Kyanite on Sterling Silver Hook Earrings with 24k Gold Beads

This gilded accessory is multipurpose: Corral small items, carry warm treats from room to room, or serve cocktails at a holiday party.

If you like to live on the bright side, dress up your colorful patterned plates with matte-finish flatware and a charming bow topper: Cinch a napkin in the middle using a playful elastic adorned with wooden beads. Add a circle name tag for each guest to round out the look.

Give us your delicate dinner plates, your tarnished silver, your smudged stemware. We'll show you how to make them shine and sparkle, right in time for the season of celebration.

Colorful beaded bracelets have signaled summer for as long as the coolest counselors at camp have been stacking them up their wrists.

To mimic icy branches, we used acrylic tubing and wintry blue beads.

Set aside the idea that every wreath needs to be circular; it can certainly start out that way, and then trail off.

We're about to shape your destiny — or at least your spring look — by showing you how to craft these simple, sculptural earrings.

Plus, how to find the one that is right for you.

Glossy magazines have something e-readers never will: crisp, saturated pages you can repurpose in this genius way. Flip through old issues and snip parts of images containing colors and patterns you like. Then, turn your clippings into these bead-like toppers.

Send some glimmering snail mail with these custom notecards or wrap them up as a set to give as a gift.