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November 21, 2009
Soft Radiators
Swedish designer Hedvig af Ekenstam makes soft decorative radiators from heating cables; I love the patterns, and her name! [via Fashioning Technology]
Posted by Becky Stern |
Nov 21, 2009 11:29 AM
Home Decor, Technology |
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November 18, 2009
Typographic Coasters
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made several sets of coasters using single font characters. You can cut them out by hand, but they used a laser cutter, naturally.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Nov 18, 2009 07:00 AM
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November 14, 2009
How-To: Pom Pom Light
Disney of Ruffles and Stuff shares how she created this fun wall lamp from a couple of dollar store microwave plate covers and items she had on hand.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Nov 14, 2009 03:45 PM
Home Decor |
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November 11, 2009
Beginner's Guide to Gourd Crafting
It's decorative gourd season, peeps! I just can't wait to get my hands on some gourds and arrange them just so. They look so very seasonal. Reputable gourd shop Welburn Gourd Farm is offering a free download of "The Beginner's Guide to Gourd Crafting." It contains some great tips and how-tos to get your started with the wide world of gourds. Keep an eye out for the next issue of our sister publication, MAKE, Volume 21, which will feature a great DIY by Diane Gilleland on how to make a gourd lamp.
Posted by Goli Mohammadi |
Nov 11, 2009 05:00 PM
Crafting with Nature, Home Decor |
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Flocked Fauns
How cute! These adorable deer would be perfect for just about any holiday craft, right?
Posted by Brookelynn |
Nov 11, 2009 10:00 AM
Holiday projects, Home Decor |
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November 10, 2009
Flashback: Candles from Scratch
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With the gift-giving holidays right around the corner, I thought it would be the perfect time to offer up this classic DIY from the pages of CRAFT Volume 04. Leah Peterson teaches you the fundamentals of candle-making, whether you want to reuse old candles to make new or make new ones from scratch. Who doesn't love candles?
Candles from Scratch
Gather old cans, containers, and half-used candles to make brilliant, new light.
By Leah Peterson
You don't need expensive equipment to make your own candles at home. You can use a variety of containers with smooth sides for molds, including thick plastic or metal measuring cups and muffin tins. An old pancake hot plate and cleaned food cans make a great double boiler. Just remember that whatever you use will most likely be covered in wax and not a good candidate for food use afterwards. Paraffin wax can be purchased at craft stores in large blocks, but you can also use old candle leftovers.
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Posted by Goli Mohammadi |
Nov 10, 2009 05:00 PM
Holiday projects, Home Decor |
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How-To: Monogramed Napkin Rings in Burlap
Here's another table decoration that could go nicely with the freezer paper stenciled burlap placemats I posted earlier today. Maya from maya*made shows how to make these monogramed napkin rings in burlap. Find a way to coordinate the design with your placemats, and you'll have a very nice table setting for the holidays!
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Nov 10, 2009 03:00 PM
Home Decor |
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How-To: Freezer Paper Stencil Placemat
I love the warm, rustic feel of these burlap placemats with freezer paper stencils on them from Courtney of Two Straight Lines for Book Hour Craft Projects. She points out that the process is simple enough to include your kids in helping, and warns that once you get a taste for freezer paper stenciling, you may be tempted to stencil everything in sight. [via @shimandsons]
More:
Ask CRAFT: Sourcing Freezer Paper and Other Supplies
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Nov 10, 2009 08:15 AM
Home Decor, Kids |
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November 8, 2009
Floral Cocktail Coasters
From the Chronicle Books blog, make this floral cocktail coaster, an excerpt from one of my favorite sewing books, Home Sewn by Kaari Meng who's also the proprietor of the cool LA-based shop, French General.
From the excerpt:
Using remnants from some printed linen, cut out large flowers, back them with hemp fabric, and stitch both fabrics together using your sewing machine's zigzag stitch. Homespun or heavier linen works well for the coasters backs, as both will absorb liquid and dry quite fast. Pair this project with a nice bottle of wine as a gift for your favorite hostess.
Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Nov 8, 2009 07:00 AM
Home Decor, Sewing |
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November 7, 2009
Bone China Spoon Set
You might have noticed that I have a thing for spoons. It's actually more of a broad serving utensil fetish, but spoons are at the top of the list right now. This set of unglazed and pure white porcelain spoons are made to look as if they were ornate silver. I can't get over how pretty they are.
Posted by Brookelynn |
Nov 7, 2009 06:00 PM
Design, Home Decor |
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November 4, 2009
How-To: Holiday Fabric Placemats
Looking to add a personal and crafty touch to your holiday table? Be sure to check out this tutorial from the folks at ReproDepot. I love the effect of the trim around the edges. See how they create it here.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Nov 4, 2009 08:00 AM
Holiday projects, Home Decor, Sewing |
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November 3, 2009
How-To: Arm Rest Organizer From Napkins
Cathe of Just Something I Made shares how she transformed two cloth napkins (each under $1) into this handy arm rest organizer for her sofa. She's even provided the vintage clip art in case you want to decorate it like hers.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Nov 3, 2009 06:00 AM
Home Decor, Sewing |
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November 2, 2009
How-To: Book Clock
Disney from Ruffles and Stuff shows how she harvested clockwork mechanisms from an inexpensive clock and used them to transform an old book into a new, beautiful clock.
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Nov 2, 2009 06:00 AM
Home Decor |
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October 29, 2009
Tanis Alexis' Urban Felt Rug
This is a lovely detail from a felted rug, handmade by Tanis Alexis. Tanis is a fiber artist, mom, contributor to Feltique, and a spectacular artist. She creates classic pieces of felt, but with a multimedia twist! Each rug is wet felted from 100% wool, and then the city scene is added with a limited edition cut stencil. Tanis will make this piece custom, in about 3-6 weeks.
Posted by Brookelynn |
Oct 29, 2009 02:00 PM
Felting, Fiber Art, Home Decor |
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100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors
100% Reuse: Industrial Pallet Sectional Couch for Outdoors
By Wendy Tremayne
With more people recognizing the value of scrap materials it can be hard to find great stuff in the waste stream. These days I rely on the surplus store as much as the curb. Surplus stores often carry industrial waste materials: tough, oversized items that come in mass, like 4' diameter round metal dishes, human-sized wooden cable spools, or a gross of 1'-tall iron springs, to name a few.
Last spring I ran across half a dozen 2'×3' clay-colored plastic pallets at a Surplus City in Albuquerque, N.M. They were likely used to ship a high-end non-consumer item. When I saw the pile of them, weeds grown over the top and wedged under a giant machine that looked as if it may have come out of New Mexico's Sandia Labs, the image of a sectional couch for outdoors flashed in my mind. I had wanted to build one for my porch but had not yet found the right materials in the waste stream. As is often the case in surplus yards, I tried to find an employee to help me dig it out and then got my work gloves out of the trunk and freed my future couch from the clutches of further decay. Then I turned to my little Maxima and wondered how I would get these babies nearly 200 miles south to where I lived. I crammed three of them into my car: one in the trunk, one in the back seat, and I jammed one up front with the passenger seat pushed all the way back. I was a tad nervous that the spiders living inside the pallets would lurch out and find me while I was driving home. A stick of Nag Champa incense that I keep in the ashtray of the car, lit periodically along the drive, helped transform the musky mold smell of the junkyard into the musky smell of a yoga studio. The bounty made it home safe and sound.
Last week I went back to Surplus City and found the fourth and last pallet to complete the set, and I made the couches. Here's the project, easily adapted to any industrial pallet you can find.
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Posted by Natalie Zee Drieu |
Oct 29, 2009 12:00 PM
CRAFT Projects, Home Decor, Recycle |
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How-To: 3D Blood Spatter Halloween Decor
Meg from Threadbanger's Decor it Yourself is on this week's Etsy How-Tuesday to make some 3D blood spatter decorations for Halloween, like in the TV show Dexter. Bring a little forensics to your Halloween party!
Posted by Becky Stern |
Oct 29, 2009 07:00 AM
Halloween, Home Decor |
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October 27, 2009
How-To: Soap Cupcakes
Debbie of Soapy Love has a tutorial on the Soap Queen for making these cute cupcake soaps. Just be careful no one tries to eat them!
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Oct 27, 2009 06:00 AM
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October 22, 2009
Fabric And Felt Halloween Silhouette Curtains
Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane came up with an awesome way to create silhouettes on her windows for Halloween. She's combined a "sturdy yet gauzy" orange fabric and black felt cutouts to create these curtains that can work their magic both during the day and at night. Brilliant!
Posted by Rachel Hobson |
Oct 22, 2009 10:00 AM
Halloween, Home Decor |
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October 19, 2009
How-To: Refresh Wilted Flowers
Summer is over in my area. Almost 5 inches of rain have already fallen at my house. To cope with the seasonal change outdoors, I rely on fresh flowers indoors. I keep them everywhere, and they are also all over my Day of the Dead Shrine. Because cut flowers are so expensive and persihable, I use a quick and dirty trick to milk an extra day or two out of the vase life. Take a pair of sharp scissors, as sharp and pointy as you can find, and just trim all the wilted petals from the back. This flower not only has ugly petals, powdery mildew is growing on it- ICK! Carefully cut all the damaged parts of the flower off. Finally, give the stem a fresh cut at the bottom and voila! As you can see in the photos, removing all that gunk from the flower even made the sun come out for a moment!
Posted by Brookelynn |
Oct 19, 2009 05:00 PM
Gardening, Home Decor, Home Sweet Home |
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Ambient LED Flowerpot Clock
Sean @ MAKE writes:
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending my first Dorkbot Austin, at Cafe Mundi on E. 5th St. At least fifty were in attendance, and six people presented original work, most of which I'll be blogging over the next few days. First up, I wanted to mention this luminous flowerpot clock, with LED pistils and modeling-clay petals, by Flickr user Spyderella, aka Sharon Cichelli. It flip-flops two of seven LEDs to mark the hours, and gradually illuminates the remaining five at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 minutes past. It's controlled by an external Arduino for prototyping purposes, but eventually will be entirely self-contained. There's video here. Sharon credits Syuzi Pakhchyan's Fashioning Technology for inspiration.
In the Maker Shed:
Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? With "smart" materials, unorthodox assembly techniques, and the right tools, you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, and more.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Oct 19, 2009 03:00 PM
Fashion Tech, Home Decor |
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