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By Diane Gilleland This holiday decoration may look complicated, but it’s very simple to make. Plus, it’s nice and lightweight, so it will hang beautifully from trees, wreaths, or garland. A group of them in a range of colors would make a lovely mobile!
Ann of All Things Paper created this beautiful, modern-looking Christmas tree with simple quilling techniques. The tree was loosely inspired by a rubber stamp design that caught my eye. Each branch is a shaped coil of 1/8 inch quilling paper. I outlined the burgundy ornaments with silver-gilded paper for a bit of shine and also […]
A special Blip Festival edition of NYC’s Handmade Music this Wednesday – Babycastles teams up with Handmade Music Night for the inaugural opening of a permanent indie games arcade in Brooklyn. 915 Wyckoff Street, L to Halsey or M to Myrtle / Wyckoff. (map below) This opening celebrates Adam Atomic’s Canabalt (NYC), Ivan Safrin’s Owl […]
Heather Sitarzewski shares how to turn small plastic toys into festive Christmas tree ornaments. This could be a fun way to clear out the toy bins and create fun ornaments for lower branches of the family tree, or for a small kid-friendly tree! [via @dollarcraft]
The Stray Sock Sewing book gives you inspiration for ways to repurpose your unpaired, old, or just plain ugly socks. The book includes a gallery of the author’s inspirational creations, a section on stitches and techniques needed for sock sewing, and detailed instructions on 8 different projects you can make from socks. We decided to […]
Paul from Dude Craft has created an awesome video tutorial for making these rad mini LP record gift tags. He’s even offering up downloadable templates for the snazzy covers he created (best fictitious band names ever!) as well as a blank template if you’d like to create your own custom album art. As a fan […]
An “Advent wreath” is a horizontal wreath, traditionally with four candles which are lit successively to mark each of the four weeks of Advent in the liturgical calendar of some western-tradition Christian churches. Alexander Weber has produced a beautiful little electronic version which uses 4 LEDs, a coin cell, a coin cell holder, a paperclip, and an 8-bit microcontroller chip. It is light-responsive, and uses one of the LEDs in “reverse” mode as a photodiode to detect darkness. The LEDs flicker, and the number of LEDs lit at any point is cycled by briefly cutting the power. Awesome design.
