Duct Tape
Make A Stylish, Affordable White Board (Dry Erase Board)
2I recently came across this post from one of my favourite blogs about a whiteboard. Yeah, Yeah… what’s the big deal about a White Board right? Well maybe it’s time that yoouuu read the fabulous post that I am talking about because having a white board is a super idea and great for everything!
I want to go out and get a super large white board. Heck, I want to make every wall a giant white board. Hmmm… I wonder if someone has invented that yet? I know you can get chalk board paint for your walls which is a great alternative if you want to spend the time and money painting your dorm room! All the power to you, but like me… your online college courses probably comes with a low budget that doesn’t allow you to spend very much on extras and chalk paint ain’t cheap! Plus, I want a giant white board, not a chalk board. However, when I went shopping for one, I was dumbfounded by the prices of these things! I thought maybe $5-$20 bucks. Wronnnng! Thus, I walked out of the store empty handed and determined to make my own!
After a little bit of research – I was back at the store.
But not for a white board, but to price out the materials I would need to make my own and the price is considerably lower, so that light bulb went off in my head again and I gathered up my materials and headed home to make my own white board (dry erase board). 
Okay, so what you need is a “Showerboard” which you can find at your local department store. What it is, is basically cheap plywood with a waterproof, plastic coating on one side. Yup, you guessed it… that’s your white board!
Now, of course you could go ahead and just nail this into your dorm room wall and get some dry erase markers and you’re set, but if you are eager to make it extremely cute – here are some extras that you can do!
Instead of buying a huge picture frame (not cheap!), and nailing my new white board into my walls, I decided to go back to my love for Duct tape. Not only is it strong enough to hold, but it will act as a cute frame! I used a designed duct tape that matched my room decor and went around the edges and taped that all up on my wall… and it’s fabulously amazing!
For The College Students – Wallet
0Okay, I know this isn’t the best of pictures! Is it obvious that I didn’t take an online college course on photography? That’s besides the point because despite the bad quality pictures, this is such a fabulous idea.
Of course, everyone is familiar with the Duct Tape Wallets. I mean, if you have never heard of them, you must live under a rock because they have seriously been around for years. I was just fooling around the other day and refused to look at instructions on making a wallet and decided to figure it out myself. I am very pleased with the final result! If you are a little skeptical about doing this craft without instructions, you can find them here. I do suggest just winging it and figuring it out as you go. You will feel much more accomplished!!
As you can see, I used the initials J and W. These are my boyfriends initials. He just happened to be sitting beside me and I had a blast of love for him and figured his initials would be the easiest to cut out. Then after I was finished, I thought this would be an absolutely fabulous idea for fraternities and sororities. Of course, if this was to be a frat boy duct tape wallet, I’m sure the colour choice would be a bit different but how cute would it be to have everyone, specifically sorority girls, make their own matching Sorority wallets with their Greek Letters. It’s a great idea and activity to do together as a group and of course, if you aren’t in a sorority, you can always just create one with your initials, or no initials at all!
In my previous post, I was explaining my disgust for Duct Tape made things when there was only grey duct tape. Now there is a whole variety of colours and designs and I thoroughly love everything you can make with just a roll of tape. Plus, it is super inexpensive! What’s better then buying a $5 roll of tape, specific to your liking, and creating something to be personalized just for you. I’m pretty sure it would cost a lot more then 5 bucks if you were to buy a personally designed wallet.
And hey, if you find out that duct tape wallets simply aren’t your forte… you can use the rest of the tape roll on a million gazillion other things!
Update Your Furniture!
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As you guys know, I love finding creative ways to update my things… and well, I obviously love my Duct Tape! I recently bought a zebra print bed set and pillows and decided that my room definitely looked “off” with nothing else matching. I wanted to have other things that are zebra print to bring my room all together. I don’t have the funds, nor do I want to spend money on buying brand new furniture just to match my new bed set and let’s be honest, I could come up with a new idea and want to completely change my room again, next week!
A lot of my furniture is old and used. I surely don’t have a flat screen plasma tv to say the least, so the thought of taping my stuff with Duct tape wasn’t that big of a concern. I swear, all my furniture is from the 60′s and in dieing need of some revamping anyway! However, if you are a student, stuck in a tiny dorm and were lucky enough to have your parents buy you all brand new stuff from Ikea, you should probably rethink the duct taping idea and skip to another post of mine. Your parents might kill you if you Duct tape all the new stuff they just got for you – or they might even kill me for that matter for giving you this idea! Although…. my ideas are pretty awesome though! Maybe I should teach some online college courses about my fabulously creative ways. I don’t mean to toot my own horn or anything – just being honest. 
For now, my blog courses for you will do justice!
Okay, off topic again – surprise, surprise! What I did was the simplest of crafts and furniture upholstery possible! I went and got my Zebra print Duct tape and starting taping my book cases, end tables, computer desk and even my tv! I made sure not to go over board, because I want my room to be chic with a hint of the exotic jungle. I didn’t want it to be tacky and living in the jungle. Trust me, there’s a big difference! Be sure to leave some things the way they were. Some things are just meant not to be touched!
Hey! At least my doggie loves my new bed sheets.
All in sync now…. ‘awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww’
DUCT TAPE LOVERS!
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My first post is going to be about the wonderful Duct Tape that I love, oh so much! It really only makes sense to do my first “Do It Yourself” post on the absolute essential to most projects. Of course, you didn’t have to attend the top engineering schools to learn how to fix something with Duct Tape, but that is where you are wrong about what this blog is about! Anyone can slab a piece of duct tape on their car to hold it together (ooh so tacky – please don’t) but I am going to focus on the creation of things as opposed to the fixing of things and as I said, duct tape is an essential
I was so against people that made Duct Tape Wallets and Duct Tape clothing and cell phones cases, but now with all the unique and cute designs and colours you can get – I have jumped on the Duck Tape Bandwagon. Oh yeah, I said it! I thought the day would never come.
For example, this very exact desk that I am sitting at writing to you, squeaks and cracks with every movement I make, and the past week or two, I have been on a total temptation to just Duct Tape the heck out of it, using the Leopard Print design. Ha! I know, it sounds silly but this desk is seriously ugly and is about to bust out screws and bolts. Why not make it sturdy and visually appealing, right?
Of course, if I decide to do that (it has been two weeks of just thinking about it) then I will do a huge post on it, and if it was a complete disaster or not – probably. It sounded good in my head, but now that it came out into the real world, it sounds ferociously tacky.
I will stop blabbing now! This is the ultimate blog for all those Do It Yourself crafts, ideas and fixes that you will ever need or desire to do! Whether you are a student taking online college classes and need to fix your desk (sounds familiar), or if you are a elderly driver who recently side swiped your mirror right off…. I will cover it all, but of course – not before I post about my oddly disturbing new obsession of Duct Tape.
Weird… please don’t leave now! I swear, I am sane… kind of?