Is it a rainy day? Are the kids bored? Are you bored? Want to reuse some old junk you don't have the heart to throw away, or to learn how to fix something yourself? If you answered yes to any of these questions, visit a DIY website to learn all sorts of new ideas. Here are a few sites and projects from them to inspire you and make you feel a little like MacGyver.

Instructables

Instructables features featuring member created instructions, including DIY projects, written step by step with photos or sometime video. Some great projects include:

• How to use spaghetti to paint like Jackson Pollack


• Make your own light saber


• How to make an ottoman out of an old suitcase


• Recycling Plastic Shopping Bags into Yarn

Craftzine

The formerly-in-print Craft magazine now channels all of its energies and talents into its free online website. Projects include:

• How-To: Make a Laptop Bag Out of Fused Plastic Shopping Bags


• Soda Bottle Coin Purse


• Mending a moth-eaten cardigan


• How-To: Make a Kitchen Cupboard Message Center

Make-Stuff

Make-Stuff is for people who, you got it, like to make stuff! Sections include Kid’s Crafts, Recycling, and Holidays. There isn’t as much on this website and they don’t include photos. There are also some instructions available to those who have paid to become a premium member.

Ready-Made

Ready Made Magazine's website isnt' as good as the magazine itself, but has a section called “Project Archive” where you can search for project according to different categories like “Sew It”, “Reuse It”, and “Craft It”, and find complete instructions for great projects like:

• Kitchen Skin Care – make your own skin care products in your kitchen


• High Fidelity – Reuse a vintage radio to hide desktop speakers


• Stereo Lab – Recycling an old laptop to turn a built in stereo cabinet into an mp3 center


• Broken Flowers – Turning chipped dishes into showpieces

Have any favorite DIY sites or DIY projects to share? Tell us all in the comments!