Jewelry Designer Stephanie Wells from Double Happiness Jewelry has a new book out called The Earring Style Book. Can I just say this book had me at hello? The cover image of these Rio earrings just captured me. Aren’t they gorge? Inspired by shattered glass, the beads are stacked straight. This is just one of […]
I noticed my pal, and fellow metro Detroiter, Jaime Wolfe posted some gorgeous photos of onion bagels she’d been working on this week on Facebook. Jaime tried out a recipe from Peter Reinhart’s Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers and the results look pretty good to me. Jaime sent me some background […]
My “concise” imperative really wanted to call this a bulletproof messenger bag, but I’m quite confident Instructables user Culturespy, author of this interesting (albeit, to my mind, slightly paranoid) tutorial, would be quick to point out that there’s no such thing as “bulletproof.” Writing a free public tutorial about how to build a piece of […]
Curator Ele Carpenter writes about craftivsm and contemporary capitalism in this article on Axis, a contemporary art webzine: It’s hardly surprising that people are skeptical of the political claims of craftivism when they are overwhelmed by knitted cakes at every gift shop and summer faire! Mixed up in the revolutionary fervor of DIY craft is […]
In honor of Geek Crafts month on CRAFT, we put up Brookelynn Morris’ LED Hula Hoop tutorial on Make: Projects. LED hula hoops are so beautiful to watch, and creating a custom hoop is a satisfying challenge. Twenty-one LEDs are used in this hoop; 6 are flashing LEDs that cycle through the colors of the […]
World Maker Faire New York is this weekend, and we’ve put together a full schedule for of awesome demos for both days at the CRAFT booth. Each day this week, we’ll profile one of the folks who will be presenting. Be sure to mark your schedule and head to the CRAFT booth for all the […]
Spotted on Thingiverse, these neato printable tool clips by elite MakerBotter Christian Arnø of Norway, creator of the MakerBot dremel mount and the printable MakerBot! Output some today and get organized!
