Jenny at Craft Test Dummies is getting a jump on back-to-school crafting by making up a batch of backpack zipper pulls. She used formica samples from her local home improvement store and added a combination of paint and decoupage. I love the Star Wars design here! And she has lots of other styles to share, […]
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics We looked at playing card constructions before in this column, but this one by Nick Sayers is impressively intricate. The 270 playing cards each have four slits, and lock together like the classic IQ Lamp. Each card is forced into a curved form because it locks with […]
By Andrew Lewis When I was very young, I had a pop-up puppet toy that I would play with all the time. I only remembered the toy recently, while I was trying to figure out what to do with a stack of old machine wool cones. Not only are these fun for playtime, they’re quite […]
By Julie Jackson I discovered the work of Claire Brown of Miso Funky a few years ago, when I bought two of her cross stitch pieces (“Sniff Glue, Worship Satan” and “In Case of Emergency, Breakdance”). I have never quite recovered from the hilarity of these, so I thought it was high time to catch […]
By popular demand, Heathkit is bringing back the kit building tradition. Successfully building your own products provides a sense of pride and accomplishment, not realized by simply buying something off the shelf.
If you’ve ever taken a Delta flight somewhere, you’ve likely enjoyed the super tasty Biscoff cookies they serve. I remember falling in love with them several years ago and then flipping out when I stumbled on them in my local grocery store. They’ve been a favorite special snack ever since. Turns out now they even […]
“Ken,” the author of this interesting tutorial on tinting hot-melt adhesive sticks by adding crayons, appears to know his chemistry, but is otherwise fairly anonymous. He claims that “[y]ou can also add up to 10% by weight of paraffin wax to reduce the viscosity without…”
