The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Emily Kircher Recycling Artist shows you how to reuse plastic bottlecaps to make a homemade rattle. She uses them for cat toys, but offer suggestions on how to use them in plush or other toys. Link. Related: CRAFT Interview with Emily Kircher – Link.
Roz of Rozzieland has a tutorial on how to make a cute summer sun wrist pincushion which also uses an old Gatorade bottle cap. Link.
Heather at CROQ took an old sweater and used the arm cuffs to make these cute baby booties. Link.
Vanessa of Etsy says: “We’ll be hosting a talk at the Etsy Labs Monday night with Antonio Gould, an English new media educator, if you guys would like to join in. It’s all about indie businesses using the web to say small yet thrive!” For more info, check out their blog.
Derek M points us to Not Martha’s DIY floating shoe rack tutorial. Link.
Asyn writes: I hate flowers. They’re expensive and they just die in a few days. That’s why this past Valentine’s Day I opted not to go with traditional flowers, rather I maniverated some LED flowers that not only look good, but last forever! They are easy to make and score big points with the woman […]
Arwen writes – I heard a great piece on Explosives Camp on NPR – It’s loosely affiliated with the University of Missouri–Paul Worsey, a mine engineering professor, started it to basically give teenagers an outlet for their desire to blow stuff up as well as get them interested in the profession of mine engineering, which […]
