The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Confessions of an OCD Knitter shows us how to make crafty jewelry from Starbucks cards, everything from earrings to this cute bracelet above. Shelly writes: My friend works as a Shift Manager at a local Starbucks and gets a TON of dead cards. She’s managed to make some VERY cute jewelry from cutting them up […]
Craftster Sharon.S collected some furniture curbside, deconstructed two found chairs, added a headboard and wound up creating this amazing looking bench.
Inspired by the work of A Little Hut, craftster grammardog spent $20 on frames and sliced up a stack of old Vanity Fair magazines to make this non-headboard for her bedroom. Related Create Junk Mail Art – CRAFT Video Podcast
Knitgrrl Shannon Okey shares with us photos of sheep and fleece from her recent trip to Idaho for the Snake River Fiber Fair where she taught her class on how to spin alt fibers. She picked up and flew back home with the fleece above.
This photo essay shows you step by step procedures for dismantling Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid. Some pretty nice pictures of the surgery complete with details on how to avoid damaging the critical elements inside of the droid. Cracking Open Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
The next Make: DC meeting will be held this Thursday, June 5th, at Greater Goods, 1626 U Street NW. Start time is 8pm. We’ll be putting together the motor driver kits Mark Adams has designed for a robot project we’re working on. The kits have sold out, but come anyway, even if you didn’t order […]
Sweet Jessie created this colorful panel to hang in her dining room, which features pieces of vintage wallpaper samples pasted to a large piece of plywood using PVA. This would be a great impermanent decorating solution for someone who rents their place, or who likes to switch up their interiors frequently.
