Month: January 2012

Crafty Events

Click to add an event to the online calendar Email me if you have a call for vendors. Coming Up This Weekend: Winter Woolfest 2012 Wamego, KS Jan. 7 Funky Junk Lawton, OK Jan. 7 Intergalactic Bead Show Cardova, TN Jan. 7-8 Call for Vendors: Funky Finds Spring Fling Longview, TX Apr. 21-22 Fee: $150-$170 […]

How-To: Your Home in a Snow Globe

How-To: Your Home in a Snow Globe

Visual effects artist Karl Stiefvater takes us through the steps he used to build a 3D model of his home (SketchUp and its handy “Photo Match” function), apply the textures (Maya), and produce the X3D file Shapeways requires for full-color 3D printing (MeshLab). He also covers such useful, decidedly non-virtual details as how to seal the model to prevent the color from bleeding, how to treat the water to prevent algae growth, and how to assemble the snowglobe kit itself.

Laundry Sorting Game

I’m a big proponent of making chores fun and interesting, so I think that this laundry sorting game from Mollie at Wild Olive is just too cute! While they’re playing, kids build important skills like sorting by size, shape, and color, all while learning how to help with a common household task. Plus, once they’ve […]

Princess Leia “Hologram” Vapor Display

Princess Leia “Hologram” Vapor Display

“Based on the concept behind commercial units, but using everyday items (drinking straws, scrap PVC pipe, a kid’s humidifier from the thrift store, some scrap computer fans), he rigged up a device that creates a thin, even sheet of vapor mist. Almost translucent, but able to catch the light projected onto it from a rear-facing projector — which gives an eerie, floating hologram effect…”