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Crafts & Celebrations

Erin Loechner

DIY Time! Make a Personalized Clock

From your favorite book to an inspiring poster, you can make your own functioning clock out of just about any object. Now that's what we call customization!

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Cool Hunting

Craft a DIY Knife Block in Two Hours

Create a knock-off of the coveted Schaschlik knife block using a few planks of pine and inexpensive bamboo skewers.

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Gina Provenzano

Craft a Postcard Pillow

Get inspired to travel this spring with a creative postcard pillow project!

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Jen Jafarzadeh L'Italien

Bright Idea: Transform a Vintage Bottle into a Soap Dispenser

Vintage soda bottles, antique medicine bottles -- these chic vessels make for unexpected kitchen companions.

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Gina Provenzano

Handmade: Bungee-Cord Memo Board

Dive in to unconventional organization with a wall-mounted memo board made from bungee cords!

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OLga Diez, Flickr

Unusual Uses for Clothespins

These old laundry standbys have loads of household potential beyond the clothesline.

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smannion, Flickr

Cheap Trick: Make Over an Empty Frame

You've got a great picture frame -- but it has no backing, glass, or hardware. What now?

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Corbis

A Brief History of DIY

Here are six household items that DIYers couldn't live without -- and the innovative Americans who invented them.

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Getty Images

DIY Warrior: How to Install a Flagpole

Feeling patriotic? Raise the stars and stripes on a stately, in-ground flagpole.

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10 Uses for Leftover House Paint

Don't let extra paint go to waste; get creative with it!

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Brian Kelsey

Dad Inspired Me to DIY

DIY Life contributor Brian Kelsey celebrates Father's Day with an homage to his hands-on dad.

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