Holiday Gift #8: Rad home stuff

Just when you thought it was over, I thought I'd throw more DIY craftiness at you! This time it's personalized and creative stuff for the home, like coasters, for example. Take a look at the particularly lovely situation going on at stylemepretty.com.


Plain white square ceramic tiles from somewhere like Home Depot or HOBO are super cheap. Obviously by now you're a decoupage pro, so you can make these bad boys way cool in no time at all.

And speaking of being a decoupage pro, maybe you should considering making a set of artistic glass plates! Ok it sounds sorta doilyesque, but imagine how awesome it would be to have a set of personalized skull and crossbone plates?!


Here's a pretty easy tutorial on how to really tackle this project. All you're really doing is gluing some sort of image to the back of a plate, followed by a few steps to protect it. Plain glass plates can be found in all sorts of places like craft stores, Target, and even the Dollar Store, but save-on-crafts.com is a good spot to buy in bulk. Get funky and purchase some cheap vinyl albums from Goodwill, scan in the covers, print out the images, and get your decoupage on. You've got yourself a set of Pink Floyd plates, who knew that was possible?!

How about magnets? Fun magnets can be created with pretty much anything...



and everything...


Grab an object and slap a magnet to the back. You are done my friend. But to get a little more doily about it,


check out this lovely tutorial.

This kind of stuff is like my porn, I'm telling you. So, ironically, once the holidays are over, I'd love to take a few of these projects by storm, at which point, I will pass along my own personal tips and results! I know, you're all so freaking excited, I can feel it through the binary code flowing through my fingers.