Category: Workshop

Under Stairs Dog House

What a great concept – also hides the dog bed. Make your own with simple materials. Cut a door on a piece of paneling. Give it a white wash treatment. Add a name plate, trim and use small wood pieces (maybe even paint stirrers) to make shingles. So very cute, but yet hidden away.

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Doll Boat

Materials
  • 2 Plastic bottles
  • Rubber bands
  • Colored plastic tape
  • Craft knife
Instructions
  1. Remove the labels from the plastic bottles
  2. Bath Craft - Step 2 Clamp the bottles together temporarily with the rubber bands, then wrap them with colored tape, as shown.
  3. Remove the rubber bands, then, with a craft knife (a parent’s job), cut the oval seat openings.
  4. Sail away with a crew of fashion dolls, action figures, or waterproof plush toys. via

Homemade Cat Scratching Circle

1. cardboard boxes (all sizes, all kinds, at least 5 medium size boxes)
2. masking tape
3. exacto blade and ruler
4. scrap paper, felt, or fabric
5. decorative paper or fabric

Instructions:

1. Choose a height for the pad (mine is 4″)
2. Measure and cut your cardboard in identical width strips. Cut so that the ridges in the cardboard are going horizontally across the strips.
3. Start rolling the cardboard in your hands and bending at each corrugation, the cardboard will start to curl naturally.
4. Tightly wind one strip into a circle and tape closed. This will be the core of your round.
5. Add a new piece and secure with two pieces of masking tape. Choose which side will be the top and make sure that side is always even. It is less important if the other side is slightly uneven, it will still sit properly and the top will look perfect.
6. Keep adding! Tape each piece right next to the end of the last piece and keep the coiling tight.

7. Cut your pretty paper and wrap it around the outside. Tape to close.

8. Trace onto the scrap fabric or paper and cut out the circle. Tape or glue to the bottom so that if you choose to put catnip in it it won’t spill through.
9. Put on the ground, sprinkle on catnip, and watch as hilarious cat antics ensue. via