Make boring doors pop with bold shapes and a stripe of bright color with this chevron door tutorial from Claire at Camille Styles. [Via Pinterest] More: DIY Chevron Wall @Craftzine.com blog DIY Missoni Chevron Shoes @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Appliqued Chevron Stripes @Craftzine.com blog
Wendi Gratz of Shiny Happy World has another helpful video tutorial showing you how to machine applique concave curves. This latest video is another installment of hers – check out her previous videos on inside points and convex curves, too.
Keep curious kids entertained—and teach them how plants grow—with this fun and easy paper seed star tutorial from Marnie at Carrots are Orange! Wouldn’t these be great for outdoor weddings too? More: Project: Wedding Favor Seed Packets @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Eggshell Seed Starter @Craftzine.com blog How-To: DIY Seed Tape @Craftzine.com blog
Meet Sugru, an air-curing rubber that’s designed for gadget hacking. Its uses are almost unlimited. We’ve used it to reinforce computer cords, protect our phones, make gaming controllers more comfortable, and even fix a pair of boots.
Mike from Nootropic Design created this Tabasco bottle lamp: I love Tabasco and always though that their cute little miniature bottles could be the basis for a great specialty lamp. I was very happy to find that a 3mm LED fits perfectly in the bottle opening of the miniature bottles. By designing a custom circuit […]
The Art of Manliness has a post up about dismantling a broken cellphone in order to mine it for useful components that can keep you alive after you get stranded in the middle of nowhere. Tools include a compass out of magnet paired with ferrous metal wire, a survival signal mirror out of a layer of screen, and a small-game snare out of headphone wire. But my favorite is the arrowhead spear made from a circuit board.
Artist Andrew Healy made this amazing cross stitch piece of the disturbing surveillance video image of the Jamie Bulger murder. Not unlike the this Columbine Cross Stitch piece, it seems like the artist probably used the enormous amount of time it must have taken to make this piece to think about the incomprehensible meaning behind […]
