Glitter — love it or hate it? Either way, you have to admit that it’s super pretty! Over at Live.Craft.Love, I’ve create a set of pretty glittered deer bookends that are reversible — blue on one side, green on the other! You can customize these bookends to your own decor colors. Find out how to make them: [reversible glitter deer bookends]

Project Materials:

• Unfinished Wood Tabletop Deer (2)
• Bricks (2)
• Acrylic craft paint (White, and 2 colors to match your glitter)
• Martha Stewart Glitter (White, and 2 colors to match your paint)
• White glue
• Foam paint brush
• Industrial-strength glue, such as Epoxy

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Camilla from Family Chic (a consistent source of great ideas) invented these fabulous glowing orbs to use as mood lighting on the table. They are flameless, and therefore kid-friendly. Camilla writes:

If you’ve ever had a group of kids sitting around your dinner table – you know that candles are not a practical or safe option. However, I am a believer that children appreciate the same details that adults enjoy so I try to create interesting lighting options for the table that are child-friendly.

While they look extremely modern, these lights are cleverly made with common dollar store items. They would be fun for a fancy dinner, or a great Halloween decoration. Find out how to make them (and wow your family), at Family Chic. [how to make blob lights]

Project Estimate:

• Battery-operated tea lights, 2 for $1
• Balloons, on hand or $1

Total: $1 and up

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Our fashion contributor Kirsten from Studs and Pearls made a quick and easy mod necklace over at her blog with some simple items she picked up at the dollar store. This high-impact necklace should only take you a few minutes to make, so what are you waiting for? [how to make a mod stacked necklace]

Project Estimate:

• Long chain, on hand or $1 and up
• 3-pack of barrettes, $1
• E-6000 glue, on hand

Total: $1 and up

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There’s something about lamps made with trash that I just love! I have featured a few of them before (such as the egg carton lamp), and I think they are so much fun. When you take a single element and repeat it, it becomes art. Or close to art! This lamp, which I featured over at my other site, Decor Hacks, was made with 70 little colorful yogurt cups and a whole bunch of jump rings. And probably a little bit of patience, too! [make a yogurt lamp]

You need a whole bunch of Dan-o-nino yogurts, which one reader pointed out can be purchased as low as about 10 cents each. Keep your eye out for sales, and prepare to eat a lot of yogurt! You can get an inexpensive pendant lamp kit from Ikea or your local home improvement store.

Project Estimate:

• 70 Dan-o-nino yogurt cups, $7
• Pendant lamp kit, $4
• Jump rings or chain maille rings, $5
• Old lampshade or reshaped hanger for ring, on hand

Total: $16

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These little wooden planters are charming, and so simple to make, even small children can successfully make them, using tuna cans and clothespins. Camilla at Family Chic is quite a talented designer. Her projects are always fresh, stylish, and simple to make using items you already have at home. She said, “Children love crafts that are simple, turn out well and can serve as a suitable gift for Mom – this craft is all of that.” I would add that adults like crafts like that too! [how to make wooden clothespin planters]

Make these for teachers in your life, or as a nice party favor (birthday, bridal or baby shower). Also keep these in mind for Mother’s Day gifts. Or hostess gifts. Pretty much, I think these would be great for any occasion!

Project Estimate:

• Recycled tuna can, on hand
• Clothespins, $1
• Construction paper, on hand
• Small plant, on hand or $1

Total: $1 and up

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Make a sculptural hanging lamp with this simple supply found at the home improvement store. Arounna of Bookhou created this lamp for poppytalk using an Ikea pendant light and some wood veneer strips. Although it’s not strictly from dollar store supplies, I thought you would be interested in this idea! Arounna suggests using paper strips if you can’t get wood veneer strips. Now paper, that’s what I’m talking about. [how to make a wood veneer pendant lamp]

Project Estimate:

• strips of wood veneer, $6 (at Amazon)
• white glue, on hand
• large clips (or clothes pins), on hand
• HEMMA ikea light, $4

Total: $10 and up

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This mobile is a great way to bring some mid-century modern into your home for less than a buck. Yep! I said a buck. In fact, if you work from materials in your stash, or your recycling bin, your only expense will be the two pennies you use to weigh the mobiles down. I used two main colors for the two sides of the mobile, plus a couple accent colors , so when the mobile hangs freely in the air, the pieces rotate gently and the look of the mobile constantly changes.

I love this print by artist Jenn Ski. I am in love with her color choices, the shapes, and the way she put them all together. I bookmarked the print months ago, and recently found it again and was inspired to create a mobile for myself, using the print as inspiration. (In a separate incident last year, I bought some of Jenn’s awesome Actopus To Zelephant paper products at Michael’s. I didn’t even know they were by the same artist! I am a confirmed fan of Jenn’s now!) She’s a terrific artist, and Jenn is also a super nice person, and she graciously agreed to let me share my mobile instructions and templates with you. Because this project is based on another artist’s work, please use these instructions only for personal use (no selling mobiles based on this pattern.)

A few weeks ago I got a Cricut Expression (if you aren’t familiar with Cricuts, they look like a printer, but they cut lines instead of printing them) from another crafter, and I found out about a software called Sure Cuts-a-Lot, which allows you to cut any shape you want using the Cricut. This mobile was my first project using Sure Cuts-a-Lot. I have to use the software a little more before I review it for you, but let me just say, in a word, love.

I have been on a cut-out-paper project kick for a few months anyway, and the Cricut reduces production time (read: tracing and cutting) from hours to minutes. I was able to make this mobile in about an hour, from making the shapes on my illustration program, to cutting them on the Cricut, to assembling the mobile.

But don’t worry if you don’t have a Cricut. You can do this project without one. You can even do it without a printer. I’ll tell you how to do it no matter what tools you have at your disposal.

But first, the

Project Materials:

• 2-4 pieces of 12×12″ card stock, $.50 each
  (OR) recycled cardboard like cereal boxes, on hand
• Page of text, (like newspaper, love letter, book page, etc.) on hand
• Fishing line or thread, on hand
• 2 pennies, $.02
• Craft glue
• Clear tape
• Scissors, X-acto knife, or Cricut with Sure Cuts-A-Lot
• (optional) Computer printer
• (optional) 2 rings (like binder rings) for mounting, $1

Total: $.02 and up

Go to Page 2 for Instructions

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Paper clips have to be one of the seven wonders of DIY world. MacGuyver never went anywhere without one! These fabulous chandeliers are made from paper clips – amazing, aren’t they? I found out about the paper clip chandelier thanks to a Craftster dollar store crafting swap I’m currently participating in. Craftster user skullseamstress created the lamp entirely from dollar store materials, using a tutorial she purchased from Re:Design Technologies on Etsy. Skullseamstress posted a nice flickr set of her paper clip chandelier including making it and packing it to ship to her swap partner. [click here for the paperclip chandelier gallery]

As for the tutorial for making this fabulous chandelier, check out the Re:Design Technologies Etsy shop. You can get all the instructions for four different chandelier designs for less than $15 (as of my typing this – but they’re having a sale a the moment), or choose one design for $6.50. You can also check out the Re:Design blog.

Here are skullmistress’s supplies for the chandelier.

Project Estimate:

• 3 Picture hanging kits, $3
• 6 boxes of paper clips, $6

Total: $9 (plus the cost of the instructions, if needed)

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Have you been loving the look of the mirrored furniture in all the design collections this year? Audra from Simpsonized Crafts wanted a mirrored nightstand, but she didn’t want to pay $600, so she remade her existing nightstand. She added mirrored tiles (you can find them in the candle section at the dollar store, although you might get a better price at a home-improvement store) and for $20 had a new nightstand. [find out how she made a mirrored nightstand here]

Project Estimate:

• Your old nightstand, on hand
• Mirrored tiles, $20
• Assorted tools, on hand

Total: $20

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Craftymommy posted her brilliant lantern idea at the Dollar Store Crafts Facebook page. She took four dollar store frames (the kind with two panels), and some handmade paper, also found at the dollar store, and combined them into these great lanterns. I think they look a lot more upscale than $5 each! Craftymommy has also done a lot of other creative things with dollar store treasures. [check out the lanterns and other cool projects here]

Project Estimate:

• 4 frames, $1
• Handmade paper pack, $1
• Strong glue like e6000, on hand

Total: $5

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