The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Paula at Treehugger wrote about this cool chair made from recycled printing industry cardboard tubes. From the site: Chilean design studio Onceneto teamed up with La Tercera newspaper and has been doing an interesting job recovering waste material from the paper’s print process. The first is produced with cardboard tubes from the newspaper printer paper […]
Jackson wrote in to let us know that registration has opened for the Steel Yard’s Fall Community Courses: We have plenty of new courses to offer; Welding in a Week, Industrial Casting Techniques for the Kitchen, and more! Also, we welcome the return of Slip Casting and TWO sessions of Basic Bike Maintenance (weekday and […]
This week’s EMS Labs project is about creating a set of temporary garden/outdoor lights using LEDs, coin cell batteries, and Mason jars. Easy. Cheap. Perdy. Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
For the Home Style Guide site, I just did a round up of some cool looking prints that are perfect for the nursery, such as the wood gocco print from Petit Collage above.
Brooklyn-based hacker group NYCResistor is currently celebrating its status of one year oldness – Happy day to you NYCR! Thanks for all the sweet projects you churn out. Keeping a group like that running can be a unique challenge, especially in the big, busy (and expensive) city – A year ago, NYCResistor was conceived by […]
Green Upgrader has a tutorial for how to recycle newspaper into handspun yarn. Apparently you can make 20 yards of yarn from one sheet of newspaper depending on your method. It surprised me how beautiful the yarn looks. via Whip Up.
Mary Beth writes in about this workshop at the Make Lounge on making fancy panties! From the site: Tired of boring high street knickers? Sew your own instead! In this workshop, you’ll make a pair of thongs, briefs or boy shorts (your choice), plus take home patterns and instructions to stitch the others! You’ll learn […]
