Arwen sent in our last Thanksgiving interview! “Christy Canida has been slowly building up a really quite amazing guide for fledgling or experimenting cooks on Instructables. Beautifully instructed, she started out teaching the basics and has documented her way through an astonishing number of delicious meals. With a wicked sense of humor and an instinctive […]
Steve Anderson (a.k.a. Irregular Shed) has a lovely set of instructions for carving melons this Halloween. And he’s got a point: why stick with boring old pumpkins when melons are easier to carve and the insides make such great eyeballs, too?… – Interview by Arwen O’Reilly, Staff Editor.Arwen: How would you describe yourself? Steve: I […]
The perfect example of “cool doesn’t have to be complicated,” Chaintool’s robot costume made out of old Clorox bottles rocked the Southwest last year. Made out of “laundry detergent bottles, crutches, and football shoulder pads,” it looks more like an early Star Wars prototype. Chaintool talks about his favorite tools (of course!), the importance of […]
I just got to meet crafter Betz White for the first time yesterday at CHA. She’s an amazing crafter and is so warm in person. It’s fun to finally meet someone you’ve been emailing with for the last year or so. Betz has a new interview up with Jennifer of CraftSanity that you have to […]
A tutu made of severed baby doll heads? A taxidermed possum that projects a keyboard from one of its hind legs? It’s maker fun brought to you by HP Lovecraft and Salvador Dali. Actually it’s brought to you by BBtv. Text-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend – Link
If you haven’t checked out the Mahar Drygoods blog lately, you really ought to pay them a visit. They’ve been running fabulous profile pieces on the various artists who create the offbeat kiddy crafts sold on the incomparable Mahar Drygoods website. Profiles include Cathy of California, Kim Baxter of Kissycake, Elizabeth Soule and many more. […]
This week we Craft bloggers are sharing with you our favorite blogs (besides Craft and Make, of course!). I caught up with Lenore Edman from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories to talk about her philosophies on creativity and what she does at EMSL. She runs her blog and small business with her husband, Windell Oskay, where […]
