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Rosie O’Donnell will be live in Etsy’s Virtual Labs on Friday, March 13, 2009. The Etsy Virtual Lab doors open at 2:45pm EDT and the event starts at 3pm EDT. There are only 120 seats, so make sure you get there on time! Danielle @Etsy writes: The Shop Live host is none other than Rosie […]
Meteotek is a Spanish high school project to build a meteorological sounding balloon equipped with temperature and pressure sensors, GPS, radio, and a still camera. They had a successful launched on February 28, 2009. Their Flickr pages are in (Catalan) Spanish, but the photos speak for themselves. It’s just endlessly amazing to me that the […]
Jennifer Perkins shares several ideas on how to make customized cake toppers, but I think my favorite are these necklace cupcake toppers she created with illustrations of her husband’s band members. I love the idea of a topper that doubles as a party favor!
Instructables user kinawera modified an old pillow she had to make a pregnancy pillow. I didn’t know what this was until I read the tutorial, but it makes sense: a pillow to support your belly while you sleep on your side, held in place by being wedged under your body. She writes: As your belly […]
I was bemoaning my hatred of spinach to fellow Craftzine blogger Goli Mohammadi the other day, and she revealed one of the secrets of the universe, a really tasty spinach recipe her mom makes! It couldn’t be easier and you get loads of important nutrients. I called it “spinach yum” until Goli informed me that […]
We have a new mural in the living room that the entire family loves. It was designed and painted by a good friend of ours (thanks, Tramaine!); it contains symbolism that relates to every member of our family (including a pet chicken); and it didn’t cost us a penny. We used barter to get it […]
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this recipe for Corned Beef and Cabbage from Chow.com. I never knew about the corning process for meat! From Chow.com: The term corned refers to the tradition of using large salt granules the size of corn kernels to preserve the meat. The corned beef you buy in the store, ready […]
