I love MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mazinbenny’s 2006 costumes, even the dog is helping out (these were also entered in the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest!) – “Halloween 2006 – Tribute to America! – Flag, Mt. Rushmore, Capitol Building, Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell. “ [via] – Link & build photos. The others are […]
Curiously Crafty Steph has made some awesome embroidered poetry with “The Girl who was pigeon-toed”. I also loved her past one of “The Boy who was Afraid of Balls”. So fun. Link and Link.
Someone made this meat pumpkin… Or it’s some type of super-sized Halloween special that’s available at the local fast food eatery, nice work using the pumpkin seeds… [via] – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our […]
Spring Maxfield (Little Green) added this photo of her modded colander lamp to the CRAFT Flickr pool. Spring says, “Our whole kitchen is re-used old kitchen stuff, silverware door pulls, etc. The lamp cord and socket were from Ikea for under $3 and the colanders were from a garage sale for 25 cents each. We […]
Here’s a special edition of the “Maker File” – Colin Berry reads Spinout, the story he wrote for Make Volume 07 about his brother’s efforts to build and race a car in the soap box derby in Longmont, Colorado. Unfortunately, he was up against more than just his own bad luck. Introduction by MAKE & […]
Who knew you could take a T-shirt and turn it into pants? This tutorial by LJ’s bakedinapie covers in depth all the steps to make comfy T-shirt material capri pants. Link.
Outstanding, here’s a DIY version of those fancy magnetic Apple power connectors, Breath writes – “My Thinkpad’s power connection started getting flaky, so I made a magnetic connector that works just like Apple’s MagSafe connectors. It’s effective, cool-looking, and breaks away cleanly when kicked. I used common materials that I had around or could find […]
