Label Paint Cans with the Things They Painted
Alpha maker Craig Smith discovers the hard way that it’s a good idea to label paint and stain cans with the projects they were used on.
Month: March 2012
Growing Crystals in an Eggshell
Have you ever grown crystals? It’s a fun experiment: fill a small container with super saturated solutions of water and water-soluble solids, like rock salt or sugar. Then allow them to dry. Interesting crystals will form! Gratz Industries‘ Wendi and her daughter Jo experimented with several different solutions inside eggshell vessels. The coolest looking one […]
Paper Plate Shark Jaws
Sean over at MAKE posted this yesterday: paper plate shark jaws. Of course!! This is the perfect thing to whip up on a picnic with a 6 year old. Concept and tutorial by Jeanette Strole Parks of Off The Cuff Cooking, written up by request for Heather Mann’s Dollar Store Crafts.
An Instrument A Day Plays the Blues Away
For the fifth year in a row, Brooklyn-based Ranjit Bhatnagar has committed to making an Instrument A Day every day in February
Silver Fox Embroidery
I am absolutely blown away by this silver fox embroidery by blogger Sister Twisty! The piece was inspired by the Bjork song Cosmogony, and, looking at the ethereal, whimsical style of the foxes, I’m not at all surprised. If you’d like to see more of the stitching process, you can find a whole series of […]
PlaTVer and Other TV Hacks – Upcoming in MAKE Magazine
Coming in MAKE Volume 32: TV hacks, such as Tanya Bezreh’s PlaTVer, which uses a flat-screen TV as an animated serving platter
DIY Instagram Photo Booth
For all of you out there planning weddings, here’s a new take on a wedding reception favorite from Leigh Graves Wolf – an Instagram semi-instant photo booth!
