DIY Pearl Hair Combs
Anne, of Flax and Twine, shows us how to make these beautiful pearl hair combs. Beautiful!
Month: February 2012
Recipe: Red Velvet Hot Chocolate
Valentine’s Day may be filled with bright, springtime colors, but there’s still a chill in the air. Just in time for cupid’s arrows to start flying, Elsie from A Beautiful Mess shared her recipes for red velvet hot chocolate and pink hot chocolate, so your drinks can be festive and you and your special someone […]
Seriously Overengineered Mousetrap
Jake Easton’s Better Mousetrap is electrically and pneumatically powered, weighs almost six pounds, features a key lock switch and a manual safety, and strikes with 102 pounds of force. I think they foleyed that crunching noise in the video, however. Sounds like a bag of Fritos, to me.
How-To: Embroidered Note Valentine
This embroidered note valentine from StitchPunk, the Urban Threads blog, is like a fun, grownup version of passing notes in class. Plus, if you’ve got stitching skills but less-than-pretty handwriting, you can pick up the pattern for their note design right on the site. More: Project: Sewing Kit Valentines Card @Craftzine.com blog What Crafters REALLY […]
In the Maker Shed: Tiny Cylon Kit
The Tiny Cylon Kit, available in the Maker Shed, is a fun and easy to solder multi-mode LED Larson scanner kit.
How-To: Homemade Astronaut Ice Cream
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve adored the crunchy/creamy sweet treat of astronaut ice cream. Now that I live just five minutes from Johnson Space Center, the freeze-dried confection is the top request when we take visiting friends to the gift shop at Space Center Houston. There is just something idyllic and iconic about […]
Tony Cragg’s Dice Sculptures
Sculptor Tony Cragg created this dice-covered sculptures for Paris’s FIAC art show, which took place in October. Love to see this style with d20s! [via Colossal; photo courtesy of Daniel Milliner]