Mini Valentine Chocolate Boxes
Zakka Life makes these cute mini Valentine chocolate boxes, showing you how to create little paper cups to be filled with red M&M’s or whatever candy you like! Link.
Holiday Projects
FrostBot – a CNC robot for frosting cookies
Brain made a computer controlled cookie frosting robot, he writes – The Frost Bot robot consists of a small table-top CNC router kit made by www.fireballcnc.com, augmented with a forth axis stepper motor driving a frosting extrusion device. The four stepper motors of the system are driven by a single board called a Quad EasyDriver, […]
Crafty Uses For All That Halloween Candy
So it’s November 1, and you’re likely surrounded by piles of Halloween candy and are suffering a major sugar hangover. If you’re not ready to just toss the candy, Alpha Mom has some creative ways to work the candy into your craftiness. The tear-open candy cup calendar and Thanksgiving turkey piñata are especially charming.
LED cube from Christmas tree lights
Christmas time is a great time to obtain large numbers of LEDs very cheaply. This instructable uses 80 LEDs from an LED christmas tree light string to make the venerable 3D LED cube. In this case a 5x4x4 cube. 3D LED Charlieplex Cube from Chrismas Tree Lights – Link Related: This weekend’s project – Pocket […]
“Gingerboard” House
My friends Billie and Tootie (who own the green-themed art and design store Reform School here in L.A.) blew my mind today when they gave me a Christmas present wrapped up in the most amazing way–in a handmade house they created from recycled cardboard! I love all the little details, such as the scalloped kraft […]
Popsicle Exoskeleton Wrap Art
John Boak of Wrap Art has more wrapping for us this Christmas Eve with this popsicle exoskeleton wrapping. John writes: This new design helps the present to avoid being lost in a pile of presents. Your architect friends will be amused, too. The package is wrapped in a scrap of foil paper. To find out […]
Tree Gnome Ornaments
I love these tree gnome ornaments by MadeByCara on Flickr! Link.
