The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
We all know in the craft world how much we adore Blythe. We sew and knit clothes for her like the pattern up top from Knitty (which also has some great background info on the big eyed doll). Style her and add her to the flickr pool. According to CRAFT friend Andrea Tung, our favorite […]
The Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows you how to make a simple & fun croc costume out of cardboard, Lenore writes – “Here’s how to make a fun, simple crocodile costume out of a cardboard box and some butcher paper. Okay, it was originally supposed to be a caiman costume, as we tend toward the […]
Cowlacious Designs shows you how to make “cave eyes”, schematic, code, circuit board layout, and parts list included or you can buy a kit/complete unit… – “This is a little microcontroller circuit that has 15 pairs of L.E.D.’s that look like rodent eyes. The pairs of eyes blink in a semi-random fashion. So, what you […]
Honus posted up another costume Instructable, a very accurate looking Ghostbuster! He writes, – “I thought this would be a great idea for Halloween (I love Halloween!) so in my usual over the top fashion I went, well – over the top. A buddy of mine wanted to do it as well. We tried to […]
Honus show how to make a Boba-Fett helmet out of cardboard – “Here’s how to make a low cost costume helmet using cardboard. Helmets are usually one of the hardest and most expensive parts to make for a cool Halloween costume so here’s a simple method I use.” – Link. Related Star Wars and cardboard […]
Gina @ Lifehacker pointed to this interesting Web 2.0y site that helps you pick and find costumes, I usually don’t use “tag clouds” but these are kinda useful… – “Dying to find a unique costume idea? Costumzee will help you find great costume ideas! Browse through thousands of popular costume ideas, search by keyword (i.e., […]
Zombietronix has a bunch of calculators for sizing common creatures for your DIY creature projects. Each uses a value such as height or length to determine other dimensions… Calcs include: Bat wings, biped, canine, hands and spiders. Thanks Sky! – Link.
