So cute. So easy. So the perfect way to personalize that 10X10 cell.

I’m obsessed with taking pictures, absolutely obsessed. I have approximately 44 albums on Facebook and that’s after I consolidated and cut down about 300 pictures. I can’t help it.

The digital camera changed my life. I love taking pictures of everything and anything, and capturing every drunken moment of friends passed out over toilets or park benches, of every group pic in the sorority pose, and every picture of birthdays and holidays.

My room has always been covered with the pictures I’ve taken, a visual documentary of my life displayed around my room on a cork board and on the walls. But instead of tacking photos to the wall or searching for the perfect picture frames (which happen to be really pricey), here’s a creative, easy, and cheap way to make a hanging frame of your own.

Whether your room decor is classy or flashy, this custom DIY picture frame will be the perfect wall decor to decorate your life, display your photos, and showcase your memories with some style! It is also the perfect gift to give a friend for the holidays if you’re low on cash but got lots of love. Read More »

[Ever see something you want but don’t have the money to buy? Ever get sick of studying/watching TV and have the urge to get crafty and make things on your own? We know! Us too! We just don’t know where to start, which is why we got some of CollegeCandy’s craftiest writers to share their favorite DIY projects with everyone. So get to your nearest craft store for the essentials and let’s make some fun sh*t.]

Ever have to find a last minute present for a friend/roommate/boyfriend? You’re tight on cash (clearly!), so you don’t really want to spend a lot on something they might not even like. So why not use materials you already have and make the perfect present?

I’ve been collecting beer bottle caps for a while now. I think they have a lot of personality, and I love the array of colors and logos. So, I decided to combine my collection of beer bottle caps with some other stuff I had lying around to make the perfect present: The bottle cap frame.

Materials:

-1 8×10 picture frame

-Approximately 20 beer bottle caps

-Hot glue gun

-Extra glue for glue gun

-Pencil Read More »