The Craft booth at the Bazaar Bizarre was a great place to get out some of your creative energy while shopping. Whenever I am at an event like this, I get so inspired to get my hands dirty crafting, and Craft offered a table where each day the public could work on projects. I met […]
If you want to make your own fabric-based remote control for your iPod or iPhone, Aniomagic made a kit for doing so. It’s a switch made with pieces of conductive fabric and uses conductive yarn to connect it to a special iPod/iPhone dock connector. Easy peasy, circuit squeezy. [via Fashioning Technology] More: How-To: Sewable iPod […]
We just found out that Maker Faire Bay Area has been nominated for a “Sustainable San Mateo Award.” From the press release: Sustainable San Mateo County is happy to announce the nominees for the 11th Annual Sustainability Awards. This year’s list is comprised of a diverse array of businesses, government agencies, non-profit organizations and individuals […]
Mitchell Whitelaw over at The Teeming Void has a great post about his 3D-printed weather data bracelet. The bracelet is beautiful (if a little prickly), but it gets its meaning from the data embedded in it. The peaks are the temperature highs and the troughs are the lows from a year’s worth of data in […]
Hi Crafters! We had so much fun doing last week’s Tweet-Up for Holiday Crafts. Mark your calendar cuz this Thursday, December 17th we’ve got our next Tweet-Up from 1pm-2:30pm EST. The topic is all about “Food & Drinks” so questions can be anything from quick dinner ideas, baking recipes, drink questions, holiday meals and more. […]
By Diane Gilleland This holiday decoration may look complicated, but it’s very simple to make. Plus, it’s nice and lightweight, so it will hang beautifully from trees, wreaths, or garland. A group of them in a range of colors would make a lovely mobile!
When thinking of crafty gifts for kids, especially for boys, it’s easy to be stumped. Do I really want to be that aunt, the one who gives educational gifts or boring gifts or wildly inappropriate ones for the recipient’s age? Heck no, I don’t, so I scour the web, the craft shops, and the toy […]
