Thrift stores are often destinations for last-minute costume gathering as folks close in on Halloween. You might not have thought, though, to head past the clothing and costumes and on back to the record albums in the back to find your Halloween muse. Chelsea of seablanket shows how to whip up super-quick masks from vintage […]
This is intense! A 70 LED matrix in a Jack-o-lantern… Mike writes – Installed in the autumn vegetable is a marquee made from a 5×14 matrix of light emitting diodes. I spaced them by printing out a grid on the computer, taping it to the pumpkin, and drilling 70 holes in the front of the […]
By Maris Callahan Halloween represents a season full of tricks and treats, but that doesn’t mean your diet should turn into a nightmare. Even though artificially flavored candy and fattening chocolate confections are jumping out at you and your kids no matter where you go, you can still indulge in your favorite fall flavors without […]
Molly at The Purl Bee shows you how to make a simple candy corn trick or treat bag made from felt. What a fun bag for kids to collect their sweets in!
I’m totally digging Andrew Salomone’s new project on CRAFT: In Hans Holbein’s famously inexplicable painting, “The Ambassadors,” a large anamorphic skull appears to lie across the floor at the feet of two dandified renaissance gentlemen. The skull appears in correct perspective only when the painting is seen from an acute angle looking diagonally down from […]
For Halloween I’m dressing as Elly Jackson from the pop-synth group La Roux. Elly wears a “neo cameo” necklace by Australian designer Sylvie Markovina, consisting of two layers of laser-cut acrylic on a brass chain. With a flick of my vector graphics muscles and access to a laser cutter, I made my own version to […]
