Announcing the Maker Shed Deal of the Day! Each day we are going to feature an amazing deal for our customers. Trust us, they’ll be deals that you don’t want to miss. We even set up an RSS feed of our daily deals. Just a couple of clicks and you will get your daily dose […]
Woohoo! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time. I have painted a few minis in my time, but my eyes are almost always bigger than my stomach when it comes to buying and planning elaborate armies. Thankfully, there’s plenty of eye-candy out and about the web, and in our own archives, to satisfy my long-standing dreams vicariously. Here’s a list of top content that can get you started on your own mad schemes. Happy Friday!
These pop-up card tutorials by Robert Sabuda really make it easy to get started making your own deluxe holiday cards. I love the ship and millennium falcon. [Thanks, Stefan!]
This Fail Whale hat from plush artist, Hine, is a Fail Whale I don’t mind seeing. [via @geekxnerd] More: Quilled Fail Whale
Just a quick note that midnight PST marks the deadline for our DIY Haunts contest. We’ve been getting tons of last-minute entries but we’d love to get more! Any Halloween prop that uses motion, light, and sound in some way is eligible. It doesn’t even have to be one you did this year. And what […]
Here’s one for the “limiting your options is the best way to stimulate creative thinking” file. Lego does not make many elements in its metallic silver color, so Flickr user Alex Schranz had very few pieces to work with when designing the fuselage and skin of his minifig-scale B-17 bomber model. I’d say he succeeded admirably.
Extreme Craft guru and CRAFT pal Garth Johnson just curated a show based on his 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse book, called Renewal Notice: Recycling sucks. This is an odd rallying cry for the 21st Century, but it makes a great conversation starter. Designers, policy makers and consumers are moving beyond recycling to embrace more […]
