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]]>Before finding success as a social media influencer with over 800,000 Instagram followers under her belt, Grillo used to be a healthcare professional. She started her brand Grillo Design as a side hustle, determined to share her passion for decorating her home through DIY with the world.
After years spent living in rented properties, Grillo wanted to use her platform to show people everyone has the right to make their house a home, no matter where they live.
“Not everyone has the time or can afford to hire an interior designer; which is why I bring you quick, accessible, and affordable style ideas for your home by teaching you the art of do-it-yourself decorating. Through Grillo Designs, I’ll give you insider tricks I’ve used for years to decorate my own home,” she writes on her official website.
After over a decade of renting, Grillo bought a 1920’s home with her husband, and she’s super-busy decorating it. She also published a book titled Home Sweet Rented Home, filled with tips and tricks that can help you turn your rental into a dream home.
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]]>Before finding success as a DIY influencer, McGaugh didn’t see herself as a particularly creative person. She had no prior knowledge or experience using tools, but that didn’t stop her from embarking on her DIY journey.
“I had never picked up a paintbrush. Never used a power tool. Never proudly gone shopping in someone else’s garbage. I didn’t even consider myself to be creative. In 2020, everything changed. I was yearning for a creative outlet that could also make money,” she wrote on her official website.
McGaugh is a huge believer that motivation and some free time are all you need to follow in her footsteps. She learned everything she knows today through trial and error, attracting around 1.5 million followers to both TikTok and Instagram.
McGaugh mostly specializes in flipping furniture, and she knows what it takes to make hideous furniture look expensive. In addition to building her brand around the furniture she flipped, she also stopped hundreds of second-hand pieces from ending up in landfills, giving them a chance at a second life.
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]]>Ervin is a social media influencer with over 600,000 Instagram followers under her belt, and she owes them all to her interior design and DIY content. She enjoys welcoming her followers into her home and showing them all the amazing thrift store finds she stumbled upon over time.
Ervin decided to embrace her creative finds by upcycling some of the items she bought for cheap at local thrift stores. She enjoys breathing a new life into everything from candle holders and plates to vases and decorations and capturing her creative process through her “what I thrifted vs. how I styled it” series, which now includes over 150 videos.
Ervin is a huge believer that thrift stores deserve everyone’s attention because the money you spend there often goes to charities and local communities. She enjoys filming her thrifting adventures and sharing them as a part of her “thrifting treasures vs. thrifting trash” series, which sees her stumbling upon all sorts of items at second-hand stores and coming up with creative ways to put them to some good use.
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]]>Mahum has been crocheting for a few years now, and she’s one of the most talented crochet artists that you’ll ever come across. Her willingness to share her knowledge with other crochet enthusiasts helped her blow up on social media, attracting over a million joint followers across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
Mahum is a crochet artist and educator who’s open about the fact she struggled a lot at the start of her crocheting journey. She’s fully aware of how difficult things seem in the beginning, so she decided to share her knowledge, techniques, and accessible patterns with the world – free of charge.
Mahum wants to help you knit the things you love, and her blog offers a wide variety of patterns for crocheters of all levels. She won us over with her signature book covers and bags, but you can find patterns for everything from cardigans and tops to hats and pad coasters on her official website.
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]]>Bassett runs a ceramics studio, Tiny Pots Melbourne, which he started in 2020. Fascinated by pottery, he started it as a hobby while working full-time as a 3D animator. In 2022, Bassett realized he found a lot of joy in his miniature pottery and decided to focus entirely on growing his studio.
Interestingly, Bassett follows traditional pottery techniques when it comes to creating his miniatures. The only difference is that he uses a miniature pottery wheel instead of the regular one.
“Every pot I make is a one-off design, and I aim to make each pot hold the same level of detail as a regular-sized piece of tableware. I want to give the impression that each pot has been shrunk down to a miniature version of itself,” Bassett shares.
Bassett exhibits his works in handmade markets and galleries while also sharing his newest pieces on social media. Continue scrolling to check out more of them below.
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]]>TikTok user Hannah Fox recently amazed the internet with her DIY project that helped her save some money while organizing her upcoming wedding. In a video shared on social media, Fox showed how she took an old wooden shipping container lid and used leftover paint and acrylics to make a budget-friendly wedding sign.
According to Fox, she estimates that the wedding sign came at the cost of £2 ($2.56). Depending on the size and look, wedding signs can usually cost anywhere from $50 to $1,200.
“Looks rustic but do you know what for the price you can’t complain!!,” Fox wrote in the caption of the video.
Fox’s DIY video ended up getting a lot of attention on social media. TikTok users were impressed with the idea, and some even decided to borrow it.
“I showed this to my sister who is getting married this fall, I am now her artist who is making her one! Love it,” @maddieg424 wrote in the comments section.
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]]>He began his project by making a miniature sculpture from polymer clay. Then, he put together the skeleton using bicycle inner tubes and the tires. The Alien King Marquette took him 20 days to finish.
“Unlike ordinary aliens, Alien King has more tentacles. He has a lot of gully and scales on his body. It is necessary to cut the tires into very thin strips to simulate the texture of his skin, which is very difficult to make. But I feel quite satisfied with the presentation of the finished product,” the artist said in a statement on his YouTube channel.
He makes other remarkable sculptures as well. Like, for example, Godzilla, Kong, Angemon from the Digimon anime, War Elephant, and many more.
He began posting videos on the internet a year ago and has already reached over 15 million views. If you’re interested to see how he does his magic, check out the gallery below!
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]]>Journaling
Considered a mindful practice, journaling has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety. It can also be a check-in tool at times when we feel unbalanced and unmotivated. Most of all, it’s a way of staying creative and being present.
Instagram inspiration: Menw Hurkens
The owner of Etsy store Rippels Paperhugger, Hurkens celebrates all things paper, highlighting the joyful practice of journaling. Based in the Netherlands, Hurkens’ Instagram is filled with the kind of journaling inspiration that will get your creative juices flowing.
Embroidery
The past year has seen a steady rise in embroiderers, and it’s easy to see why. Embroidery is a great and relatively cheap way to pass the time, and the end result makes for a great decoration. From embroidered wall hangings to quilts, they are elegant works of art.
Instagram inspiration: Liz Stiglets
“Let’s all slow down, get cozy, get crafty,” reads Liz Stiglets’ Instagram bio, which sounds like a perfect plan for quarantine. The owner of cozyblue, Siglets believes that small, simple acts of creativity can make the world a calmer, happier place.
Hand Lettering
Hand lettering can be very meditative and relaxing. It also doesn’t cost much and the possibilities are endless! You can create custom birthday and thank you cards for family and friends, design typography prints to hang in your living room, or you can upgrade that journal you just started.
Instagram inspiration: Lauren Fitzmaurice
Watching Lauren Fitzmaurice’s lettering videos on Instagram can be relaxing in and of itself. Luckily for us, she also passes her knowledge onto others, by sharing her work on Instagram and teaching online classes. Her toolbox includes pointed pens, gouache, Tombow brush pens, and watercolor brushes.
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]]>She currently has nearly 400k followers on Instagram that enjoy seeing her new projects daily. While answering their questions in a Q&A session on her account, Lissova said that there’s no secret behind her creativity. “I just love what I do. It motivates me to keep creating,” she wrote.
The artist started creating these adorable miniatures for fun but then found them to be the perfect creative outlet she needed. See more on her Instagram page and follow her if you’d like to get the updates in the future. Below are some of her works we loved the most.
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]]>During April, Linda Di Martino posted tons of updates showing the process for which she filled the tank. So how did the project begin?
After having an aquarium filled with fish for 25 years, when the fish started to die, she told her husband (who has sadly since passed away) that, “when the last fish dies, I will do it all in crochet, I will leave a nice memory of me to the children, not a commitment to stay behind,” Di Martino shared with Bored Panda.
She kept to her word and started crocheting for the aquarium by using the leftover yarn she accumulated from previous work and searching the internet for patterns for sea creatures and plants. When she couldn’t find the patterns she wasn’t discouraged; she just made her own.
It turns out that many people are interested in buying her creation, but she’s not interested in selling it. You can always try making your own with the videos and patterns she’s posed on her social media sites or you can buy some of her other work on her Facebook shop.
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