These cute mascots are all about cheering on the actual Winter Olympics, but they also could serve as inspiration for the Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is challenging knitting “athletes” to push themselves to the limit of their abilities and to take up a new knitting project that they can complete in 17 days. […]
CRAFT and iLoveToCreate.com have teamed up to present to you the Crafty Chica Challenge: Love Shrine! Kathy Cano-Murillo, the Crafty Chica, has been making love shrines for the past 15 years. Using everything from mint tins to cigar boxes to even kitchen drawers, she transforms them into colorful art assemblages filled with objects, trinkets, mementos […]
Extech, maker of mutimeters and other measuring devices, has kindly contributed three nifty gadgets that will go to three random commenters! All you have to do is leave a comment saying what neat projects you’d use the gadgets for. At midnight tonight, PST, the giveaway ends and we’ll randomly choose three winners. And what prizes […]
On Monday, the small town of Occidental, California, hosted it’s 2009 Cookie Exchange. It was a holiday food experience that I will not soon forget. Beyond just an exchange, the party was like the Cookie Olympics. It was a friendly, but very heated competition to be crowned Cookie Queen 2009. Only after the judging and […]
Microsoft is running another contest for 2010 centered on embedded systems and their embeddedSPARK platform, the Windows embedded software for hobbyists. The grand prize this year is a $15,000. The theme is “Fun & Games.” See the embeddedSPARK website for all of the contest details. embeddedSPARK 2010 Challenge
The Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest launches TODAY! We’re giving away two copies of the newest Alex Rider book, Crocodile Tears, by Anthony Horowitz!
Berkeley-based Vaska, makers of botanical-based laundry soap, is holding a Get Cozy With Vaska Contest, which sounds like it’s right up our alley. Twelve winners will get $300 in cash and a page in the 2010 Vaska Cozy Calendar, sure to be a collector’s item (or so they claim). The contest ends at midnight Jan. […]
