5 Essential Oil Blends for Fall Infographic

Find the 5 Essential Oil Blends at Hello Glow here.

If you don’t have a diffuser, Hello Glow has a roundup of 19 Essential Oil DIYs here.

Also, I posted 6 Jewelry Essential Oil Diffusers here.

DIY Crochet Bobbles Circle Bag Free Pattern

From Mama in a Stitch:

Find the Free Pattern for the DIY Crochet Bobbles Bag from Mama in a Stitch here.

You can also find Mama in a Stitch’s Free Pattern for this DIY Crochet Jute Circle Bag here. What she says about this bag:

DIY Crochet Skeleton Scarf Pattern

I looked back on my old post for Fabienne Gassmann’s Crochet Self Portrait Skeleton Scarf, and found that almost every link was broken and there was no pattern at that time. So this is the Updated 2019 post with a pattern.

Here is another cool photo of the scarf:

You can find the DIY Filet Crochet Skeleton Scarf Pattern for $6.17 on Ravelry by Fabienne Gassmann here.

You can see the scarf for sale for on the WayBack Machine for $1,171.68 (950 GBP) here.

Here’s a chart made my pani-ann on the WayBack Machine here.

Fabienne Gassmann

DIY Murphy Desk Free Plans  

This DIY Murphy Desk is supposed to be an easy build. It’s also practical because the Murphy Desk can fit in tiny spaces, and when folded up it has a chalkboard.

GIF by me using one of my favorite GIF programs: makeagif.com

See the DIY Murphy Desk Tutorial and Free Plans from Shanty 2 Chic here.

DIY Beaded Kumihimo Bracelet and Necklace

Updated Link 2019

I translated with Chrome. Why do people love kumihimo DIYs? It’s like a cross between spool knitting and knotting and the DIYs are becoming more sophisticated. This kumihimo bracelet and necklace can be customized in so many ways. I rarely say something is boutique gift worthy, but necklace and bracelet set are.

Find over 800 Bracelet DIYs here: truebluemeandyou.com/tagged/bracelet

Find the DIY Beaded Kumihimo Bracelet and Necklace Tutorial designed by Glòria Fort here.

For a Mini Roundup of the Best Kumihimo Braided Tutorials I’ve posted go here. #1 is a link to an excellent tutorial on how to braid 8 to 28 strands together.

DIY Knit Snake Scarf Free Pattern

Knit this Snake Scarf by Barbara Tomlinson from Beachton.com. Find the PDF pattern on her website here, or on Ravelry here.

Thanks for the shout out Jen on EPBOT! I’m making these scarves and the Cockatoo scarves (see such a good Good Omen’s meme with cockatoos at EPBOT’s post) for Holiday presents. See EPBOT’s post here: epbot.com/2019/08/jens-gems-romanov-costume-ball-snake.html

DIY Amazing Harry Potter Monopoly Game from Design in Technology

Updated Links 2019

All the Links for the Harry Potter Monopoly Game

For 125 more Harry Potter themed DIYs go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/harry-potter

Still not convinced? Look at more of the photos of this amazing game:

Ideas for Game Pieces from the Comments

DIY Rainbow Origami Koi Wall Art   

The interesting part is how she attaches the koi to the wall (but I’d use acid free foam core or canvas as my base). NOTES: She used 3" x 3" paper and one of her links to folding koi is broken but there are plenty of tutorials online here: www.google.com/search?q=how+to+fold+koi&oq=how+to+fold+koi

Find this DIY Rainbow Origami Koi Wall Art Tutorial from watchmeflyy for Instructables here.

One Word Spells in Morse Code Bracelets

To keep you protected and feeling stylish.

DIY Flower Pressing 🌸🌼

This is a super simple project for saving some springtime flowers, a bouquet you want don’t want to get rid of or for documenting herbs in your grimoire! It’s also cheap as you will have most of the items you need from nature or in your home. If you plan to harvest flowers, PLEASE do your research before you pick them. To the flowers!~

1. Gather your materials.

You will need scissors, tissue paper, flowers or herbs, a large book and heavy items to stack on top of the book (other books, weights, etc.) If you don’t have tissue paper, use toilet paper, paper towels, facial tissue, or culinary parchment paper. Pick too many flowers? Leave them as an offering or spruce up your altar! 

2. Place the tissue paper in your book and arrange your flowers for pressing.

Please use a book you don’t mind getting ruined! Some of the color from the flowers may bleed onto the pages, especially if you are using highly pigmented flowers. I use an old textbook for flower pressing. Arrange your flowers so that they all have space. If you stack them while pressing, you will end up with wrinkles in your flowers.

3. Close the book, place heavy items on it and wait.

Close the book while making sure all of the flowers still have room. Stack other books or weights on the book to ensure a good press. Let the flowers press for seven days or longer. Leaves and petals are already relatively flat so they take about a week. However, bigger flowers take longer to flatten so leave them pressed for about three weeks. 

Craft Ideas for your Pressed Flowers~

- Decoupage literally anything (offering dishes, trays, frames, etc.)  - Make bookmarks - Framed wall art - Collage with other media - Cards - Floral candles - Decorate your book of shadows - Document your work with herbs

DIY Origami Paper Fish

These beautiful Origami Paper Fish are so easy to make - paper, glue, tape, and wire or needle and thread. Depending on the person’s age, you can choose the method of stringing the fish body together.

You can check out the tutorial for the DIY Origami Paper Fish at Kate’s Creative Space here.

Here you can see how you add your own creativity to each fish.

DIY Rock Pendants Using a Soldering Iron 

I’m reposting this post because broken links have changed have been fixed.

There is a really good short video tutorial on how to go through the steps of soldering below (not that many and not that hard). There are also links to the materials she has used and they are so much cheaper than I expected.

Find the tutorial for the DIY Rock Pendants from Stars to Streetlights HERE or HERE.

Safety pin lingerie set made by me

Insta @bonafidebonehead

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Safety Pin Lingerie Set

I really love the top part of this safety pin lingerie set as Body Armor. You all can tell me your thoughts on safety pin panties. I’ve posted so many Safety Pin DIYs and you can find them here. Find one of my favorite posts on Body Armor here. 

*Pro Tip from experience: use pliers to close the safety pins, so they don’t accidentally open and injure you.

DIY Recycled Bottle Fountain

This could be a good kid/parent craft project where the final DIY is really impressive. You need relatively few supplies - mainly a cheap acquarium filter.

Find the written and video tutorial at Simple Craft Idea here.

Hey Goblins, uh

Did you know, that you can make an AWESOME journal for your adventures ALL ON YOUR OWN from a cereal box and paper/scraps that you likely have at home/can get from friends or family/you may find around your environment?

They’re called Junk Journals and they’re my entire life.

Im gonna do my best to walk you through how to make one! First, get you a mini cereal box! I use boxes from those cool multipacks of cereal that you can find at Walmart!

And then cut it out so it looks like this! (I already had one cut, so I’m gonna use that)

That “nutrition facts” side is gone become your spine!

Next, find some paper to use to decorate your cover! I was lucky enough to be gifted a bunch of scrapbooking paper, so I’m gonna use that, but you can also use newspaper, paper from books/magazines, junk mail, napkins, paper towels (excellent texture), etc!

Go ahead and glue that paper to your box (to cover the cereal logo) and cut it out! It’ll look like this;

Next you need to find your pages! Again these can be anything! Junk mail, envelopes, receipts, food wrappers, magazine/book pages, scrapbook paper, computer paper, construction paper, ANYTHING. Just grab a whole bunch!

You’re gonna want to fold them in half and cut them to the size of one of the covers of your box, and layer other pages inside of it to make your signatures, like this!

Each signature should be about 7-10 pages. You don’t want them too thick, otherwise the inner pages start sticking out when folded in half. You’re gonna have a LOT of these signatures, as you wanna fill the area in the spine as best as possible. For this one I’m using 7 page signatures. Here’s a pic to show just how much paper you’ll need

Each of these signatures are 7 pages, 6 signatures have only filled about half of the spine, so I’ll need probably 6 more.

Next you gotta figure out how you want them in your journal. Personally, I like to sew them into the spine, but you can also keep them in the spine with rubber bands, so you can have removable pages! (Be weary that rubber bands may break over time! So you may want to always keep extra bands near it to replace in case one snaps. This is why I prefer sewing them in) I find it best to look up on YouTube how to sew in signatures, just because having someone walk you through it where you can see what they’re doing is easiest. If you can’t access YouTube, there’s plenty of text tutorials on how to sew in signatures online, or you can message me! I’m not gonna go too into detail, but here’s the jist;

Okay so I’m a forgetful gob and I hecken forgot to take pictures as I was going along kahshshshsh

But essentially, I sewed in the pattern similar to the one I drew. The dots are where the needle goes all the way through to the back. I also like to use rubber band as an extra mode of support but you can do one or the other. I also like both cuz I can tuck stuff in em between the pages. Since I didn’t take more pictures; I’d really recommend looking up a how-to on YouTube or w/e if my badly drawn diagram isn’t clear enough (heh sorry about that)

Next, I glue fabric to the spine. It spruces it up quite a lot and holds the rubber bands in place, plus it give more support to the spine since there’s gonna be a lot of strain on it.

Only 10 photos per post, so I gotta post this and reblog it with the rest.

Here’s the journal with the fabric on the spine, I decided to go ahead and glue the excess to the rest of the cover too, cuz I liked how it looked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Next step?

DECORATE the pages! I haven’t decorated this one yet, but here’s some pages I have completed!

Have fun with it! Make tuck spots and hideaways. Add folders and envelopes and make tags and things that dangle. Decorate the covers and the spine and make it your own! Add things as you find them! Anything! Even candy wrappers! This is really the ultimate goblin journal!

I hope y’all enjoyed this mini tutorial =3

Honestly @gayestgoth I’m not sure how you don’t think it’s goblin. In my opinion, using garbage to make something cool is very goblin. And not only that, you can make these with ANYTHING.

Here’s one where I decorated the cover with actual leaves

I regularly use materials and litter that I find while out in the woods. I pick up all sorts of paper, receipts, scraps, cloth, advertisements, broken beer bottles, etc to use in my journals. And because I’m picking these things up, there’s less litter in the woods. PLUS I’m recycling. And I press plants into them.

Half chewed papers? Go for it! I set the corners of pages on fire before cuz I liked the burnt look! (Do with caution) chew ya own papers! Make it unique!

And shinies?

I’ve got plenty! I use all kinds of clips, wire, beads, buttons, pins, coins, etc in my journals. Half of which, I find in the garbage.

Hell,

I found the upholstery fabric I used for the cover of this journal in the garbage!

So how is this goblin?

How is it not?

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO MAKING LOTIONS, BUTTERS, AND MILKS

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES TO MAKING LOTIONS, BUTTERS, AND MILKS

THE POWER OF BOTANICALS

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DIY Natural Solid Perfume Recipe

Solid Perfumes are a great substitute for liquid bottled perfumes. With the natural ingredients used in this recipe, you will not have to worry about toxic fumes entering your body. This specific blend of oils create a relaxing and calming aroma that will assist in relieving stress and bringing love into your life.

Let’s get started!

Ingredients:

To make, place your choice of wax into a double boiler on high heat. After it melts, pour your carrier oil and stir until you get a smooth consistency. Lower heat so the carrier oil doesn’t start cooking! Alkanet Root is optional, but I recommend it is you want to give it a pretty pink/peachy color as shown in the photo. If you decide to use it, simply add the herbs and use a strainer to rid them before pouring into your container. You can now add your essential oils. If you are familiar with essential oils and know how to use them, then add as many drops as you feel are appropriate. If not, depending on the brand of essential oils you are using and the amount of wax & carrier oil you placed in your boiler, you will need to add around 20-30 drops of each essential oil. Stir, turn heat off, and pour into your container. I topped all of mine off with some dried flowers! If you decide to do this, be sure to add the flowers before the perfume dries. 

I hope you all enjoy this recipe! Feel free to share your photos with me after you make them and contact me if you have any questions!

To purchase one of the solid perfumes, visit my brand new shop!

www.etsy.com/shop/jeditree