The crafts scene is thriving as Gens X and Y embrace hobbies (rejected as too middlebrow by their baby boomer parents) in order to create something beautiful, functional, and unique. With its sleek design and edgy tone, Super Crafty is the ultimate hipster’s craft guide, with a wide array of accessible projects suitable for all skill levels. read more

The Ultimate Guide to Upcycling is the only guide you’ll ever need to start the green crafting journey!

Turn soda cans into jewelry and cards, turn cd cases into birthday cards, magazines into candles and scraps of cloth into artist trading cards. Upcycling was never this cool and never this easy! read more

We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with 33 projects to make--quite literally--out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated books from flea markets and library sales and turns them into new art objects and practical items for the home. read more

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This gingerbread isn’t for your belly but it looks good enough to eat. Wee houses made from felt are so cute covering a battery operated candle. Shafts of warm glowing light emanate from the doorways and windows. Make half a dozen to create a miniature glowing village and place around the tree or table decoration.

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Congratulations. It's your lucky day! Own a digital camera? Taken a bajillion photos with it? Maybe even printed a few?

You're in the right place.

We find the mostkick-ass photo tips, projects, and more...

Turn a photo into a mural in 5 minutes flat

Print your friends' faces onto cupcakes

Get a bottlecap that turns a water bottle into a tripod

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“I want to start a blog/website – help!”

I’ve been asked this question a lot lately, and seen it pop up around the place. You want to start a blog, but you don’t know how to go about it? Read on!

CraftStylish is the ultimate crafting resource that we craved, but couldn’t find—a place to connect, discover and share with other crafters. It’s the destination for fabulous inspiration and expert instruction on the latest trends, projects, ideas, and materials. Whatever craft you love—knitting, crocheting, sewing, quilting, embroidery, jewelrymaking, and more—you’ll find the best information and community at CraftStylish.com.

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This is an excellent article/tutorial on how to build a custom child's desk for a bedroom. The desk is made using 4X4's, 1X3's and plywood. This article includes a supplies needed list, all measures for cuts and assembly instructions.

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This is an article for those of you who blog – and who want to make your blog successful! I actually posted this on the Etsy forums a while back, when my blog passed 1,000 followers/subscribers.

That was only a month or so ago, and the count has grown to over 1,200.

I love my blog, and I’ve worked hard over the last few years to keep it going, growing, and evolving. These are the 10 things that I believe have contributed to the success I’ve achieved so far…