23 DIY Home Decor Ideas For 2023 🔨

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hi guys welcome back to the channel I

hope that you had an absolutely

incredible holiday season as you can see

I'm still enjoying the festivities over

here as many of you know it's

approaching my move out day of this

apartment which is crazy so I've just

left my Christmas stuff up until I

actually start packing which honestly is

right after I film this intro so that's

lovely more about that in next week's

video I also have a giveaway in today's

video which is so exciting I'll talk

about that in just a minute here but

today's video is cram packed with 23 of

my favorite DIY projects that I think

you guys should recreate in the year of

2023 if you are on the urge to DIY if

you need something to freshen up your

space you need a gift for somebody

whatever it might be really feel like

one of these projects can be a great

kind of starting point or maybe start

off your year with one of these DIY

projects sometimes I create these

projects and they just get buried within

YouTube and sometimes I like to just go

back and touch on them again and I'm

going to be redoing all the voiceovers

editing them up new again as well so it

kind of feels like fresh new content for

you guys I do have a couple newer ones

in here as well but 23 incredible

projects I am so excited for you guys to

check these out but I do have a little

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our first project

for our first project we are going to be

creating some large-scale artwork and I

love this project I reference it all the

time all I did was I went to Blick Art

Supply and pick up a couple of more

affordable paint brushes and acrylic

paints and I mix them together I got

some neutral tones but you can

definitely do whatever colors you would

like to and I also got some really large

canvases I believe these were 24 by 36

and I'm just painting abstract shapes on

these canvases so I'm just doing large

squares different shapes different

colors but really making them very

subtle I think that's the key to kind of

abstract artwork is creating subtle

color variation or I should say more so

for minimal abstract artwork kind of

creating that color variation under the

same tone is really nice and I love this

one in particular I added black for a

high contrast as well and I just created

these shapes on the canvas once that was

done I cut down some one by threes that

I got at Lowe's and I'm just going to be

framing off this canvas which really

adds such a custom look to this piece

for not a lot of money at all because

I'm just using some select Pine boards

and I believe they were around eight

dollars a board and I just used two for

each so I spent about sixteen dollars

per and then the actual canvas itself

was about 75 so I would say that you're

all in around a hundred dollars on this

project for one large canvas piece but

it's two foot by three foot on the wall

so I mitered the edges of all of the

pieces for the canvas and then I stained

it using some natural wood stain I just

wanted something very minimal very soft

to go with the color tones that we have

and since the canvas is stretched around

a wood frame you can just use a brad

nailer or some small nails and a hammer

to hammer in your frame on the exterior

of your canvas and that is how I finish

them off I just hung them up using a

laser level inside and this really made

an impact in Marco's apartment

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this next project has to be one of my

favorite projects of the year and the

top three for sure I actually found this

chair base at a thrift store and it was

like I think 25 so I ended up removing

the bottom of the chair base and I fixed

it up with a little bit of wood glue I

just love the rounded kind of spindle

bobbin look this is actually called a

Jenny Lind style chair if you were

curious so if you wanted to search that

it's l-i-n-d I gave it a wipe down as

well and then I went in with my

Universal bonding primer which is great

because this actually etches into the

surface a bit so it creates a really

great adhesion for your paint to go on

top of so I sprayed that on and then I'm

using a high shine enamel spray paint in

black and I just love an enamel spray

paint on something that has detail like

this I just knew with a high shine

finish that the balls would catch the

light and then they would just have such

a unique glow to them so I used a high

shine and then I actually picked up this

upholstery fabric at the fabric store

and it's kind of like a men's suiting

look I love it and it's in this amber

color with this red on top of it which I

feel like is a pretty daring fabric

option uh red it's kind of hard to work

with sometimes but I knew I was going to

use a lot of red in the space so I went

ahead and stapled this around the

exterior and then cut slits on the

corner here so I can just pull that up

and staple on the corner as well I just

think a staple gun like this is so key

if you are working on upholstery

projects or DIY projects in general it's

great to have one of these and they're

only really like 10 to 15 dollars for a

staple gun so I use that to staple that

on and I actually had the cushions

upholstered uh at an upholstery shop so

I didn't actually upholster the cushions

myself because it was like 75 to have

them both done I ended up spraying over

the entire chair base with just a glossy

high gloss finish and then this is what

the chair ended up looking like in the

space the red was really subtle and I

actually did red curtains as well and I

absolutely love the way that this chair

turned out it is so fun it photographs

beautifully it's extremely comfortable

and it's also such a statement piece

that really can completed and tied

together this entire living room

here is an incredible project that you

can recreate for like forty dollars and

it is such a cool record player so I

picked up this pressed plywood which is

actually the most affordable this is

like the Pressed that no one really

wants to work with but I loved the kind

of brick pattern of the wood I think

it's really interesting so I actually

got three of the same size and I'm going

to be cutting down one of them into

thirds so whatever yours is just cut it

down into thirds mine happened to be 15

inches so I'm cutting these down to 15

inch sections and you're going to end up

with three of those which are going to

be the kind of center pieces that

connect up our entire media console and

here I'm trying to figure out how far in

I want my record shelf and I actually

realized I wanted it about nine inches

in so what I'm going to be doing is

cutting nine inches off of one piece of

our wood so one of the full pieces that

we still have remaining we're going to

cut nine inches off so we're just gonna

be left with one actual full piece which

is going to be that bottom there and

then two of those 15 inch panels are

going to be on the sides so I'm actually

using my broad nailer just to hold it

together which makes it so much easier

to drill so I just added a couple brad

nails on either side so it wasn't

wobbling around and then I used to drill

to drill through some pilot holes that

were big enough for these two and a half

inch long wood screws that I'm using and

I'm using three of these on every joint

that we're attaching together so I added

both of those side sections then I

flipped it over and I'm doing the same

exact process to attach the bottom here

I'm just using the brad nailer to hold

the piece together temporarily and then

we're gonna go in with the drill and

just drill some pilot holes so that our

screws can go in and without splitting

the wood that's why we drill this pilot

hole so this is the shape that we have

here now we're going to go to cutting

down the legs I wanted these legs to

have an angle to them so I cut a nine

inch piece of wood for the height of our

legs and then I'm going in and I'm

actually going to be cutting one and

three quarters inch in on the bottom and

then two and a half inches in on the top

and then connecting those lines together

and repeating the same process but

inverting those measurements so that

we're able to create these angled legs

which really kind of references a lot of

mid-century pieces so as you can see the

legs are sticking straight up and down

and I want to fix this as well I want to

give them a little bit of an angle so I

just clamped both of the legs together

and then I'm using a ruler and starting

at the corner of the leg I'm going to

draw out to about a half of an inch

there you can kind of see that triangle

I'm going to be cutting off and I'm just

going to be cutting that off with a

circular saw then using some of these L

brackets to attach the piece so I didn't

have a pocket hole jig at this time so I

was just using a 90 degree L bracket and

some screws so I just drilled those into

the legs which are totally fine because

my friend Louis actually still owns this

piece I gave it to him after I completed

it and it's in his entryway of his

apartment it looks incredible every time

I go over there it just looks like an

Urban Outfitters piece that was like 200

so I'm going to be screwing this to the

bottom and I'm using two brackets on the

inside one on the exterior so it doesn't

show Once you flip it over and this is

what the piece looked like of course we

had to give it a little bit of a stain

and for this particular one I'm going to

be using some early American for a

little bit of a Rustic Touch but still

channeling that mid-century warmth that

I really love and something about this

wood just stains absolutely beautifully

I love the different kind of checkered

panels in here and you can just see the

different cuts of wood throughout which

really isn't desirable I guess in other

projects but in this one in particular I

think it really adds a design feature

and it works in our favor because this

is a more affordable piece of wood which

is great so I stain the entire piece

including the legs and this is how the

record console ended up turning out

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this project was probably my biggest hit

of the entire year and I love this one I

mean a lot of you guys love that as well

when I shared it here on YouTube I

actually used one of these Ikea side

tables and I took the top off of the

side table and put it on the bottom

because we're going to be turning this

into a really cute little cat bed or

like a small dog bed so I picked up a

roll of 24 inch wide cane Rattan from

the local cane and basket supply shop in

Los Angeles I love going there the lady

that owns it is so so sweet so if you

ever pop in let her know I said hello

and I'm going to be cutting this to the

exact height of the table so here I am

marking that and next what I'm going to

be doing is creating a little bit of a

template for our opening for our little

dog or our little kitty to go inside of

their pet cage in so I folded that paper

in half and I'm drawing out an arch

shape you can draw whatever shape you'd

like to but I think an arch is really

nice since this is a rounded table so I

drew that out just very roughly and then

I'm using a pair of scissors to chop

that out the reason we folded it is that

once we cut this and open it it's going

to be symmetrical on either side so you

can just fold that up and adjust it if

you need to with your scissors I'm going

to cut these Frayed Ends off of the

Rattan and then we're going to be able

to kind of start mapping out where we

want that opening to be so I'm going to

be placing mine in the exact center that

way the seam of the Rattan is on the

back side so I'm going to be using a pen

to Mark around our template and then use

some scissors to cut that out

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once that was cut I was thinking about

using this piece of Reed spline to glue

around the actual Arch shape until I

freaking broke it which wasn't planned

um I started bending this and it ended

up essentially snapping right there so I

decided to go an alternate route and

just use some macrame cord and I just

did three pieces of it together I just

wanted to finish off this edge here and

it also is a little sharp the Rattan so

just make sure to get some of that hot

glue on that edge so it just kind of

softens it a bit so I glued that all the

way around the exterior of our opening

and then we can kind of work on the top

here so as you can see this top that I

picked up at Lowe's is not the exact

size it's like a quarter inch too large

so I'm going to give this a really

custom look and figure out where we're

going to need to dremel out just these

little slots for the top of this table

to insert and I love how this is

originally a tray table because it holds

a tray and now it's going to be holding

this piece of wood and almost really

look intentionally like it was designed

as a piece of pet furniture so I'm using

a Dremel to just Dremel out those holes

and look how satisfying that looks once

you insert it I just think that looks

great and then I'm doing a little fit

check here making sure that our Rattan

wrapping is working great which it is

and I'm going to be cutting this to the

height so I just went ahead and kind of

marked that to the height of where I

wanted this piece to end and then I'm

wrapping this around again to figure out

how we're going to be attaching this and

I figured out the best way to attach it

was to actually add some of this Reed

spline on the bottom which is about a

half of an inch that's going to finish

off our Edge but it's also going to give

us an area to add a bunch of hot glue

that we could glue around the bottom of

our piece

you can kind of see here with the hot

glue gun that you can just add it on the

back side and then that piece of wood

that we added on the front which is

really flexible is just covering that up

so it gives us an area to glue it to the

tray on the bottom and then on the back

side I'm going to be cutting these

pieces together at the same time which

is a little challenging but once you get

it you are good because this is going to

be a perfect nice little seam which I'm

going to hot glue over the top with the

same Reed spline if you go to the basket

supply store or if you look up basket

supplies online this is like a 5 8 inch

read spline is what it's called and it's

pretty affordable so they come in strips

but I just think it really finishes off

the piece and makes it look complete so

I also added one on the inside so the

steam wasn't visible there and of course

in the end we needed to do a poly

acrylic coat you could stain this if you

want to but I just ended up doing just

kind of like a clear top coat over this

piece and that is how I finished off

this little pet bed and on the inside I

popped in some boucle fabric for our

little pet to sleep on

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super easy yet expensive looking piece

of decor for your shelf or coffee table

so I'm starting out with some clay and

I'm going to be rolling this out into a

long long long long long long

piece that's about half of an inch wide

we are actually going to be creating a

clay knot which is just kind of like a

sculptural element that you can put on a

shelf or on your coffee table I love

them and they're totally customizable so

as you can see I keep rolling this out

and the best method for Rolling is to

spread your fingers as you're rolling if

you could see here I'm kind of spreading

my fingers as I'm rolling the piece it

gives you a lot more control and once

you have your piece probably around 24

to 30 inches in length I'm going to fold

it in half and we are going to be tying

this in a simple little knot so just

very kind of delicately forming this

into a knot shape and the weight and

kind of the movement of the clay really

creates such an organic looking knot

once you get it tied as well like how

great does that look so you don't even

have to maneuver it that much I cut off

the ends to create the kind of finish I

wanted it to look like smoothed it out

and then I'm popping this in the oven

for about 30 minutes until it's complete

and hardened so once I brought this out

I'm giving it a coat of a terracotta

spray paint which also was a huge huge

hit we love the Terracotta spray paint

over here on loan box really creates

kind of a rustic look with just a can of

spray paint which is crazy and it dries

so just kind of rusty and the perfect

shade of terracotta

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I absolutely love creating these rugs

I've done multiple on the channel I'm

starting off with this rack lab Ikea rug

which has the woven kind of strands in

it and I actually pulled the woven

strands out of this one in particular

because I just wanted to have a jute

runner at the time and they didn't have

one in the size that I needed and I also

kind of like how this jute in particular

isn't super chunky it kind of has a

softness to it which I love so I wanted

to follow this vintage Kilim style

design which is super simple I'm going

to be masking it out with some tape and

I figured buying tape at the width of

which I wanted my actual kind of bricks

to be would be the easiest way to do

this so that's exactly what I did I

think this was like a two inch wide

piece of tape and I just cut and created

the exact shape across the front using

some green frog tape because once you

have the shape fully created you could

bring it outside and use your favorite

spray paint or fabric paint to give this

rug a new life so I actually thought I

was going to go in with this white spray

paint and give it kind of like a tone on

tone look I really really thought that

was going to look great but when I

brought it inside after giving it like a

good dousing of this can of spray paint

I used the entire can I brought it back

in and I started peeling off the pieces

and it was just way too tone on tone

like I couldn't even see the pattern at

all it probably would have been pretty

cool in the end if I took it all the way

off but I decided I wanted a little bit

more contrast so I went ahead and added

those pieces back and I brought it back

outside where I gave it a coat of black

spray paint and I've had a bunch of

questions on if this leaves the rug

crunchy and I will say it doesn't leave

the rug soft but I wouldn't say to do

this on a rug that you're going to be

putting you know in a family room I

would say do this on an entryway rug

somewhere that I could use a little bit

more durability and it is going to

soften up over time so immediately it's

kind of a little crunchy but then as you

start wearing it out and using it it's

going to start actually softening up a

bit so I love the way this rug turned

out it turned out so so pretty it's in

my closet currently and I love it in

there but I've also done this rug in

another pattern this is a really fun way

that I did it as well a while back this

one's in a bit of a chunkier jute and

then my first ever one I did by hand on

the same exact rug these are all Ikea

rugs and I love this one as well

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I love these mid-century style wooden

plant stands but the price points are

always astronomical and we can create

our own for so much cheaper so we're

going to be cutting four pieces of

Select Pine down to 20 inches and two

pieces down to seven inches and this

entire plant stand cost me around 12 to

create which is crazy and it only took

me like 30 minutes the legs are going to

be cut to 20 inches in length we're

going to cut those on the miter saw and

in the end we're gonna have four 20 inch

pieces and then two seven inch pieces so

on our seven inch pieces we're gonna

find the exact center which is three and

a half and then I'm gonna lay on top of

that marking that I create of the center

point just a piece of wood that's going

to be slotted in there and then kind of

trace the outer edges of that as shown

so this is our little area that we are

going to be chiseling away to create a

notch so I'm going to be measuring down

how far or how deep I want my Notch to

be which should be exactly halfway down

once we interlock them it's going to

make them look flush in the end so this

is going to be our section of wood that

we are going to be cutting out and the

way that that I'm going to do this is

actually clamping it down and then using

my jigsaw to just cut multiple cuts into

the piece of wood this is going to kind

of weaken up the wood and then you can

actually go in with a chisel once you

create a bunch of cuts just right next

to each other continuously you can go in

with a chisel and just chisel away the

small fragments of wood that are left

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I used a hammer at first to get the

larger chunks out just like that and

then I went in with a chisel and I just

chiseled out the excess and just made

sure that it was nice and flush on the

inside

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once you complete both of your seven

intersections they could just interlock

like this and as you can see it's nice

and flush so that's what you're going to

want to look for with your piece now I'm

measuring down exactly where I'm going

to want to add our seven inch sections

on the 20 inch legs that we cut because

the legs also kind of create the arms I

guess you would say that hold the pot

above so I'm just adding some glue to my

seven inch little piece there and just

measuring down however far I want it to

go you can create your arms as high or

as low you want based off of your pot so

I just had pretty low ones and next what

I'm doing is I'm flipping and inverting

the other one because this is going to

be attached on top and it needs to be

inserted so that it's nice and flush so

you're going to need one of your notches

facing up one of them facing down let it

dry for about an hour and then once it's

dried down you can go in with some pilot

holes and secure this even more so it's

a lot more stronger than just using your

wood glue

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how nice that inner locks and the kind

of fun thing about this too is that if

you needed to store this for any reason

it stores fully flat and then you can

connect it up together when you actually

want to use it so on the sides where I

put those screws in I'm just kind of

covering up those screws with a little

bit of wood filler and then I'm

finishing it off with a little bit of a

golden pecan stain to give it that

mid-century kind of look so just going

around giving that a double staining I

did one coat let it dry for about 15

minutes and then did an additional coat

on the entire piece and that is how I

finished off this plant stand

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here is such an easy light fixture DIY

project and everything's from Ikea so I

got this hemna light cord and I also am

going to be using a two and a half inch

wide drill bit with a couple of their

wooden salad bowls so I got the large

size and then also the medium size I'm

going to be drilling holes in the top of

both of those right through the center

and then I'm going to be grabbing some

wooden beads this is a wide hold wood

bead I got these on Amazon and I'm going

to be stringing them up on some hemp

cording and once that's done I'm going

to be gluing these together so the bowls

I'm hot gluing together just like this

but I want to kind of cover up that

middle section with a bit of detail so

that's why we actually strung those wood

beads on because we're going to tie them

around the center almost has a little

necklace for our light fixture now what

I'm doing next is I'm going to be

wrapping the cord of our entire pendant

light with a little bit of that hemp

it's really going to increase the Vibes

if you don't want to do this it's

totally an optional step but I just

personally feel like it makes the piece

look a lot more expensive and like it's

from like Crate and Barrel or a place

like that so I'm popping this in with

some hot glue just making sure it's nice

and secure and then the little piece

that goes on the inside which you would

normally screw on but in this case the

bowls were too thick so I couldn't

really screw it on I just glued it on so

that it had a finished look popped a

light bulb in and that is this light

fixture

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if you are a fan of tarnished or aged or

kind of antique looking metal this

project is for you I came up with this

concept with some alcohol inks one day

and I love alcohol inks I used to use

them in my scrapbooking days all the

time it's like an alcohol-based ink it

dries down really really quickly and you

can layer them up and create really

unique finishes I do all my DIY mercury

glass with alcohol ink and so I'm using

the color mushroom which is like kind of

a dark warm gray taupey color it is just

like the perfect aged metal color over

the top of gold or silver like I use it

all the time and I love the way that it

looks so I layered that on First and

once I have a layer of mushroom down I'm

going in with a color called ginger

which just kind of has this warmth to it

it's almost like an Amber tone and I'm

adding that on top of the candle holder

so you can really pop in other colors if

you'd want to to give it kind of like an

oily like oil slick look that very kind

of burnt copper look you can also

achieve with alcohol inks and I love how

I was able to take these newer Target

handle holders that I found at the

thrift store and make them look like

something that I actually got from the

antique store in just a couple of

minutes and if you are at all nervous

about you know ruining the original

piece do not worry because all of the

alcohol ink you can easily wipe off with

just some 100 alcohol you could just

wipe it right off it comes off in a

second so I'm using some burnished Amber

spray paint I'm just going to top this

down and then use my finger to add in a

bit more Darkness this is just going to

intensify our piece really make it look

age and you can go and customize how

dark some of the areas are when you have

your finger you have a little bit more

control and I just love the way that

this ends up looking in the end the

burnished Amber spray paint is just like

a perfect dark oxidized metal look and I

love the way that these taper candles

ended up turning out

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I swear to you this is the most

forgiving and simple woodworking project

ever but it's a full-on bookcase and

it's actually a really cute interesting

bookcase so these are the dimensions

that you're going to need to cut your

wood down to if you'd like to screenshot

this I do suggest you do so because we

are going to be using three two inch by

ten inch pieces of wood that are eight

foot long now this is two inches wide or

two inches deep by ten inches wide and

we're going to be cutting our frame of

the bookcase first which will be made up

of two 48 inch long pieces and then two

30 inch long pieces now because my miter

saw is only like an eight inch blade I

actually had to cut this and then flip

it and then cut the other side as well

to get it to go all the way through so

once that was through and I had all of

my pieces of wood cut we could then

assemble the frame of our bookcase so

this is really really simple you guys I

promise you it's not hard you can also

use a circular saw or whatever you have

to cut this wood

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wood screws and to screw them right in

you don't need to drill a pilot hole

before and actually these screws on the

box say that you don't even need to

drill a pilot hole in any form however

that is not true because I've split lots

of wood by not drilling pilot holes you

have to sometimes but this Wood's really

thick so you don't need to I added three

screws on either side to create this

Frame and now we're going to create the

inside shelving to create the bookcase

so I'm going to be cutting down four 13

inch pieces and two 10 inch pieces

because these are going to create these

little Cubbies that we're going to be

putting in our bookcase so the top and

bottom are going to be the 13 inches and

then the side is going to be the 10 inch

piece so you're going to assemble it

with three more of your wood screws just

the same way we assembled the frame

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you could then place your little cubby

inside and just kind of fit it to

wherever you'd like it to go I actually

created two of them because I wanted one

on the top left and then one on the

bottom right I'm going to be screwing

these in again same exact way we've been

working on everything just three of

these wood screws in the side and it's

going to be nice and secure I ended up

having to flip the piece upright so I

can get to the back side so I was able

to screw those in now once this was

assembled and our Cubbies were added all

you have to do to finish this bookcase

off is add some shelves so we're going

to be taking our remainder pieces of

wood cutting them down to the exact

sides that you need so I just used a

tape measure to measure and just again

insert three screws on either side

securing your shelf to the framework and

then also securing your shelf to the

inside of the cubby so the whole build

of the bookcase is so super simple but

it still graphically looks really

interesting once you're done with it and

gives you a lot of different elements

and areas that you can Style on top of

so I'm going to be using some wood

filler to fill in any of those holes

just keep in mind whenever you're using

a wood screw to actually drive the screw

a little bit into the wood that way once

you fill it it's completely covered and

there's not any screw sticking out of

the wood at all and it just looks like a

solid piece of wood so let that wood

filler dry for about an hour and then go

back in with some sandpaper and take off

any of that excess wood putty on top so

we're just going to sand that away now I

actually went in and used a black paint

on this piece I wish I would have gone

in with a black stain if I was to redo

this I definitely would go back in with

a black stain but I just ended up doing

a black paint which does cover

absolutely any imperfection so if you do

kind of have wood that's not great

quality the knots aren't very pretty you

can always paint it so I went ahead and

painted this one with coat of matte

black paint and I also did a second coat

once that was fully dry just to get the

most opaque paint coverage and the total

cost of this project was only 45 dollars

but look how incredible it looks

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I absolutely love this blanket project

so much I used a super affordable ingrin

blanket from Ikea and I'm actually going

to be cutting down some paper into some

squares I'm sure a lot of you guys saw

that checkerboard was really a trending

and hot pattern I still think it's like

a great pattern I absolutely love

graphic and linear patterns so

checkerboard like brick pattern anything

like that is always appealing to me so I

cut down a bunch of four and a quarter

by four and a quarter inch squares of

paper this allows you to get a bunch out

of an eight and a half by eleven as well

that's why we're doing four and a

quarter so once those are all cut out

I'm going to be laying them in a

checkerboard pattern across the front of

our blanket so I just lay that on the

floor and I'm going to be placing these

all the way across the entire front

creating a checkerboard it does not have

to be perfect at all I swear to you once

you spray this and you kind of see the

pattern in the end you cannot tell any

of your mistakes at all like it's really

so linear and so graphic that you cannot

tell so I'm popping these all over the

entire front of our blanket and I'm

going to be using these little Mosaic

tiles just as little weights on top of

each of our piece of paper because the

aerosol from the spray paint can would

just blow these papers all over the

place so these are just little

placeholders to make sure that they stay

down but you can use whatever you'd like

now I'm using the Tulip color shot I got

this at Joanne's Fabric in the color

coffee and this is unreal you guys like

I just made sure to hold it pretty far

away and I sprayed every single square

but once this dried down you could not

even tell there was anything on this it

genuinely felt like the entire blanket

was dyed professionally by somebody like

there was absolutely no crunchiness any

just there wasn't even like a feeling of

paint in any remote way and it's fully

washable like I'm really impressed by

this product it was not sponsored in any

way either I love it so I definitely

will be using it in the future but once

you pull off all of your squares just

reveal how incredibly amazing that looks

and even the inconsistent spray with the

brown kind of um how I made it look a

little bit tattered in a sense really

creates an organic look to the blanket

and I was genuinely so shocked at how

soft and cozy this blanket was I still

have it to this day it's currently in

the Lone Fox Room at the moment and I

will be using her to make over next year

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if you like the look of French wall

molding it is a lot more achievable than

you think if you've never heard of miter

shears this is actually part of a

breakfast nook makeover that I did this

year and I just loved how easy this was

to create so these miter shears actually

allow you to cut down Tremor that is on

the smaller side so anything that you

would use for like wall molding you can

cut it almost as if you're using

scissors it is absolutely crazy creates

that mitered edge for you and then I

just went in with a brad nailer to

attach that onto my walls and I really

didn't have to do too much measuring for

this I guess in my particular case on

this wall the windows really kind of

created the placement for me so I was

only able to actually add molding around

where the windows weren't so I added a

large Square in the center of both of

the windows made sure to miter those top

corners as well attach that to the wall

I feel like a lot of people find this to

be a little challenging or they think of

it as a little challenging but it's

actually a very inexpensive way to add

such a luxury look to your home or your

apartment I consider this almost rental

friendly because Brown Rod nails are

very very tiny they create the smallest

hole and I use like one per piece I

swear and you could use one per piece

you know if it's a rental and you wanted

to make sure of it you can use one Brad

nail it's going to hold it there as long

as no one's freaking like ripping it Off

the Wall you are totally fine so I added

these pieces to the bottom as well to

just kind of finish off the look painted

it all up and once you have this fully

painted it creates such a seamless look

in your home and I love the way that it

turned out

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thank you

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I created the table in the breakfast

nook as well and I actually created it

from a bunch of these wooden dowels

which I think are originally used for

like closets as clothing rails you know

so I'm going to be cutting these down to

28 inches in length and I cut down a

whole bunch of them I think I ended up

having about 40 of them in the end that

I ended up working with so I cut those

down to 28 inches in length which is

going to be creating the height of our

table

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piece of 2x4 to 28 inches in length as

well because that's going to be the kind

of Center support beam that we're going

to be using to attach these wooden

rounds to so I just got this 12 inch

wooden round and I'm going to be

attaching our 2x4 in the center of both

of those and make sure that your wooden

rounds are in alignment with each other

and I just do this by Rolling the piece

to make sure that it's nice and centered

you're going to want to just try to get

it as centered as you possibly can from

the start once I had that centered I

went in with my wooden dowels and I'm

going to just place them on the edge of

both of the wooden circles and just use

my rod nailer to nail them downwards now

if you have any excess or the pieces

aren't cut perfectly keep flipping and

rotating your piece and always have the

bottom Circle be flush with the dowels

and any excess have it be on the top

there so if you need to flip it and

rotate it as you work and kind of you

know just make sure that you flip it

back before you add the next dowel so

that it's always flush because the

bottom is going to be visible but the

top will be hidden once we add the table

top so I'm going to be wrapping needs

all the way around took me about an hour

and then I went in with the special

Walnut stain but the special Walnut just

didn't really show up that well so I

decided to add the table top Instead

This is a 36 inch round table top

they're like 75 dollars at Lowe's I

believe and I'm gonna be finding the

inner 12 inch circle by just marking 12

inches out from the edge so once you

have that inner circle I just kind of

traced around there on the bottom of the

piece I actually added these little

plastic stopper legs just so it didn't

scrape the floor or anything and then I

flipped it over and added a whole bunch

of construction adhesive on top because

we're going to be attaching our table

top here and I made sure that the pencil

side that we created our kind of guide

on was underneath that way we could

center it and make sure it was nice and

centered so it could adhere down let

that dry for like 10 minutes or so and

then I went over the top of it with a

stain called Kona and that's what really

created the depth on this wooden table

that's how I finished it off

this white oak painting technique is

unreal like I could not believe how

incredible this looked in the end so I

actually got this small little cart I

wanted to create an art cart or like a

little like storage caddy for in my

craft room for when I had my craft tools

by me so I gave this piece an entire

coat of the zinzer primer to start now I

believe this was actually painted wood

like it was painted to look like wood to

start which is exactly what we are doing

yes but our finish is going to look

quite a bit nicer a lovely white oak

finish so once this primer dries down

I'm going to give it a coat of bears

rugged tan paint and I did this in a

satin finish I think a satin finish is

nice because it actually allows the next

product that we're going to be using to

glide on really nicely

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's decorative glaze in Java Brown and

now this is kind of like a translucent

paint in a way if you could imagine like

a gel stain but kind of like mixed with

a paint I'm applying this with one of

these coarse chip brushes these are just

really the more affordable brushes that

you get at the hardware store just to

get the color on there to start so I'm

just applying this so I can kind of

gauge how much color is actually going

on and how much product I'm applying to

the front of my cabinet door but then

I'm going to go in with a stain brush

this is actually the brush I use to Lime

wash with and I've had this brush

forever I still use it I'm going in and

I'm going to start working the product

in to the paint and look how quickly it

turns into a freaking wood grain this

take me like I don't know a minute of

back and forth you know swipes and

motions to create this I also went in

with a broom to create even more coarser

grain in the wood you can really go in

with anything that will add texture you

could probably use a fork but anything

with Organic inconsistent texture is

exactly what you're looking for so a

paintbrush and like a broom is perfect I

got that hand broom actually at Lowe's

for five dollars in the painting section

and I did this on the entire piece

painting the front the back the top

absolutely every facet of it and turned

it into a lovely little white oak art

cart

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I've got another light and I've got

another Ikea project for you so this is

our light base that we're going to be

using I have no idea how to pronounce

that so please do take a screenshot I am

then going to be using some air dry clay

that I got at Joanne's and I'm just

going to be using this to create a new

structure on this light fixture now I do

know that Ikea also sells this in a

table lamp form and they also sell it in

a floor lamp form so you can do the same

exact technique and create the most

unique table lamp and floor lamp like if

you interpret it in the same exact way

it would just be inverted essentially it

looks great so I'm going to be piling on

a bunch of this air dry clay onto our

first light bulb area so there are three

little arms that kind of come off of

this pendant and I want to create these

very like post-modern kind of cone party

hot esque looking pieces and we're going

to be connecting this up with Clay

throughout the entire light so it looks

like it's fully formed out of ceramic

once you're done so I'm just mending and

kind of getting the bulk of our Clay on

then I'm going through with my fingers

and kind of sculpting this into the

shape that I want to you can use

whatever you need to to kind of get it

how you want it to look in the end and

I'm also going to be wrapping clay

around the arms as well

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and this process is pretty repetitive

because there are three arms that you're

going to be doing the exact same thing

with so just continue that process

adding your clay around the piece

creating the shapes and trying to make

them as similar as possible or you could

totally vary them if you want to and

then just kind of make the clay meet up

at the top and smooth it out with your

fingers where it's needed

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I ended up using a dowel across my

picture rail molding in the living room

and hanging this up so that it can dry

down for 48 hours or until the piece is

pretty light in color you can tell once

it's hardened down and as you can see

there were quite a bit of cracks

actually around the area where the clay

was super thin so I went in with some

joint compound and just kind of smoothed

this over and almost rubbed it in to the

clay to make sure that I filled in all

of those cracks and did a generous layer

of this on the entire piece because

joint compound can easily be sanded down

to whatever finish you kind of want it

to look like and so I sanded this down

so it was nice and smooth before the

painting process which required just a

little bit of prep work I actually taped

off the inside light bulb areas of the

lights with a little bit of tape and

then I'm going to be using this matte

French cream spray paint and I'm going

to be painting the entire light fixture

and I love painting this while it's

hanging up because you can just kind of

spin it as you need to get all the

little areas and this is where you start

seeing your fixture come to life because

you start seeing less of the

imperfection and more of a streamlined

silhouette and I just wanted to create a

funky fixture and I ended up going in

with this Stone paint which I actually

sprayed from really far back it's kind

of hard to see but it created a speckled

texture over the top and I did this from

about six feet away just making sure

that I masked off everywhere around my

workstation and once that was fully done

I let it dry down and you can add back

in the little bulbs because it comes

with these little round orb bulb covers

and this really finishes off the light I

just love the way that it ended up

looking and it's just such a cool piece

you could hang over like a breakfast

duct table or in a little Cozy Corner

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but definitely a goodie one of my

favorite art projects that I've actually

done on the channel and I actually got

some filming paper to start and I traced

out the template that was on the inside

of the frame so I knew how much of the

paper I needed but I would definitely

suggest just investing in like a two or

three dollar piece of watercolor paper

it'll make your life much easier I ended

up using some golden paint just watered

down with a bit of water and I actually

followed this anthropology art print at

the time which I thought was just so

beautiful super organic so I actually

went in with the paintbrush and just

applied paint and heavier kind of hand

placement motions into areas where I

wanted a more concentrated color and you

can even go back in and layer the color

on top but it is a very forgiving piece

of artwork which I really like about it

and I've always loved this piece I still

have it to this day

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here's a really really great project on

how to turn vintage or thrifted

glassware into vintage or antique

looking Pottery so this actually was

from Ikea and I'm going to be using the

Ben zenzer primer this is the one two

three primer shellac it really coats

onto anything including glass so I gave

that a good coat let it dry down and

then went back inside once it was dry

and grabbed some air dry clay because

we're going to be creating some handles

for this I feel like this is such a

unique way to make any glassware piece

look more like Ceramics and I'm just

creating this kind of large log of clay

that I'm going to be forming into a

handle shape and just pressing and

almost mending the clay into the actual

piece and do not worry because we're

going to be using a thick paint mixture

which will hide any of these like

elevated points so you don't have to get

it super smooth but however smooth you

can just try to blend it into the primed

piece and once that handle is on there

we're going to be creating our paint mix

sure so this is just a little bit of

household latex paint and like a light

cream I'm also adding a little bit of

acrylic paint in this reddish tone

because I wanted it to be just kind of a

little bit of a salmony shade but still

on the nude side so once I got the color

that I desired I actually went ahead and

added in a bunch of baking soda and this

is going to react with the paint and

create a texturey almost Sandy finish to

your paint which is great for that faux

ceramic look so this is going to look

like a matte piece of pottery in the end

so I painted this on the entire outside

covering up the handles and you can

really glob the paint on around those

elevated points like if your handles

aren't fully blended into the piece you

could just kind of add some extra paint

on there and it will dry down and look

pretty good so as you can see here those

handles actually kind of look like they

were on here originally which is great

so I'm going in with a heat gun and just

drying that down now I'm going back in

and applying a little bit more texture

by kind of inorganically just patting

the top of it this gives a little bit of

a rougher texture but here is where

we're going to add that very vintage and

look and believe it or not that is

achieved with mud so I went outside to

my front yard got a bunch of dirt in a

cup mixed it up with some water created

this mud material that I'm going to be

putting on the piece and I'm using a

heat gun which you don't have to use

this I also love doing these kinds of

projects outside in the sun because the

mud actually dries really really quick

so you can kind of start seeing the

distressing that's happening but you are

going to layer this up and as you layer

it it's actually going to remove some of

the mud underneath because the water is

just going to kind of re-wet that soil

and you're just going to keep layering

this up add as much mud as you would

like to you can also use like a paper

towel and rub and scuff off the mud in

the end or like any of the extra kind of

chunkier pieces of dirt you're just

going to want to brush that off with

like a brush or paper towel and this is

your finished piece

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if you guys remember those tiled

nightstands that I made a while back I

ended up actually keeping some of those

extra tile sheets and I wanted to share

with you how I created these tiled

coasters because they are super easy to

create and you can create a whole bunch

of them at once if you wanted to like

give these out as gifts I feel like they

would be so cute to give out as gifts

and you can also customize them to each

person I'll show you how so these are

two by two inch tiles that I got at

Floor and Decor and I cut them down to

be two by two in a grid and I actually

backed them with some cork so I used

some hot glue and I just glued this on

the back side with cork because a lot of

coasters actually are backed with cork

so it protects your surface so once I

glued all of these down I just used my

X-Acto Knife to trim off any extra I

first coated the tiles in a zinzer

primer which you couldn't see it was

like literally white going on top of

white and then I added this light pink

just acrylic paint over top I'm doing

three coats of this to make sure that

it's nice and opaque and then cooling it

down or I guess heating it up and drying

it down with my heat gun once that was

done I actually got this mod podge and

this Mod Podge is in a hard coat finish

so it's meant for durability it's meant

to be washed in the dishwasher once that

dried down I'm adding my grout this is

just some pre-mixed grout which I also

got from Floor and Decor this was in the

color warm gray and I added this in all

the cracks just with my finger there's

no need to use like a trowel or anything

just wipe off the extra with the paper

towel I use some joint compound to seal

off the edge and make it look like a

thick piece of tile and that's how I

finished off these coasters

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earlier I mentioned when I was using the

alcohol inks how I actually create a

bunch of mercury glass with alcohol ink

so let me share with you exactly how I

do that so I found this Frame at the

thrift store and I didn't really know

what I wanted to put in it so I was like

why don't I turn it into a cool antique

looking mirror so I popped out the glass

insert and I'm going to be cleaning that

just with some glass cleaner to get it

nice and as clean as possible now

something I will say is this glass was

very like murky it still had like a film

over the top of it so I'm going to be

using this Looking Glass spray paint and

I applied a bunch of coats of this I did

coat one then I did coat two and then I

did coat three and how this is supposed

to work is you're supposed to flip it

back over and the other side is then

supposed to be a reflective mirror but I

think because the glass was murky it

wasn't totally reflective but I was fine

with that so I just ended up using my

alcohol inks to still give this a

distressed look I feel like a lot of

older distressed mirrors that you see

anyways you can't really see your self

in so I decided you know what we're

going to just keep this solely as

decorative and not functional so I added

a couple drops of mushroom alcohol ink

directly on top the great thing about

alcohol ink is it actually is always

reactive with itself so when you drop it

on or if you need to remove any of it

you can just use plain alcohol to remove

any alcohol so you can always start over

if you didn't get like the desired look

you're going for but I did go in and add

some caramel color and then some ginger

colored alcohol ink because I really

love the added warmth in the mercury

glass I feel like it just makes it look

like a little bit more expensive almost

and a little bit more aged so this is

how it ends up looking it's almost like

a double glass look I think it's so

amazing so I popped this back in that

vintage frame that it was originally in

and now it's a great piece of wall decor

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now here is a fun project this is

actually a thrift flip that I did a

while back I found this lamp base at

thrift store for five dollars so I

measured the height of the lamp base

with my tape measure and I found out

that it was a 51 inches in length and I

had been saving this cardboard tube for

like honestly a year and a half a large

roll of paper came in it and I wanted to

do something with it so I ended up

cutting this down to that 51 inch

measurement and then I used a handsaw

just to cut this cardboard tube down

once that was cut down I popped it on

top and as you can see this is how it

was looking so I wanted to wrap our

cardboard tube in some material and I

knew polarap would be the perfect

material for that and this was before I

actually did the architectural digest

project if you guys remember so this was

when Paul wrap was very accessible and

now I swear I can never find it anywhere

I don't know if that's a coincidence or

what but sometimes I wish I don't share

projects because then all the materials

are gone like pull wrap I'm just kidding

I love you guys um so I cut this down to

size and used some espresso wood finish

to give it more of like a walnut wood

look in the end and I feel like a lamp

like this if you were to actually find

like a pleated Wood Lamp in this fashion

would actually go for quite a bit or a

slotted Wood Lamp and I love pull wrap

because it's consistent with the grain

it's like one piece of wood that's

consistent so the grain actually flows

throughout I feel like it looks really

expensive in the end so I just gave this

a coat of that espresso stain went in

with a paintbrush gave it a second coat

and once that was dried down I was able

to use my hot glue gun to just add a

bead of hot glue and start actually

adhering this on the back side of the

pull wrap is actually kind of like a

cardboardy paper in a sense so they bond

really nicely to each other with the hot

glue so I just wrapped this all the way

around made sure that I had a nice

seamless finish and it was tightly

rolled as I was doing it I actually

sprayed the base this hammered black

spray paint because I wanted it to just

have kind of like a nice elevated look

and this was kind of an afterthought so

I didn't have many spray paints on hand

and I felt like this was the best option

to go with the walnut wood so I added a

bead of glue around that which we're

going to then invert and place right on

top of the base there and I love the way

that that metal looks with the Walnut

Wood I popped the shade right on top

added the light bulb in and that

finished off our floor lamp

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I had this DIY project styled on top of

my mantle for like a six month period

and every time I would post a photo of

it everyone would ask where it's from

and I actually made it so I got one of

those wooden salad bowls from Ikea and

I'm actually using one of the lines

across the top as the placements for my

dots and I just did my first Dot and

then measured an inch out and just sit

an inch space between each Dot and then

used a drill to drill through and you're

gonna want your drill bit to be as wide

as your lace is going to be so whatever

you want to just kind of string through

here whether it be the leather cord I'm

using or some suede cording macrame

cording whatever it is and if you do

mess up do not worry you can totally go

back in and use some wood filler to fill

over top because we will be painting

that's decree I love leave contrast

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over the top of this bowl I'm going to

be using this satin black spray paint

and I'm just doing two coats of this so

it's nice and opaque

I picked up some suede cording at

Joann's which is a great idea to use

your 40 off coupon on that item because

it's a little bit expensive but the

suede cording really elevates this bowl

and makes it look just a lot more

expensive I love how it added this

interest to the end it makes it more of

like a decorative styling ball more as a

serving salad bowl as it was before so I

laced that all the way up going around

the bowl entirely and once I reached

back to the start I just tied a double

knot on the inside there you could snip

off those strands and that finishes off

your decorative Bowl

thank you

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this is my favorite DIY planter I have

ever created and it starts off with an

empty paint can and some 3 8 inch dowels

that is hard to say 3 8 inch dowels um

that are cut down to 5 inches and 6.25

inches now the 5 inches is actually

referring to the height of the paint can

which I then painted matte black so as

you can see here I'm going to be gluing

down one of our dowels which is five

inches tall to the side of the paint can

so whatever your paint can is just do

your first dowel measurement to that

height and the second measurement is

your first measurement plus however tall

you want it to sit off or however tall

you want the legs to be which I wanted

mine to be one and a quarter that's why

they are 6.25 inches in length so I

added on four of the five inch tall

dowels to start with some hot glue and

then when you want to add on a leg

section just make sure that you're

adding hot glue to the top half and make

sure that it doesn't go onto the leg

that's underneath but you're still

attaching it flush with the top of your

planter if that makes sense so that the

wood on the bottom that's overhanging is

going to be creating the leg so I

actually just used two pieces of wood

for each of the legs and that I added on

more of the five inch sections as I went

around and then I just added a leg

wherever I felt like I needed one I

think I did about eight dowels and then

I added a leg and there was one side

that ended up having nine dowels but you

could not tell at all like even when you

looked at it from straight on or

directly from above as you can see here

you cannot tell it is uneven at all so I

went in with some wood stain in early

American to finish this piece off and I

just really feel like this looks like

such an elevated nice planter that was

really thought out but it was extremely

simple to make and I feel like the

excess leg at the bottom just adds such

an interesting element to such a simple

piece

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foreign

and our last project is a little more

tedious but this is still so cute and

it's fully customizable as well so I'm

going to share with you guys how I ended

up removing this canvas from the frame

so this is just a plain kind of artist

canvas I removed the actual canvas so we

just had the wood and I'm going to be

using some of this month's cloth

material which is perfect for punch

needles so I'm going to be using my

staple gun to staple this on at the back

side we are basically using the canvas

as a frame for us like you can create

your own frame if you wanted to but this

canvas was a couple of dollars so I just

thought that it was a lot easier than

having to create a wood frame and get

out the power tools so I'm just

measuring out on the inside of this how

wide I want the front of my pillow cover

to be so I know where I'm going to be

punch needling and keep in mind if you

get a larger canvas you can create a

larger pillow it's all determined on the

size of frame that you have and how much

fabric you have so then I'm going in and

creating the shapes that I want to

create I kind of wanted to do this like

Mountain scene with a very organic

shapes to it there is no Rhyme or Reason

it was just supposed to be like more of

a color story and then I'm using this

punch new needle tool which you find on

Amazon and I just went through with my

yarn and just started punch needling in

this white section to start now this is

a little bit of a tedious process but

it's definitely a project that you do

while watching TV or like listening to

music

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so I finished up with the white color

and now I'm going to be going in with

this softer sage green and I'm just

doing really soft kind of earthy neutral

tones for this pillow project and I'm

going to be adding this green tone to

the top left corner

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so this loopy texture that you're seeing

is actually the reverse side of the

punch needle so as you're working with

the punch needle you're grabbing the

loops on the bottom side or if your

needle is good enough it's actually

creating them for you but I actually

flipped mine and inverted it so I had

different textural elements throughout

my pillow I had some of the more tufted

look and then some of the very kind of

flat look as well so this is the side of

the pillow that I wanted to go with and

I'm going to be removing this from the

frame just with an X-Acto Knife or you

can use scissors whatever you have

and I'm going to be using some fusible

interfacing to put on the wrong side so

whatever side you want to have on the

outside of your pillow make sure that's

not getting the fusible interfacing the

opposite side of that is going to be

ironed with fusible interfacing this is

actually going to hold all that yarn

together and make sure that none of it

pulls you're going to then remove any of

that extra interfacing and we're going

to be cutting another piece for the

backer of our pillows this is going to

be the fabric that we use on the back

side cutting that to the same exact size

and then we're going to be sewing this

up so I pinned these right sides

together and then I pulled out my sewing

machine and did a simple straight Stitch

around the entire exterior of the pillow

fluffy pillow inside out and leave one

side open or just a corner but if you

want to stuff a whole insert in there

you can just leave one side open and

then sew it up but I just left a little

corner open and I used some extra

batting that I had so I just put that on

the inside there and then hand sewed the

whole shot and that finished off my

little yarn decorative pillow

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