Fab Freebie: Lowe-ded With Ideas
***This giveaway is no longer expecting entries – see who won below!***
Random.org once again spun its wonderful wheel of randomness and selected our two winners as… Amy @ Larryspearslive.com and Amanda Deerr. Congrats ladies!
Raise your hand if you want a $50 Lowe’s gift card. Or better yet, give me a “hootie hoo.” And if the thought of being one of two lucky winners doesn’t instantly get your brain spinning with all of the potential projects that you could tackle, Lowe’s Creative Ideas will happily fill your head with… wait for it… creative ideas. You may already know of the free Lowe’s Creative Ideas magazines (if not, you can subscribe to ‘em here), but even we didn’t realize how much content they have on their website and Facebook page. And along with bigger building and DIY ideas they’ve also got decor tutorials (like stamping curtains) and crafty stuff (like making silhouette art) too.
- PRIZE: A $50 gift card to Lowe’s courtesy of Lowe’s Creative Ideas
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “IDEA ME” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: … tell us about your all-time most creative idea. Was it an awesome solution to an everyday problem? A delicious spur-of-the-moment recipe? An ingenious fix to home decor dilemma? Maybe you’ve just stumbled upon a simple household trick that makes your life easier (like letting the dog eat scraps around the highchair instead of vacuuming)?
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, September 14th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two
- PRIZE SHIPS: The 50 United States (although we do try to wrangle as many international giveaways as possible)
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…
Note: We weren’t paid or perked for hosting this giveaway, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQs page for more info. Pics courtesy of Lowe’s Creative Ideas.
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IDEA ME!
Well, one idea that seems to really help a lot is installing a magnetic door stop to the door that leads from my garage into my house. Since I usually enter the house through my garage, it got really annoying making multiple trips, with hands full of groceries, fumbling to open the door without dropping everything. So I asked my darling husband to install a magnetic door stop: Just open the door, and it stays open until I close it. And although I haven’t come up with a creative trick to minimize the number of trips I have to make to and from my trunk with groceries, the magnetic doorstop has been a lifesaver! :)
IDEA ME!
…Using an pretty gold-rimmed old serving plate as a jewelry holder. I am able to keep my earrings & bracelets out and showcased on a beautiful old plate that was passed down from my bosses deceased 94-year-old italian mother. I also have that lovely reminder of her everytime I pick a piece of jewelry to wear. =) Bellisimo!
“IDEA ME”
I feel like I have to be creative all the time to solve house issues that come up with our 1918 house.
Idea Me!
I bought Folding table that stores flat on the wall and modge podged a pretty vintage map on top. No one would guess it’s a table unless we tell (or play a game of cards)
Idea me. Wish I could share some clever solutions, but I’m not that clever.
IDEA ME! I need a new backsplash in my kitchen!
IDEA ME!
Please:)
Idea me!
This is so lame, but I realized I could keep cords together with a twist tie in college. Out of the way, a bit cleaner-looking, and as cheap as it gets.
IDEA ME.
Most creative idea? I fixed a leaky window during Hurricane Irene with picture hanging putty.
Idea me! One of our best creative ideas is a recipe for tomato soup with some super secret awesome ingredients :)
IDEA ME…
My most creative idea was to making meatloaf in a cupcake pan… it reduces cooking time down to 30 minutes, serving size is easy peasy, and they’re just darn cute!
Thanks for the chance to win!
IDEA ME! spraying vinegar to get rid of nasty smells!
IDEA ME
The best idea I had was to marry my wonderful husband :)
IDEA ME… I love having the dogs be the vacuum while baby is eating. When they go to the groomer for the day, I always forget and then realize I actually have to clean the cheerios up all by myself :)
IDEA ME!
My best creative idea was taking my toddler’s artwork and scanning the pages into the computer and making a photobook with the images. Who knew a 2 year old’s scribblings could look so professional!
Idea Me!!
Idea me!
I’ve made a few pieces of wall art. (nothing complicated of course! haha)
IDEA ME!!
Idea Me! Would love to create some built-in seating for the dining area.
IDEA ME!
We recently upgrading our bedroom furniture and decor. I had a difficult time tracking down affordable draperies that had a fun pattern. I somehow ended up in bath department at Bed, Bath and Beyond and spotted a fabric shower curtain I loved. I bought them along with a fabric shower curtain liner (to block out the light), sewed them together and hung them up with drapery clip rings. I also used a 20% coupon on everything so my “custom” draperies cost about $36 each including the tiebacks/ tieback hardware. Score!
IDEA ME PLEASE!
Building my own tiki hut!
IDEA ME!! My all time creative idea was to add double stacked “mirrored windows” to either side of my fireplace – it totally and completely changed the entire look of the room and I LOVE IT!!!
IDEA ME!
I wouldn’t call it my MOST creative project, but it is the most recent one. Last year I bought a $75 multi-line clothesline to use for our daughter’s cloth diapers. It lasted 6 months before the line started breaking (dang it!). So today I made my own clothesline for the little “alley” side-yard. I put up some eye hooks on the fence and the side of the house, put up a rope cleat, attached one end of the rope to a carabiner and then zigzagged the rope through the eye hooks and ta-da, a clothesline! It’s awesome and a lot more heavy duty than my old store bought version.
IDEA ME!
I always find myself most creative when I’m decorating our home for the holidays. Easter/spring, the 4th of July and of course Christmas get the most love but Halloween is tons of fun! Is in December yet? ;)
Idea Me!
My best creative idea has been using Goodwill bought bowls and hooks to make jewelry storage.
IDEA Me!
IDEA ME!
I’m sure I’ve had creative ideas in the past, but can’t think of one…. sad trombone noise.
IDEA ME!!!
IDEA ME!
best idea ever… we had an ugly light box in the kitchen with ill fitting plexi cover :( we took it down and reused old leaded glass windows (original from the house) suspended from the ceiling as a light fixture. to filter the light, i stapled an old floral sheet to the window from!
IDEA ME!
Idea Me! My most creative moment was figuring out that Glad Press N’ Seal works perfect as a ‘drop cloth’ when painting doors still on the hinges. Just press the sticky side to the carpet, tile, etc. and it stay in place, even when you swing open to doorm without bunching up like a cloth would.
The most creative thing I ever did was to marry a very creative and innovative-thinking husband!
IDEA ME!
IDEA ME!
We needed to fill a large wall with art. We decided to buy a big canvas and put our 3 dogs in finger paint, one to a color and be creative. We laid down a big painting tarp and kept throwing treats around. It turned out amazing and we get more compliments on it than any print in our house.
IDEA ME!
I made some pillows out of placemats! Not too creative, but I love them!
IDEA ME!!!! All my best creative ideas involve my garden, which has the ability to be both pretty and delicious.
Idea me! Please!!
IDEA ME! I had been looking for a bench for my front hallway. When I started to plan the painting of my downstairs bathroom I realized the ugly old cedar chest that had been stored in there was perfect! I sanded and painted it, make two cushions from the guts of old sofa pillows and fabric I had bought for something else. It fit perfectly!
IDEA ME!
I bought awesome demask fabric from an antique store, covered our $10 craigslist headboard with it and had the husband raise it up 20+ inches with scrap wood. Now our super tall, cloth headboard makes our master bedroom look very Domino-esque.
Idea me!
The best creative idea I’ve come up with lately was re-purposing some 50 cent painted wooden cutouts for artwork in my baby boy’s room. I wanted nursery artwork on the cheap, so I picked up some transportation-themed cutouts, glued them on brightly colored cardstock, and put them in IKEA natural wood frames with ivory colored matting. The colors stand out, and my son loves to look at them from his changing table. A lot of people ask me where I got them, and I take pride in telling them I came up with the idea myself :)
Idea MEEE!!
We turned Ikea spice racks into cute book shelves for my daughters room. Total stolen idea, but still feeling good about it!
IDEA ME!
I think my most creative idea was a couple of years ago when xmas season was approaching and I had almost no budget for my little nieces’ gifts (5 girls!); so I went to a knitting class and knitted scarfs for each one of them… they loved them!
IDEA ME!! I rarely think my ideas are creative but I do love my bright yellow front room (my idea) despite the hubby’s not so amazing approval of the brightness.
IDEA ME! :)
Actually, I wanted to put “hoootie Hoo!!!” but I didn’t. :)
My fab idea … would be the paint schemes I did for my two oldest boys’ rooms. One has a camoflauge wall and the other has 6 different colors in his room and it’s adorable! :)
IDEA ME!
My most creative idea was to make up cute box lunches for our wedding instead of having a catered meal (who wants that dry chicken anyway?)- it saved us tons of money that came in handy for our house! Win win!
IDEA ME! My most creative idea was creating our wedding programs complete with a translucent intro page and matching ribbons.
IDEA ME
I used a canoe as an ice chest for a birthday party once. It was perfect! Now we do it all the time!
IDEA ME!
I have too many creative ideas to choose!
Idea me!
My creative idea is to use pretty second-hand glassware to store make-up supplies (brushes, qtips, etc)
IDEA ME!
I love spaceplanning, so my most creative has been putting together my bedroom over the past few years! I love being able to make subtle changes to it, and finding more pieces that store things!