The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Carla Blackmar of Sparrowpost has a great Dia de los Muertos sugar skull how-to. She decided to pay a gorgeous and hilarious homage to the fallen pets of her childhood: Making candy skulls out of sugar is a Mexican tradition. According to internet sources, each skull is painted with the name of a deceased loved […]
The Traveler’s Lunchbox has an excellent post detailing how to make your very own vanilla extract. Sounds like a great idea for holiday gifts and avid bakers. [via] Link.
This is it gang, it’s Halloween – We have a MASSIVE DIY HALLOWEEN contest this year! Makers and Crafters, enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. MAKE, CRAFT, Instructables and Popular Science have teamed up and there’s plenty of time to win! Here’s […]
As you may have known, Etsy has also been putting on a Halloween costume contest and they too have had many brilliant entries. But, as with any competition there can only be one (or a few in this case) winner. Etsy costume contest winners – Link.
Etsy’s The Storque features my picks for Halloween and Autumn in their weekly Featured Buyer column. Link.
I am so amazed by Anna of forty-two roads who made this toy kitchen for her daughter entirely from scratch, using primarily corrugated cardboard that was salvaged from the dumpster. Anna covered the pieces in contact paper and joined them together using no glue, no nails, nothing but clever joining cuts, which makes the kitchen […]
Here’s a commercial product (from FrightProps) that uses a blast of compressed air on a person’s ankle to separated them from their skin. If you have an air compressor, you could probably bodge up your own without too much trouble. Ankle Blaster Air Cannon – [via] Link
