A tutorial for a DIY cement vase shaped like a cone. Use this vase year round and decorate seasonally. Day after day I had been staring at my baren fireplace and was trying to figure out what to put there to jazz it up. I felt like it needed some sort of tall floral accent. I’d rather not go out…
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Make a beautiful blue wall mounted wine bottle vase for your home. At Christmastime, we were getting a tree, and the store we got it from had small pallets behind it. We asked if we could take a couple and they were happy to give them to us to not have to deal with them. I can’t even remember which…
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A Christmas DIY for making cement ornaments for your tree, in well under 2 hours. Okay, so I really needed a super quick and easy project with all the craziness of the holidays coming up, and I’m jam-packed with upcoming projects. And this one truly is only five steps! So if there was ever a beginner cement project, it’s this…
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How to make easy rustic wedding pallet signs for your wedding, using a repurposed wood pallet. This ended up being one of the things I enjoyed making the most for the wedding. For our wedding, my then fiancé (now husband), and I used pallet wood to make our rustic wedding signs. They came out great and added another fun element…
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Wine cork planter ornaments are perfect little gifts around the holidays. Using artificial flowers or plants will allow them to adorn a Christmas tree year after year. Super cute stocking stuffers too! These wine cork planters as Christmas tree ornaments were such a joy to make. The idea came to me from the Wine Cork Succulent Planters I made in this…
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Add some extra light to your holiday decor and make a lit Grinch, using string and LED lights. Do you LOVE How The Grinch Stole Christmas? Such a great story. I’ve always been obsessed with that book and it’s awesome characters. So lately, I’ve been inspired by some great string art and have been thinking about Christmas decorations. So I…
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How to make a painted Grinch decoration using cement and resin. Okay, so I love the Grinch. Maybe sometimes I feel a sort of kinship- argh, at stores, at restaurants, the sound of Christmas music before Thanksgiving drives me up a wall! Is my heart “two sizes too small”? All kidding aside, I may be a bit Grinchy, but I really…
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Here’s how to make cool concrete wall art decor for your walls. Create a triptych of wall tiles, MCM style with cement! I am a big fan of modern design and yet, other than my furniture, I have very little modern decor. So, I figured it was time to change that. I wanted to create a sort of triptych for…
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Make a spooky cement Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween out of cement and a plastic pumpkin. **Updated 10-22-19** Oh Halloween, what a fun time of year. And on a year I don’t have a Halloween costume party to go to, I’ve got the time and energy to put into decorating. Being a maker of all things cement, I thought I…
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