The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
I love that grooms’ cakes can be a way to interject a little fun into wedding receptions, especially when they perfectly capture a groom’s personality. This Pac Mac groom’s cake from The Domestic Scientist is a perfect example. Complete with a keepsake Sculpey topper, it was a huge hit with the groom. Read more about […]
The Santa Rosa Handcar Regatta is coming up! The second annual event has extended its deadline for applicants, just for you dear Craftzine readers. What: Hand-Built Railcar Races, Arts, Performance, Live Music, Crafts, Fine Foods, Costumed Rabble & more! When: Sunday, September 27th, 2009. 11 am to 6 pm. Where: Railroad Square, Santa Rosa, CA, […]
The best TI-83 RPGs ever… Carolyn writes – For some, nothing was more exhilarating in high school than playing a cool calculator game right in front of the teacher’s face while she thinks you’re graphing some crazy parabolic curve. Every kid who’s privy to the beat on the street knows that the first thing to […]
In response to my post earlier today about the Phoenix hacker space, Bob Ward wanted you all to know about Arch Reactor, a similar group in St. Louis. He writes: We’re calling ourselves Arch Reactor and we’re going to be holding our first open house Wednesday August 19 at 6:00pm at our temporary space. We’re […]
If you’re in NYC on Thursday and have a toga, this might be interesting…. During tougheconomic times, Imperial Rome distracted itself by staging naval battles inside a flooded Coliseum. Artist Duke Riley plans to wage a similar spectacle, only in Queens, N.Y. Next week, city parks engineers are set to fill up a vacant pool […]
A weekly roundup of craft fairs, as well as a weekly roundup of call for entries to craft fairs.
“During the summertime, I’ll disappear for hours on long rides to nowhere and back. But I have to admit on some rides I’ve gotten so lost I have trouble finding my way home. Happily I was able to build a solar-powered GPS mapping machine, mostly from old computer parts and software I had sitting around my office.” Author Brian Nadels words in the introduction to his DIY Outdoors piece, “Solar-Powered Bike GPS,” from the pages of MAKE Volume 10, are further testament to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention.
