From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Instructions for Lei making for your next Hawaiian Luau party – If you can string beads, you can make a lei! If you’re lucky enough to live where plumerias grow, pick about 80 early in the morning. Otherwise you can use carnations, marigolds, orchids, roses or any other medium sized flower. Thanks Jason! Link.
Here’s an iTunes add-on for Mobile Phones. This free software allows PalmOne Treo 650 & 600 smartphones, Sony-Ericsson’s Walkman phones, Nokia’s XpressMusic and Samsung MP3 phones (with hard keys to control playback) to be synchronized with iTunes. It enables them to be a virtual iTunes phones like the Motorola ROKR, but without the 100 song limit. Link.
Here’s a site about putting a tiny wireless video camera into a 1/32 scale Scalextric slot car. There are pictures of how it was done and an 11MB film from inside the car to download. Zoom! It’s like a mini NASCAR. Link.
Here’s a fun way to recycle those pesky plastic grocery bags that are piling up in your kitchen. Instead of recycling them back at the supermarket, make yourself a cool tote bag. Here’s the full step-by-step on how to take regular o’ plastic grocery bags, cut them up, and crochet them into a tote! Find bags with a variety of colors for cool stripe patterns. [via] Link.
The art of origami is something so beautiful and yet so fragile. Most of the time it’s hard to find hip or interesting patterns on traditional origami paper. Never again! With the Printable Origami Papers site you’ll be able to download and print out on your computer some of the freshest patterns around. You can also check out the flickr gallery to see what others are making or sign up for the origami forum. Link.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to design and make your own earrings from photo paper, packing tape and duct tape. Make your own dangly chandelier earrings or add some simple beading for embellishment. Link.
“From Ray Wilson, inventor of the Soundlab Mini Synth comes the Wacky Electronic Noise Maker Thingy. It’s a much simpler circuit, which produces surprisingly cool pulsing, bleeping type noises. You can hear sound clips here. It’s made with a handful of components, a few pots and switches and a 9v battery. There’s a very clear schematic, a PCB design and a stripboard layout.” Thanks Tom! Link.
