Laser Engraving Fingernails
Martin and I engraved a calendar on our fingernails. As the months pass, we’ll cut them off!
Month: December 2007
Bella Dia Holiday Projects
If you’re looking for holiday inspiration, the Bella Dia blog is full of gorgeous project ideas such as this felted wool mini-wreath and “Magical Miniature Wonderglobes”. Don’t miss the great tutorials in her right-hand sidebar, either–the travel tissue holders would make great stocking stuffers. Link.
GingerLotus
aFaust points us to Michelle Kaufmann’s project to make your own gingerLotus on Instructables. Michelle writes: Aside from being a fun and delicious holiday activity, we think this project is an excellent way to start acquainting children with the ideas of sustainability and green living. It’s never too early to begin teaching your kids to […]
Run a nested X11 desktop on the XO Laptop
The XO laptop continues to be very hackable. If you haven’t ordered one already, you really should because you only have a few days. I’ve owned some pretty sweet devices in the past, but nothing compares to this. At every turn, I find something new and cool about it, and there always seems to be […]
Solar LED Christmas lights
Wheelgirl writes – It is getting dark at 5:00 pm, and I have a bike shop signs that needs to be lighted at night during the winter holiday shopping season. So I repositioned a solar garden light ($5) in an Altoids box, cut off and took some pieces from some battery-operated IKEA Glansa LED Christmas […]
Brass knuckle cup & purse
Very nice looking brass knuckle coffee cup, nice (re)make potential – [via] Link. Related: Peacekeeper handbag – Link.
Make a name badge from an old GameBoy printer
Phar writes – So the local Make:NYC meeting had had a badge contest for its second meeting.. (link here), the gist of the competition is to make a wearable nametag/badge of some sort, of some materials, that could be reasonably accepted as a “badge”.. this Instructable is how I built mine for the contest.. pretty […]