Here is our weekly listing of upcoming craft fairs. Please add any events you know of to our online calendar, and if you have a call for vendors you’d like listed, please . Click on the jump to see the East Coast call for vendors. Coming Up This Weekend: Whiskerino Crafterino Petaluma, CA Saturday, Oct. […]
Lets Make Robots user Mazvydas built this tidy looking robot hand using some plastic tubing, thread, hobby servo motors and a picaxe microcontroller.
By Jessica Wilson Years ago I attended a crafty party where we made melt-and-pour soap. It was awesome and crazy easy, and I could see how one could get hooked. It is so easy that when I decided to make soap for CRAFT, I thought I should tackle something a little less easy. Methinks I […]
Crafty Chica‘s adorable teenage daughter Maya and her 5 year old cousin Bella show you just how easy it is to use the new Tulip Face Painting Kit on ILoveToCreate.com. This kit comes with paints, stencils and tattoos. Going beyond Halloween, use this kit for easy face painting at kids’ birthday parties! Inspired to craft […]
Illustrator Jenny Bowers is featured over on Kate Spade’s web site today where she answers a variety of questions, from how she finds inspiration to what she does when she hits a creative block.
Seahorses are so strange! But I like them, for many reasons. Lia at Lia’s Crafty Journey (Jakarta, Indonesia) made this fantastic stuffed seahorse. She has a tutorial up in Google Docs. I don’t sew all that often, but I might try this because it makes me so happy!
I was thoroughly entertained by this bit of hobby chemical sleuthing from Michael August Pusateri, who observed years ago, while bored on-shift, that the hot sauce at the fast food joint where he was working would clean the oxide off a penny. My immediate assumption–that the effect is due to vinegar or some other acid in the sauce–turns out to be only half right. The right answer, and the process by which Michael arrived at and verified it, make for interesting reading. You might even find a use for it.
