We’re fast approaching the last big craft fair weekend of the year, so get out there and shop locally! If you know of an upcoming event, please add it to our online calendar. If you have a call for entries you want listed in this weekly craft fair post, . Coming Up This Weekend: Craftaluma […]
This holiday season, Kafumba and about 30 other youth are taking a product design class at AS220 Labs, taught by AS220 Labs staff and a designer from Providence-based medical device product development firm Ximedica. The young people have been making and selling handcrafted merchandise in AS220’s Fab Lab – a suite of personal fabrication equipment and software created at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms that includes a laser cutter, milling machine and vinyl cutter.
Genius. Brilliant. Clever. Sparkly. Instructables user gmoon has a great tutorial for shredding CDs into crystalline decorations.
Celebrate deep winter and the bitter cold with a unique seasonal floral arrangement. This miniature landscape brings the beauty of the forest into your warm and cozy home. It’s simple to create a tiny version of the woods, and adding mushrooms from the grocery store makes it all the more unusual and authentic. Mushrooms last […]
Rūpjmaizes kārtojums means layers of bread, in Latvian. I think that I might also incorrectly translate it to super yum. Crumbled rye bread, whipped cream and mashed cranberries combine for a dessert with a look that is perfect for serving during the winter holidays. This spectacular recipe comes from Russian Season, an Eastern European food […]
We’re going out of town for more than a week this Christmas for a big family get-together in New Mexico, so we’re debating whether to get a tree. Since we still have one kid under the age of I’m-too-cool-to-care — and because I’m a bit of an ornament junkie — chances are that we will […]
If you are trying to conserve electricity, its a good idea to wait as long as possible before setting up your holiday lights. You can put the money you save towards this amazing handmade scarf by etsy seller phydeaux. Meant to replicate the glow of a string of lights on an evergreen, the scarf is […]
