Live TV by Ustream We’re thrilled to be able to bring you live streaming video from Maker Faire this year, for the first time in the history of the event! Chris Connors will be bringing you two video feeds of great talks and demos from around the Faire! We’re setting things up and testing today […]
We’re having a great time setting up the CRAFT booth and prepping for the demos here at Maker Faire. We’re chilling now in our Needlefelting Playground area as Rachel blogs while Lish is crafting. Lish will show you how to make one of these adorable button felt corsages in her How-To: Button Jewelry demo at […]
Great One on One: Dale Dougherty, MAKE Magazine & Maker Faire – Bits Blog @ NYTimes.com. Nick Bilton writes: Dale Dougherty will be overseeing the annual Maker Faire in San Francisco this coming weekend. If you haven’t heard of this event, think about a typical fairground but with robots and giant mousetraps. Also, instead of […]
My husband loves chewing on toothpicks. For a while, he liked the strong flavor of Australian tea tree toothpicks, but they’re expensive, and after a while they burn your lips! We decided to try and flavor our own toothpicks with a milder oil. Here’s how.
The Faire doesn’t officially open to the public until tomorrow, but things are already off to an exciting and inspiring start at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. This morning, we opened our gates to 900 local kids from 24 area schools, from Santa Cruz to Sonoma County and the East Bay. Since this year’s theme is […]
Live TV by Ustream We’re thrilled to be able to bring you live streaming video from Maker Faire this year, for the first time in the history of the event! Chris Connors will be bringing you two video feeds of great talks and demos from around the Faire! We’re setting things up and testing today […]
Make Your Own Misfits by Fumie Kamijo and Rosie Short. CICO Books, $19.95, 2010; cicobooks.com Sometimes I take crafting a little too seriously. I grumble at uneven seams, curse under my breath as I rip out knit stitches, and once or twice there has even been a few tears when something didn’t go as planned. […]
