A shy glass blower made a glass shell for a hermit crab… “glass houses” video here… Scientists at the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Aquarium at Portobello near Dunedin are looking at hermit crabs in a whole new light. The crabs have moved into new man-made glass shells and it’s opened up a new […]
This week’s Weekend Project on MAKE is this funky-cool electric cigar box guitar. Most of the construction is very crafty, and there’s only a little soldering involved! You could always make it just acoustic, too. Check out the video and PDF instructions.
Jessica at Zakka Life has the right idea with this cute project to make a cupcake pedestal. Right now, I’m also drooling over her s’more cupcake.
Here’s your chance to own a piece of some beautiful crafty handmade art by Crafty Chica’s Kathy Cano Murillo and her husband Patrick Murillo. Their exhibit, La Cas Murillo, at The Heard Museum in Arizona is ending. To celebrate, they are having an auction of the goods to benefit Valle del Sol. The auction event […]
Jenny Hart has a tutorial up over on the Chronicle Books blog about her tricks for giving dimension to stitching by blending embroidery floss colors. The technique is simple, and the result can be quite dramatic!
From the MAKE Flickr pool Many out there are all too familiar with sharp pain resulting from extended keyboard/etc usage. Though rest and improved ergonomics are the ideal response, when I absolutely must keep my hands going, a basic wrist brace can do wonders. Well, I recently found myself with a bad case of angry […]
There are lots of ways to do this particular trick. You may have seen bottles “cut” using a bucket of ice water, a string soaked in fuel and set alight, a hot narrow gauge resistive wire, or some combination of the above. I’ve tried all of these ways, at one point or another, with varying […]
