If apple picking is in your fall weather plans, you’ll definitely want to whip up a few burlap apple picking totes with this tutorial from Jessica at Me Sew Crazy! Nowhere near an orchard? They’d also make great reusable grocery bags.
Save the husks from this weekend’s sweetcorn and make some whimsical corn husk ghosts with this Halloween-inspired tutorial from Pam at Gingerbread Snowflakes!
Whenever I buy a toy out of one of those 25-cent machines outside the supermarket, part of me always wants to save the little plastic capsule that the toy comes in. I’ve never figured out what do do with them, but it seems like there’s a lot of potential there. Here’s one interesting way to […]
If you’re always eying the glass containers from candles that are running low, thinking that you could *definitely* make something with that, Aunt Peaches can help. Check out her tutorial for removing hardened candle wax from glass containers, then craft on!
Artist Miina Äkkijyrkkä created these bovine sculptures using body parts from junked cars. She’s made enough of them for a veritable automotive animal farm.
Chinese artist Wang Yuyang constructed his own Artificial Moon using thousands of differently shaped fluorescent lights.
His work conveys the consumption of energy, the awe of looking at the moon, and an ancient Chinese fable.
I am attracted to things that are capable of transcending their own banality and materiality to become something else, something more. I like the way that videotape is simultaneously delicate and durable, since it’s meant to last. I can rip it easily with my hands because it’s so thin, but I can also stretch it. Videotape is made to present the world in color, but it appears purely black.
