint free cloth and then once I apply a good generous amount to that area I'm going to use a clean portion of the rot cloth I'm going to wipe most of the the wax to leave it with a smooth and pleasant finish.

Now I don't recommend putting food in these containers because I painted the top of the rim, but you can certainly hold any kind of cute items like cotton balls or Q-tips. I'll show them on this tray. Now I made this tray in a previous DIY and I will have a link to that video in my description box if you are interested and I am also using scrapbooking paper from Hobby lobby. I'm going to go ahead and just measure the height and width of this tray that I already made and I'm using my Cricut cutter because I don't cut the most perfectly straight lines and I wanted to make sure I made it as straight as possible so I wouldn't have gaps when I put the paper in. the bottom of the tray.

I always like to make sure the paper is going to fit before I apply it and I'm going to apply it using a mod podge and I'm using matte mod podge so it doesn't have a very shiny finish because once I apply an even coat on the bottom and then I put my paper there and make sure there are no wrinkles or air bubbles and everything is nice and smooth. I'll go over it again with my mod podge to protect the paper in case anything gets smudged and Then I also want to make sure it has a matte finish that matches the chalk paint after I let it dry.

I could design my jars right here on this tray and I think they are super beautiful. I love how two of these round wooden plaques turned out from Walmart and I think they were about a

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a piece and I'm going to use some beads too. I got my beads and this is a very large bag from Amazon that I will have linked in my Amazon store in my description box below, if you are interested I will take my hot glue and do a small section at a time. Now these wooden plates have an edge, so I'm going to go right to the outside edge of that edge and then I'm going to place each of my beads with the holes facing up so you don't see any and I'm going to go all the way around in small sections to Make sure the hot glue doesn't dry before it can.

I add my beads, then I'll take that other round of wood and I'll put the glue right there on the edge around this and then I can place this right on top of those beads and you guys, this thing is so beautiful. I already love how it looks. I'm going to take one of the glass chandeliers from Dollar Tree and I'm going to give it a base coat of my Waverly white chalk paint and I'm just going to put one coat on there and leave. dry because I'm going to go back in after it dries with my old wax and I'm going to give it a good coat, I'm not going to wipe it off I'm just trying to make it look like wood and then I'm going to set it aside and let it dry and now I'm going to put the same old wax on these wooden rounds to dip into those beads.

I found it was easier to pop the brush straight up. and down to make sure you get into all those cracks and crevices and then I'll go back in with a cloth or you can use a paper towel and just spread that on and mix it really well and it'll give it that nice antique look so I did this on the whole piece. Now you want to make sure that when you add the beads you don't put too much extra glue because the wax won't stick to the glue and you really don't want to be able to see that extra glue.

This is what it looks like. I'm going to make sure they are dry before I join the two pieces together. I'm going to use some e6000 and some hot glue. I'm going to put four dots of e6000 facing each other because I don't like mixing my e6000 and hot glue for some reason, it just doesn't work well if you mix the two together so that e6000 gives you that. long term permanent hold and hot glue will give you that temporary hold. I'm going to place the top of the chandelier on the bottom of the wood and now we have this beautiful riser, I think it turned out super cute.

I'm going to use one of these metal buckets that I bought from Dollar General for a

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and I'm just going to put some extra eucalyptus stems that I have lying around and then I can place this right on top of that. wooden elevator and I think it turned out so beautiful. I love this piece, it looks like a real antique wood piece. Let me know what you think of project number two and these cute little plastic garden fences from Dollar Tree and I wanted to take them down. corners, so I'm going to make a mark with my pencil to determine what I want this to look like on the top and then I'm going to take my ruler and draw a straight line through those tabs on the side, so I knew where to mark them.

I took a sharp knife and went in and marked the bottom parts of the fence and then went in with my scissors and cut them out. I thought the scissors would give me a slightly closer cut, but you can certainly cut them with the knife. I also cut the other one and then I'm going to go in on the side where those two tabs are and I'm actually going to mark it on the top part that I don't want. cut it all the way through because if I cut this it's going to leave a hole in there so I'm going to go in the back and cut a slit on those two sides of the tabs and then I'll be able to push that piece in and then it'll be nice and flush on the side and you won't have these two holes open, so once I push it in, I can go and do the exact same thing with the bottom one and here you can see I'm going to mark it on the outside so I can fold it over and get it nice and flush, then I can go in and I cut those tabs with my scissors and then I can use some hot glue and add it to the inside, which will be the back of the fence to hold it in place.

Then on the other side of the fence you have these tabs that connect these fences and you can just cut it with your knife and it won't leave any holes. You can just cut it nice and flush for the top part I want to remove. This is the back of the fence, so I'm going to draw a line. a little bit higher than the actual top of that curve of the fence because if I cut them on the line I drew on the front I realized it was going to give me a gap on that top edge, so what am I going for?

What I have to do is take my knife on the back of the fence and cut it until I can remove the top and you'll see in just a minute what I mean by leaving a little bit more on top. so you can push that in, I'm going to take my pencil and then I'm going to draw the line where I need to fold it or bend it and then I'm going to take my utility knife and mark what I don't do. I don't want to go through all the plastic, I just want to score it enough that I can take my pliers and bend it so now I have that top piece as the other part of this bow, so I'm going to go in with some hot glue and glue it in place because it's a pretty thick plastic and I didn't really want to hold it in place on its own, so I'm going to take the bottom piece that I cut from the fence. and I stick it there so it has something to stick to and I just put a good amount of hot glue between them and hold it in place and then I add a little bit of glue to the bottom so it stays in place and then you're going to do the exact same thing on the other side, so once I got the bottom piece to hold the top piece, I realized that those side pieces were going to stick out too much, so when I hang it on the wall, it would have one side sticking out more than the other one, so I just cut them flush and now it's ready to paint.

I'm going to use some Waverly Antique Wax, so I wanted to create the outside to look like wood. If I were to do this again, I would paint this entire piece with a little white chalk paint to give it a good base because the wax doesn't want to stick to the plastic. I was going for that wood grain. See, I was taking my cloth and wiping it down to give it more of a grain-like effect, but as I was doing that I was basically wiping off the wax, so I went ahead and kept applying that first coat thinking it through.

I'll let it dry and see how it looks and see if the wax will come off well after it dries. It didn't really look the way I wanted it to, so I reapply a second coat and with the second. layer, I don't wipe it off, I just leave it there, so if you put chalk paint as a base, or maybe a little bit of modification as a base, then you would just have to put one coat on there, I made sure that I also got those inside edges for Make it look like a piece of wood on all sides.

I put some wax on the plastic so this was after the wax dried and it wiped off very easily which made me think the wax was going to come off the outside so I went in with some mod podge and I painted over the whole part where I put all that wax and then since I didn't paint it to begin with, I'm going to go over all those white sections because this is a matte finish mod podge and it's going to make it look less plastic and more realistic, like this It's what it looks like after it's dry and it's so beautiful.

I love how this arch looks. I'm going to create a swag to go on the bottom and I'm using some eucalyptus from Walmart and I just cut the stems off the bundle and I'm going to put three of those stems on each side going in opposite directions. I'm going to attach these stems using a dollar

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floral wire and what I like to do is just take the second stem and overlap the first one right there at the bottom of the stem and then wrap my floral wire there really tight to If you're going to To recreate this, I would leave that extra floral wire in there and not cut it like I just did because you will need it to attach it to your bow.

I ended up having to use extra floral wire because I cut. I took off all the pieces and if I had left it there, I could have put it together. I did the exact same thing on the other side with the other three going in the opposite direction and then I'm just going to hold that there to make sure I have the length I want and determine where I need to connect the two pieces in the middle and then I can overlap them and join them together again with some floral wire, then you could take this now and attach it to the bow. and I'm attaching it to the bottom of each of those diamonds, so if you left that extra floral wire in there, you can skip this step where I'm going to have to add this extra one in there once I have all of that in place.

I'm going to create a loop to go right in the center. You don't have to create a bond. You can leave it as is. You can use any type of tape you want. I am using buffalo plaid ribbon from hobby lobby and to create my bow I simply create a loop the size I want and then I will create another loop at the bottom of the same size and then I will go to the side and do it again creating one loop at the top and the bottom and continue like this until I have three loops on each side, then I'll pull it really tight in the middle and then I'll take a piece of floral wire, go around it and twist it back really tight to cover the wire floral and give it a little. a little more finished look, I'm going to take asmaller piece of that ribbon and I'm going to glue it in thirds, so I'm just going to fold it halfway, glue it on and then repeat that and then I can glue this around my bun and it'll give it that nice finish.

Then you can attach your bow to the center of your booty with hot glue or some floral wire and I'm going to fluff that bow up nice and pretty. I'm going to stick mine on with a little bit of hot glue and let it sit for a minute and I think it turned out so beautiful. These real wood bows or mdf bows cost 40 or more online and you can create your own that looks so beautiful. a dollar dollar tree fence valentine posters I'm going to remove that burlap heart and then I'm going to take some sandpaper and go over that section, so again, if I had to do this over again, I would remove all the paper because I really wanted to use that side so I could have those grooves there, those indentations, I gave it a base coat of my Waverly white chalk paint and painted the whole piece, so while that's drying, I'm going to use some of these larger boxes from Dollar Tree and I'm just going to use the tops.

I'm going to use three of those lids as well as some giant craft sticks from Dollar Tree, so I'm going to take six of those craft sticks, line them up and then I can place my lid on top of that and then draw my lines for each side to know where to cut them. I like to go in with my knife and mark each of those lines before I go in with my scissors and cut them because that will just help prevent chipping or splitting and cracking and you'll get a nice even cut. So I'm going to take some hot glue and attach all six to the top of this lid now I won't. too worried about the design on the inside because you won't really see it, so I'm going to take some sandpaper and go over those outside edges and you just want to make sure you try to keep it as level as possible when I'm adding those craft sticks to the edges exteriors.

I'm going to make the other two tops exactly the same way. This is what the sign looks like after it has been painted once. I'm going to go over it with my antique wax and I'm going to make sure I get to those indentations in the front, so this is what I mean when I said I wish I had taken the paper off because I'm taking my fabric and I'm going to just create that wood grain look and as I'm doing this the l, v and e are bleeding so I go in with a second layer but you can still see it but it's okay I mean once we get this all together.

You won't really see it, but you wish you had removed the paper. I used antique wax on all of those lids and went inside just because you'll see the inside edge, but you won't see it. When I saw that design, I took my tape measure and marked two and a quarter inches and then nine and a half inches and then 16 and a quarter inches on both sides so I knew where to place each of these trays, so I used my ruler and lined it up where it already had placed my markings and then I'm going to use my e6000 and hot glue and place these trays on top of the sign in those three sections that I had already marked once I have them in place to reinforce this I'm going to go in with my staple gun and place two staples on each of these to staple those trays to the side, once I have them in place I'm going to create a hanger for the back and I'm going to use some nautical rope from Dollar Tree and some hot glue and then I'll go in with some extra tape that I have and I'll put some hot glue on it and put it in place just to give it a little bit more security now.

These are some of those really cute buckets from Dollar General. They have white, black, navy blue and silver. They are so adorable for only a dollar a piece and I also love the fonts they have. Now you can use this shelf or this pendant. sign we have in your craft room and I will put craft supplies on it. I'm going to use mine and I'm going to decorate it with some flowers and I'm going to use some green lavender and then some lavender with flowers and I think These came from Walmart. I'm going to put them in the white cubes and then I'm going to use this white hop clover and put it in the black cube and they turned out so beautiful I love how it turned out.

I think I'll create another one so I can have two and then place them on opposite sides as a centerpiece on the wall. This wooden plaque sign from Dollar Tree. You can find it in the Crafter Square section and I'm I'm going to go ahead and remove that hanger and then I'm going to grab some 150 grit sandpaper and you can also find it in a package at Dollar Tree in their hardware section and I'm going to sand this entire piece because it has a lot of rough edges once I sand it, I'm going to go ahead and clean it up and then I'm going to take my Waverly white chalk paint and give it two thin coats to allow it to dry. between coats and I go ahead and paint this entire piece as well as the outside edges, once that's completely dry I'm going to grab my black oil based marker, you can find them at Hobby lobby and I'm going to go around the outside edge of this sign and once I finish going around the edge, I'm going to emphasize around the curves on the four parts, the outer parts and I'm going to thicken those lines, there are those curves.

I'm just going to thicken it up to give it more definition and give it more character. Once I've finished it, I make sure it's dried before moving on to the next step. I'm going to use some of these. Dollar General letter stickers and you can get them. I think they're about two dollars a pack and I love the way those letters are shaped. I'm also going to use some letters from Walmart. I think you can get them in a package. They're three or four dollars for six pages and then I'll also use these little half pearl stickers from Dollar Tree and they have these little stretchy pieces on them, so I just cut them out and then I'm going to paint each one. one of those pearl stickers with two coats of my black chalkboard craft paint and then I'll set them aside and let them dry.

I grabbed some painter's tape and I'm going to use this as a guide to I can line up my letters now, a sweet viewer of mine suggested that you put them on the tape and then you could place your decals on there, but I didn't feel very comfortable doing that, no I thought I would be able to get them. the tape with the stickers so I just cut out my stickers and lined them up where I wanted them to be to make sure everything was centered and then I peeled each one off and just used my painter's tape as a guide to line up the bottom of each sticker and then I always like to start in the middle to make sure I have enough room to go around each of those letters, once I have them all in place I'm going to lift up the painter's tape and push those bottom pieces down and then I'm going to reuse the same painter's tape and I'm going to put it on the bottom of the sign so I can add those Walmart stickers, so I'm going to line them up again using this as a guide and then I'm going to start in the middle and I'm going to go ahead and apply my decals right there on the bottom top of the tape and I'm going to spell open 24 7.

Not now, these decals don't have any character. they only have the letters and some numbers so I used one of the l's to use as a slant between 24 and seven then I can push them all down and remove the tape and then push the bottom pieces down once I have all the stickers. there and everything is aligned. I'm going to go over this with some matte mod podge just to seal those stickers and also take that shine off, it'll give it a nice matte finish and then you'll want to make sure it dries before you take the hot glue and add those little pearl stickers to each side of this sign and I think that gave it an elegant touch to create the hanger.

I'm using some black tape from Dollar Tree and I'm just going to take the painter's tape, wrap it around the ends and twist it really tight so I can thread it through the holes at the top of the sign, once it's past both sides, I'm going to tie a knot in each of them and then I can cut the extra painter's tape and then to secure it even more, I'm going to take my hot glue and go under that knot to hold it in place, so I will cut That extra painter's tape and then I just lift up the knot and put a little bit of glue on there and then I pull the hanger off the front of the sign so that the knot seals the glue in and then this little project is complete, I think it's so beautiful that will look so good hanging on my pantry door.

Let me know what you think about using the dollar tree sign and I'll go ahead one more time and remove the hanger and then I used my hair dryer to heat it up and loosen some of the glue holding the paper on the front and just held it in one place until that I was able to loosen the glue a little and then peeled off the paper now that I could. To get most of this paper off of the little bits that I couldn't remove, I just took my sandpaper and sanded it nice and smooth, so now this is going to become the back of the sign and our back will become on the front of the sign, I'm going to give it two coats of my Waverly white chalk paint again, letting it dry between coats and making sure to get those outside edges now that I didn't paint the back because I'm going to hang mine, but I made sure I had the sides, then I took my ruler and again my oil based marker and I just lined it up where the grooves are and I drew a line to create some wooden planks and I did it down the three grooves, then I took the same wavy white chalk paint after the oil based marker was dry and a chippy brush and I dry applied each of these lines to give it a nice realistic look instead of just a few lines that were drawn.

There, I grabbed my um cricut and went to the cricut design space and created a decal. Now I know not everyone has a cricut so I have this as a free printable on my website which is in the description box below so if you would like I would like to go there and print it out. You could certainly track this in your project and I also have the fonts I used in the description box below and the chicken there. It was just a free image on Google that I just downloaded, so off I went. I went ahead and applied my decal I guess this is called buffing I'm not very familiar I'm really new to the cricut and I went ahead and got out my transfer tape and then you could leave this to set up but I'm I'm going to go ahead and create a hanger for mine and I'm going to use the same black ribbon that I used on the first project and the same method to thread it through those holes and then tie the knots on the back and then glue them together. down and I love how this side turned out, it's so beautiful, I just love it and again, you can set this up and not put a hanger on there, you can fill those holes or you can hang it however you prefer, again, let me know.

What do you think using three of these dollar tree signs? I thought they were real wood, but they're not, they're MDF and I'm going to grab one of those and go ahead and mark my measurements. I'm going to cut these two pieces to seven inches, so I'm going to use that sign and cut two 7-inch pieces. The other two pieces will become the outside of my staircase, so I'm going to cut two. inches away from those, so both pieces will be 16 inches long. Now you can use a handsaw or whatever you have on hand. I'm going to go ahead and take mine outside and use my miter saw to cut them off now that I have them. two 16 inch pieces and two seven inch pieces and now I'm going to take my measurements for the angles.

Now you can skip this part and leave them straight, but I wanted mine to be able to rest against the wall, so on the top left. corner of the hand I'm going to measure over a quarter of an inch and then I'm going to measure an inch down an inch and this will give me an angle for the top of this towel ladder to rest against the wall, so once I have my one inch measurement marked, I can take my ruler and draw a line between the two measurements so I have a guide for where to cut them and then on the same side of this same sign.

I'm going to go all the way down and create the angle for the bottom of this ladder, so I'm just going to measure on the left side a quarter inch and make my mark and then I can plug in that quarter inch. mark an inch on the right side corner and draw my line to make my guide and you're going to want to do the exact same process for the second sign so they're both the same and match up so I'm just going to take them outside and cut them out and once I get them I've cut, I just like to line mine up on top of each other to make sure all my angles are the same and everything looks exactly the same with those two pieces.

Now I'm going to drill some pilot holes and these are going to become the outside pieces of the ladder and the way I installed mine was so the text would be on the inside so now I turned it around and these are going to be the parts outsides of the staircase and I'm going to go ahead and measure where I want to drill my holes so that the first hole is three and well, I started with three and a half, I changed it to three and three quarters, so no, it's three and a half. Sorry guys, it's three and a half inches from the top and then you'll want to center it so it stays. about an inch up and the second measurement is nine and a half inches downfrom the top and then again one more inch to center it and I'm going to make the same measurement on the outside of the other piece as well.

I'm just measuring from top to bottom, so this is where our two pieces will hold the middle pieces of our ladder, so I wanted to find the center point on each end of the middle piece of the ladder so they are two inches wide , so they're going to be an inch wide and then they're going to be an inch thick, so they're going to be a half inch and you're just going to make those center marks on each end of those two pieces, then I took my drill with a drill bit to go ahead and just drill these pilot holes now the purpose of drilling them is so I can line them up with the outside pieces but also to prevent them from splitting and cracking now I didn't use the correct size drill bit for the screws I'm using a smaller one so you definitely want to make sure Make sure you have a drill bit big enough for the screws you're using because if you don't, they'll split and I'll show you that in just a minute. what I'm talking about so I'm going to go ahead and drill those outside pieces as well and do that for both of them and then once I've drilled all the pilot holes I can assemble this piece and I'm going to use two inch wood screws to put them together, so now that I have these two outside pieces, I'm just going to turn them around so you can see what the front of the staircase is going to be and then I could put in my treads. or pieces there in the middle and then I'll take my two inch wood screw and I'll go ahead and drill that outside hole for the outside of the staircase until I get to that point so I know where to line up that middle. piece and then once I line them up I can go ahead and drill it, so this is where I'm going to show you that I didn't have a big enough drill bit because the first piece I put in cracks and splits, but it's okay, I can still use it because it's still pretty safe, but just to avoid that you want to make sure you have a big enough bit so you don't have this problem and see it cracked and split correctly. there on the two outer edges on that side, but again it's pretty sturdy, so I just went ahead and used it, but I went ahead and changed my drill bit and went over all those previous holes to make them bigger once I had those larger. big ones, I went in and added the second piece in the middle of the staircase and it worked perfect so this piece didn't crack or split so learn from my mistake and then you won't have this big crack at the top.

I can go ahead and add my other outside piece by doing the same thing, drilling those two inch screws in there and after you drill them out, if you used a big enough drill bit, you can skip the next step because hopefully it won't. I have cracks or splits, but since I have them and I wanted it to be nice and smooth and finished looking, I'm going to take some putty and fill those cracks and then once the putty dries, I'm going to go in and sand that down so nice and soft and then it will look like it was never there, but it's pretty sturdy.

I mean, you know it's only going to hold a few towels, so once I have it all sanded, I'm going to grab some burnt umber in an apple barrel shape. acrylic paint and I'm going to paint this whole piece with one coat and let it dry and then you can leave it as is, but I wanted mine to have a nice weathered wood look so I'm going to take some water and some wavy white . chalk paint and I'm going to mix it in a 1 to 1 ratio and I'm going to mix it really well and then I'm going to take a brush and go over this piece.

Now these outer pieces had a rough texture. for them I'm guessing it's the type of mdf they used so I go in after I put my paint in there and I take a lint free cloth and I wipe it off so I did this for the whole piece and I love how the outside edges came out because they didn't It had that texture like the one you have here on the front. Look, it just turned out very beautiful and weathered wood looking with that white wash, but those front pieces had a bubble look to them that I wasn't too excited about, so I go in with my chip brush and a little more of that paint. burnt umber acrylic and I'm going to dry brush the front and back of this piece to give it a little more wood. look instead of that bubbly kind of that paint formed on the mdf, so I'm just going to dry the brush on that and then before the paint dries, I'm going to take my cloth, my lint-free cloth, and I'm going to go over it lightly. . in one direction and kind of smearing it to give it some lines that look like wood and then once you've finished all of this and it's completely dry, this project will be finished and I love how it turned out, I think it's very beautiful and it will look so good sitting on my kitchen counter with a dish towel on top.

It's just a nice decorative piece. Let me know what you think. Start with two of these Easter signs again. I'm going to go ahead and remove the hangers. and the trims on the front once I've taken them off, I'm actually going to turn them over. The front of these sides will become the back and the back will become the front once I have them in place, so I'm going to go in with my favorite gray chalk paint, which has an art deco chalk finish . You can find it in Hobby lobby. Sometimes you can find it on Amazon.

I'll try to link it in my Amazon store. Sometimes they don't always have this. gray, they may be a lighter gray once you give them that coat of paint and the paint has dried. I'm going in with just some quart paint stir sticks. You can find them at Lowe's for 30 a pack. To start by drawing a straight line on the end so I can cut those rounded edges, I like to use a knife and score mine and then come back with a pair of scissors and cut it to prevent splitting and cracking. Once you have a piece, cut the two ends of the rounded piece.

I'm going to place my second piece on top to determine where I need to cut the top piece so we can create borders for our doors once I have that. marked, I'm going to mark it and cut it out like I did with the first pieces, and then I'm going to go in and do the exact same thing for the other side, so you're going to use two craft sticks on each side and then I'm going to go. I'll go in and do the bottom as well and I'll just grab one of the craft sticks. I actually cut it a little bit shorter than a full craft stick and then I can go in and gather it at the bottom and do the exact same thing.

I sew on the top and I always try to make sure everything fits before I move on to the next piece to cut, once I have the top piece cut and I have everything laid out then I can go in and start working on my cross. pieces in the middle, I'm just going to take two of the craft sticks, the full size craft sticks, and hold them in place. I'm going to do x for my barn doors, so once I have them lined up, I can take my pencils and mark the corner there on the bottom so I know where to cut that and then I'll do the same on the top.

Now I went ahead once I finished this and cut the edge off both ends. just that rounded piece, um, but I'm not going to glue anything because I'm going to go in and paint it and I know they're not going to line up perfectly and that's okay because these pieces here are going to be cut again later. so I can combine my x, but I just wanted to be able to design everything first, then I'll use two more craft sticks to create the other part of the x and do the exact same thing. my marks with my pencil and then I go in with my knife to mark them and my scissors to cut them once and I'm not going to cut the ends of these off yet, once I have everything cut out I go in with my pencil and label each piece because I'm going to paint the front, so I want to make sure I know exactly where they go, so I'm going to grab my Waverly white chalk paint and give these craft sticks a good try. paint cut all over the piece including the outside edges and I'm going to let the paint dry so once the paint is dry it's time to put this together and I'm just going to stick them together with some hot glue and I'm going to start in a corner at the bottom and go ahead and add my side pieces and then I can add my bottom pieces and just fill everything in with my hot glue and then for those cross pieces for the x, I'm actually just going to hold it there first I want to make sure everything lines up before I make any more cuts or glue anything together.

Once I have that long piece for the two ends that I didn't cut, I can go in and mark it with my pencil. so I can cut out the ones where they meet perfectly right in the middle and don't worry if you have some little gaps because we're going to go in and fill them in once I have them in place, then I can glue them on. in place so I can go in and make my marks for the other part of the x and of course while you're doing this, we created two doors, so you're going to do the exact same thing with craft sticks on the other door. once I have them marked in place I can go in and glue them on after cutting the end pieces, once I have everything glued and lined up and I went ahead and made my second door as well, I like to have a little more of a finished look , so I'm going to start with some putty.

You can use wood filler, whatever you want, but I'm going to go in and fill all those cracks that I'm trying to get. Be careful not to get my gray paint on it and I'm going to do that for both doors once I have all of that there and my caulk has dried, I go in with some sandpaper and sand all of that down before I go in. and paint those pieces that I already put in putty. I'm also going to paint the outside edges of each of my signs and also go over and touch up the paint where I filled everything in with putty and that's it.

To give it that nice crisp look and everything will look finished and polished once all the paint has dried, I want to cover the back of each of these pieces so that it again has that finished look and I'm going to cover This I did using a some craft paper and I just cut my craft paper a little bit bigger than my sign and then I'm going to use a little bit of hot glue to put this together, spread it all out and make sure it's nice and smooth and then I can go in with my scissors and cut all that out. extra craft paper again.

You'll do that for both doors, then I'll set them aside. I'm going to use two accounts. Now I collect my accounts. in a very large Amazon bag that I've linked in my Amazon store if you're interested and I'm showing you four rotating tower pieces, but you're actually going to need six and then these are the puzzle sets that I'm I'm going to use four of those, but you want to make sure you get four with the holes on opposite sides of each other because some of them have holes in different places, so make sure you get four with the holes on opposite sides, then I'll go in and paint each of these all over sides with my black chalkboard craft paint, then I'll take the puzzle piece.

I'll make sure to have the holes on each side of one of the rotating tower pieces. to put a little bit of gorilla wood glue right in the center, on top of that puzzle piece, put a little bit of hot glue on it and then I'm going to place my spinning tower piece right on top of it so it's flush with the top and your holes are on each side at the top and I'm actually going to create four of those, these will become the top pieces of our door. Now I'm going to grab one of the flag poles from Dollar Tree.

These things are very easy to break. I thought I was going to need some pliers but literally those little extra pieces come off right away so I took out the bottom piece and then the top piece that has the hook on it, I'm just going to take that off and put all my little pieces away because I might want to use them on a different DIY. Now I only have one long rod left. So I'm going to put my doors together taking the pieces we made with the puzzle and the rotating tower piece. I'm going to place one. on each corner making sure it's flush on the top and the sides and I'm just going to hot glue them together so I made sure to put a little bit of hot glue on the top and you're just going to rest that piece right on the same on top, but make sure it's flush with the outside edge of the door and I'll do the exact same thing on the other side and I'll also do the same thing with the other door so that each door has two of these. at the top and this is what we're going to hang or what we're used to hanging our doors with and then since I'm just a little bit more into adding the handles, I like to measure it, I wanted to make sure they were both on the same place, so I made a mark for where to hot glue my handles and that's just two of those rotating tower pieces, then I can put my rod through the beads on the back and add my doors to each side and what I love about this piece is that you can move it, it doesn't have to remain stationary to finish the ends of the rod.

I'm going to use those beads and I'm just going to put a few. stick hot glue inside the bead hole and then slide it to the end until the rod reaches the end of the otherside of the bead but don't stick out at all and I'll add one to each end and then this DIY is finished. I love this piece. I love how it turned out. I have mine hanging from some command strips. You can move them. You can put a crown in the middle. I love the fact that you can take the crown. You can close the doors, you can move them.

I love how it turned out. I'm using one of these metal planters from Dollar Tree, as well as some giant craft sticks. I'm going to hold the first craft stick on top. and then I'm going to take my pencil and I'm going to mark the outside edges of the pot and then I'm going to take another craft stick and I'm going to place it on the bottom and I'm going to do the same thing marking my outside edges on the bottom and then I'm going to take a box cutter or a knife and I'm going to to mark each of those pencil marks and then I can go in with my scissors and cut them out, so I like to mark them because it helps prevent them from splitting and breaking sooner.

I cut them with the scissors once I cut those pieces, I do it again. I always like to hold it up and make sure it fits before I attach it to the piece, so I'm just going to attach it with a little bit of hot glue. and I'm going to do the exact same thing on the bottom piece, so for the top I just made sure I pushed it right under the edge and that I had each of the outside edges flush, then I'm going to add my bottom piece and then I'm going to take another stick of crafts and I'll hold it at an angle and then I'll just look at this, I'll just trace where the bottom of the top stick is and the top of the bottom stick and then I can make my marks. and I'm going to cut them the same way, so I'm going to cut all of these craft sticks exactly the same way, marking them and then cutting them with my scissors, once I'm sure they're going to fit, I'm going to glue them in place. then I'm going to take another craft stick and do the exact same thing on the opposite side of this same piece and once I have them marked, I found that it was easier if I held it to the side so I could line that up and draw my marks once I have it glued in place, then I'm going to grab two more craft sticks.

You will need a total of six craft sticks for each side to create my x. to make sure I leave the edges on the corners so those edges line up with the corners where the other sticks attach and again, I'm just going to look at it and mark my angles and then I can cut them out so I can I'm going to go ahead and glue one on. of them, but I didn't want them to stick on top of each other. I wanted to cut the space. You could glue them on top of each other because they would bend a little. but I wanted mine to have the cut in the middle so I drew the first one and made sure it was going to line up and cut it out and then I also went ahead and cut the other half and lined it up before gluing it. down, so once you cut one of them and make sure they're both going to line up, you can glue one down, just hold them both up there so that when you glue the top piece you know where your angle is.

It's going to be on the bottom and then it's going to stay in place and then you can go in and glue the bottom piece and make sure it lines up with the top piece. I hope that makes sense guys, and once it does. Once that's done, I'll go in and do the four sides exactly like I did the front, this is what it looks like after I've done the four sides. It's so cute and so

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style. I love how it looks. Then I took my hair dryer and set it to high heat. Now be careful because this is metal, but I'm going to try to make sure I remove all the glue strands before I go in and paint this with my Waverly white chalk. paint, so originally I was going to paint the entire exterior piece white, but while I was painting the wood, I loved how the metal looked, so I started making sure to take my time, so originally I wasn't really worried about putting the paint on on the metal, but then when I saw that I was going to keep that metal, I tried to be a little more careful, so to remove the paint from the metal I just used a Q-tip and a nail. nail polish remover and it took it off right away, I mean you have to rub a little bit but it came off right away and I think it's so cute, I love how that metal pops out of that white, I'm just going to grab one of the foam squares from the dollar tree, put it inside and then I'm going to decorate this with this beautiful bundle of really tall, beautiful grass from the hobby lobby.

It was on sale and you guys, I don't remember exactly how much it cost. I think it was eight dollars. but that was before the sale. I'm also using some baby's breath from Dollar Tree and some Spanish moss, so I'm just going to take out the little bit of moss that I have left, wrap it around the bottom of the grass package and then I'm just going to grab these beautiful , well, they invoke baby's breath, but they are cute little white flowers and I put them sporadically in my container and I think it turned out very pretty, let me know if you would have painted it all white.

These three adorable Dollar General signs for one dollar a piece are so cute they stink. I removed the metal hangers from the back by simply cutting them with my wire cutters and then took some pliers and pushed out if there were any pieces of wire stuck. top I pushed it down, this project is super easy but it turns out so cute I removed the hooks from all three pieces and then I took my Waverly white chalk paint and I'm really taking my time to get those inside edges and So as not to smear the paint of the chicken wire on the back, I painted the outside edges as well as the front and put two coats on the front of these three frames and then let the paint dry, they are so adorable. unite them.

I'm going to use some checker tape from the hobby lobby and I'm using my speed square so I can keep these three frames straight and try to get the same distance between the three frames and then I cut them off. I lowered four ribbons of the same length so I can attach them to the back of the sign using hot glue and I'm just trying to keep them all lined up like the top and bottom ones so it looks like it's one. continuous piece of ribbon on the back, once I have them in place I will use that same ribbon to create a hanger on top by simply gluing one side and then rolling it up and gluing the other side and again try to keep them lined up with the place where the same tape went down the images and this is so nice.

I love how this one turned out. Let me know what you think of this one. One more of these wooden pallets from Dollar Tree. I removed the stickers. and I'm going to attach two of these next to each other using a little bit of hot glue and I made two sets of two once I glued them together I went in and made sure to remove all the glue strands as well as any glue that might have been attached. seeping through those front parts of the slats because I'm going to be using some old Waverly wax and that won't cover the glue.

I applied the wax like I did with the previous DIY using a brush and then Using my lint free cloth and wiping off most of the wax, I also made sure to get the wood pieces showing through each of the slats, as well as the top and bottom edges of each of those slats. I also did the back. of these two pieces once the wax has set that's how they look so pretty. I'm going to create some hangers for these. Now I wanted one to go up and down and another to go sideways. I'm using jute twine to I created the hangers and I just tied a knot on each end and then I'll glue the knot to the inside of that slat, the back piece of the wooden pallet and then I attached it to the top back piece of the another one that goes Sideways, once I have my hangers in place, I go in with my hair dryer just to heat it up and remove any strands of glue that may remain.

Now I found these adorable metal stakes from Dollar General for a dollar a piece, they are so cute. The rooster says a chick rolls this chicken coop and the cow says work hard and be humble. I think they are absolutely adorable. I removed the hanger from the top with just a pair of pliers, bent it and then it will slide out as far as possible. like the stake at the bottom they are pretty easy to break, all I did was apply a little pressure to the bottom and then bend the stake back and forth and just wiggle it around until it pops off and I did exactly the same thing.

The best thing for the cow is to put them on my sign because they have notches on the bottom and I want them to stand out from the sign. I'm using some of these puzzle pieces from Dollar Tree which they also go perfectly with. the pallet wood stain I used and I simply held the cow there and lined up my blocks until they sat evenly without wobbling once I had the location determined for the blocks I attached each of those blocks to the pallet using e6000 and glue hot now I made sure not to mix my e6000 and hot glue because it doesn't seem to work as well if you mix them together and I applied it to the pallet and then put the glue on top of each of those blocks so I could place the metal cover on top and apply a little pressure until the hot glue sets.

I did exactly the same with the rooster. Now the e6000 will give you that permanent hold. and the hot glue will give it that temporary hold until the e6000 is installed again. I just lined it up to make sure it didn't wobble and then I glued each of those pieces together and then I glued the rooster on top of that and I think they're so cute. I love the color and the contrast between the wood, black and white. Let me know what you think. If you have a favorite, let me know in the comments below for the base.

I'm going to use one of these round wooden plaques. I think I bought this at Walmart for about a dollar after removing the tag. I'll also use four of the medium sized beads from this large pack I bought. from Amazon, which I will have linked in my Amazon store if you are interested. I'm going to use the beads to create feet for our base and I'm just going to attach them together using a little hot glue once I have all of those beads in place. Then I'm going to grab my hair dryer to go over it and make sure I remove any of those strands of glue before I apply my wavy white chalk paint, so this just took a nice thick coat and provided really good coverage.

This light wood I made sure to paint the entire piece including the bottom so I'm going to set it aside and let it dry for a moment and while it's drying I'm going to grab one of these 3D wreaths. They are formed from the dollar tree and come with these little silver aluminum type pieces that go on the top and bottom, so if you have never put them together before, all you have to do is place the rings in the desired location and then you will take those aluminum pieces and place them on top and you have these little tabs where you will fold the shorter side of the tab and then wrap around the larger side and do that for all those wreath shaped pieces once you have them all . of mine in place, I go back in with a pair of pliers and just squeeze those tabs into place to make sure they stay.

You'll also go to the opposite end and do the exact same thing, just making sure everything lines up once. You've got all those tabs in place at the top and bottom and I've made sure they're all tight and secured. I'm also going to use a little hot glue to add them underneath just to make sure. make it all stay in place and be very sturdy after the glue has set, then I'm going to go in with some nautical rope from Dollar Tree. Now I put this on wax paper just so the glue wouldn't stick to it. everywhere, but this nautical rope is going to separate into three strands, well, it's going to separate completely, but you can keep it in three different strands, so I'm going to take one of those strands, I'm just going to separate them all. one strand of all three and then I'm going to wrap this entire wreath shape with this nautical rope.

What I'm going to do is start with the hot glue and hold the end piece in place and then I can wrap it around the wire wreath all the way to the bottom and once it gets to the bottom you can just overlap it to go to the opposite side and create a sort of criss-cross pattern at the top and bottom. I also made sure to lower my first strand, I made sure to lower the little metal piece that comes from the top and bottom on the inside and I wrapped them as well, this is what it looks like after everything has been wrapped and you can still move a little the shape of your crown to shape the base.

I'm going to hold the form there and I'm going to make four marks so I can go in with my drill and drill holes so I can attach this wreath form to the base, so I'm just going to place it on some blocks of wood to make sure it doesn't go through my table and I'm just going to drill those holes and then I'm going to go in with some 18 gauge wire. This wire is pretty thick but it's also very flexible and you can pick it up at the hobby lobby and I'm just going to pull. a nice thread coming out from under the bottom and then I can hold my wreath form there and pull it through the wreath form and then go to the opposite corner and pull it back through the base like thisthat once I have the wreath shape set up, I can go to the opposite corner and pass it through and then once I've got it through the bottom, just make sure to pull it really hard once I've got it through so that it fits nice and sure, then I can twist them together and then I can go back through each other of the holes. and then back through the crown shape and then back down under the opposite hole and then once I'm past that one, I can twist it really, really tight at the bottom and make sure it's nice and tight and secure.

I'm going to stay on this base, so once you've squeezed and twisted all of that, I put a little bit of hot glue in there just to give it extra security and I put a very generous amount of glue and I let the glue dry and then I'm also going to I'm going to go to the top where the wreath shape meets the base and I put some glue there, so to decorate this I'm using some eucalyptus from Walmart and some baby's breath from Walmart. Using these beautiful purple and white dahlias and a really beautiful purple, they almost look like dollar tree daisies and a little bit of floral wire to hold them on so I just cut my eucalyptus from the bundle and it will give me four nice strands. take my floral wire and attach the bottom of the eucalyptus to the bottom of the wreath form and once I've twisted it nice and tight, I'm going to cut off that excess and then I'm going to take my pliers and push it down onto the nautical rope so it doesn't pinch your fingers or anything and then I did the same thing on top to hold that eucalyptus.

I skipped all the other ones so you have greenery on every other wreath shape and then I'm going to go in with these beautiful purple and white dahlias and if I say that wrong, let me know I'm going to hot glue them to the base, right on the bottom of the crown. form it on the bottom and I'm going to go around and do that on every other piece until it's nice and full in the shape I like, then I put the last one on the top that has that piece of metal. peeking out the bottom and I'm just going to lay it down and place it there and then once the glue sets, I'm going to go in with some of the extra eucalyptus leaves that came off the last little branch and I'm just going to take two.

Leave a piece and I glue it right under the wire wreath form, then I'll take the baby's breath and I'll cut off each of those branches and then I'll tie them together to make a nice long strand of baby's breath and I use about three of those and then I'm going to attach them to the wreath shape on the pieces opposite where the greenery is, then I'm going to take those beautiful purple daisies and I'm going to glue them in between the greenery pieces at the bottom of the base and then I'm going to go all the way around and I'm going to place it and then to give it something a little bit more on top, I'm going to take this decorative ball that's made out of branches.

I've had this for a long time, I believe. came from the target and I'm going to take one of those third strands that separate from the nautical rope and I'm just going to take out one of those strands that goes through the top of my decorative ball, I tie a knot and then I can tie that to that piece of metal that we've wrapped with the nautical rope at the top, I'm just going to hold that and that little piece of metal hangs from the top of the wreath, I'm just going to hold that. up to see how far I want it to hang and then I'm going to glue it to the top and wrap it around to have this really cute decorative ball of yarn hanging from the center of the wreath that you're on.

I'm just going to want to hold that in place until the glue set and then I'm also going to create a bow using some buffalo plaid ribbon that I have. I think this came from the hobby lobby. Yes, sorry, I can't remember if. I used the dollar tree or if I use the hobby lobby ribbon, so I'm going to hold it up to see how big I want my loops to be and I'm going to cut two strands or two equal lengths of ribbon. size and then two that are a little bit shorter than that and I'm going to create my loops on top and I don't remember exactly how far or how long the loops are, but I'm going to take the long one and then I'm going to put a short one on top and then I'll turn it over so the fabric color is the same on each side and I'll put the short one and then the long one on the bottom and then I decided I wanted a few more loops so I created a couple more the same size as the two shorter, so it'll be four shorter and two longer, and guys, I'm sorry, it's a little out of the frame and I hope that makes sense.

I'm going to pinch it just below the loops, take some of my floral wire and twist it under the loops. I'll cut off the excess sticking out from the bottom of the loops, but I'm going to leave the two longest ones and then two of the shorter ones for the tails and I linked the ends of those. I took the extra floral wire and attached it to the top of the wreath form and then you're just going to want to fluff that bun until it's nice and fluffy and pretty and then you can shape your tails by just curling them and this is how it turned out.

I think it's so beautiful. I love how it turned out using one from Dollar Tree. signs after removing the hanger on the back, I'm going to take my hair dryer and try to heat up the glue and remove most of the paper. What paper can't I remove? I sand it until I get a nice smooth finish. I removed the sanding debris and although I'm going to spray paint this piece, I wasn't sure how well this sign would take the spray paint so I'm going to give it a base coat like a primer coat of my Waverly White Chalk Paint , emphasizing mainly on the outside edges as well as the top I'm not going to worry about painting the top center because I'm going to cover it using one of the metal pots from Dollar Tree and I love the shape of this, I thought it would be perfect.

For this project I am also using one of the wooden squares that Dollar Tree sells in a six-pack. I placed the bottom of the pot in two corners, made my marks and used a hand saw to cut those two edges and sanded them. To get a nice smooth finish, I'm going to apply the pot to the top of the side so that the top of the pot now becomes the bottom of our scale and I'm going to apply it to the back edge leaving a little bit. away on the front and the two outside edges so a little bit of edge on the front and the two outside edges and you'll see in just a minute I'm attaching it with a little bit of e6000 and then I'll apply that piece of wood. at the top using e6000 because you can press the bottom of this well.

Now it's the top in and out. I wanted to make sure I had a nice, sturdy place to apply the top pins to hold the top. the scale I put a can of spray paint on there and let it sit for a couple of hours. I want it good about an hour to make sure it was glued using two one and a quarter inch dollar trees they are called bounce brushes or sponsor sponges I cut them to two inches each and sanded them nice and smooth you want to make sure that you have those very smooth and even ends so that the top of your scale is even when you put it on. together I'm just finding the center.

I'm not taking exact measurements on where I'm going to place those dowel pieces. I just wanted to make sure I could align them in the center somehow just trying to make sure they're in the same place I attach it using e6000 and again I'll put something heavy on this and let it set for about an hour or two and I'm just using one of the long dollar tree signs to set it up there so the e6000 set up for the top of the scale, I'm using one of the cake pans from Dollar Tree and a round wooden circle from Walmart.

These came in a pack of six. I think for a couple of dollars it was pretty rough, so I sanded it down. until it's nice and smooth and I'm going to apply it to the center of the bottom of the cake pan to not only provide some distribution of the weight of the scale, but I also wanted to make sure those pegs would stick so I thought I would adhere to the wooden dough instead of the metal cake pan using e6000. I applied the wooden part to the bottom of the cake pan and let it set now that the glue is somewhat hardened.

I assemble the top of the scale to the bottom using e6000 and I just center the cake pan as best I can on top of those pegs and then I'm going to put in some little paint jars that I have just to give it a little weight and then I let it sit overnight to make sure the e6000 was set up and wasn't going to come apart the next day. I took it outside and painted it with Krylon Fusion all-in-one paint and matte white primer. I gave him these two. thin coats of spray paint I waited about 20 minutes between the first coat and the second coat and then let it dry for about four hours before doing anything else with it.

I also made sure to paint under the cake pan because you can see it. that using one of the round plastic plates from Dollar Tree you get eight for one dollar. I gave it two coats of Waverly white chalk paint. The two coats are on the outside edge on the front and back, but I painted the entire front. the plate because even though I'm going to put something on top I wanted to make sure the color was consistent and you'll see the back of the outside edge of the plate so I made sure to give it two coats again using a damp wipe and my black chalkboard craft paint.

I went around the outside edge of this plate to give it that nice glaze wear look again, this just helps me get more precise placement of my paint with a shout out, sorry I'm doing the same thing. to the cake pan, I'm going to go around the outside edge of the cake pan and then I'm going to give it just a couple dots of a little bit more paint, like a bigger dot, to give it more wear. Glazed glaze look, make sure it dries and then I'll use a printable that I printed and also have on my website.

If you are interested, it will be printed at this size and I will crop it a little. larger than the actual image because I want to make sure I keep the entire black exterior of that printable intact before gluing it together using mod podge. I just put a nice even amount on there, sealed it and then I'm going to go over the The entire front of this board including the print with the matte mod podge, you're going to want to let it dry before you put it on your scale and I was originally going to put it on the bottom edge of the scale and it would look great. cute that way, but then I changed my mind and decided I wanted to lift it up a little more and cover those corners.

Let me know if you like it better on the bottom or top covering the corners. I attached this using some. hot glue and then this scale is finished. I love how it turned out. I always wanted one of those old looking kitchen scales, but they are very expensive. I made this one for four dollars. I love how it turned out. Let me know what you think. Start with three of these wooden drawers and I'm going to remove the drawer inserts and I'm going to use some of these gallon paint stir sticks. Now you can pick them up, no, they are quart paint stir sticks.

Sorry, you can buy them at Lowe's and you get 30 in a package for a dollar and they are nice and wide and have a really beautiful wood grain look. I'm just going to hold the front of the drawer. that has that heart there, line it up with three of those sticks mark them with my pencil, then I'll mark them with my pocket knife, then I'll go in and cut them with my scissors, so once you mark it with your utility knife, it really keeps it from splintering when you cut it with the scissors, then I'm just going to make sure that they're lined up and that they're even on the front of the drawer, then I'm going to sand each one of those down. pieces down and then again make sure they line up and that the drawer can open and close properly and doesn't have too many hanging edges.

I'm going to use my old wax again on each of these. pieces making sure to get all the outside edges as well as the front of the piece and then I will wipe most of it down with my cloth. I'll also make sure to use this same technique on the front of the drawers because if there's a little space between those slats with the craft sticks you wouldn't see the light colored wood, you'd see the dark wood, so I'll set them aside after making the three. those and I'll let them dry after it's dried. I'm going to take my gorilla wood glue and apply those three craft sticks to the front of the drawer to make sure everything lines up and then I'll set them aside and let the wood glue dry before handling the drawer.

Once I have them all in place, I will take the three outer parts of the boxes that the drawers came in and glue them together using wood glue and hot glue so that the wood glue will give it that permanent hold and the hot glue will give it that temporary hold once I put these three pieces together, I'm also going to use two of these wooden boxes from Dollar Tree and these have the notches on the front and the back, so I'm going to line them up and I'm going to glue them in the end again using my gorilla wood glue and my hot glue and now the front parts for the openings of thosedrawers as well as the All the openings for the boxes will be facing you and then you can glue those three drawers right at the top center of the two boxes.

Now I made sure they were flush in the front and you will have a little bit sticking out. on the back I am using one of the beautiful wooden dollar tree signs. I love the design of this and after removing the hanger I'm just going to line those two side pieces to the back of those three drawers and apply them again with my wood glue and hot glue and just line them up with the top edge of those three drawer pieces and then I'm going to hold them in place until the glue sets. Now I like a finished look, so I'm going to fill in all of these cracks with some caulk.

You can use wood filler. You don't have to fill them in at all, but I like to have a nice smooth finish. instead of having these seams or gaps in there, so once I apply all of this to all the areas that I want to seal, I'm also going to grab some of these wood beads. Now I bought them on Amazon, they came in a huge package with like 980 pieces and I mean it was like 15 or 16 dollars which I think is a really good deal and I'll have it linked in my Amazon store if I can.

I'm also going to take my putty and fill in one of the holes in each of these wooden beads to make sure they're nice and smooth once my putty has dried, I'll go over it with one of the sanding blocks from Dollar Tree and I'm going to sand everything nice and smooth, and I also made sure that I sanded those beads, so I'm going to go in with a cloth and make sure I wipe the sanding dust off of all the pieces and I'm going to take my Waverly white chalk paint and I'm going to give these two coats and I made sure to paint this entire piece, the inside of these drawers as well as the back and also the bottom.

Now, once you place the drawers, we can take our beads and apply them. to the fronts of the drawers to become the handles and I'm going to attach them with a little gorilla wood glue. Now I'm going to hold them in place for a few seconds after lining them up and pressing them firmly and then I don't want to fiddle with it until the glue sets. I didn't use hot glue because there wasn't enough room on the bead for the wood glue and hot glue, so you just need to make sure it dries completely first. If you can handle it, then I'm going to take some of the same scrapbook paper that I used in the previous DIY and this came out of one of these beautiful books that I bought on sale at Hobby lobby and then I measured the inside of the bottom two of the boxes and then I'll use my Cricut cutter to cut them out to make sure my design lines up again.

I always like to make sure it fits in there before I put it in. With any type of glue, I'm going to use the same matte mod podge, apply it to the back of those bottom two boxes and then I can place my paper there. I'll do the other side exactly the same way and once I've done it. On that second sheet of paper I can go in and add my mod podge to the front to seal them in. I think this paper is very beautiful and I love this white and wood and this beautiful pattern that I went ahead and decided to add.

This is also on the top of this piece, so I just cut a piece that was a little bigger than the top of this. We'll call it a shelf. Now I'm going to apply my paper there and then I'm just going to cut it as close to the edge as I can and then I'm going to go over it with the mod podge on the front again to seal it and then I'm going to set it aside and make sure my mod podge dried before I go in and sand off the excess so I took a sanding block and I went in one direction and I went all the way across the top of this piece until I sanded it nice and smooth and then I can reinsert my drawers and this shelf is finished this is it so cute, it would look so beautiful in a bathroom to hold it, you know, cotton balls, your nail clippers, your tweezers, you could use it as a decor piece, it's really beautiful, I love how this one turned out.

I found these cute three and a half inch by five inch wooden frames from Dollar Tree and I went ahead and picked up four of those. I want to remove the label on the bottom with the little screws and I'm going to do that for all four pieces. and I will set them aside and use them in another DIY. I went ahead and removed the sticker and then the backing, the glass and the jar from the inside of the frame, but make sure you keep the glass because we're going to be inserting that back into the frame after painting a little bit, I went ahead and grabbed some pliers and I removed the tabs holding the back of the frame on and it was very simple to do and like I said I went ahead and made this for everyone. four frames now I'm not going to worry too much about filling these holes I still want to put a coat of paint in there so I can reinsert my glasses.

I'm going to paint this with some Waverly white chalk. I painted and I just go ahead and put a layer on there. I really wanted to make sure I had those grooves so that when I put the glass back in there it's already painted and I don't have to paint around what I went. I went ahead and did that for all four frames and then you'll want to make sure the paint is dry before you reinsert those glass pieces to secure the glass. I'm using a little e6000 and also a little hot glue and I like it.

Putting my e6000 on a swab just helps me position it better and not have leaks or too much glue in one area. I'm going to put it in the corners and then once I have the e6000 in place, I'm going to go in with my hot glue and get in between where I put all the e6000. I'll try not to mix it because for some reason if you mix it it just doesn't stick as well once I have it in place, I'll go. Go ahead and put my glass back in and you want to press firmly but not too hard because you don't want to break that glass.

The glass is pretty thin and then I'll do that with all four pieces to reinsert that glass now. I'm going to assemble these four pieces using the e6000 and some hot glue and if you haven't guessed already, we're going to make a lantern and I love how this lantern turned out. It's so beautiful again. I'm just going to put a few. e6000 in about three places there and then hot glue in the middle and then I'm going to place this frame against one of the other frames making sure to keep where you inserted the glass on the inside of the flashlight that you're making.

I want to make sure the four pieces on the outside look cohesive and the insert for the glass is on the inside and I'll do that for the other frame, attaching it to the first frame we put in there so that two sides have just one picture frame and then two sides will have the edges of the other two, but once we complete this you won't even be able to notice it, it will look great now that they're not super sturdy at first, but once. You put all four pieces together and then the bottom and the top are very sturdy so I go ahead and apply that top piece and since I was taking my time and just trying to make sure everything lined up I only did one side at a time So, when I put my hot glue in there, it wouldn't have set before I could line up the other side and push it down, so once I have all that together, I'm going to set it aside and Now I'm going to start working on the bottom and top of the lantern and I'm going to use two of these Dollar Tree signs and I'm going to go ahead and remove those metal hangers from the back and I'm going to go ahead and remove the stickers also what I like to do with my stickers is take my hair dryer and heat it up a little bit to loosen the glue and then usually the stickers come off one of the posters that the sticker didn't want to come off too well so if that happens to you you can take a little of sandpaper and sand it nice and smooth then I'll go ahead and remove the inserts that are on the inside and one of them has this cute mdf heart on it which is cool because Valentine's Day is coming up so I think I could do DIY with it and I didn't realize it was there with a staple so I had to pull hard and then I realized there are two little holes in there so there was a staple in there and it's very easy to remove those staples.

You can use your pliers and take them out. I'm going to go ahead and set this one aside and start working on the top piece, so I'm going to use one of the wooden boxes from Dollar Tree I'm going to go ahead and remove the lid. I just need the box itself and I'm going to place this in the center of one of the signs and I'm going to use a little bit of wood glue as well as a little bit of hot glue again, making sure not to mix those two glues together and I just move on. and I put it in the middle of each section and then I put my hot glue in there and I'm just going to place it in the right place. in the center of the sign or try to center it as much as possible and then let the hot glue set.

I'm going to use some of these quartz paint sticks that come from Lowe's for 30 in a package for a dollar and If they were the perfect width for this, I'm just going to mark the edge of the sign on the stick and then use my scissors to cut them out and you always want to make sure you put it there and make sure. to line up and make it the size you want before you glue anything on, I also took some sandpaper and sanded those ends so they're nice and smooth, so once you know it's going to fit and it's the right size , I just use it. a little bit of hot glue right there on the edge of the sign and push the stick down and I'm going to do that on the opposite side as well for the remaining two sides.

I'm just going to take the stick and hold it up. and mark it on the edge of the craft sticks that are already there or you can also go around the corner of the wooden box and I'll go ahead and hot glue them on and do it on the opposite side. Also, again, make sure it fits before you glue it on, so if you have any cracks between the wooden box and the craft stick, that's okay because we're going to fill them in and you won't even be able to see them. and then once you get the other side down and glue it in place, I'm going to grab some premium putty and I love this, it dries in about 10 or 15 minutes.

I'll try to leave a link to that in my description box if you're interested, I'm going to use that to fill in all of these folds and cracks to give it a nice smooth finish and like I said before, if you have some space between your stick and your wooden box, you can fill it. You can also use a little wood filler with this if you want. I'm going to go ahead and make the bottom part of the other one because this is the top part, so you'll be able to see those edges once this lantern is assembled and I'm using that one. with a sticker on top so you can't see that sticker once we put it on top of the lantern you're going to let it dry, set it aside and let it dry and I also filled in the cracks on the sides of the lantern so it has a smooth and pleasant finish.

I'll go over it and touch up the paint once it dries and sanded it, so I gently took some 150 grit sandpaper and went over it and made sure. that everything was nice and smooth before I painted and I went in and covered up those two holes that were at the bottom of that sign. I didn't realize it at first, but I did go in and fill them in like Well, I took my Waverly white chalk paint and gave each piece two coats to allow them to dry between coats and painted the top and bottom of both signs so that are completely covered, now this piece will be the bottom part. piece and I'm going to set it aside and I'm going to finish working on the top piece, but I'm just showing you here how I've covered all that putty where we sanded it, so this is what it's going to look like once I put it on, but before , I'm going to go ahead and glue it on with a little bit of e6000 and a little bit of hot glue and I'm just going to put that, you know, in the corners there and then I'm going to come back after we set this up and we're going to make a handle, so I'm going to put that on all the little places for this e6000 to give it that permanent hold and the hot glue is just I'll keep it in place until the e6000 sets up and once I have all that there I'll just try to center it on the top of the top piece , so now you're looking at the bottom, so we're.

Actually putting the top of the flashlight there, so now it's upside down, but it was easier for me to see how to line it up. You'll have some overhang on two sides, a little more than the other two sides, so now. That's it together, I can go ahead and I can create the handle for the flashlight. I'm using one of these wooden beads and a book ring. They are both from the dollar tree, so the wooden bead came off one of those dollar tree signs. which had the cute hanger there, I'm just going to slide the bead in there and then I'm going to use a little bit of hot glue on each side to hold it in place and you want to make sure the glue has set and dried before you paint. this because you don't want to ruin the glue that you've put in there and I'm going to paint this with some black chalkboard craft paint.

I got this paint from Dollar General and it provides really good coverage, I only had to paint this once and painted the entire piece and then took the same black craft board paint and a nice clean damp clothand then I'm going to apply it to the paint and then I'm going to take my finger and I'm going to go over all the edges and it's going to give me some nice, nice lines to distress this lantern and I go over every edge, including the bottom piece, the bottom section of the lantern that we've placed on side once I have everything finished, will you? to make sure you let it dry before you put the top handle on there so the paint has dried on the handle and that's how I already went ahead and did all those edges on the bottom and we're not going to attach the bottom of the flashlight I'm just going to be attaching the handle and using it with a little bit of hot glue.

You just want to put a nice generous amount there in the center and then hold the bead in the glue until the glue sets so the reason we're. I'm not going to attach the bottom of the lantern if you want to be able to use an LED light, a battery operated candle and I recommend you use a battery operated one, not a real one, because there is no airflow there and that way You can change the batteries. You can change the sail. You can put greenery there. Whatever you want. I love how this one turned out and I hope you do too.