Safer Batik process
Meggiecat points us to this tutorial on batiking with kids, using glue instead of hot wax. It looks like fun, and the results are pretty impressive.
Crafts
Resin jewelry tutorial
Modofly points us to John Golden’s three-part tutorial on making resin jewelry. He pours the resin outside (covers the pieces to protect from dust and bugs) – it’s pretty nasty stuff and it’s important to have good ventilation. This technique uses a paper image as the decorative basis of the pieces – it’s neat, you […]
Chicago-area Makers Get Together, Thursday July 17, at Flapjaws
Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of MAKE/CRAFT and Maker Faire will be in Chicago this week. If you’re a Chicago-area maker, drop by Flapjaws Cafe on Thursday, July 17 at 7pm or so. Thanks to Brian Fitzpatrick of Google in Chicago who helped us organize this meeting. Come by and join us for a beer. […]
Lunch box guitar
A link to this was posted in the comments to yesterday’s cigar box guitar post, but I thought it was cool enough to get its own item. Be sure to check out the builder’s Flickr sets for his cookie tin banjo and his cigar box guitar. Lunch Box Guitar
Sew your own aviation goggles
Patrick Wilson made a template from his father’s WWI aviation goggles and made from it generated his own pair. He shares the template and plans below. Scale drawings of my father’s aviation goggles (WW1)
HOW TO – Make a handbag of holding
This week’s project on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is an awesome D12 handbag… er bag of holding. While I’m not… man enough to carry a manpurse, I’d love to have one of these to hold by ginormous dice collection. Awesome work, Lenore! DIY d12 Handbag (of Holding)
8-bit Post-It art
Here’s a collection of 8-bit art made with colored Post-It Notes. This is an art form I’m sure Staples and OfficeMax really hope catches on… Post-it Note Art: 8-bit Edition [via Hack n Mod]
