The Kitchen-Table Industrialists @ NYTimes.com… A lot of familiar makers celebrated. A version of this article will appear in print on May 15, 2011, on page MM50 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Meet The Makers. If you lived in Detroit in 1961 and watched Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” at a drive-in, you might have […]
In every lot of buttons I score on eBay and in thrift stores, there are always plenty of random white plastic ones. Well, this tutorial from Rit Dye’s website opens up so many new possibilities! Who knew you could bathe them in dye and get such beautiful colors? (Via Bonkers About Buttons)
With summer approaching, it is great to know how to poach chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on every time you’d like to cook a few pieces of chicken breast.
OK, so, maybe it’s a bit crotchety for Friday morning, and I’m doubtlessly preaching to the choir in this forum, but it’s hard not to cheer along with Mike Rowe’s Wednesday testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
In this Etsy video, Joel Henriques shows us how to make a simple paper bird mobile, demonstrating why this is a great project to do with kids.
The Pendulum Challenge Kit from the Maker Shed includes everything you need to make the project featured in Make, Volume 26. This unique game features 15 LEDs arranged in an arc to simulate the path of a swinging pendulum that the player attempts to stop at its lowest point.
Michaela of Bliss has a fun tutorial over on Oh Happy Day for creating custom pop up greeting cards. I love seeing how you can create a simple base onto which you can adhere any kind of decoration to customize the card for any occasion.
