Apocalyptic Romance Collar Scarf Harness
I am swooning over this amazing cowl neck awesomness by Etsy seller attiladesign. It’s so impractical, yet I want it so badly!
Month: August 2010
How-To: Add Chains to Your Handbags
By Sonya Nimri Chains and leather have always been a classic combination. So what to do when you have a plain-Jane purse that needs a little kick and lots of broken necklaces lying around? A merger is in order! Here I took two humdrum purses and made them a little more eye-catching with a bit […]
Encaustic Wax Painting
Our coworker, Phil Muelrath, brought by a couple of crafty art pieces his wife Ellie had done as birthday gifts for some of her friends. We were all intrigued by the process, encaustic wax painting or wax drawing, an ancient technique that uses melted colored wax and cards. The process is accessible for beginners, and […]
Project Runway Sew-A-Long With Dolls
The new season of Project Runway is well under way, and bloggers, Kat of Kat Knits and Susi of Craft Room are following the series by attempting each challenge on dolls. Each week we’ll create an outfit for our model based on that week’s Project Runway challenge. The Challenges will be posted on Friday & […]
Coming to your town: the Midwest Workshop Tour of Hackerspaces
For the rest of the month, I’m going on tour with Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers on their Midwest Workshop Tour of Hackerspaces. We’re visiting a number of hackerspaces in the Midwest, where Mitch will be running workshops on how to solder, and spreading knowledge about hackerspaces: The workshops will give anyone and everyone the […]
How-To: Homebrew Club-Mate (from MAKE Volume 23)
If you aren’t savvy to the phenomenon that is Club-Mate, it’s a caffeinated tea beverage brewed in Germany that’s been adopted by the hacker scene in that country as their official staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It’s become so popular that it’s been imported to the U.S. where it fetches prices as high as $10 a bottle. Minneapolis […]
YouGoods Design Challenge
From our friends at UncommonGoods: Do you have what it takes to become the next Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin? Are you sitting on a genius design or invention that is sure to be the next big thing? Then we want to hear from you! In honor of National Inventors’ Month, UncommonGoods is issuing a […]