Ikea HACK with Prant boxes

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My sister and I both have versions of the Expedit line at Ikea. If you try to find storage containers to fit inside the slots anywhere but Ikea it can be hard so when I saw this on pinterest from JustDawnelle I knew this would be what we would do for our containers!

Supplies:

-Prant boxes

-Fabric

-Sta-flo (wal-mart)

-Plastic container

-Box cutter

 Honestly the hardest part about this entire craft was building the prant boxes! Can you see all of the different hammers an mallets we used? We started out with two boxes to see if we liked the look.

I did exactly as JustDawnelle did and cut the fabric with room to shrink with the Sta-flo which was right next to the starch in Wal-Mart. Then I put a small amount in the plastic container and soaked the fabric,

I made sure the fabric was totally soaked. You can get the Sta-flo on your hands it doesn't do anything to you.

Then I put the Prant boxes in the bathroom on the tile, flattened out the fabric onto the front of the boxes and got out all of the boxes. I left it there for two days just because I couldn't get to them sooner and they hardened up very nicely.

It was extremely easy to cut the fabric especially along the metal edges.

I used a sharp box cutter because I didn't have an Exacto knife on hand and cut everything to the size I wanted. It was really easy to run the blade along the metal edge

Cutting the holes out was a little tedious, but nothing hard. I just went around the hole carefully.

Here they are in my sister's apartment!! Hope you enjoy this craft!!

<3 Elisabeth

DIY Camera Strap Cover

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For Christmas a few years ago, I made my little sister two camera strap covers for her Nikon DSLR camera. I went to JoAnn's and picked a hounds tooth fabric that I knew she would love. I also got ahold of her favorite Vera Bradley pattern, Twirly Birds in Navy, by buying cloth napkins from the website. Naturally, I got the idea from Pinterest and used the tutorial from Priddycreations.com.

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DIY Tool Belt

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Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

While watching the Super Bowl I decided it was finally time to complete my tool belt that I'd been thinking about for quite come time now. I went to Home Depot and got this apron for only $0.77 and believe it or not that's all I spent on this project!

I used my sewing machine which is the machine I use for all of my sewing crafts the Brother CE-4000.

I went through my scrap fabric and I chose these two fabrics because I loved the way they looked together, I got them both from JoAnn's a few years ago. I also used red thread so it would pop against the fabric.

I cut enough fabric so that I would not have to sew the bottom seam of the apron. I pinned the blue fabric along the sides of the apron and made sure that the fabric lined up on both sides of the apron. I made sure not to pin the pockets closed. I did a 1/4" turn hem on the two sides and along the top that runs along the top of the pockets.

I hadn't planned on covering the back of the apron when I first started thinking of this project, but I ended up having enough fabric to do so. After pinning the blue fabric, I pinned the yellow fabric to the back of the apron like pictured below with a 1/4" turn hem.

And then I flipped the apron back over to the front and pinned as far into the pockets as I could. This is when the project get a lot harder than I had planned for.

I realized I would have to sew along each pocket by fitting each pocket onto the base of my sewing machine so that I would not sew the pockets shut. The hardest part was feeding the pockets through to complete the stitch because it was circular and the apron has two separate pockets rather than one big pocket. Because of this I was unable to get a solid stitch from one side to the other.

When it came time to sew the yellow fabric I stitched as close to the pocket as I could so the seam would be covered as much as possible. When I was done I tried it on and used my sewing scissors as a tool for my new tool belt!

Now I'm ready to decorate our new house!

Elisabeth

DIY Headband Holder

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Today I'm going to share a headband holder that I made for my sister for her birthday. My mom gave me the idea and it was actually pretty easy. First, I asked my sister what kind of color scheme she would like and then I headed to Jo Ann's Fabric Store.
 

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