This caught my eye as a great holiday gift idea for those of you making gifts and starting to make them now. Angela Yosten, of Moda Home Mom, offers up this easy tutorial on how to pair a pot holder and towel together for a retro kitchen look.
Did you know we now allow you to attach media to your comments? Please only use your new powers for good. This feature immediately bore fruit, as reader Gloria Kelly commented and loaded an image to this 2007 Weekend Project video about making a messenger bag out of plastic grocery/trash bags.
If you love thick wooden cutting boards but don’t want to fork out the dough, Kate at Centsational Girl shows us how she made three of them out of Norfolk Pine for only 30 bucks. Perfect for a fall table setting or holiday gift. [via Design*Sponge]
My heart always hurts a little when I see a used book disemboweled, but these inbook iPhone charging docks are delightful–what a great way to display the gorgeous covers on the Penguin Classic series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. They have some gorgeous vintage ones, too, if you have less delicate book sensibilities! This would be […]
If there is any fall dessert that isn’t made better with the addition of caramel, then I haven’t met it yet! This caramel pear tart recipe from The Craftinomicon looks so delicious, that it just might be worth the all of the fretting over the stove, waiting for the caramel to be just exactly right. […]
Our own Phil Torrone has a pithy survey of the maker movement recently published in Google’s posh advertising and marketing organ Think Quarterly. “On The Make” is written by one of MAKE’s ultimate insiders, for outsiders, and is a great resource if, like me, you’ve ever found yourself struggling for words to concisely summarize exactly […]
Bradford Hansen-Smith has been experimenting with structures made from a great many 10-inch bamboo skewers held together with short pieces of rubber tubing. He calls the technique Stickweaving and presents a gallery of interesting examples. Modular units connect to neighboring units with tubing and the entire structure is flexible enough to be collapsed or morphed into various surfaces.
