Etch your love in stone. Or, write it on a stone with a sharpie! My wedding favors were not just simple, they were cheap! With the help of a dear friend, 150 stones were monogramed with our initials on one side and an inspirational word on the other. I left the stones all around the […]
I have two sets of close friends getting married this year — and within three weeks of each other! Not only am I in charge of wedding invites, but I’ll be handling most of the printed material, including table numbers, place settings, menus, takeaways, signage. Needless to say, I’m completely emersed in the wedding blog […]
At bildr we are rethinking the ways in which DIY sites have previously approached this world. Typically, the approach has been to showcase an individual’s project, while including instructions that would enable a user to create a duplicate. bildr’s method is quite different.
Etsy crafter goosegrease lets you get super crafty and customize your own wedding cake toppers. The kit comes with 2 brides and 2 grooms in case of mess up, 1 round paint brush, 1 flat brush, 5 paint colors, and 1 pod of varnish, all for under $20. Now you can have truly original toppers […]
As our Make Space for Crafting series so clearly shows, a well-organized work space is inspirational and motivating, albeit perhaps tomorrow’s ambition. But for those times when your craft nook is tidy, it can be easy to forget what you’ve packed away so neatly in the drawers. Haylie B. Waring shares this wonderful DIY on […]
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios. — John Prine For Earth Day 2010, iFixit.com has announced an ambitious goal: To teach every person on Earth how to fix each thing they own. To that end, iFixit has expanded their wiki-like platform for online repair manuals beyond the Apple product line. In this […]
Dana (Mon Valley, PA) built “The Great American Horn Machine” using a gasoline-powered air compressor, 620 gallon air tank, along with an array of ship & train horns + whistles. The whole thing is controlled by a couple dozen relays hooked up to a Highly Liquid MIDI board, and in case you didn’t notice -it’s […]
