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Sunday is April 1st, but here are some good pranks to get you started. Here’s one of my favorites… “Beeper bomb” sounds prank device – but of course you don’t need to buy one, you can build one yourself, just in time for this weekend! DIY “Brain Assailant” – Link. More: April Fool’s pranks for […]
From today’s SF Gate comes an article about Jill Tarlau of San Francisco who studied bookbinding in Paris, and has made 200 books in 21 years. From the article: Her signature is her exquisitely detailed embroidery, which she incorporates into the design of each uniquely sized, leather-bound book cover. She considers embroidered bookbindings to be […]
Here’s a great recycle project from Super Naturale on how to make this vinyl pouch with images from old books (this one’s astronomy). Link.
Pick up this cute free pattern of Fat Rabitt from the Friperee(n) site. His cute big floppy ears will melt your heart. The bunny pattern and full instructions are in a PDF file. Thanks Lucy! Link.
Symeon of PippiKneeSocks has a post about how she spun plastic grocery bags along with some wooly nylonand thread into this fiber stash. Link.
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid of laughingsquid.com has some photos from last night’s Make Fest @ ETech! Link.
For your eco-minded artists and crafters, Kathleen at Fashion-Incubator has “another dopey contest”, but this one is an important one. (Pictured above is a nylon shopping bag from reusablebags.com.) Kathleen writes: An article from this morning’s New York Times gives me the inspiration for a new design contest, that of recreating the humble reusable grocery […]
