Summer camp projects aren’t all painted rocks and macaroni portraits! I loved making woven plastic lanyards, friendship bracelets, fire-baked apples, and tie-dyed everything. In the spirit of bringing the joy of summer camp to your browser, I’m pleased to bring you a blast-from-the-past roundup of crafty projects, perfect for any MAKEcation. How-To: Make a Big-As-Life […]
This to That might be one of the best websites ever. To discover the perfect adhesive, just input the thing you have and the thing you wish to glue it to. But that’s not all! Do you get a headache when you use your hot glue gun? Need to glue your desktop down? What about […]
This just showed up in our inbox moments ago, and man does it ever look like a fun and creative way to spend a lazy summer afternoon. And it’d make a perfect MAKEcation project! Booooooom, the Vancouver arts community and blog, headed up by Jeff Hamada, hosted this event at Trout Lake in Vancouver last […]
This cross stitch of the Sistene Chapel ceiling by Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts took 2868 hours to complete. [via the Extreme Craft roadshow lecture]
Have you produced a low or no budget film? The NOMAD Project has a call for entries out for it’s “Access & PARADOX” exhibition, which could be a great opportunity to show off your DIY movie making skills: NOMAD Films was created as a means for exhibiting new approaches to producing and distributing short, documentary […]
The engineering profession is usually pretty dry, but engineers generally have a great sense of humor.
My sister found out recently that she’s allergic to gluten, so when we went on a family trip recently, I decided to try my hand at making some gluten-free zucchini bread. The recipes I found online were all pretty confusing (mixing flours, xantham gum — I threw up my hands!) so I decided to just […]
