HOW TO – Newspaper Snowflake Garland
Maya*Made shares a tutorial for making these delicate snowflake garlands with your sewing machine and some recycled newspapers.
Month: December 2008
HOW TO – Apple Potholder
Craftster user Cicile tells us how she created this knitted apple potholder, which she made using the double knitting technique. She even includes a chart for the apple pattern.
Text to speech holiday carol
We just finished a holiday “text to sing” program for Yahoo! Messenger where I work, Colle+McVoy, in Minneapolis. Here’s an open source themed maker’s carol for you all. If you want to create text-to-speech music yourself, check out the Festival project. It includes a singing mode which uses XML to describe the pitch and duration […]
Google selling unlocked G1s to developers
This is a great development; Google is selling G1s that are not only unlocked, but that will accept unofficial builds of the Android operating system. Google’s warning will be pure delight for makers and hackers: “Since the devices can be configured with system software not provided by or supported by Google or any other company, […]
Radio Shack catalogs from 1939 to present
Radio Shack catalogs from 1939 to present via BBG. This website is dedicated to America’s technology store… RadioShack. For almost 65 years RadioShack has produced a catalog to rival no other electronics and technology company. Through the years, this catalog expanded to contain a mix of hi-fidelity stereos, amplifiers, radios, phonographs, speakers, televisions & antennas, […]
HOW TO – “Stained Glass” Trees
AlphaMom shows us how to create these fun holiday decorations using paper and tissue paper, which have a stained glass-type effect when you hang them in a bright window. [via Make and Takes]
Pop-Up Junk Mail Christmas Cards
Gretchen at Junk Mail Gems made these pop-up Christmas cards with her junk mail. She made the reindeer from a pattern on pop-up master Robert Sabuda’s web site.
