After seeing Linda of Natural Suburbia’s post on pomanders the other day, I got inspired to make some of my own. I decorated the bar at my sister’s birthday party with a martini glass filled with 4 pomanders: three lemon and one lime. Pictured above is one of my lemon pomanders. Cloves and citrus; smells […]
Keep your toes nice a cozy with a pair of snazzy felt slippers. Alisa Burke shows you how to make them with your stash of felt scraps. I think it’d be fun to have a craft night where everyone brings their felt scraps and whips up a pair together!
I love wrapping gifts — figuring out the right paper, choosing a ribbon — but often skip the card. Terrible, right? Well these simple gift tags from Patricia at A Little Hut might be the nudge I need to avoid the last-minute panic when I can’t remember which present is which! This is the first […]
We featured the meticulously-organized workshop that Milwaukeean Cindy Smith shares with her husband, Craig, back in March. Craig saw our recent human-powered lifting devices post and wrote in to share with us the custom snow-plow-tricycle he built for removing light snowfall from his driveway:
Autodesk has been giving away Inventor of the Month awards. The October award was given to a group of Stanford grad students. They designed the “Bloom laptop,” which is designed to be completely field-stripped in a couple of minutes for ease of recycling, without the use of tools. One side benefit of their design is […]
There is already so much talk of what is going on our Thanksgiving tables and links to great Christmas cards it’s a little overwhelming. Busy hosts don’t have a ton of time to put into table decor so today we bring you a few easy ideas that will bring the outdoors in and your table […]
There are lots of fun events going on this weekend at various hackerspaces. Here are three; leave a comments if your space is holding an event this weekend. Hack Factory clothesline race The Twin Cities’ hackerspace, the Hack Factory, is holding its latest clothesline race this Saturday from 1-6pm. Prizes include fabulous loot from MAKE, […]
