Nothing adds beauty and charm to an outdoor space as quickly and easily as fairy lights! Here are 3 super simple fairy light ideas for your back yard. The Simple Stupid train is running full steam ahead here at The Navage Patch! (For those not familiar with our new motto, please read about it here.) Since our deck reveal post, we've received a lot of inquiries about the lighted side table in some of the pictures. Today, I'll show you how to make that table and give you two other super simple ... Read More about Super Simple Fairy Light Ideas
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Solar Mason Jar Lights
These solar mason jar lights are an easy DIY that will add a little magic to your deck or patio at night! All you need are old sconces, mason jars, and solar fairy lights! Do you know who loves the word "sconce?" Geese. Especially Long Island geese. It is their favorite salutation. It is their most common valediction. They love to scream it when they are chasing children around a lake. "SCONCE! SCONCE! SCONCE!" This is usually followed by a painful nip in the ... Read More about Solar Mason Jar Lights
Alcohol Ink Bottle Lights (a 10-minute DIY)
Alcohol Ink Bottle Lights are an easy 10-minute project that look great during the day and spectacular at night. Perfect indoors or out! Look, I get it, you're a busy woman. It's hard to find time to do all the things in a day you'd like to do. What with all the ass-kicking and name-taking you do on a daily basis, who's got time for crafting and DIY? Or maybe you're just lazy like I am (ha! good luck with that one, sister! I'm the KING of lazy!) and want to get some sweet-looking results ... Read More about Alcohol Ink Bottle Lights (a 10-minute DIY)
DIY Cedar Cube Solar Landscape Lights
Inexpensive solar landscape lights are great, but they suffer from two major flaws: broken ground spikes and clouded solar panels. In this post, we’ll show you how to upgrade those cheap lights into DIY Cedar Cube Solar Landscape Lights, and we’ll show you a simple trick to clear up those hazy solar panels. The Problem with Solar Landscape Lights with Ground Spikes If you've ever bought inexpensive solar landscape lights, you're probably familiar with their Achilles heel: the cheap plastic ... Read More about DIY Cedar Cube Solar Landscape Lights
DIY Spilling Solar Lights (aka Teapot Lights)
DIY Spilling Solar String Lights will make your garden sparkle at night! This is a quick and EASY project that you'll love to look at each and every night! Summer nights are all about light here at The Navage Patch! And we've found that the best way to bring some sparkle to our garden is by using solar fairy lights in our DIY garden lighting projects. Do you remember the coffee pot garden decor I posted about last year? The one with the gems pouring from the spout? Well, last year, I ... Read More about DIY Spilling Solar Lights (aka Teapot Lights)
DIY Waterdrop Solar Lights
Add some magic to your garden with these DIY Waterdrop Solar Garden Lights. Our DIY solar lights are a fun project, and they look amazing at night! Are you looking for the perfect addition to your garden? Something that will really make a statement and stand out from the crowd? Then you're going to want to make some of these DIY waterdrop solar lights! Interested? Good! I'll show you how! Before we begin, be sure to follow us on Pinterest, YouTube, Facebook and ... Read More about DIY Waterdrop Solar Lights
DIY Felt Trees
These DIY Felt Trees are an easy and inexpensive way to decorate for the holiday season. Free printable templates and SVG cut files for 3 tree sizes! It all started not long ago when Handan was doing her usual late-night web-wandering, and she came across some cute (her word, not mine!) felt trees. They were on one of those sites that likes to tease. You get a little taste...you want the thing you're looking at...oh!, but you have to be a paying member to get the ... Read More about DIY Felt Trees
Dining Room Makeover
Our Dining Room Makeover is finished, and we are floored by how well it turned out. We can't wait to start entertaining in this beautiful room! Welp, we finally did it! We finally have the dining room we've always wanted. Handan and I struggled for years in our old house to cobble together a workable and decent-looking dining room. The space was just weird. Cavernous. Asymmetrical. A chandelier centered on precisely nothing (until we moved it). And the space was the nexus of ... Read More about Dining Room Makeover
DIY Christmas Wreath Ideas
These gorgeous DIY Christmas wreath ideas (and a couple of swags!) will save you money and help transform your house into a festive holiday home! It's no secret my babes goes a little gaga for seasonal and holiday wreaths, but she's especially nuts about Christmas wreaths. And can you blame her? She grew up in a country without wreaths. I'm serious! Wreaths are a distinctly Western phenomenon - in her native Turkey, they are unheard of! When we first moved to The States, ... Read More about DIY Christmas Wreath Ideas