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Easter Crafts and Decoration
By Claire Lui
Here's our roundup of all things Easter related.
Related Topics: How-To | crafts | DIY | Easter | Entertaining | Holidays
Notes from a Flower Farm: DIY Valentine's Day Posies and Arrangements
By Katherine Anderson
How to make posies and small bouquets for Valentine's Day.
Related Topics: How-To | Green | Pink | White | Floral Design | crafts | DIY projects | Floral Arrangements | Floral Design | How-To | Marigold and Mint | notes from a flower farm
How to Press and Preserve Seaweed
By Karen Robertson
GD advisory board sealArtist Karen Robertson, known for her nature-inspired designs, shows how to transform seaweed into artwork that will remind you of the ocean's beauty for years to come.
Related Topics: How-To | Brown | Green | Red | Contemporary | art | crafts | DIY | garden design advisory board | How-To | Karen Robertson | ocean | sea | seaweed | summer
Notes From a Flower Farm: Summer Shells
By Katherine Anderson
Notes from a Flower Farm goes on vacation and gets inspired by the seashore's shells for her latest flower arrangements.
Related Topics: How-To | Blue | Green | Pink | White | crafts | cut flowers | DIY projects | Floral Design | flower arrangements | Katherine Anderson | Marigold and Mint | notes from a flower farm | Travel
DIY Sun Printing on Fabric
By Anna Laurent
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Sun printing on fabric lets you use the plants in your garden to create beautiful patterns, and the resulting fabric can be made into clothing or a framed work of art. We teach you how to make a cyanotype with step-by-step instructions.
Related Topics: How-To | Blue | White | Anna Laurent | art | crafts | Decor | DIY | DIY projects | fashion | How-To | interior design
Crazy Plant Trend of the Day: Window Box Car Bumper
By Claire Lui
A man who turned his car's bumper into a window box!
Related Topics: Ideas | Container gardening | crafts | crazy plant trend of the day | DIY | plants | window box
A Year of Dressing Locally
By Claire Lui
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Rebecca Burgess's Fibershed challenge—to wear clothes that are farmed, created, and dyed with materials made within 150 miles of her front door—takes the idea of living locally and buying American to a whole new level. We report on her project, including her garden of indigo plants grown to create natural blue dyes.
Related Topics: Ideas | Blue | Brown | Green | crafts | DIY | Eco-friendly | green living | indigo
Harvesting Color
By Katie Mendelson
We review Rebecca Burgess's new book Harvesting Color, a guide to making your own dyes from plants for yarn and fabrics.
Related Topics: How-To | Blue | Green | Orange | Pink | crafts | DIY | dyes | Eco-responsible | fibers | How-To
DIY Tree Lamp
By Anna Laurent
Anna Laurent gives step-by-step instructions for how to turn found wood into a magnificent floor lamp that's easy, inexpensive, and super stylish.
Related Topics: DIY projects | Brown | crafts | decorating | DIY | Eco-responsible | green | How-To | interior decorating | lamps | products
Flowers by the Yard
By Lise Funderburg
Print-on-demand digital fabric is the newest frontier is custom fabrics and now design-your-own textiles are affordable and easy with Spoonflower.com. Spoonflower's fabric can be created and bought by anyone in small or big lengths (the opposite of "to the trade"-only designs), making a bespoke DIY project easier than ever.
Related Topics: Products | Black | White | crafts | Decor | decorating | Fabrics
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