Knitting-Inspired Wreaths
Craftster user Ragstorichesart made these fun knitting-inspired wreaths that remind me of the holiday decorations hanging at Starbucks right now–except that these are even better!
Holiday Projects
HOW TO – Birdcage Ornament
Zakka Life provides the pattern and instructions for making this great embroidered birdcage ornament. How nice would this look tied to a present for the holidays?
Uncle Mark 2009 Gift Guide and Almanac
Today’s Cool Tool mailing reminded me about one of my favorite year-end publications: the Uncle Mark 2009 Gift Guide and Almanac. Put out yearly (this year and last, anyway) by Mark Hurst, who runs the Gel Conference, this guide is tremendously unglamourous (in a great way). It’s laid out (and spelled out) in a rather […]
HOW TO – Paper Reindeer Decorations
Meggiecat points us to Cheeky Magpie’s blog, where I found these papercraft reindeer – it looks like a fun holiday project for kids!
HOW TO – Ornament Wreath
If Pixiegenne’s tragic experience didn’t upset you too much, you may want to try making an ornament wreath of your very own! Thanks to Eddie Ross for tipping us off to his tutorial.
HOW TO – Aluminum Can Ornaments
Craftershock tips us off to a great tutorial by Little House in the Suburbs, which shows us how to make holiday ornaments from aluminum cans.
Christmas tree made from 70 SCSI hard drives
Trigger writes– At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks performing a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all together with the servers, I decided to […]
