Heather Sitarzewski shares how to turn small plastic toys into festive Christmas tree ornaments. This could be a fun way to clear out the toy bins and create fun ornaments for lower branches of the family tree, or for a small kid-friendly tree! [via @dollarcraft]
Paul from Dude Craft has created an awesome video tutorial for making these rad mini LP record gift tags. He’s even offering up downloadable templates for the snazzy covers he created (best fictitious band names ever!) as well as a blank template if you’d like to create your own custom album art. As a fan […]
An “Advent wreath” is a horizontal wreath, traditionally with four candles which are lit successively to mark each of the four weeks of Advent in the liturgical calendar of some western-tradition Christian churches. Alexander Weber has produced a beautiful little electronic version which uses 4 LEDs, a coin cell, a coin cell holder, a paperclip, and an 8-bit microcontroller chip. It is light-responsive, and uses one of the LEDs in “reverse” mode as a photodiode to detect darkness. The LEDs flicker, and the number of LEDs lit at any point is cycled by briefly cutting the power. Awesome design.
Ann at All Things Paper shows you how to make a folded German bell paper ornament. Ann writes: Becky from North Carolina introduced me to the German bell via the Yahoo Quillers group several years ago… but relax, zero quilling is involved. She suggested using a 5 x 8 inch index card (system card in […]
Jennifer Perkins of Naughty Secretary Club shares how she created these fun, vintage-inspired pinecone people ornaments. They are great fun at Christmas, but I can imagine them being modified to suit any season.
Sweet little breadboard Menorah project at Sparkle Labs. Festive Hanukkah LED Menorah
Last year we were invited to a stellar holiday party built around a diorama competition. The hostess is an expert on all things vintage, and especially loves deer, so I decided on a deer theme — initially thinking that the finished product would be something I could leave as a memento. But the idea grew […]
