Juliet wrote in about her accidental collaboration with ceramic artist Diana Fayt. She discovered a picture of a Diana Fayt plate broken in shipping on Corey Alckelmire’s blog and sprung into action. She contacted Cory and Diana and was able to create these beautiful necklaces from the broken plate.
Every piece of clothing deserves a second chance, even if it is a muumuu. StitchLounge (a collaboration of Melissa Rannels, Melissa Alvarado and Hope Meng) created a how to for refashioning a thrift store muumuu into a peasant blouse. Thanks Jen. Related Dress Refashioning with Etsy Labs Curious Jayne’s Ultimate Muummuu Challenge
Etsy seller Recycled Ideas makes these plantable cards, handmade paper cards with flower seeds embedded in them. Just plant the card and flowers will later bloom in it’s place. A perfect green gift for Mother’s Day! [ via CasaSugar ]
There’s a good post on the O’Reilly Rich Internet Application blog about running Air under Linux on the EeePC: Adobe recently released the first public alpha version of the AIR runtime for Linux on labs. This is great news! I felt compelled to “geek out” with it, and was able to get AIR running on […]
I love the concept of sketching with yarn that Alice at Futuregirl is doing. By crocheting swatches in a spare few minutes, it’s like the equivalent of doing quick sketches. Nice tip for those who want to try new stitches in knitting or crochet!
Gary’s clever zoetrope design uses an LED flash controller and motor-driven turntable in order to remake a design he admired – In Jan 2008 I saw a 3D Zoetrope that was built by Pixar for a NYC MOMA exhibition (see http://www.navone.org/blogger/2006/07/pixar-zoetrope.html). It is amazing and I decided I could probably build a small version of […]
