The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Tomorrow marks the 3rd meeting of Make:PGH, Pittsburgh’s DIY group, and the presentations are going to be chock-full of crafts! First up is Susan Felix and her crochet amigurumi creatures: Susan Felix has an MS in Mechanical Engineering, but she doesn’t actually use it. She lives in Pittsburgh’s East End with her fiancé and she […]
Folks have been all abuzz over Betty White’s performance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend. If you missed the show, you can watch it online via the NBC web site. Abbey at Renegade Handmade even made a Betty White cake for the occasion. Pair it with the Ode to Betty White cards from Vickie […]
Dolly Mixx, painted the most amazing plate for her mother’s birthday. I love this blowout of color and flowers and mushrooms! Tallie and Button are her mother’s dogs, and they could not be more adorable. I also have to say that I’ve fallen hard for the fashion art and nail awesomeness on her blog…
The first entry in our Gadget Freak Design contest is in, and it’s a doozy: Matthew Katzenstein created this sweet 3×3 RGB LED matrix, controlled by an Arduino Diecimila, that plays a game of blue-vs-red 3-dimensional tic-tac-toe. The video, above, is lengthy and quite detailed. You can watch it work at 5:30 (it should automatically start there if you click above); the whole video can be seen here.
Round pancakes are a bore! Get snazzy with your breakfast and whip up some of these flower-shaped pancakes. (especially nice for Mother’s Day tomorrow…) Not Martha shows you how it’s done.
Bay Area artist Matthew Jervis of Kulture Hero posted this great Mom’s Day breakfast idea on Facebook — what a great, simple way to make her morning shine! (Easy to do with kids, too.) Pile up your bread slices. Carefully cut out a heart, tracing over it a couple times to ensure the bottom pieces […]
We covered these clever Petri dish soaps from Cleaner Science back in March. Now, we’re very pleased to have her on board as a Makers Market seller. Her soaps are available in many colors and varieties, including some with glow-in-the-dark “colonies,” and none of them will set you back more than $10.
