Month: May 2008

Kiddie Kool-Aid Weaving

I love the colorful artwork recently posted on the JanKnit blog (and in the CRAFT Flickr pool). What’s especially cool is that it’s all created by kids, who dyed the wool with Kool-Aid, then used a cardboard loom to weave it up. Check out the original post for more photos and details.

The Ping Pong Door

The Ping Pong Door

Every office should have a Ping Pong door. Although productivity would go down by at least 80% once this door is installed. No word on price yet, but this should be a fairly easy project to remake for your home or office. Read more about the Ping Pong Door

A truck that runs on coffee

A truck that runs on coffee

This isn’t much of a looker, but it should save you from those high gas prices. Although your next concern would be high coffee prices! I wonder what the neighborhood would smell like when this thing fires up. Personally, I like the idea of waking up to the smell of coffee. The Cafe Racer is […]

LED stalactites?

LED stalactites?

A funny thing happened to Tim’s LEDs while attempting to cast them in resin – For a project at work I had to mold some things in this hard clear polyurethane, so my Mechie ordered a giant kit of the stuff – more than the project ever will need (and it has a very limited […]

Paper Boat Q+A

Faythe and Kim from Milwaukee’s Paper Boat Boutique were recently interviewed on Heart Handmade, and it’s great reading for anyone who might be interested in opening their own shop–or for anyone looking to submit their work to an indie boutique.