The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Alice and Arlo, hard at work and focused on the prize! I’m always amazed at how satisfying it is to beat your own whip cream, especially by hand, and for kids it’s no exception. I can rarely get either of my boys to hunker down in the kitchen with me for a real baking session, […]
The Austin Children’s Museum has a great Maker Kids exhibit going on right now that includes all kinds of hands-on experiments, projects and crafts in true Maker Faire style. Tomorrow, Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching will be on hand to teach a kids embroidery workshop. It’s been unbearably hot here in Austin, and embroidery is […]
Back in December, we posted a piece about Lucas, a six-year-old who’d learned how to solder and made a battery-powered guitar amp for his grandmother for Christmas. Six might be a little young for most kids to handle a soldering iron, but each person is obviously different (and you likely know what your kids can/cannot […]
Riley Harmon sent us a link to this really simple kitchen island, made from “A baker’s rack, a solid core door ripped in half, some pipe and flanges, a curtain rod, some casters, some stain, and a little elbow grease.” How To: Build an Island
Here’s a list of upcoming craft fairs. Feel free to add your event to our calendar. Coming Up This Weekend: The Snip & Stitch Extravaganza Arcata, CA Sunday, July 26 The Fiber Show San Francisco, CA Friday, July 24, 7pm – 10pm Vintour Expo Norman, OK Saturday, July 25, 9am – 7pm ric rac roundup […]
Treehugger has a great feature on building a geodesic dome solar greenhouse so you can grow your own food. The slideshow is really amazing! Collin Dunn at Treehugger writes: What do you do when you want to grow your own food, but live more than a mile above sea level in Colorado? That’s the question […]
Homemade Treats for Pups (and Persons) By Wendy Tremayne and Mikey Sklar Holy Scrap Hot Springs blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/ At the Holy Scrap homestead in Truth or Consequences, N.M., we are engaged in a never-ending cycle that replaces the consumer products we are accustomed to buying with a homemade, improved version of them. Little by little our […]
