Crafty Chica Kathy Cano Murillo has a great project for your upcoming holiday cocktail parties. You can make your serving dishes look like giant snowballs! Link. Related: See Crafty Chica’s archive of past holiday projects. – Link.
If you have some old junk parts and extra circuit boards laying around, make a resistor man, he makes a good gift and he resists everything but temptation! – Link.
Stephanie Barnes of little birds handmade has a cute soft trees pattern PDF, you can download from her site. I love the modern style of her tree designs. Link.
The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan has a guide (PDF) on using cloth as opposed to paper for wrapping gifts to cut down on the wasted paper usually used in gift wrap, great idea – Link. Thanks Lil! Related: Stitch and hem gift bags – Link.
Are you tired of the same meat based turkey every year? Well this year do something different, instead of killing your own, or frying your own, or building a nuclear reactor to heat it up, you can make your own turkey out of paper! In this weekend projects video, dx-arts pal Allison Kudla and Bre […]
Hah, this is awesome – a teaching assistant for a Psych class adds an extra page to an exam and says “draw a turkey” – here are the results, hundreds of hand-drawn turkeys (scanned, posted to Flickr)…. 9 hungry folks drew a cooked Butterball turkey 5 had their turkey saying “eat me!” … but 6 […]
GetCrafty has started it’s first annual GetCrafty Handmade Holiday Drive to benefit Project Night Night, an organization to help improve the lives of homeless children. Please take some time in the next couple weeks to make a project such as a handmade plushie or blanket. The deadline is December 8th. More details on the getcrafty […]
