How-To: Make Independence Day Paper Swag Banners
Crafty Chica Kathy Cano-Murillo shows how to do this super fast 4th of July paper swag banners using patriotic scrapbook papers.
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4th of July Snack Cups
Cindy of Skip to My Lou has a downloadable template to make these 4th of July snack cups. Check out her other 4th of July projects too!
4th of July guide on Instructables
Instructables has a roundup of 4th projects for a happy weekend. BBQs, recipes, summer clothes, and water abound.
Massive Bottle Rocket Mayhem
Answering the musical question: What would it be like to light over 200 bottle rockets at the same time?
Circuit Board Candy
Here’s some circuit board candy Collin @ MAKE found in the MAKE Flickr pool. It’s based off of the iPhone circuit board and has some innovations I haven’t seen before including a sour straw ribbon cable. Nice!
Spaghetti and Meatballs Cake
For me, this almost falls into the kitty litter and/or thorax cake category; it’s amazing to look at, but could I actually eat it? But then, discovering that the meatballs are some sort of chocolate truffle goodness, and seeing a piece of the cake sliced to expose a moist, banana cake center, and my inhibitions […]
The Walnut Creek model railroad
Now this is a train layout, 1,800 sqaure feet of it. It’s the pride and joy of the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society, Walnut Creek, CA, who’ve been at it since 1975. I like how the piece on Wired.com opens: Before SimCity — even before Dungeons and Dragons — back when “computer” was a job […]