Year: 2009

Learning to Sew a Pillow

Sewing 101 instructor Christine Haynes stands between her proud students, Rebecca Crane and me. Photo: Jenny Ryan I just finished my two-evening sewing class with Christine Haynes at ReForm School in Los Angeles, and learned how to sew a pillow. I can’t begin to tell you how inordinately proud I am of my accomplishment, as […]

Electro-modded Backpack

This backpack has me majorly crushing: Bet you’ve never seen anything like this before though, huh? Side pouches on my bookbag were a bit dull… so, the one I keep my water in now has a switch to make the water glow, and the other side has an Atari Punk Console housed in it. The […]

Making the game … better

From the MAKE Flickr pool Unsatisfied with the limited catalogue of wordage offered by the household favorite Electronic Catch Phrase, Adam decided to make his own. Enter the expandable “Klugephrase” handheld game device – You turn it on, and it shows a list of categories. you pick a category, and it shows you a word […]