In doing research for my possible Flying Spaghetti Monster costume, besides Lenore and Windell’s FSM headdress, most full-body FSM costumes I’ve seen look more like pasta barf than Spaghetti Monster. If you search on Flickr, you’ll find dozens of examples. The best full-body costume I’ve seen so far is this one, sent from Dave Gray, […]
CRAFT is proud to be part of The Handmade Consortium at BuyHandmade.org, a site that’s a petition for all of us crafters and shoppers alike to support each other and buy handmade goods for the holidays. Yay! Just sign your name and info at BuyHandmade.org. (Note: When you enter in your email address – there […]
“TV remote control” by Philippe Kindelis – The TV remote control uses the principle of water displacement and the conductive properties of water to connect different cables. It highlights principles and processes that the user can interact with. It is an exploration as to whether water and electricity can be put together to create a […]
Octopart @ Maker Faire, Sam and Harish write – …We met a lot of great people and learned a lot about the open-source hardware movement. Although the term still hasn’t been clearly defined, the motivating philosophy is similar to that of open-source software. Information, such as schematics and designs, describing hardware is made freely available […]
Hi Crafters! If you love to make softies, don’t forget to enter in your cute creatures into the Holiday Softie Awards. The deadline is just a week away on October 31st. There are lots of great categories but we’re looking to fill up the Holiday Smorgasboard (food), Under the Tree (toys), The Worst Gift I […]
1,500+ pictures make for a long slideshow, but I think I got through several hundred of them last night. I marked tons of them as favorites, but the photo shown above of Mouse Trap really grabbed me. View it at full size for maximum impact. The photographer has a bunch more, too – Link
HOWTOONS is really officially here! You can get it at Amazon and/or your local book store! Congrats Saul, Nick and Joost! Part comic strip and part science experiment, Howtoons shows children how to find imaginative new uses for common household items like soda bottles, duct tape, mop buckets, and more-to teach kids the “Tools of […]
