A couple of weeks ago my daughter was trying to figure out what to be for Halloween. So I cat-braided my daughter’s hair to see if that would inspire her to make a decision. She loved them! I love that we don’t have to buy any headpieces for my daughter’s costume, and that these handmade ears cost only pennies to make.
Katie Mello, a professional stop-motion character fabricator at LAIKA/house, made this awesome AT-AT costume for her pup, Bones Mello. You can check out her process shot on Bones’ Facebook page. Katie writes, “From the first time we saw Bones, an Italian Greyhound, my husband and I thought he looked like an AT-AT. He has such […]
Make: Live‘s Halloween bash featured action stylist Anney Fresh, electrically-enhanced pumpkins aka “hack-o-lanterns”, and a costume parade by attendees at the party hosted by MakerBot in Brooklyn, NY. Matt and Becky open the show with an homage to The X-Files.
Baked and seasoned pumpkin seeds are one of my absolute favorite seasonal treats. So, when Kimberly posted her recipe for spiced pumpkin seed brittle on The Storque, the Etsy blog, I knew immediately that I’d need to try it out. Plus, with such simple ingredients, it’ll be a snap to veganize this brittle for non-dairy […]
Michael Schiess shows the exhibits in his Lil Juju Mobile Pinball Museum. The centerpiece on display at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 is his vintage machine that’s been refitted completely in clear plexiglass, so that attendees can see the inner workings of the pinball machine while its being played.
If you are attending or hosting a Halloween party this weekend, check out these fun monster pudding cups from Tonya Staab on KidZui. She shares how to create crazy faces on the insides of the cups that pop against the colored pudding when it’s served inside. I love them! [via @makeandtakes]
Very cool feature from David Kushner over at IEEE Spectrum, here quoted on the etymology of “Arduino:” “The picturesque town of Ivrea, which straddles the blue-green Dora Baltea River in northern Italy, is famous for its underdog kings…”
