COASTAL WAYFAIR DUPE DIYS ⚓️ DOLLAR TREE COASTAL DECOR 2021 ⚓️ BUDGET FRIENDLY ⚓️ CHIC FOR CHEAP

Hey guys it's Megan and welcome back to my channel The Crafty Quinn. In today's video I'm going to share three coastal Wayfair decor dupes for the Chic for Cheap challenge so make sure to hit that subscribe button and hit the bell button for notifications so you never miss a new video. And like I said today is the Chic for Cheap craft challenge hosted by Kristi Grates DIY and I'm so honored to be co-hosting. We're going to link the playlist down below of all the other crafters participating in this challenge so make sure to check out all the awesome DIYs they've come up with. If you're new to Chic for Cheap it's a monthly challenge Kristi hosts on the first Monday of every month at 1 p.m eastern standard time where crafters create something chic and stylish for their home as cheap as possible so you get inspired by something you like on Wayfair for example like I did and you want to recreate it. If you make it cheaper than the original inspiration item then you've done it. So for this first DIY I'm going to be making this Wayfair seashell jar you see here for and it's listed for $25.99. I was able to recreate it for $6 and let me show you what I did. My cat Marcus the Crafty Kitty was pretty excited to play with the seashells as soon as I brought them home. If you're new here the Crafty Kitty likes to lend a hand in almost all of my videos and by lend a hand I mean steal things and play with the things that I make. So right now I'm opening up this bag of seashells I got from the Dollar Tree and there's really not much to this DIY. Right now I'm just filling up the jar with seashells trying to make sure I have enough seashells to fill this jar to the top to look just like the original. The original had a lot of fun seashells in it and I definitely did not have all of these fun seashells that they had to go in that one so I used just the prettiest ones that I saw from those bag of seashells I got from the Dollar Tree. And Marcus is being a good little inspector and making sure I do this as close to the original as possible. One more and then it looks like it's completely full. So now I'm just taking some jute and I hot glued the jute to the lid of the jar, giving Marcus some cat scratches first. I glued the end of the jute string to one side of the lid of the jar. Now I'm just wrapping it around to make sure I'm covering up the silver part of the jar as much as I can. And I do leave the very top of the jar mostly exposed so you don't have to wrap the jute around the lid completely. You don't need to cover it completely. I'm mostly just concerned with covering up the side of the jar. So once it looks like it's wrapped all the way around the jar I leave two ends of the string long so that I can attach some beads that I got from Michael's to the ends of the string. And these beads from Michael's were about three dollars I think for the for the bag. So now I'm just tying a knot on the end to make sure that the bead doesn't fall off the string. And I noticed later that there was a third string that I needed to add to this. And so each string has two beads on it and at the very bottom of each string there is a seashell. So I am just using hot glue inside the seashell attaching it to the end of the string and using my little mask applicator to push the string into the seashell and it actually stays pretty good. I think I was worried I got burned for a second there. So now I'm just making sure to complete this dupe so it looks just like the original. I am weaving the string through a top piece of the string on the top of the jar and a bottom piece of the string on the bottom part of the jar. So I'm just weaving it so it goes from top to bottom top to bottom and just kind of making a loop. So the original made it look like there was a loop all the way around the jar. Or I should say multiple loops. So I just fast-forwarded through this process so you don't have to watch me do this for a while. So I think this turned out pretty darn close to the and now I can't wait to use it in my summer decor. How do you think it stacks up against the original? So next I'll be recreating this Wayfair seashore tic-tac-toe board. This normally sells for $32.99 and I recreated it for $6. This was definitely more difficult to make because I couldn't find sand dollars anywhere so I'll explain more about how I made those in a little bit. So first I'm taking this Easter sign. I bought one more recently at Dollar Tree because they had a bunch on clearance and they were trying to get rid of them. So I'm taking my craft paper and I mod podged that to the very bottom so it looks like a finished product. So I'm using the back side of the board now. And now I'm using Jenga blocks to make the rows that I need to make this tic-tac-toe board form. So I did about four Jenga blocks on each side and now I'm using the sand dollar to measure how the middle, how far apart the middle column should be and where exactly I need to put the middle pieces to make the middle rows. So I'm taking my Waverly Pool chalk paint and once everything was hot glued I'm just painting over everything and it was much better painted this way so I didn't have to paint every single side of the Jenga blocks. And like I said that is the Pool Waverly color. So once I have everything lined up I took these Dollar Tree starfish so I only spent five dollars and I had five of these starfish so five dollars there and I'm using the starfish to help sort out the middle pieces to see how far apart they should be. They were both about two inches each. So now these sand dollars, I couldn't find sand dollars anywhere so luckily my husband 3D printed these sand dollars and I know everybody doesn't have a 3D printer so we just kind of lucked out here but otherwise I was going to make the sand dollars by using air dried clay so I recommend that as an option because sand dollars are not in season right now. So now I'm just taking this antique Waverly wax and distressing the tic-tac-toe board to make it just like the original because the original was slightly distressed as well. And I did a layer of white Waverly chalk paint to the starfish and the sand dollars. Surprisingly the starfish needed more chalk paint than the sand dollars did. So once everything is lined up I'm just putting them in the tic-tac-toe board and then it came out like this and now I'm obsessed with this piece and I can't wait to use it and actually play tic-tac-toe. So for this final DIY this was actually a two-piece wood box nautical maritime decor set and I only made one box and I recreated this for ten dollars. So this one definitely does not look exactly like the original but it was made more to my liking. So I'm taking these adhesive popsicle sticks I'm cutting them with my miter shears. These definitely do not cut through the wood easily you still I would say you have to cut the top you flip it over you cut the other side too and then you you just kind of mess with it a little bit and then it eventually snaps off. So they don't cut through the wood completely but they cut everything straight and that's why I like them. So now I'm just taking my finger sander and I'm just sanding the end of the popsicle stick so that it's not rough and there's no splinters. So this box did not exactly look like the original it had this netting on the top so I'm using the adhesive popsicle sticks to cover that up so it looks kind of like shiplap in a way on the top. So once everything was sized perfectly to cover up this netting then you can move on to the next step but I had to cut everything down to size to make it fit and that was definitely a long process but definitely worth it in the end to do that. So I'm taking this huge anchor that I found at Walmart using my Waverly Antique Wax with a paintbrush this time. I know I normally use a baby wipe but I'm using a paintbrush this time because I wanted it to to come out thicker so this is exactly how I would like it to look. So now I'm using another adhesive popsicle stick for the very top. I did hot glue that down. It's only adhesive on one side so you have to use hot glue on the whole thing and I think this the purpose of this design when why they made it look like this was to make it look like a treasure box in my opinion. So I think it definitely looked like that. So I didn't do it completely the same as the original. I didn't put the sticks all the way around the box from top to bottom. I only put the extra sticks on the top if that makes sense. So now I didn't use any, I didn't draw any lines or anything. I totally just eyeballed this and made these streaks and this is the Pool Waverly Chalk Paint that is, it gives everything this awesome nautical look and the White Waverly Chalk Paint as well. So those were the only two colors you need. I didn't do any extra distressing just like the original had. By kind of doing it not completely straight, that kind of to me gave it the distressed look that I was looking for. So I'm putting the hardware back on. I took everything off to paint it and definitely recommend doing that so you don't paint over the hardware. And these were super easy to take off with a tiny screwdriver. So now I just hot glued the anchor to the very top of the box and I did tie some jute string to the end of the anchor. I believe before I hot glued it down, it's hard to see right here, but I tied some string to the top of the anchor to make it look just like the original. And the anchor on the original is not supposed to take up the entire part of the box, but like I said I was definitely making this to my liking. And then this is how this one turned out. So to me this looks like buried treasure or something like that and I thought it was so adorable and I love all of these pieces and I can't wait to start putting out some coastal decor. So let me know what you guys think down in the comments below and please make sure to check out all the other crafters in the playlist. 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