Michelle of Cicada Daydream and Cloud 9 fabrics has a great pattern and tutorial for an easy half tote bag that is narrow/fat quarter-friendly and whips up in no time at all. I love that it’s just the right size for the must-have items you carry with you, and not so big that it becomes […]
Paul Kinsky, whose laser-cut polygonal sculptures appeared here earlier this year, has created a polygonal mask of a rhino, way cool! This one’s using coroplast instead of acrylic for the triangles, which is what they make those political signs out of. Basically plastic cardboard. The beauty of this is that its slightly flexible, making the […]
I always enjoy a good holiday sweater and this screen printed kitty sweater with googly eyes by Pretty Snake is some highly appropriate Halloween attire if you ask me. [via doobybrain] More: Scenes from RISD Student/Alumni Fair
Simple, inexpensive Halloween decorations are my favorite, and this tutorial from Dana of MADE certainly fits that bill. She shares how to make a giant yarn spiderweb for your interior or exterior decor. It’s a project that takes just ten minutes to complete, so you can knock it out in plenty of time for parties […]
A “beautiful failure” from Trammell Hudson, writing on the NYC Resistor blog. Also a beautiful phrase, that. I shall be adopting it henceforth.
Mycroft Milverton used an Arduino and a Wave Shield to create the Radio Arduino Classic Edition, a retrofitted vacuum tube radio that plays different classic radio tracks when it’s tuned. The device plays 60 tracks in normal mode, but also has an easter egg mode, which can play thousands of tracks. Be sure to check out Mycroft’s original Radio Arduino as well; it’s built in the shell of an Oscar Belle two band transistor radio from the 1960′s.
This weekend, we took our kids to a restaurant that served a stick of rock candy with the dessert coffee for stirring sweetness. My kids flipped out and instantly snagged the sticks for themselves. It made me remember trying to make rock candy myself when I was young, but my attempts never seemed to work […]
