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How-To: Felt Paisley Stocking

There are a lot of fun Christmas in July series circulating on craft blogs this month, including over at Sew, Mama, Sew! This awesome felt paisley stocking Cathy Ziegele makes me want to drop everything and come up with fifty million different ways to stitch felt paisleys on to stockings for everyone I know.

Make: Kids: Lego project roundup

There’s a not-very-secret secret about Lego — adults like ’em just as much as kids do! So while we’ve assembled our ten favorite Lego inventions in honor of the month’s theme Make: Kids, all the projects are by adults. #10 Lego RC hand with exoskeletal controller #9 Lego NXT R/C boat #8 Lego Classic Space […]

Rainbow Bed

This rainbow bed was created for a child’s room, but I have to admit I’m kind of coveting it. Such a simple IKEA hack, and it would actually work on any kind of furniture. It’s also great idea for sprucing up a thrift find. See how it’s done over on IKEA Hacker.