Homemade Beach Soaps
Danny Seo makes these really cool looking homemade beach body scrub soaps. The colors look fantastic and I loved how he used an empty orange juice carton as a soap mold. Genius! Link.
holiday projects
HOW TO – Make Cheap Fabric Grocery Bags
Wendy of Wisdom of the Moon has instructions for cheap fabric grocery bags made out of bed sheets. All the bags above are made from one sheet. You can even find out how to make use of the elastic that gets cut off the fitted sheet by turning it into what she calls a “Buffalo […]
Recycled Jewelry by TOUCH
Inhabitat has a story about the stunning jewelry by TOUCH using recycled goodies such as bobby pins, plastic bottles, and more to make up such interesting and unique pieces of art you can wear. You can see more of these cool pieces from the Mana Collection, on the Inhabitat site. Link.
HOW TO – Make a Lidman
Australian crafter and mom Cheryl makes these fun one-of-a-kind “Lidmen” from colorful plastic screwtop lids. She sells her own pre-made Lidmen and friends, but also provides a detailed tutorial so you can make your own. This would be a fun rainy-day activity for the kids, with proper supervision of course. [via] Link.
Plastic Bag Crochet – CRAFT Video Podcast
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes While at Maker Faire in Austin, I met Cristen Andrews of cristencrochet.blogspot.com who crocheted the most lovely backpacks, hats, cozies, bowls and more — all from plastic bags. Here in this video she shows us some of the cool things she makes and how […]
DIY Twig Lamp
Better Homes and Gardens shows you how you can take a twigs from your backyard and create your own twig lamp. Link.
Beaded Bot
From the CRAFT Flickr pool comes Cafe Fernando’s beaded robot plush. I love the mix of rough-looking wool fabric (which came from IKEA pillows) and shiny semi-precious beads from Grand Bazaar Istanbul). Such great detail work! More pix at the source. Link.