This is hilarious! DIY: Flying People Balloon Weights
Decorating some white spray painted jars with japanese washi tape and scrap paper is simple and pretty. They look great filled with single sprigs from the garden. Love little jars and bottles like these running down the center of a dining table via A Creative Mint
Adorable! Tooth Fairy pillow via A Little Sussy
DIY Decorating with masking tape
Love this idea! Customize plain ceramics, dress up inexpensive vases for your next event or home decor and when you get tired just peel it off!
DIY: Wishes for the New Year
Wishes for 2012, an idea worth perusing in lieu of guest books for your weddings! Guests can write their wishes for the new year and hang them on streamers. Print out the cards for the New Year’s wishes and cut them out.
Bebas neue from dafont, which can be downloaded here
Old Script, which can be downloaded here
Via Ruffled
DIY: Confetti Poppers For the confetti poppers you’ll need: - tissue paper Brush a thin coat of coat of glue on toilet paper rolls and wrap tissue paper like in the photo above. Using a sewing needle, pull the thread on one end of your popper. This will be the bottom of your confetti popper. Once you threaded one end, make sure to make a knot large enough on the inside so the thread stays put. Add confetti, and tie the other end of your popper with fishing line to hang from the ceiling. Embellish with tissue paper, glitter dots, double sided tape and loose glitter sprinkled on. Via Ruffled
- toilet paper rolls
- glue, scissors
- erm…confetti
- glitter dots (you can use a hole punch to make your own)
- double sided tape
- sewing needle and thread
- streamers
- nylon fishing line
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The secret to tying the perfect bow
It’s all about what I call the ribbon tail. Here are the how-to instructions with photos: Start with good quality ribbon- like fabric, expensive ribbon falls better than cheap ribbon. A double sided satin ribbon works best as you don’t have to fuss with the good side and bad side. Also, you’ll need about meter of ribbon to tie a good bow, plus however much ribbon you need to wrap around the box/flowers/new car. 
3. Smooth the knot cover over and pull tight, making sure both loops are the same size. *leave a long tail on both ends.
4. Now here’s the magic part. Take the “tail” of the ribbon and fold it back in towards the centre knot. Add a dot of glue (right where you see my fingers are holding it down).
5. Cut on a bias or with a v-notch. Now that’s a pro-looking bow. Doesn’t matter what the gift is, this will wow’em:
Easy tutorial on the Whole Living website, on how to make your own gift bow out of old magazines laying around. It’s surprisingly easy!
Suede No-Sew Skirt
DIY Idea via Martha Stewart
If you can sew a button, you can make this skirt,” says Blueprint fashion editor Katie Hatch. All the projects are made of cut-and-go microfiber suede (the best known: Ultrasuede). For the scalloped edge, Katie traced an oatmeal canister. “Yes, it’s that unscientific,” she says.
Tools and Materials
1 3/4 yards of heavyweight 45-inchwide fabric*
*(for a skirt larger than size 8, you will need to buy 2 yards)
Erasable fabric marker
32-ounce oatmeal container
Button
Needle and thread
Skirt How-To
Using our pattern template or following the instructions below, the skirt pattern should first be made from muslin and completed using Ultrasuede.
1. Fold 1 3/4 yards of 45-inch-wide muslin in half, so it is 30 by 45 inches. (Use a bit more muslin if you are making a skirt larger than a size 8). Orient the fabric so that the fold is on your right-hand side. Mark 10 inches up on the folded edge (from the lower right-hand corner), and draw a convex curved line to the lower-left hand corner.
2. Mark a spot on the edge opposite the fold about 39 inches up from the bottom. From that mark, draw a convex curved line to the upper right-hand corner (the other folded edge). Cut on lines, rounding the lower left-hand corner. Wrap skirt around waist to fit. If skirt is not big enough to overlap about 9 to 10 inches, repeat step 1, cutting a deeper curve from bottom end.
3. Trace oatmeal container to make shallow scallops along top. Cut scalloped edge through both layers at waist. Fold back top layer, and trace scallops around one end. Wrap skirt around waist to overlap; let scallop end drape.
4. Take finished muslin pattern and pin to Ultrasuede fabric (folded in half, so its 30 by 45 inches); mark pattern with chalk. Cut out pattern with scissors.
5. Wrap skirt around waist to overlap; let scallop drape.
6. Mark closure spot on bottom layer with pin. Sew button on marked spot. Snip a small slit for buttonhole.
Want a lunch date with someone… this invite is perfect, fun and clever!
ikea sells this super cute children’s flatware: cheap + perfect. For this lunch invitation line an envelope with a sheet of paper towel and then write a message directly onto the envelope and then tape the flatware to the inside of the envelope. Wrap it up in a box and deliver to your friend’s house!
If you want it fancier, you can print directly onto your envelope and make the liner with a fabric napkin.
Via Tokketok
Love this DIY idea. Use mini foil baking cups to embellish gifts or decor.
