The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Bbum writes in with the nitty gritty of turkey harvesting from a turkey farmer – “I reserved a turkey with a rather awesome local poultry farmer, Paul Hain, earlier in the season. He raised the turkeys in his walnut orchard. Completely organic. The turkey needed to be picked up at farm on the weekend before […]
Autumn Crochet Pattern Set by Purl (Amy Gaines) http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5015712 By Arwen O’Reilly Purl’s fabulous autumn crochet patterns put a smile right on my face (I love the turkey, and I really love the pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top!) and get my fingers twitching to make. The pattern works in a simple spiral, so […]
Musings of a Domestic Goddess has a great refashion project on how to turn a placemat into a totebag. Link.
Arwen and I had a great time this past Saturday at the SF Craft Mafia’s Mafia Made Holiday Trunk Show over at Craft Gym and Leland Tea Company. It was fun to hang out and peruse all the cool craft goods and talk craft throughout the day. Jamie Chan, Director of the SFCM and owner […]
Here’s a useful Excel sheet you can use to calculate how much stuff you’ll need to buy for Thanksgiving… Spacejockey writes – “Shopping calculator that will present a complete Thanksgiving shopping list, and how much to cook of each menu item, after just entering a few variables.” – Link. I happen to have Excel on […]
The December Knit Knit issue #6 is available. If you are in the New York area, Issues #5 and #6 are on exhibition at the Visionaire Gallery (11 Mercer St., New York) as part of the Mega Zines exhibit. The exhibit has been extended to Dec 31st. Link.
AVR based DIY USB joystick you can make yourself– MJoy is the project for building DIY controller for joysticks that connect to USB port of your PC. This controller is the electronic brain of USB joysticks. You may choose to build your own joystick hardware or may want to change the electronics of your existing […]
