Are you having a party to welcome 2011? Excellent! Make some memorable drinks, please. My humble suggestions follow. Sage Rush Cocktail Simple and refreshing. As your guests walk in on New Year’s Eve, take their coat and hand them one of these. Cranberry Pomegranate Sorbet With a Glug of Champagne Anything with a glug of […]
When making your plans for New Year’s Eve, don’t forget about Barbie. She needs a new dress, too! Or what about this vintage embroidered towel? That might look nice in your kitchen when the party’s started. I created a New Year’s Eve Etsy treasury with a few handmade party finds as well as some of […]
Melodie and Brenton from Garden Melodies created this incredible gingerbread recreation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Fun facts: It took over 12 hours to design It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s […]
Malmรยถ, Sweden hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen (“The Research Department”) celebrated the holiday with a little gingerbread, laser etched with some excellent ASCII art… and their founding date in hex, oh yeah!
I wish I could see this beautiful origami holiday tree at the American Museum of Natural History in person. Five hundred origami sculptures were created by volunteers to adorn the 13-foot tree. Each piece reflects an actual object or specimen found in the exhibit hall. The theme of this year’s 13-foot tree is Discovery, featuring […]
Johngineer writes: My mother collects rocking horses. She tries to get at least one each year for Christmas. This year, she couldn’t find anything she liked in the stores, so I made her one out of brass stock I had lying around. I did a little CAD drawing to help myself visualize what it would […]
Johngineer writes: My mother collects rocking horses. She tries to get at least one each year for Christmas. This year, she couldn’t find anything she liked in the stores, so I made her one out of brass stock I had lying around. I did a little CAD drawing to help myself visualize what it would […]
