Repurposed Drawers into Porch Planter Boxes
Love have flowers around but need a place to keep them? Make these handy free standing planter boxes from old wooden drawers!
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Build an Impressive Little Air-Powered Toy Car
Young maker “CrazyPT” has a bunch of really cool toy building projects on his YouTube channel. Here, he creates a really fun little air-powered car out of little more than a plastic bottle, some bottle caps, plastic straws, wooden skewers, and a motor scavenged from a dead CD drive.
Make It for Mom: Easy Wood Grain Silhouette Portrait
What else could be more thoughtful than a DIY gift for mom featuring her darling children in a silhouette portrait? This is a simple and effective project that even the least of the handy dads out there can make in time for Mother’s Day this weekend. All you need is a camera (even your phone will do), […]
Paper Flowers With Chocolate Centers
Last minute gift idea for mom, give her flowers and chocolates all in one pretty paper package!
DIY Beauty: Cranberry Seed Foot Scrub
There’s still time to give handmade for Mother’s Day! If you’re looking for a thoughtful last-minute gift idea, you’ll love this recipe for luxurious cranberry seed foot scrub. Give the gift of good clean fun to Mom, your BFF, or yourself with this easy-to-follow cranberry seed foot scrub recipe from Soap Queen. Whip up a […]
Working, Life-Size Car Built from Half a Million Lego Pieces
We’ve seen a lot of insanely great adult Lego projects over the years, but this one takes the cake. This full-size hot rod is the brainchild of Steve Sammartino, a young marketing guy from Melbourne, Australia and Raul Oaida, a 20-year old self-taught engineer from Romania that Sammartino met over the Internet. Money for their […]
Digital Pinball Looks and Feels Like the Real Thing
Jan Klomp, as a child of the 80s, and according to him, “still a 44 year old child,” grew up with such wonderful things as the Commodore 64, arcade cabinets, and pinball machines. After building a MAME (emulated arcade) cabinet, he was introduced to the pinball versions, pinMAME and Visual Pinball, which allow one to […]