Amy of Early Bird Special has been hard at work on her daughter’s costume this week, and she’s justrevealed the final product. Drawing inspiration from a few different owl costume tutorials, she came up with this adorable, bright and colorful ensemble for her daughter. The mask is fantastic, the wings are awesome and the feathered […]
Earlier in the week, Sean Ragan posted about Ben Heck’s see-through Portal Halloween costume. On this latest episode of The Ben Heck Show, on element14, Ben shows you how he accomplished the build. As usual, he also continues work on his Xbox 360 laptop. And man, how cool is that portable workbench!? The Ben Heck […]
Jim, from Sweet Juniper and fellow Detroiter, made this amazing Robocop Halloween costume for his son using some empty plastic containers and a too-small bicycle helmet. Check out his full post on Sweet Juniper for the amazing photo shoot in downtown Detroit, including a ride on the People Mover and a visit from a few […]
We wrote about Ray Villafane’s pumpkin carving tutorial several years ago, but it’s worth linking to again. We were reminded of Ray’s astounding squash-sculpting mojo when our most-awesome Director of Marketing and PR for Maker Faire, Bridgette Vanderlaan, sent around a gallery of Ray’s work through internal email. Even if you don’t have Ray’s artistic […]
OK, I call BS on this: I don’t think pumpkins really have skulls. I think infamous skull charlatan Noah Scalin really just carved a skull on a white pumpkin and stuck it inside a transected, you know, regular pumpkin. I didn’t just fall off the cucurbit cart, you know.
Last year on the MAKE YouTube channel, commenters started saying I looked like the singer from the English synth-pop duo La Roux. Here’s how to get the Mondrian jacket look from the video for their song Bulletproof. The costume tutorial includes plans for a remake of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s jacket design. You can also make […]
By Katie Goodman After you’ve made homemade pumpkin puree or carved your pumpkins for Halloween, don’t throw the seeds away! They make a great snack when you roast them. Roasting pumpkin seeds is really simple, just watch and see.
