 Welcome back to Lone Fox, I am so excited you are here and I am so excited to be making a brand new video for you. I basically took a 10 day break just for the holidays and then to celebrate New Year's and stuff so it was really really nice and fun and of course I was actually uploading on my second channel so if you've missed some of my content I do have another channel as well but I did want to get back into 2019 and kick off the new year with a brand new video for you guys that is going to be a dollar store DIY room decor video and the projects in here I think they turned out so freaking good I think you guys are really gonna like them everything was created with dollar store item and then of course I DIYed them to just make them fit my personal style and also a lot of your guys' personal style as well and if you're not already make sure to subscribe to my channel here on Lone Fox I upload brand new videos every single week relating to home decor and interior so if you're not already subscribed then make sure to click the red subscribe button down there somewhere it's a hundred percent free and also follow the Lone Fox home Instagram account but I don't want to ramble on anymore because you guys need to see these projects you're going to love them and let's just jump into these super affordable but super trendy room decor items I am really in love with this first project and what I used was this hanging light bulb some batteries from the dollar store and then the additional supplies were just some yarn and a hot glue gun and I did use a little bit of spray paint so I found this hanging LED light bulb of course it was just a dollar you open it up you insert a couple of batteries in there and then basically what you do is you pull the string and the light bulb lights up and this light isn't super bright but it's actually I tested at nighttime it's like a perfect reading light so if you were to have it by your bed or something it's a great thing just like pull on and basically read with or whatever you want to do with it and so what I started off by doing was just masking off the actual light bulb area because originally I was going to put yarn around this area but I wanted it to be able to have the batteries removed and put back in the figure to be changed so I ended up just using a 14 karat brass spray paint which you guys all know my love for this spray paint I think it looks so good it really transforms anything it makes look so expensive so I sprayed the little battery slot piece and then also the other piece and what I'm now doing is creating the cord for it so I'm just creating a loop initially as you can see on the screen here and what I'm doing is a chain stitch so I'm just putting my two fingers through and then pulling through the um excess yarn and the excess yarn is actually just attached to the entire like little ball of yarn I guess you could say and I'm just pulling it through and sort of creating this chain and the reason I'm doing this is because I didn't just want to hang my led light I don't know why I'm calling led light my light bulb essentially just from a piece of yarn I thought that was boring I really wanted to create more of like a cording or a rope so that's exactly what I'm doing here and this is super easy it took me like maybe three minutes to make a two foot long section of this you can go really really quick after you get the hang of it it goes really quickly so I just pulled through and created this nice little chain stitch yarn piece which is going to act as a cord and when you get to the end all you need to do is cut off and then put that tail end through the loop and pull it and that actually just finishes off your chain stitch there and this is going to be the cording that I'm going to be using for my hanging light and then what I'm doing is just pulling off that little masking area with the tape and the paper towel and this reveals the look and then I just cut that black string because the black string was just kind of ugly it wasn't my favorite thing and I glued onto the black string the cord that we created and I made sure just to leave a little bit of excess black string hanging out that way um you have a lot to glue on and there's a lot of like surface area for it to really stick and grasp onto and lastly just to finish off this project I really wanted to wrap the corded section because I didn't like how the black string was showing so I used a little bit of yarn and I just simply wrapped around this entire section covering the cord that we created along with the black cord that was initially there and you just have to do small sections of hot glue and just do small little wrappings each time um it's a little bit tedious but once you finish it looks amazing it looks very finished and polished and honestly this looks like it was made uh like at West Elm or created at Pottery Barn or something it just looks really really nice and pretty and you can make these extremely long and hang them from the ceiling whatever it may be and you guys honestly this project probably cost me a $1.50 so super affordable all you have to do is pull a little cording and that turns your light on and you're good to go this project is really fun and I actually used miniature wooden tables I found at the craft section in the dollar store how random is that but that's probably why they were there and I also used a hot glue gun white paint and a paint brush I laid a little bit of parchment paper down just so that my surface didn't get dirty peeled off all those little barcodes on the bottom and gave a nice white coating of paint to all the little tables here and I do want to mention that you guys the Target brand white paint is actually so good like as you can see it gets such a nice coat like I did one coat on these entire little tables here and it really gave them a full opaque white coat so if you're looking for a good white paint check out Target in their little craft section area the white paint there is really really nice and this was kind of tedious I didn't have to go in and go around all the legs and the underside and all that little stuff but I thought it was so random how they had little wooden tables at the dollar store but then I was thinking to myself it's probably because nobody wants a little wooden table but you know I do so I grabbed four of them and I'm going to make it into a miniature shelf which I'm actually going to be using in my bathroom area to store a lot of my uh samples that I get from brands that are sent so they're always such small little things that I throw into a drawers but I'd love to have them out and be able to actually see them so once you have your little miniature tables painted fully white you can paint them whatever color you want I'm just using a little bit of hot glue on all four legs and I'm going to be stacking them this part pretty self-explanatory if you watch what I'm doing just adding a little bit of glue to the bottom and stacking them you can use a stronger glue like e6000 or something if you plan to use a heavier item on this and then you can also go in at the end with a little bit of white paint and just touch up any areas you might have missed or just go over the glue spots if there are any and that finishes off your shelf next up we're just going to upcycle some simple glass vessels from the dollar store the dollar store always has a lot of glass items for a course a dollar so I use those I use a little bit of masking tape Elmer's glue paint and a paint brush as well so what I started off by doing was taking this larger sort of like watercraft sort of a vessel I guess you could say and I used a little bit of masking tape to go around and you can really mask off whatever you want this is going to create a very clean line when we do our painting and we're going to be creating a frosted glass look using just Elmer's glue and paint so what you need to do is get a small little disposable cup put a good amount of Elmer's glue in there because this is going to act as your paint and then I also added a couple drops of gold paint into this one but you can add whatever you want it could be gold paint any color paint really and the more paint you add the more opaque it's going to be and another tip is that if you guys use food coloring you actually get a fully frosted look so that's another great tip but I really wanted like a gold shimmer to the bottom of this really to match my living room area so what I did was just dip into the Elmer's glue and what I suggest you guys when you do this is to do a very thin coat as I'm doing here on this project this vessel here actually turned out really really nice but the second one that I'm going to show you that I did it did turn out a little unexpected because I did add so much of the paint too I wanted to see what was going to happen but it ended up actually like running and then having a little bit of like drip marks and it just wasn't as pretty so I definitely suggest doing like a nice thin coat so wherever you want to do it to once it's dry it becomes fully frosted and it looks so pretty has a gold shimmer in there and this is that second one I was mentioning what I did was use a little bit more paint this time to make it a little bit more opaque mixed with the Elmer's glue of course and I painted it onto this glass vessel here I don't know why I keep saying vessel it's like a container or a vase or something and then I did a really thick layer on this one because I wanted to see how it was going to turn out but it ended up drying a little bit more splotchy but honestly it kind of gave it like a very like marled effect and you're going to leave it to dry for about an hour and that finishes off this project this last one is the most creative for sure and I use a slate tray a little plate three different mason jars in a fidget spinner yes a fidget spinner and I also use a hot glue gun some cardboard and scissors and you're going to see exactly what I'm going to do but first off I'm going to cut six little one by one inch squares from the cardboard and these are actually going to be what I'm going to call spacers I guess you can call them and you'll see what I'm going to use them for in just a couple of seconds here and what I did was cut six of those out then I went and removed the barcode from the bottom and I glued the fidget spinner just this center section to the bottom of the plate and I would honestly suggest you guys use like an e6000 or like a more strong bond adhesive but I am just doing this for a time sake in the video and then what I did was I use hot glue and I glued together all my squares so I did this for um three of them so I had basically sandwich squares and the sandwich squares are actually going to be going on the three sections of the spinner and this is going to make it so that when we glue the slate tray on top it actually sits higher than that center section and if you do get any glue in the center which I actually did just let it dry and then you can use your scissors to scrape it out and then of course it spins really nicely and what you're going to need to do with this is you're going to then it need to glue your slate tray or whatever it is that you want to glue on top of it that's like a nice larger surface use a lot of glue and because the cardboard is porous and because the slate tray is porous it's actually stuck really really nicely you're just gonna stick that on top plop it down and you have a now revolving tray I know and you can put on top of it your little mason jars that you got and inside of that you could actually store like makeup brushes makeup perfumes q-tips little circular cotton rounds whatever it may be and it's a great tabletop accessory so guys that was today's video and I hope that you really really enjoyed and I forgot to preface that I'm wearing a hood because my hair looks the worst right now so I just threw it on to that I could film this intro for you guys and get this video up because I wanted you to see it and I've been away for so long I wanted to upload a new video so badly it's been like inside of me that I just need to upload so here it is and I hope you guys really did enjoy this video definitely give it a thumbs up if you did and don't forget to subscribe to my channel for brand new videos every single week I hope you guys are having an amazing start to your 2019 year and also an amazing end of 2018 um let's kill it this year everybody and I can't wait to see what comes out of loan fox this year so if you're not already please subscribe because you're not gonna want to miss it and yeah I'll catch you guys in the next one bye guys