Making cheese isn’t anything I ever considered, especially fancy cheese. But recently, I had the pleasure of taking a Beginning Cheese Making class with author and chef Mary Karlin at The Fork, Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company’s beautiful on-farm cooking class facility.
Cool postapocalyptic cosplay from Bellingham, Washington craftsman Ivan Owen. The roadsigns, he assures us, were “obtained through legal means,” and were formed into plates by peening against an anvil, before being affixed to a harness made from belts.
I’m the kind of gal who will take a goofy animal-shaped purse over a fancy boutique model any day. If you are too, check out this fun shark purse tutorial that Kara from I Just Might Explode shared on A Beautiful Mess!
It’s almost as if any Make:Project with “mod” in it’s name is begging to be, well, modded! A shining example of this is John Moseley’s mod of the Luna Mod Looper – dare I say his hack is cute!
Happy Holidays from the Maker Shed Team! Still need to get that perfect gift? It’s not too late! The Maker Shed is shipping until 3PM PST today so you can still get that Ultimate Microcontroller Pack, Arduino, Supercap Racer or anything else in our store sent to your door by tomorrow!
What makes a project “nerdy” these days? Embroidered Super Mario purses? Dr. Who references on greeting cards? ANYTHING with Liz Lemon? No matter your geek-filled passion, you can be sure there are crafters out there who love it just as much as you (I mean, I made a quilt for Duran Duran, for heaven’s sake). […]
“Toolbox” has been a staple of MAKE magazine since Volume 01, back in February, ’05. We’ve done plenty of online tool reviews, too, since then, but somewhat informally, and it’s only this year that we decided to launch a regularly-scheduled, official online weekly tool review column. When we were gearing up, back in April…
