Cold Summer Soup Collection
With temperatures rising here in Michigan, I’ve been craving some cold soup ideas. Luckily the Mint Design Blog has me covered with this roundup of recipes.
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The Best Maker TV Shows of All Time – Add Yours!
This week’s column is a fun one. Previously I rounded up comic book characters who are also makers. Hundreds of additional suggestions flooded the comments — you can see them all here (comments). Some of the characters were from TV shows so I promised we’d at least have a “best maker TV show” roundup at […]
Roundup: Creative Shelving Solutions
If you’ve got stuff and need a cool place to put it, Sean Michael Ragan’s roundup of interesting shelves and shelving on Make is definitely worth a look. If I had the space, I would so get one of these circular bookshelves. …And these shelves made from actual shelf fungi are just beautiful. Lots more […]
Recycling Paperbacks as Partitions
Diane spotted this interesting idea from London designer Lucy Norman, who writes: “There is currently no infrastructure set up to recycle the paper from books because the paper is low grade and the glue on the spine must be removed. The Paperback Partition is made from this waste, creating an aesthetically pleasing and interesting divide in a room. It provides both good heat insulation, and acoustic insulation…”
10,000-Brick Lego Sandcrawler
AFOL Marshall Banana built this extremely impressive and faithful Jawa sandcrawler Facts: Minifigscale: 96 cm long, 100.5 cm long (lowered main ramp) Weight: approximability 20kg Part count: over 10’000 Powerfunctions: 4 xl motors, 5 m motors, 4 receivers, 4 batterypacks, 22 Lego LED-lights Powered radio-controlled Functions: – driving: forward reverse – stearing – main ramp: […]
How-To: Sock Monkey Birthday Hat
By Vanessa Coppolla Did you know that the sock monkey dates back to 1932, when the Nelson Knitting Company added the trademarked red heel to their product? American mothers first made sock monkeys out of worn-out Rockford Red Heel Socks during The Great Depression. Those mamas were our first crafty upcyclers, out of necessity no […]
Great How-To: Little Leftover Note Cards
We editors and authors here on CRAFT have been oohing and awing over these cute Little Leftover Note Cards. Kristin Roach over at Craft Leftovers has done an amazing job with her step-by-step how-to; she makes these elegant cards look easy-peasy to make. I’m now thinking of all the odds and ends I have in […]