Happy Friday everyone! In celebration of the weekend, we’ve got a special Twitter Book Giveaway for Stencil 101 by Ed Roth starting now! We are addicted to Twitter! So for this book giveaway, follow @craft on Twitter and send a tweet to us saying “@craft: I need Stencil 101!” You can also add anything else […]
This ad for Vodafone New Zeland is an impressive technical feat. They loaded up 1000 cell phones with ringtones for single instruments, and then built a system to send text messages to them in the correct order, to get them to perform a portion of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture.
Now through midnight on Sunday you can pick up a Makers Notebook or MAKE Halloween at a special Halloween discount. How much? How’s 50% off? Pick up one, or both, and start your Halloween building.
If you’re still looking for ideas for this (or next) year’s Halloween display, check out HauntProject.com. They’ve done a great job of assembling cool Halloween projects from all over the web and have nearly 1,000 indexed and categorized as of this writing. Shown here are three of my faves so far. Above, a sweet crashed flying saucer prop by Scott Rossi. Below, a motorized monster-in-a-box by Bob and Cindy Stewart.
Katie of matsutake shares how to transfer images from your ink jet printer to wood using Mod Podge and Elmer’s school glue. With drying time of overnight, it’s a craft for the patient, but the applications for this are endless and very cool. (And while you’re enjoying her blog, be sure to check out her […]
Some years ago, a conversation with my old friend Billy Baque turned to the subject of adapting board games for sightless play. When it came round to Go, Billy mentioned having read of an antique Korean board, hollow inside and strung with wires along the lines of the grid, the wires being tuned such that each intersection produced a unique musical interval when a stone was placed upon it. Whether this was simply an aesthetic embellishment or a means to make the game more accessible to sightless players, he did not know.
My neighbor Teresa Cuseo is an amazing artist and crafter — every time I talk to her or go over for a visit she’s doing something creative, from terrific mosaics to yummy baked goods to cool jewelry and clever shrines. She recently bought a Day of the Dead crafting book and has plans to make […]
