I just love these tiny bottlecap candles from Craftaholics Anonymous. What a fun way to reuse both the caps and the stubs of some broken crayons. I could see these scattered about a buffet table or grouped in a pattern to create a design of flickering lights.
I have monograms on the mind and came across this unique spin on the idea using recycled wine corks on this eco-friendly blog, Green is Universal.
Kristin Roach of Craft Leftovers fame shares a very useful tutorial for turning beat-up old frames into beautiful like-new ones. She covers removing mold, tightening up loose corners, and adding a fresh finish. That box of ancient frames in my garage finally has a future!
It’s a dorky chemistry joke and it’s a pun and it’s an egg. It’s like it was made just for me. Pictured is diethyl ether, which is what most folks are talking about when they say “ether.” But the C-O-C bond is really what makes an ether, and there are infinitely many possible ether eggs if this one does not satisfy your need for them. I am personally holding out for fluoromethyl hexafluoroisopropyl ether eggs. Thank you, Thingiverse user linuxwrangler.
What a joy it was to see Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter sculpture work up close last year at Maker Faire Bay Area. Here’s a new piece by Jeremy, called Bust V (Grandfather).
Image by Liz Jones I’m fascinated by this Flickr set by Liz Jones. She collects bits of plastic refuse from beaches and river beds near her home in Melbourne, and then collates them into these beautiful color studies. In this profile on Junkculture, Liz talks about how she wanted to highlight how lasting disposable plastic […]
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the maker moms everywhere (and that would be ALL of them). Here, mom made you a delicious algae smoothie. What doesn’t say love like a tall glass of cyanobacteria?
