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Tiffany Threadgould of RePlayGround reports in with photos from last night’s Green Up Scraptacular at Terracycle’s Port Authority Green Up shop in NYC. Above is tiffany wearing a a Target plastic bag dress with a workshop participant who made a party hat from a cereal box and refashioned her t-shirt with Megan Nicolay of Generation […]
Yesterday, Becky posted about Threadbanger’s Decor it Yourself video on creating 70s-inspired geometric string art. Lindsey from Yarnia in Portland, Oregon, points us to this awesome variation on the string art theme from one of Yarnia’s customers. When one of our customers came in a few weeks ago looking for some yarn to use for […]
Calling all Houston Makers! We’re excited to announce the first meeting of Make:Hou, a new Make city group based in Houston. The meeting will take place on Thursday, May 6th, at the Kendall Library & Community center. From their flier: We Welcome Artists, Engineers, Musicians…People who MAKE! See guest speaker Patrick Hood-Daniel, author of “Build […]
If you’re in NYC this weekend, check out Raphael Abrams’ soft circuit class at NYC Resistor. There are a few spots left! Learn to make soft, flexible and washable electronic circuits embedded right into common textiles! We’ll cover conductive thread, waterproof circuitry, embedded sensors and tactile feedback. Everyone leaves with enough basic knowlege to level-up […]
These are the work of Lubbock, Texas artist Dustin Wallace. Above is Homage 1.0, shown in both humanoid and jet transforms, and below, Homage 2.0, featuring extra-wicked elbow knives.
My son just had his first birthday, and my sister-in-law and 5-year-old niece made some amazing cupcakes for him. They used a vintage cupcake stand, but it’s easy to make your own. I’ve seen a lot of homemade cake stands, but I like this take on the DIY cupcake stand from Casa Sugar with a […]
We covered Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum’s (Sharon, MA) amazing Victorian/ steampunk-inspired home previously. They now have a computer set-up worthy of the other brass-encrusted, Nemo-esque insanity of the rest of their interior. I love the little touches, such as the mini-digital LCD picture frames that cycle through pics of family and friends, the “wind-up” thumbdrive, […]
