Whether you’re aiming for efficiency, decoration, fun, or self-sufficiency, there’s a awesome DIY project just waiting for you. Here’s how to make some of the most clever DIY crafts we found.

1 Color Your Shoe Soles

Color Your Shoe Soles: Looking to spruce up your old black shoes? Check out my latest DIY project for colored soles. It is quick & easy, and the result is adorable! (via Fashion Lush)

2 Stool out of magazines

Stool out of magazines: As much as we’ve tried to thin down the magazines that come into the home, there will still be a few publications we truly like to have in hand and will continue keeping. We suspect that your house is similar, so instead of stocking your bookcases full of back issues, try putting them to use instead; as seating! (via Apartment Therapy)

3 Braided Hex Nut Bracelet

Braided Hex Nut Bracelet: We’re nuts for nuts. Is there a more versatile and inexpensive DIY component than a hex nut from the hardware store?You can imagine our excitement when we first discovered Philip Crangi’s Giles & Brother HexCollection. Honestly, nuts braided into jewelry is WTF genius! With a few items that (via Honestly WTF)

4 Simple Cork Boards

Simple Cork Boards (via Simply Emily)

5 The Easiest Pillow Cover Ever

The Easiest Pillow Cover Ever: This is the easiest pillow cover ever. No measuring! No sewing! Just fold and tie. You need a piece of fabric 3 times as wide plus a few more inches and twice as tall plus a few more inches as (via Organize Your Stuff Now)

6 Mason Jar Spout

Mason Jar Spout (via The Cheese Thief)

7 Use Pull Tabs to Hang Pictures

Use Pull Tabs to Hang Pictures: When I was a teenager, we had a distinctly impolite name for a pull tab that had been removed from the can with the rivet ring still intact, said name being based on a persistent urban legend about the alleged redemption value of these relatively rare tabs. I can assure you, dear readers, that legend has nothing to do with the reason I am familiar with this handy trick for removing pull tabs with the ring intact every time. Turns out, a tab with an intact rivet ring is quite useful for mounting to wooden frames as a picture hanger. And I, you know, have to hang up lots of pictures. Seriously. (via Make)

8 Spray paint trash can and flip – instant side table

Spray paint trash can and flip – instant side table (via House of Turquoise)

9 Cell Phone Charging Holder

Cell Phone Charging Holder: An easy tutorial to make a Holder for Charging Cell Phone made from a lotion bottle! Brilliant! (via Make It and Love It)

10 Ironing Board Holder

Ironing Board Holder: We had an old dresser that had a few broken drawers! I was finally able to get my hands on a free replacement for our dresser, but couldn’t bare to part with a few of the drawers! This one especially because the face of the drawer had fallen off long ago. Its destined project was(…) (via iCandy Handmade)

11 Use magazine holder as can storage

Use magazine holder as can storage: PB & Jstories | The Home DIY Blog Where paint, sawdust, and design go together like PB &J (via PBJstories)

12 Use chalkboard paint on jar lid

Use chalkboard paint on jar lid: Thank you for the suggestions to try loose leaf tea. I’m hooked! I got these little canning jars to contain my stockpile, and I painted the lids with chalkboard paint. Now I can easily label and relabel my various leafy blends. It would have been a good idea to apply a coat of primer before [] (via Wit and Whistle)

13 Pool Noodle Door Stop

Pool Noodle Door Stop (via Red Delicious Life)

14 Sculptural Paper Orb Lights

Sculptural Paper Orb Lights: Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more (via Design Sponge)

15 Elephant Succulent Planter

Elephant Succulent Planter: succulent planter diy, anthropologie diy, thrifty diy (via A Bubbly Life)

16 Nautical Drawer Pulls

Nautical Drawer Pulls: If you’ve never switched out the hardware on your drawers, you’re missing out. There are tons of glam options, of course- you’ve probably seen several ideas at Anthropologie! Luckily, drawer pulls are super simple to pick up at any hardware Continue reading (via Alyssa and Carla)

17 Ping Pong Ball Cafe Lights

Ping Pong Ball Cafe Lights: Right now Edie sleeps with us in our bedroom. Sometimes she actually sleeps with us in bed in a LulyBoo (love that portable thing) and other times she sleeps in this cradle above in the corner by the door to the sunroom where the rest of her nursery is (see the full nursery tour here). (via Say Yes)

18 Wooden Earrings

Wooden Earrings: A small step by step to show you how to create wooden earrings from scrap wood. (via Instructables)

19 Plastic Bottle Candy Dish

Plastic Bottle Candy Dish (via Tiffany Threadgould)

20 No Sew Reusable Grocery Bag

No Sew Reusable Grocery Bag: I haven’t done a Fashion Friday DIY for sooooo long, and since its a new year, its definitely time! This DIY was inspired by Cassey from Blogilates!I always have my car stocked with reusable shopping bags for last minute farmers market and grocery shopping trips, and thought this do it yourself bag/tote was the cutest Read more… (via Rabbit Food for My Bunny Teeth)

21 Gradient Nails

Gradient Nails: So yesterday I hinted that I’d be elaborating on the technique I used for my gradient nails. And today, as promised, I’ve written a detailed picture tutorial for you guys. Enjoy! (via The Nailasaurus)

22 Color Code Your Keys

Color Code Your Keys (via A Bubbly Life)

23 Flat Iron Holder

Flat Iron Holder (via Creative Juices)

24 Make Your Own Spray Ink

Make Your Own Spray Ink (via Scrapbooking from the Inside Out)

25 Make a Couch From Wooden Pallets

Make a Couch From Wooden Pallets (via Cuarto Derecha)

26 Make a Bike Rack out of Wooden Pallets

Make a Bike Rack out of Wooden Pallets (via lowtechatmo)

27 Cereal Box Placemat

Cereal Box Placemat (via Tiffany Threadgould)

28 Hidden Alarm Panel

Hidden Alarm Panel: Hello and a Happy New Year to all of you. Im in full clean up and organize mode over here. Finishing up projects I have put off and making my home more comfy. First project of the year: the Hidden Alarm Panel. Yeah, that ugly thing I see each and EVERY time I walk […] (via Better Homes and Gardens)

29 A Citrus Peel Starter Pot For Seedlings

A Citrus Peel Starter Pot For Seedlings: I’m going to transplant the whole thing into the garden. The peel will compost directly into the soil to nourish the plant as it grows (via My Roman Apartment)

30 Use Wine Rack for Towels

Use Wine Rack for Towels: Great decorating doesn’t have to cost a fortune — in fact it doesn’t have to cost anything! Use these FREE decorating solutions to give your space a whole new look. (via Better Homes and Gardens)

31 Remove a Stripped Screw Without an Extractor

Remove a Stripped Screw Without an Extractor: Almost everyone who has worked on a DIY or renovation project has applied too much torque and stripped a screw head clean. It can feel like a frustrating dead end, especially if you don’t have a specialized extractor kit on hand. But you might be able to remove a stripped screw using a very common household item probably already sitting in your desk or kitchen drawer… (via Apartment Therapy)

32 From Spare Books to Beautiful Shelves

From Spare Books to Beautiful Shelves: Here’s a clever new use for old books: Make your own book shelves in three simple steps. (via Real Simple)

33 From Paper Clips to Mini Hangers

From Paper Clips to Mini Hangers (via Agusyornet)

34 Painting the Inside of Your Doors

Painting the Inside of Your Doors (via Radical Possibility)

35 Use cabinet doors as towel hangers

Use cabinet doors as towel hangers (via Brainstorm)

36 Make Magazine and File Organizer out of Cardboards

Make Magazine and File Organizer out of Cardboards: If like many Makers you have magazines and papers laying about then this simple idea may be for you. All that you need is an empty envelope box, a few… (via Instructables)

37 Puffy Paint

Puffy Paint (via Get Your Mess On!)

38 Cardboard Phone Stand

Cardboard Phone Stand: You will need:- cardboard-scissors-tape (via Instructables)

39 His and Her Sharpie Mug

His and Her Sharpie Mug: After seeing several projects floating around on Pinterest I decided to try the sharpie method for customizing a pair of his + her mugs (this set is super cute + this one is particularly beautiful). The directions listed on Pinterest kinda seemed too easy to be true… so I did a little testing. I even tried running them through the dishwasher and here’s what I found out… Here’s the method:… (via A Beautiful Mess)

40 Workout Shirt

Workout Shirt: Happy Fashion Friday! I have a super fun arts and crafts project for my beautiful little bunnies to try over the holiday weekend! I love buying new clothes, but sometimes I love making them even more! I started college as a fashion design major, so I have always been a little crafty when it comes Read more… (via Rabbit Food for My Bunny Teeth)

41 Necklace Holder from a Driftwood

Necklace Holder from a Driftwood (via Visibly Moved)

42 Draped Skirt

Draped Skirt (via Passions for Fashion)

43 Turn Frames into Chalkboard Signs

Turn Frames into Chalkboard Signs (via flickr)

44 Make Your Keys Easy to Carry

Make Your Keys Easy to Carry (via Bernard)

45 Use coffee filters to keep dirt from falling out

Use coffee filters to keep dirt from falling out: They’re a must-have item in the kitchen, of course. But lint-free, tear-resistant coffee filters are mighty handy in the workshop and pretty much everywhere else. (via This Old House)