I love busting my stash, and this Recycled Fabric Twine planter looks like a fine way to use up some fabric scraps! Don’t you just love the recycled fabric twine used in this project? Find out how to turn the twine into an eye-catching planter over at My Poppet Makes. [recycled fabric twine planter]

Project Materials:

• Plastic food container or plant pot, on hand or $1
• Handmade scrap fabric twine – full tutorial with video here, on hand
• Hot glue gun, on hand
• 3-4 glue sticks, on hand or $1

Total: Free and up

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Love plants, but don’t have a green thumb? This photo cactus planter project by Kathy Cano-Murillo (aka Crafty Chica) over at MyPrintly is just the thing! Print photos to craft into an adorable cactus garden that will never need to be watered. Find supplies for completing this project at the dollar store. [how to make a photo cactus planter]

Project Materials:

• Small Ceramic or Plastic Plant Pot, $1
• Photos, on hand or $.15 each
• Glue, on hand
• Cardboard, on hand
• Glitter, on hand or $1
• Red tissue paper, $1

Total: $4 and up

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Has your Dollar Tree gotten faux succulents in stock yet?  We are super excited about them and love all of the ideas we’ve seen using them!  Over at Anything & Everything, Tara used a few dollar store picture frames to create a terrarium-style planter for her plastic succulents.  It looks totally high-end but you can make one for just a few bucks, and since the plants aren’t real, it’s perfect for all of the brown-thumbed folks like me out there!  [how to make a faux succulent planter with frames]

Project estimate:

• Picture frames (3), on hand or $3
• Moss, $1 and up
• Faux succulents, $1 and up
• Twigs, on hand
• Glue, on hand
• Foam core board, on hand or $1
• Paint, on hand or $1 and up

Total: $2 and up

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While plastic pumpkin buckets might be the iconic collector of sweet treats on Halloween night, they are a far cry from classy decor. Is there a way to salvage these gaudy beasts? Kelly from Eclectically Vintage proves it can be done! With a little bit of Mod Podge and sheet music, even the ugliest of pumpkins can turned into a cute fall planter. [how to make a sheet music planter from a plastic pumpkin]

Project estimate:

• Pumpkin bucket, $1 and up
• Mod Podge, on hand
• Paint brush, on hand
• Sheet music or dictionary pages, on hand or $1 and up
• Clear sealer, on hand

Total: $1 and up

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It’s time once again, my friends, to gather ’round while I share some of this week’s coolest craft projects in craftyspace. Some accessory projects for the DIY fashionista, and some patriotic projects for the upcoming 4th of July holiday, as well as a few things for home decor crafters. Read on for the full details!

1. Crystal Link Jewelry by Mark Montano

Learn how to make this crystal link necklace with Mark Montano’s new Make Your Mark video.

2. DIY Crystal Cocktail Ring by DIY Doyenne

Speaking of video, Margo Potter teaches us how to make sparkly cocktail rings in her newest video for DIY Doyenne.

3. Patriotic Hair Extensions by Crafty Chica

Learn how to dye patriotic hair extensions! Use this technique for any colorful hair extensions.

4. 4th of July Chip Bowl by Handmade Happy Hour

Your Independence Day just got a whole lot more adorable with this cute 4th of July chip bowl craft project.

5. Trophy Cup Flower Pots by Jaderbomb

What do do with tiny trophy cups? Turn them into planters, of course!

6. Braided Raffia Bracelets by Bromeliad Living

And don’t forget to check out our newest DIY fashion tutorial from Samantha, our fashion contributor! She took dollar store materials and transformed them into these fabulous braided bracelets!

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I have a bad crafting habit of using the inside part of embroidery hoops for projects (like this chandelier and these wind chimes), but not the outside part of the hoop.  But I always hang onto that outside part, just in case a project comes along that call for one.  And here is that project!  Alex from Northstory came up with this great hanging planter idea that uses an embroidery hoop to mount a bowl and create a planter that is as inexpensive as it is beautiful.  Imagine your porch lined with these, and your plants spinning in the summer breeze.  Now I am glad that I saved those extra bits leftover from previous projects!  [how to make a hanging hoop planter]

Project estimate:

• Embroidery hoop, $1 and up
• Bowl, on hand or $1
• E6000 glue, on hand or about $3 and up
• Twine or cord for hanging, on hand or $1 and up

Total:  $1 and up

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Whether you’ve out grown their size or their style, don’t toss those old shoes just yet! Spring is the perfect time to perk up your home with plants and shoes make great little homes for them. Heather wrote a fabulous tutorial over on Home Made Simple showing us how to reincarnate your old shoes as flower pots. [how to make recycled shoe planters]

Project estimate:

• Old shoe, on hand
• Potting soil, on hand
• Potted plant or seeds, $1 and up
• Hammer and nail, on hand

Total: $1 and up

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I love fancy flower pots. I’ve even been known to acquire new houseplants just as an excuse to buy particularly nice pots that catch my eye. But, and this is a big but, the cost of a pretty planter is often more than I am willing to pay. Why spend a wad of cash when you can DIY ’em for so much cheaper? We’ve seen chalkboard painted flower pots before, but Vanessa from Tried & True stepped these up a notch on the wow-factor scale by adding some cute stenciled designs! [how to make stenciled chalkboard flower pots]

Project estimate:

• Flower pot, $1 and up
• Paint, on hand or $1 and up
• Chalkboard paint, about $5
• Stencils, on hand or $1 and up

Total: $6 and up

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My kids love anything outdoors.  A few years back their grandparents gave them this planter where you could see the plants grow under the soil.  It was very cool.  The kids asked about it the other day and I couldn’t find it to save my life.  I decided I can make my own.  A Dollar Store clear plastic container and some potting soil did the trick.

Project estimate:

• Clear plastic container, $1
• Potting soil, on hand or $1
• Seeds, 4/$1
• Knife, on hand

Total: $1.25 and up

First flip your container over and poke holes in it for drainage.  I used a kitchen knife and it worked great.  Don’t press to hard or you will crack the plastic.

Next fill container with potting soil.  Fill about 3/4 the way up.  Then add your seeds.  We added ours towards the outside edge so you can see the roots really well.

Poke some holes in the top just as you did the bottom for ventilation.  Water in the seeds and place top on container.  If you are planning to have it in the house you’ll need to put something under it to catch the water run off.  Dollar Store has great cookie sheets or roasting pan which will work well.

You’re done!  Watch it over the next few weeks and see what happens under the soil as you grow beautiful plants.

*If you’d like to grow root vegetables such as carrots just get a deeper container.

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If you fancy yourself a gourmet, you know that nothing else quite compares to the flavor of fresh herbs. However, if you live in a place with cold winters, keeping an herb garden going year-round is a little more difficult. That is why we love this project by Naomi Shulman at Spoonful. Not only does this planting system allow you to keep fresh herbs in your kitchen throughout the year, it also has a couple of other perks we really like: it uses recycled materials, and it is self-watering. (If you’re as bad as I am at remembering to water your plants, that is a priceless feature!) I’ve been hoarding some colorful plastic bottles from some juices that I bought a while back, and I am now imagining them lining my windowsill and full of little plants! [how to make self-watering recycled bottle planters]

Project estimate:

• Plastic bottles, on hand
• Soil, on hand or $1
• Seeds or seedlings, on hand or $1 and up

Total: Free and up

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