I love the sleek style of this men’s sewing kit from designer, Elizabeth Dilk. This sewing kit was created when posed with the problem of creating a sewing kit for men. I decided to package a small, 3.5″x3.5″ cube with just the essentials and directions to replace a button, mend a tear, and hem pants. […]
Learn how to recycle brown paper bags into recipe cards in this tutorial by Jackie on Crafting a Green World. She also includes a PDF of her recipe card design for you to easily print with.
The Critters arrived! The Critters arrived! Within a week of uploading my model I got a happy little box delivered from Shapeways. They came out great! I wasn’t sure if they would be able to stand properly, but they can just fine. Here’s the gratuitous unboxing: This is the model I had built in Maya, […]
Looking for just the right salad fixings and wrapping paper at the same time? How about celery stamped gift wrap? If you plan it right, you can have your vegetables do double duty. While you are at it, you might want to check out the rest of the referring site, a source of lots of […]
Chrisjob at Curbly shares instructions in a video podcast for making your own hand-printed fleece scarves. They only cost about $2 to make and are great holiday presents.
Interrobang Letterpress posted some lovely and illuminating photos of their letterpress printing process to the MAKE Flickr pool. I was trained as a printing and ran a shop for years (in the late ’70s). Trained in offset lithography, and ever-the-futurist, I turned my nose up at quaint tech like letterpress. Oh how times and aesthetics […]
I’ve been wanting to try out potato printing for a while now–hadn’t done it since I was a kid–and I also needed some new kitchen curtains, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and stamp up some new window coverings. This is an extremely quick and easy project you can whip up […]
