How-To: Yarn Bangles
BurdaStyle has a great Last-Minute Gift Series with this project featuring Alicia Katchmar’s stylish and easy-to-make, Yarn Bangles.
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A Very Simple Menorah
by Diane Gilleland This colorful, modern take on the Hanukkah menorah is great for small spaces, and crafts up very quickly. Tissue paper lends a beautiful mosaic look.
Degenerate Craft Fair in Brooklyn
The Degenerate Craft Fair in NYC is a show over three weekends in different locations around the city. This weekend they’re in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The fair features 20+ artists vending stickers, zines, books, jewelry, and even square inches of Detroit, MI. Enjoy beer provided by Brooklyn Brewery and mulled wine from 8pm to 10pm on […]
Forget Dress to Impress, Shred to Impress: Beef BBQ Recipe
By Ashley Messick Dating is hard. In an attempt to impress each other with their apparent creativity, new couples tend to go for the gusto when it comes to dates — rock climbing, improv class, acupuncture. It’s hard enough to seem charming in a normal setting; adding in paintball guns makes it even tougher. That’s […]
Handmade recycled oak wine barrel furniture
Etsy sellers Stil Novo Design make one-off hand-crafted furniture from reclaimed French white oak wine barrel staves. The pieces are good-looking and quite reasonably priced for handmade furniture. [Thanks, Camilla!]
Chainmail dicebag to match that new armor
Over at NYCResistor, Devon shows off his handmade satchel of durability plus some of the unique pieces it holds therein. Perfect accessory for your next renaissance fair outing! Related: Chainmail chess set
Cardboard Safari
Sean @ MAKE writes: If, like me, you’ve been stressing out about where to find a cardboard rhino head before Xmas, I bring glad tidings: Ye need look no further than Cardboard Safari. They also have cardboard moose heads, deer heads, whole rhinoceri, and, predictably, rocket ships.