DIY Queer Beauty Bar: Wash Your F*cking Face
Throw out all your fancy face washes and special lotions; all you need is a little bit of oil.
DIY Beauty Bar: Wax On, Wax Off
This caramel’s for your legs, not your mouth.
Cute DIY Bookshelves Are the Best Thing to Happen to Books Since Reading
Rachel’s Team Pick: You can never have too many books or ways to organize them.
Renegade Craft Fair: Just As Awesome As You’d Expect
Let’s talk about the Renegade Craft Fair! Because it’s a lot of fun and you should definitely go.
DIY Beauty Bar: Make Your Own Lip Balm
As it turns out, you really can have a lifetime supply of chapstick.
Faraway Friends With Pens: A Look At Letters And Notes
What do you do when you love people who live far away? You break out your best stationery and write a friendship into existence, obviously.
DIY Beauty Bar: Sweet and Tough Olive Oil Scrub
You’re just 5 minutes and a bit of kitchen chemistry away from smooth skin.
Let’s Pick Flowers, Save Flowers, Make Flower-Saving Books Together
Get ready to get sunny, crafty, and a little more adorable.
I Carry A Bag With Me (I Carry It In/My Hand)
Kid tested, mother (earth) approved.
Everyone Should Bind Their Own Books, I’m Serious
Intern Grace’s Team Pick: The other kind of binding.
DIY This: Good Homemade Gifts You Can Make at Home!
You don’t need lots of money or special ninja skills to make gifts that people will actually really like, for real.
Let’s Make Eraser With Microwave. Please Can We For Real.
“Design the eraser as you wish, place the creations inside the cup (that looks like a Chinese takeout box).”
How to Make a Zine (We Made Some for You!)
Make your own zine! Buy one of our zines! Arts and crafts are fun!
How to Cut Up Your T-Shirt, DIY Style
Our “Autostraddle This” t-shirts are available! (Almost.) So we’re preparing for their arrival with this DIY advice: turn your ill-fitting / beaten up t-shirts into pants, tote bags, patches or restyled, cuter shirts! Little or no sewing skills required.
Tying the Knot: You Can’t Get Married But You Can Make Your Own Skinny Tie
This week in style, learn how to make skinny ties out of regular ties. It’s easier than you might think.
How to Make Honest Art: I (Sort of) Made a Quilt And You Can Too!
In order to relieve the boredom of Summer 2010, I decided to make a quilt that’s not even really a quilt but actually just pieces of cloth sewn on to each other and I’m going to show you how I did it so you can do it, too. It’s one of many ways you can have an Honest Art Day!
This is a Holdup: Make Your Own Suspenders
Get out your needles (or go out and buy one) because we’ve got a super simple guide to crafting your own suspenders.
Rachel’s Team Pick: Wall Art With Yarn
In a matter of months I will have my Very Own New Apartment and I have been secretly sad inside for a while that I won’t be able to paint or doodle on the walls, and was going to settle for putting up faux-vintage fake Polaroids of my friends instead. BUT THEN I found this, […]
Make a F*cking Look Book!: YourSpace #2 (DIY Culture)
This edition of YourSpace is stuffed to the gills with inspiring links and pictures! There’s even a hella fun weekend project that is sure to keep you busy and out of trouble for at least 2 hours. Let’s go!
DIY Design for Your Home, Dorm, Apartment, Workspace or Treehouse! – YourSpace #1
An introduction to YourSpace, Autostraddle’s weekly-ish DIY design column. Using your own creativity and cleverness to personalize the places you live/work/watch The L Word Season 3 dvds with friends.