How-To: Woven Paper Gift Wrap
Here’s a simple way to dress up plain newspaper as gift wrap: check out this woven paper ribbon how-to on Mini-eco. Switch from rainbow colors to your dad’s favorites, and you have a cool Father’s Day wrap.
Month: June 2011
Food Sculptor Ray Villafane Shares Pumpkin Carving Tips
Artist Ray Villafane talks about his work and shares tips for creating your own cut-above pumpkins.
Free Mug Rug Pattern
Happy Flag Day! Take a look at this cute American flag mug rug I found in our Craft Flickr group. All Things Belle created this free pattern as introduction to paper piecing. Check out her blog for more patterns and tutorials.
Flat Pack Spider Milled from Aluminum Plate
Executed by vrogy, from Thingiverse user dino-girl’s “spiderasaur” plans. We have featured vrogy’s work many times beofre; check the links below for some of my personal faves.
How-To: Make a Storage Garland for Softies
By Jessica Wilson A long time ago in a literary galaxy far, far away, I was a children’s bookseller extraordinaire. I ran an enormous department with very little display space for non-book items and found myself invaded with a plethora of plush toys and bath books. Our solution was a dozen or so clunky-chunky plastic […]
Turn Household Items into Crafty Storage
Oh My! Handmade Goodness has a can’t-miss roundup: ways to repurpose common household items to organize all kinds of craft supplies. I think this shower caddy solution is a great idea for small spaces, and was also quite taken with how useful shoe organizers, paper towel holders, and pegboard can be. Check it out!
Digi-Comp II by EMSL (video)
Wow, check out the video tour of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories’ functional recreation of the classic educational binary computer Digi-Comp II. Several weeks ago, we talked about bringing our giant Digi-Comp II to Maker Faire. But now we’re back, and we wanted to show everyone how it works– not just the many folks who came […]
