Craft/DIY

Baby food dyed paper

August 19, 2010

Yesterday morning I was making some baby food for Henry with a nectarine, yellow squash, blueberries, a red apple and a red pepper (I throw them all (chopped up) into boiling water for a short while, then puree them). When I took them out of the water the most beautiful color was left behind. I [...]

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Make Frauenfelder (editor of Make and founder of Boing Boing) is guest curator over at Etsy, plus he has a great new book about DIY out now called Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World. He recently spent a year trying a variety of offbeat projects such as keeping chickens and bees, tricking [...]

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Skinny laMinx: Sevilla Rock

February 18, 2010

How amazing is this fabric by the talented Heather Moore? I want to upholster a couch with the deep turquoise and then have a corresponding chair upholstered with the red. Have you seen her latest design? You’re the best Heather. Hope to meet you when you visit NY from sunny South Africa. Readers, have a [...]

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Have you seen the latest issue of Parasol Magazine from the creative mind and hands of Yasmine Surovec? It features a story about Nice Package, “a gift packaging line designed to offer simple solutions for infusing creativity and beauty into their customers’ homes and lives. The line includes a unique collection of gift-packaging essentials that [...]

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Valentine’s Day gift idea

February 9, 2010

I never expect anything extravagant for Valentine’s day. A heart felt note and perhaps something sweet to eat are perfect for me. I think it would be a really really sweet idea to take an old love note, or even a section of that note and blow it up to frame and then gift to [...]

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