| Save My Oceans Top Five: Olive the Ostrich Plastic Sculpture The projects submitted to our Save My Oceans contest were innovative and inspirational and were all great examples of the brilliant ways our readers reuse plastics. Each day this week, we'll highlight one of our top five entries, and we'll announce the Grand prize winner next Monday. Be sure to check out the entire Save My Oceans Flickr pool for even more great projects. Olive the Ostrich Plastic Sculpture from Dawn Ferguson. See more pictures of the sculpture here. Project Description: Hundreds of plastic soda bottles were collected, painted, cut, and shaped then attached to a frame made from found wood and wire. The result is Olive the Ostrich made through a combined effort of teachers Dawn Ferguson, Kym Mooreland-Garnett and their 8th grade students at Trinity Prep School in Winter Park, Florida.Project Inspiration: How to we get more use from our trash? Found object art can be beautiful and we decided to create a life sized ostrich out of plastic bottles to prove this point.Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Crown Crafts Adds Director of International Sales to Build on Momentum Reflecting its strategic emphasis on international markets as a key component of its aggressive five-year growth strategy, Crown Crafts, Inc. announced today the appointment of Mary Jean Bush as Director of International Sales, a newly created position. biz.yahoo.com |
Laura Cesari's Atmospheric Strata Necklace Laura Cesari filled us in on the inspiration behind her solar system necklaces back in the spring (and my husband was kind enough to get one for me for Mother's Day - I adore it!). Laura's latest science-inspired necklace over in the Makers Market is this fantastic representation of atmospheric strata. Six shimmering glass beaded strands represent the the Atmospheric Strata and various objects and phenomena from the Atmosphere.I love that each strand has something that would be found in that layer of the atmosphere, like clouds or meteors or even satellites. I think my favorite has to be the Aurora Borealis. I can't wait to see what Laura comes up with next! Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts & Design | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
CRAFT Pattern: Crochet Robot Nothing can be more geek crafts than crocheting a cute crochet robot! Our Cro-Bot pattern by Beth Doherty was featured in the issue of CRAFT:01. Don't you love the hip headphones? Put on your favorite jams this weekend and enjoy crocheting this cute robot.Download the Pattern PDF | Subscribe in iTunesRight click to save the PDF to your desktop. Directions on downloading PDFs.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in CRAFT Patterns | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
How-To: Knit a Jack Russell Terrier My friend, Michelle, posted a link to this awesome pattern for a knit Jack Russell Terrier on my Facebook page, and I couldn't resist sharing it. The pattern excerpt comes from the new book Best in Show by Sally Muir and Jo Osborne that contains more than 25 different patterns for different breeds of dogs. I'm also particularly smitten with the English Bulldog, too. Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Knitting | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |