Craft & Design

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How-To: Bracelet Purse

How-To: Bracelet Purse

Here’s a sweet little pattern and tutorial from Destri of The Mother Huddle for making a purse using bracelets as the handles. The perfect little bag to stuff all those little trinkets and what-nots into that a girl just can’t leave home without… Slips over little arms perfectly, we’ve yet to leave the house without […]

Pickles the Pug Crochet Hat Model

Pickles the Pug Crochet Hat Model

When Lion Brand pinned this adorable dog crochet unicorn hat, I was immediately smitten with the sweet pug pictured wearing the hat. As I checked out Sweethoot’s Etsy shop, I was met with more wonderful pictures of Pickles the pug modeling cute crochet hats sized for dogs. It’s noted in at least one product description […]

Getting into DIY Synthesizers

Getting into DIY Synthesizers

MAKE author Tom Whitwell wrote this great piece on how to jump into the synth-building scene. The hardest part of DIY electronics is starting out. My first step was building a few guitar pedal kits and learning by reading the Beavis Audio site. Other people start with noisemaker kits like the Atari Punk Console or […]

How-To: Heart Print Tights

How-To: Heart Print Tights

These heart print tights from Annika at The Pineneedle Collective were intended for Valentine’s Day, but I think that they’d be fabulous any time of the year! If you happen to see a girl with a green streak in her hair sporting tights like this around Brooklyn, you’ll know where I got the idea. More: […]