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Check out this pharmacy receipt. If the medicine isn’t working as expected, here’s a convenient option. Then again, it got me to post, so perhaps it’s not a fail after all!

Stuck with a bunch of books that aren’t worth selling or even donating? Here’s a variety of ways to transform them into something else.

While nothing can beat boxing up your books and donating them to clear out the shelves, there’s a lot of cases where you want to put a little more thought into it. Here’s my strategy for keeping the book collecting from getting out of hand. Declutter your book collection in a few easy steps.

Related: book-collection-trimming

My newest costume is finally up. It’s got some finishing touches to go, but I wanted to squeak it on the site before Halloween in case some of the techniques were useful to other DIY costume makers.
Here’s my version of the General Grievous Costume for Halloween ‘08!

Several of my favorite posts involve Halloween costumes & props. I’ve got a few more in the works, but I thought I’d point new readers to our Halloween posts:

http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/godzilla-costume/

http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/high-tech-robot-halloween-costume/

http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/rocking-gravestone/

http://www.creatrope.com/blog/make/quick-pvc-halloween-mannequin/

Make a card cable organizer to prevent your cords from falling and keep them nicely organized at the back of your desk.

Having trouble laying your hands on the smaller items in the toolbox?

Think outside the toolbox!

I purged about 3/4 of my art supplies I’ve been collecting over the years. The area I kept them in (a floor to ceiling shelf with boxes on each shelf) did not inspire crafts for my family because it was overrun and not terribly well organized. I had done a few passes over the years to gather like materials together, but it was too much.

Here’s how I organized it. The discarded materials were gathered together to give to Goodwill, they are all still usable, I just had too much!

When I finished I had a shelf that had about 1/4 of the material, but it was much more approachable, and allowed for about 90% of the craft types that it did before the purge. That’s a pretty good clutter trade-off. Like any other decluttering project, just getting started creates nearly all the momentum you need to finish.

Good luck!

Turn a static foam gravestone into an animated gravestone using K’Nex in about ten minutes.

Quick Halloween Rocking Gravestone

Learn to make an easy and imposing Halloween mannequin from PVC for about $6. It packs flat (doesn’t add to your clutter), and holds costumes in ways sure to get a lot of attention from your halloween audience.