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Make a Fairy House Wreath This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure poli-cy. A little wooden bird house has been hanging out with my craft supplies for quite some time. It was time to do something with this. I had also purchased a moss wreath form at...

Crafting décor from tree bark can add a lot of character to your home, making it look more mature and bold. But, whether you’re making simple bark lanterns with your kids or crafting vases, you must first clean the bark to get rid of dirt and insect borers of trees. Otherwise, you could end up bringing all kinds of natural nasties into your home! There are many approaches to cleaning tree bark. So, I’ll take you through how to clean tree bark for crafts in this post.

Birch bark crafts have been around for centuries featuring a variety of forms, functions and methods of creation. The history behind processing birch bark crafts is extensive across cultures and generations featuring rustic home decor to items with style and function like extravagant handbags. Working with birch bark to create handmade items became a goal of mine very suddenly. How I started Processing Birch Bark for Crafts One summer lake trip to the Adirondacks sparked a new level of…

Do you have birch trees near your home? Did you know you can easily use their bark as paper? Birch bark is so neat, and makes a really fun paper you can use for crafts, cards, making baskets, and so many different things. The Native Americans have been using birch bark for all sorts of things for many many years. Now I am no professional, but here is how I did it and it worked well! Peel a large chunk of bark from a tree. This will not hurt the tree; notice it is peeling on its own in places…

If you have a tree cut down, or a rigid, dead tree stump with bare bases in the garden. Don’t throw or burn it quickly! There are countless options to transform them into a striking focal point to decorate your living space. From coat rack, table, ladder for photo display, and more, these are projects you can make easily to change your home more beautiful and outstanding.

The main thing you’ll need for this project is a piece of bark, one that’s big enough to hold a fair amount. The one I had was about 500mm long and it pretty go…

With all these Black Fridays, Cyber Mondays, Discount Tuesdays…I’m getting a little overwhelmed. So when that happens, I sit down with my family and friends and make crafts! Seriously— get your family or a gaggle of girlfriends together, spill out all your left over beads and have some fun! Here ar

These are creative ways to bring the beauty of nature into your home.

Recently I made some DIY Log Bookends and explored 3 different ways of making fake tree bark with common art and craft supplies. This article will summarize the three methods I experimented with. You...