Yard Sale Shopping 101
Love yourself a good yard sale? Badbadivy on Curbly has some great tips on how to get the most out a yard sale with tips on what you need to do to get the best price possible. Link.
Month: March 2007
Damask Paintings
Ann of Still Dottie has a great tutorial on how to create your own damask patterned paintings which can be a perfect way to create your own wall art. Link.
Stanlo – Metal toys from Stanley tools
Stanley tools made metal toys back in the 30’s – It would be great to see them re-release these… From Popular Science 1933 – Automobiles, houses, trolley cars, boats, bridges, forts, steam shovels, factories, doll furniture and hundreds of other things–build them with STANLO. And best of all, every piece in a STANLO set is […]
Hypermiling: Hack Your Mileage
There’s a great article at Mother Jones which profiles Wayne Gerdes, a mileage hacker who’s able to get 59MPG in a stock Honda Accord. There are a number of driving hacks which allow hypermilers to increase their milage, ranging from over-inflating tires to extreme drafting behind large vehicles. It’s incredible, really, to think that by […]
Call for Hacks: Windows Tips for Everyone
Preston Gralla’s latest article for PC World provides Windows tips and tricks for everyone, not just the early adopters of Vista: Whether you’ve jumped to Vista or are sticking with XP, our tips will make your computing faster and safer–and even a little more stylish. This is the kind of inclusive view we like to […]
HOW TO – Buy Fabric
Erin of A Dress a Day has some tips on how to buy fabric as well as some humorous excuses we can make to ourselves to buy even more fabric. (Because you know we all want more!) Link.
Teach Knitting or Any Other Crafts via IM with One-Way Video Chat
Brian Sawyer at Hackszine shows us some cool tips on how we can optimize our iChat to send one-way video that’s perfect to teach crafting techniques such as knitting. Brian says: For example, crafts like knitting are notoriously hard to teach without visual cues, and even the most detailed books often suffer from their lack […]