The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
h1kari, of ToorCamp, sent us the following Call for Makers: ToorCamp is a 4-day outdoor camping event happening in at a decommissioned Titan-1 Missile Silo in Central Washington. We’re looking for some brave makers to come out, showcase their work, and have fun collaborating with hundreds of software and hardware hackers, tinkerers, makers, breakers, and […]
This Saturday, May 9th, is National Train Day (in the US). There are exhibits and festivities at train stations across the country. Check out the National Train Day site to see if anything interesting is happening in your city. National Train Day
Last week, a few lady bugs were hanging out on the other side of my living room window. This is odd for me since I live on the 4th floor of a building so I thought it must be a sweet sign of Spring. Lady bugs must be in the air as Lauren at Goody […]
DIY Eco-Hip Accessories By Nancy Minsky Here are three hip accessory projects that you can make yourself. They are imaginatively created from discarded household plastic containers. Easy projects that open the door for fresh ways to recycle, their bold, cheerful style is bound to inject your wardrobe with a high-fashion buzz. Gathering the materials is […]
My mom is an amazing crafter, and as I raise my own kids I find myself taking more and more of her projects to use as my own, albeit at a more junior level of expertise. My mom, aka Nana, and my youngest son, Arlo, visiting Tombstone, Ariz. When I was about 10 years old, […]
Our ol’ Make: Online compadre Jonah Brucker-Cohen put together this event with Dorkbot Paris last April on the occasion of the Gakona exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. [Sent to us by David Steinberg of Dorkbot Paris] Palais de Tokyo : the Scrapyard Challenge Scarpyard Challenge
Last night The Brooklyn Kitchen held a cupcake class, and our friend Michelle Kempner was there to catch the action. The class was really cool. The teacher showed us how to make two types of cupcakes and then gave us lots of decorating tools and types of frostings (ganache, fondant, buttercream, etc.) and had us […]
