Enchiladas are one of my favorite meals, but like Laura of Eat! Craft! Live!, I can never get the rolling part quite right when making them at home. Her ingenious solution by making a layered enchilada casserole is something I’m going to put on our meal-planning rotation immediately. I love, too, that she shows how […]
I know we’re all saying “We can pickle that!” these days, but show the birds some love, okay? In honor of the start of the second season of Portlandia, Jennifer from Naughty Secretary Club created a tutorial for this awesomely kitschy bird brooch. I kind of really want one, and I bet you do too. […]
At the atomic scale, generally speaking, solids are either crystalline or amorphous. In crystals, the atoms or molecules fill space in a repeating, orderly arrangement, like stacked cannonballs or cells in a honeycomb. Table salt is a handy example. In amorphous materials, however, the atoms or molecules are packed together randomly, without repeating arrangements. Glass […]
In honor of our Advanced Materials theme, we’re sharing an excerpt from my favorite book on smart materials, Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting. If you’re interested in checking out the potential in soft circuits, sewing your circuits in using conductive thread, the Space Invaders Tote project is a fun place […]
These roses made from coffee filters are quite pretty! The micro-rippled texture of coffee filters makes it a material well-suited to mimicking the look of rose petals. Blog in Polish, with English translations. [via poppytalk]
Visitors to our house can’t escape without my son giving them a tour of the massive “Lego City Model” that he’s been building for months on a never-used-for-its-original-purpose small air hockey table in our playroom (sorry, friends!). The air hockey table was a gift from the grandparents a few years ago, and it almost instantly […]
