Paper cup mushrooms
FrealaF put together this cute paper cup mushroom tutorial on deviant art – very clever!
Month: July 2008
Resin jewelry tutorial
Modofly points us to John Golden’s three-part tutorial on making resin jewelry. He pours the resin outside (covers the pieces to protect from dust and bugs) – it’s pretty nasty stuff and it’s important to have good ventilation. This technique uses a paper image as the decorative basis of the pieces – it’s neat, you […]
MySQL performance tuning
Jay Pipes, MySQL employee and co-author Pro MySQL, gave a great presentation to Google employees which covers a number of techniques for tuning performance on MySQL. His examples include debugging and analyzing problems as well as best practices for table and index design, query and join operations, and server variable adjustments. It’s a little over […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week from the CRAFT Flickr Pool: Felt Name Badges (top left) Sock Monkey with Attitude Knitted Anne Boleyn (top right) HOW TO: Magnetic Art Strip CRAFT Flickr Pool reaches 80,000 images Hine’s Hungry Kitty (bottom left) Supportive Ogre Card HOW TO – Newspaper Party Hat (bottom right) And here are some photos from around […]
Modofly – Call for Submissions
Modofy has a call for submissions for artists to design covers of their laser-etched moleskins. There are 2 new themes they are looking for: Girly/Femme and Steampunk. Deadline for submissions is Aug 10th.
Best of CRAFT
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: HOW TO – Knit a Vlad the Impaler Hat HOW TO – Make a Floor Loom DIY Sock Potholder HOW TO – Customize a Dishtowel with Stamps HOW TO – Portable Patio Cushions
Freezer Paper Stencil Dots
I love the way All Buttoned Up customized the simple grey shirt she made by sprinkling on some multicolored dots made using the freezer paper stencil technique and a hole punch. Related: • Freezer Paper Stencil Tutorial • Freezer Paper Stencil Onesies