Month: June 2012

How-To: Cable Lamp

How-To: Cable Lamp

I love the simplicity of these cool cable lamps from Wibke from fingerfabrik. They use very basic hardware store materials (and a bit of an IKEA hack) so they are budget-friendly as well. Get the full how-to over on fingerfabrik. [via IKEA Hacks]

DIY Succulent Terrarium

DIY Succulent Terrarium

What a great twist on terrarium creation! That’s Quirky turned an old light fixture into a funky, unique succulent terrarium. A wonderful way to upcycle a household item. More: How-To: Mini Terrarium Necklace @Craftzine.com blog My Own Moss Terrarium @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Sew a Terrarium @Craftzine.com blog

Visible Physible Family Trees

Visible Physible Family Trees

Last September, I wrote about the Thingiverse โ€œCube Gearsโ€ phenomenon, briefly tracing the origin of user emmettโ€™s Screwless Cube Gears through its evolution from Haruki Nakamuraโ€™s papercraft geared heart sculpture via user GregFrostโ€™s printable Broken Heart thing. At the time, I really wanted to exhaust the graph of the cube gears / heart gears phenomenon, but didnโ€™t have the available free time. Well, I finally got around to doing it.