| Old Dogs, New Tricks Donna Wilson, a British designer, has given Staffordshire ceramic dogs a contemporary face-lift. nytimes.com |
Maker Days at NY Hall of Science This weekend at the New York Hall of Science, you can make butterflies out of cereal boxes, collapsible bowls, and even a boat, which you can then race in the Raingutter Regatta. RePlayGround will be there to help make crafty magic with you!NYC people, check it out. The event is called Maker Days, and it runs this weekend and the weekend of August 21 and 22, in preparation for the first World Maker Faire, which is being held September 25 and 26 at the Hall of Science. Even if you can't make it to this, just remember: World Maker Faire will be unforgettable. Pen that into your calendar.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Events | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
New Parenting Site: GeekMom Ken Denmead at Wired writes: Ever since I took on the job of Editor at GeekDad, and would meet people at events like Maker Faire, the question I kept hearing over and over was "but what about GeekMom?!" Sometimes it was spoken with a bit of humor, but more often with a sense of real desire to see such a site. To the best of my ability, I've always run GeekDad to be as much as parenting blog as it is a dad blog, to the point of including four wonderful geeky mom writers on our team. But it comes down to the fact that a site named GeekDad will always skew just a bit to one side of the gender line. And thus, GeekMom is born! Natania Barron, Kathy Ceceri, Corrina Lawson, and Jenny Williams are taking up the helm of this tech-savvy blog for moms of all sorts. They're tweaking the site over the month of September, so be sure to stop by, check it out, and give the team feedback! This healthy fruit and veg ice pop recipe by Laura Grace Weldon has already caught my eye, securing GeekMom's new place in my RSS reader.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Kids | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
Instant fun for the little ones. Four quick and cool crafts with paper, rocks and balloons. Make these quick and cool crafts with paper, rocks and balloons for instant fun with the little ones. star-telegram.com |
How-To: Photo-realistic Latch Hook Rug By Andrew SalomoneIn Hans Holbein's famously inexplicable painting, "The Ambassadors," a large anamorphic skull appears to lie across the floor at the feet of two dandified renaissance gentlemen. The skull appears in correct perspective only when the painting is seen from an acute angle looking diagonally down from the left-hand side of the painting (or diagonally up from the lower right hand corner). I decided to make a latch hooked anamorphic skull rug in order to display the skull image from the painting on the floor in real life, and to see if the image would change in and out of correct perspective as the viewer walks past it (it does!). You can follow the same process I used to make this project to turn the image of your choice into a photorealistic latch hook rug.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in CRAFT Projects | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |