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Natasha Fialkov has a great tutorial on making cool looking paper beads which I found through Whip Up. I love the variety of paper used from origami papers or old books. The patterns created are quite unique and colorful. [ via ] Link.
Creative Little Daisy has a great tutorial on how to make super easy keychains like the ones above. Link.
A cool Phil Collins style drum roll, coming to a mousepad near you! This selfmade drum trigger pad I made in about 15 minutes for testing Alesis D4 drum module. It consist of synthetic leather (better use mousepad) glued on one side of tin sheet and piezo glued on the other. All this is glued […]
I like that these come in a little zip lock baggy. I wonder if the cardboard boxes actually enhance the sound and work as a bass box or just make them more stackable? [Via] – Link
There’s some new photos up on flickr (and in the MAKE and CRAFT flickr pools) showing the building process of Institute for Figuring exhibit, “The Business Card Menger Sponge” by Dr. Jeannine Mosely which is now on display at Machine Project (1200 D North Alvarado) in Los Angeles from August 26 – September 24, 2006 […]
Tim Escobedo says, “Simple AND playable DIY musical instruments in PVC, plastic and anything else that’s cheap.” Pictured here on the left is the $12 Uke and at right is the Plastic Fantastic Sax. Link.
There will be a Plush You workshop at The Richard Hugo House on September 30th at 11:30am. Blair of Wise Craft will be teaching you how tomake your own “Wee” soft toy based on Hillary Lang’s “Wee Wonderfuls Wee” pattern. (See all the variety in the Wee pool in flickr.) The workshop is $10 and […]
