Patchwork Lid Sewing Basket Tutorial
Magda of Little Thing shows you how to make this patchwork lid sewing basket. What a great gift to make a fellow crafty friend. Link.
Year: 2007
D.I.Y. Vanilla Extract
The Traveler’s Lunchbox has an excellent post detailing how to make your very own vanilla extract. Sounds like a great idea for holiday gifts and avid bakers. [via] Link.
Enter the DIY Halloween contests!
This is it gang, it’s Halloween – We have a MASSIVE DIY HALLOWEEN contest this year! Makers and Crafters, enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. MAKE, CRAFT, Instructables and Popular Science have teamed up and there’s plenty of time to win! Here’s […]
Etsy costume contest winners
As you may have known, Etsy has also been putting on a Halloween costume contest and they too have had many brilliant entries. But, as with any competition there can only be one (or a few in this case) winner. Etsy costume contest winners – Link.
Halloween and Autumn Picks on Etsy
Etsy’s The Storque features my picks for Halloween and Autumn in their weekly Featured Buyer column. Link.
Recycled Cardboard Toy Kitchen
I am so amazed by Anna of forty-two roads who made this toy kitchen for her daughter entirely from scratch, using primarily corrugated cardboard that was salvaged from the dumpster. Anna covered the pieces in contact paper and joined them together using no glue, no nails, nothing but clever joining cuts, which makes the kitchen […]
Scare the crap out of people… with air!
Here’s a commercial product (from FrightProps) that uses a blast of compressed air on a person’s ankle to separated them from their skin. If you have an air compressor, you could probably bodge up your own without too much trouble. Ankle Blaster Air Cannon – [via] Link