A fast moving look at the best of Maker Faire 2009. If you love to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, act up, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, then start making plans for the next Maker Faire. Next week: A new series of Weekend Projects from Maker Faire begins!
(Above photo cc by Flickr user redjar) Many of us crafters just returned from Maker Faire with the woes of air travel fresh in our minds. So what about that, huh? Can you bring scissors? Crochet hooks? Knitting needles? How are you supposed to get your craft on on long flights with the fear that […]
How-To: Bagalopes By Stephanie Scheetz The bagalope, a simple gift bag made from an envelope, is a project I’ve shared with countless people over many years. I’m still tickled by their reaction when they learn how it’s created. “That bag started as an envelope? No way.” Never has the term “pushing the envelope” been truer […]
There’s a lot of design work involved when you are making things for your wedding which is where the blog iDiY steps in to help scour the web’s wedding best in terms of favor ideas, cards, templates, and more. [ via How About Orange ] The site’s creator, Luzel wanted a online resource for all […]
I walked around the craft area at Maker Faire and got some great short interviews with some crafters which I’ll be posting up here for you each day. First up is Crafty Chica herself, Kathy Cano-Murillo where she and the team at Duncan’s Ilovetocreate.com made glitter art and sparkly sequined treasure tins. Subscribe to the […]
The most awesome Theo Gray, author of the I-can’t-recommend-it-highly-enough Mad Science, has a post on Powell’s Books blog about his book and the dangers it contains (the subtitle is “Experiments You Can Do at Home — But Probably Shouldn’t”). He writes: Is it irresponsible to write a mass-market book that describes how to do dangerous […]
Nathan Seidle. of Sparkfun, is on a campaign to create a keyless life for himself. One of his last locks to join the 21st century was on the door to his Mazda: I hate keys. I am on a mission to dispose of them all. There is currently a key pad to enter the SparkFun […]
