A confirmed lover of labels, I’ve been known to geek out pretty hard over cute place cards. This Hammered Spoon Place Cards Tutorial from Elizabeth Anne Designs is a lovely, subtle way to keep your wedding reception or dinner party in order, while giving your guests a trinket to take home. I love that they […]
The Panavise Jr, now in the Maker Shed, is the perfect workbench companion. The grooved jaws allow it to easily hold circuit boards, jewelry, models, rotary tools, pencil torches, soldering irons, or anything else you can think of. The single turn adjustment knob allows you to easily position the Panavise head anywhere you need it. Check out the Shed for other Panavise models as well.
My kids love to pick up and bring home loads of treasures from our adventures on the beach and strolls through the neighborhood. The only trouble with all this is that I’m usually left carrying all the bits and pieces home for them. I’m thinking I need to try making one of these cool nature […]
Our friends Lenore and Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, have cooked up a scale model of a 555 chip that works as a footstool. We wanted a new footstool at the lab, and somehow came across the idea of making it in the shape of our hero above, the 555 timer chip. We started […]
Agustina Woodgate has found a clever way to make the thrift store shopping experience even more rewarding by sneakily stitching “Poetry Tags” onto clothing for shoppers to later discover. I did some googling and found one of the stores in Miami where she did it. So you can go there and look for some poetically […]
1960’s “Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments,” by Robert Brent and Harry Lazarus, is now freely browsable on Scribd, and can be downloaded as a .PDF after either paying $5 or uploading a document of your own in exchange.
I remember the god’s eyes crafts from summer camp, but these works of art from Jay Mohler blow those clean out of the water. I’ve been making Ojos de Dios ever since seeing such yarn and stick mandalas in almost the exact form made by Huicholi natives of Mexico, and lamas from Tibet. Later I […]
