Year: 2010

This Week In Craft Fairs

Hi everyone! Welcome to the last day of March. Here are the upcoming craft fairs, and calls for vendors. If you know of an upcoming crafty event, please add it to the calendar. A call for vendors can come directly to me via . Thanks! Click on the jump to see Midwest, East Coast, and […]

NewspaperWood

NewspaperWood

Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and design firm Vij5 created wood made from compressed newspaper. Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer has come up with a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material. When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear […]

UpCraft March Roundup

We’ve had a blast this month posting up all of our upcycle projects and posts in March’s UpCraft theme. Here’s a handy roundup to all the featured projects, videos, patterns, and more. Stay tuned as we start our gardening theme tomorrow with a project on making a tackle box planter! Projects Fused Plastic Shopping Bags: […]

Top 10 DIY pranks

Top 10 DIY pranks

Need inspiration for a prank or two? Check out our favorites from the archives of Make: Online and MAKE Magazine. #10 Hacked construction signs #9 Cubicle o’ peanuts prank #8 Pre-sliced bananas #7 Talking Booby Trap from MAKE Vol. 16 #6 Chia keyboard #5 Bluetoothing a Trash 80 #4 Use a CB radio to order […]

Hummer stagecoach

Hummer stagecoach @ creative thriftshop… On Sunday March 8th 2010 Jeremy Dean made New york City history by taking his converted Hummer entitled Futurama out for a spin. Entering Central park in New York at 69th St. and Central Park West (at the old Tavern on the Green location) Dean had his hand crafted vehicle […]