HOW TO – Faux-Bois IKEA Shelf
The LA Times Home section recently featured a great video showing how Bughouse Art & Design revamped a simple IKEA bookshelf, giving it a brightly-colored faux bois finish.
Month: August 2008
Contest: Instructable build tips, tricks and stories
As mentioned before, we’re doing a Best of Instructables book. Instructables ran a contest on the site to find the 50 best Instructables, as voted on by the users. The results are now on the site. Congrats to the winners. Their projects will be listed in the book (some of them will be featured as […]
Asparagus Gruyere Tart
Shelterrific whipped up this tasty-looking Asparagus Gruyere Tart from a Martha Stewart recipe–looks like it’s super simple to cook up using frozen puff pastry for a quick and easy dinner.
HOW TO – Emboss Velvet with Rubber Stamps
Marc @ MAKE points us to Instructables user Inklings and Imprints, who posted up a neat how-to for embossing velvet with rubber stamps and a household iron.
High-speed photo gallery
Flickr user Nebarnix posted an awesome gallery of high-speed photo eye-candy – High speed photography. If anyone has any requests I’d be happy to blow it up for you! Most of these photos are taken with a special flash unit that uses a high voltage arc in air as the light source. The flash of […]
Olympic village in playing cards
Brian Berg spent 20 days recreating Beijing’s Olympic Village using over 140,000 playing cards. (and apparently didn’t sneeze once during construction) [via Gizmodo] More: Playing Card Top Hat
Tiny Bazaar
Danielle Thompson is not only a talented photographer, she’s also branched out into making these beautifully intricate crocheted necklaces. This necklace or collar was crocheted by me in a pattern I found published in the early 1900’s. The fabric pendant is approximately 2″x3″ and reversible. It snaps off and then you can flip it over, […]