The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Impress your friends and coworkers with these easy-to-make edge-lit holiday cards by Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories! This time around they used PETG polyester, which is easier to cut than acrylic. More: How-To: Make “edge-lit” holiday cards
The Cabaret Mechanical Movement book is packed with diagrams, information and useful tips on making your own automata. The book uses machines and automata from Cabaret Mechanical Theater to explain levers, shafts, cranks, cams, springs, linkages, ratchets, Drives and Gearing and even coin-op control, this is a great introduction for those inspired to go and make their own work.
Here’s a fun way to add a special touch to your coffee or cocoa or even cupcakes and cakes. Jessica of How About Orange shows how to create your own stencil for dusting the top of your winter beverages and treats. I may have to try this on Brookelyn’s Grown-Up Hot Chocolate.
An engineer’s solution to the Jack-‘o-lantern problem if ever I saw one. [via There, I Fixed It]
With the gift-giving holidays right around the corner, I thought it would be the perfect time to offer up this classic DIY from the pages of CRAFT Volume 04. Leah Peterson teaches you the fundamentals of candle-making, whether you want to reuse old candles to make new or make new ones from scratch. Who doesn’t […]
Here’s another table decoration that could go nicely with the freezer paper stenciled burlap placemats I posted earlier today. Maya from maya*made shows how to make these monogramed napkin rings in burlap. Find a way to coordinate the design with your placemats, and you’ll have a very nice table setting for the holidays!
Persimmons just shout “autumn” to me. Just the sight of those stark branches against the sky dotted with bright fruit sends me straight into cozy mode. Aran over at Cannelle et Vanille has not one but two amazing-sounding recipes for persimmon fans, as well as some fun recollections of the role persimmons played in her […]
