DIY-ing

@dog_lover94 crafty stuff is definitely a strength of mine. I assume I got them in place of any sort sporting talent 

Plus braiding.. I can't wrap my head around that for some weird reason...

Ohhhh @Tiny_leaf that looks so pretty!! I did a class in highschool were we got to make jewelry so if I can find some pliers I might give that a go!

That would also be a good DIY as a present! I think DIY presents are such a nice gift!

Do you know what your next project will be after your phone case?

@Tasi because I made mine from a cracked marble, it's also sparkly!!! I'm pretty happy with it, though I got stabbed by the wire a few times while making it..

My next thing's going to be knee pads, I just need to find a tough enough material for the weight bearing part.. it turns out that ballistic nylon is pretty expensive, even on ebay...

Oh, though I'd like to see if I can make a kind of "sole" for it out of palm fronds. Weaving it's fairly hard though, I have no experience at all. Also palm trees are spiky...

@Tiny_leaf  I love these projects! You're so creative!

I love making things out of household or recycled materials. I remember making a mini chest of drawers out of cardboard and felt to store stationary and bits and pieces in. I also decorated a box with bits of shredded newspaper, paint, buttons, stickers and felt.

I haven't done a DIY project in a while. Do you know any good sites with projects and instructions?

@WheresMySquishy thanks! 

Hmm.. https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/ has some good (and really cool looking) ideas. Wikihow has a few as well.

The Art of Manliness has a few good practical ones (especially to do with leatherwork, and similar "manly" crafts) though as you may've guessed that website really likes its binary gender roles...

I can't remember too many others, I swear 80% of them have the word house or home in them for some reason...

If I find any others on my internet travels I'll try to put the links up though.

@Tiny_leaf  I checked out some of the crafts on that website and they looked really cool! Thanks for the link!

@letitgo I've made a lot of stim toys.

This one's going to be a weighted hedgehog lap pad, I made him out of a car sponge and some gravel, I just need to add eyes and reinforce him a bit.

At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to make some knee pads. Because my legs hate me, I spend a lot of time crawling and kneeling to get around the house, so I kinda need something to make that easier.

@Tiny_leaf  Wow!! I love that you make your own stim toys. I've never even thought about that - do you take something from making the toys as well as using them? 

@Bre-RO definitely - it's possibly my favorite part of the whole thing honestly.

Plus I'm too impatient to order them online, and a lot of them are poor quality and designed by people who don't actually stim themselves.

The inspiration my hedgehog was a pretty ugly $30 soft toy from a US company that specializes in therapeutic products like sensory toys. I just kinda went: "I could literally make a better one myself" and so I did  

@Tiny_leaf I love that you recognised that you could do something better so you just went ahead and did it! 

@Tiny_leaf this is so cool! I love the phone case, I'm keen to see how it turned out once finished!
My last DIY Was a Christmas tree last year out of wire and beads, man it took forever! But it stands proudly on my desk still 😛 It was pretty fun to make too!

Here are the photos I uploaded somewhere on the forums when I finished it 🙂

I have experimented a little with polymer clay too. But found the baking step the hardest to actually do, not that it's tricky or anything lol

@Bee oh my gosh it's beautiful!!!

I love polymer clay - I know what you mean about the baking it though. Ovens are weird.

I'll have to check them out, thanks for the recommendation @N1ghtW1ng. I also love the Youtube channels BestDressed and LoneFox for DIYs 

Hello there forums community! I have a DIY-ing question I would love to hear your thoughts on! 

I would love to organise my storage better in my house, and would love to make my storage solutions instead of buying them. Has anyone else made drawer organisers or other storage/organisation tools to keep all your things neat and tidy?

I have been looking at pinterest and got some ideas, but would love to hear from fellow DIY-ers 

@Jess1-RO I know this one!!! 

This one's pretty easy, it just takes some origami skills.

Also if you don't have much time, IKEA is amazing, and I think has some cool drawer organizers.

Peg boards aren't very pretty in my opinion, but apparently they're becoming popular, and they can be a really useful storage thing.

"Secret" furniture storage:

A bit harder to diy, but really really cool. 

I'd also suggest online window shopping at places like Officeworks and IKEA. That way you can get a few ideas - some of their stuff is pretty easy to reproduce.

I've had an oddly specific desire to make my own pencil case and found this really cool idea if anyone's interested:

Idk, I just like weird ideas like this. 

@Jess1-RO I've been meaning to make one of them for a while now - they look so cool!!

This is my galaxy glitter jar on my desk 🙂 would highly recommend, they are so much fun to make too!