Turn your straight jeans into skinnies with this simple straight-to-skinny jeans alteration tutorial from Josie at Fine and Feathered. It’s the perfect alteration trick for a quick wardrobe update, and it’s also a great way to make thrift store finds your own! More: DIY Fashion: From Maxi Dress to Mini Dress @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Silk […]
The MintDuino Game Pack provides a fun and informative way to learn about the world of Arduino compatible microcontrollers. Even if you’ve never programmed or dabbled in electronics, the MintDuino Game Pack will give you a firm foundation on which to build!
Kami of Austin Tinkering School wrote in to share these cool concrete tables that her friend Elena Eidelberg created. She works in ceramics but has been experimenting a lot with concrete this year and I think she’s been making some amazing stuff. She’s casting into high relief fabrics and then tinting the concrete and even […]
The Lion Brand Yarn Studio in Manhattan has a new window display, in which famous works of art have been knittified in Lion Brand yarn by textile artist Juliet Hone. Check out the hot knitting machine action in that video and stop by the studio at 34 West 15th Street to see the work for […]
After mulling it over for several hours, crunching the numbers, and running an exhaustive cost-benefit analysis, I am forced to conclude that the amount of serious demolition, vehicle extraction, and/or fire-fighting work I perform under explosive-atmosphere conditions, in an average workday, does not justify the expense of this gorgeous hand axe, made of non-sparking beryllium copper alloy, from NGK Berylco of Sweetwater, Tennessee. But, damn, I tried.
I know we’re past Easter now, but I couldn’t help but share these awesome Pantone Easter Eggs from Jessica of How About Orange. File this away for next year, folks. They’ll be the hit of the designer’s Easter basket! Read how Jessica created them over on her blog. And yes, I’m such a nerd that […]
SMS text messaging is a versatile way to communicate. There doesn’t even have to be a human on the other side for a message to be useful. You can just as easily send a text to a robot as to a friend. That must have been what cloud texting provider Zipwhip were thinking when they built their textable automated expresso machine.
