I love vinyl lettering. So many awesome projects lately have featured them. But, much like By Wilma, I hate paying for them and being limited by their fonts. So I’m super, super grateful for her awesome tutorial about how to … Read More ...
Stenciled Watercolor Art
I love the look of watercolors, but I’m much better with a pencil than I am a brush. Thankfully the talented blogger behind Grow Creative posted a wonderful tutorial on how to get the beautiful look of watercolors using a … Read More ...
Found Magazine Road Trip
Calling all lovers of bizarre found bits and pieces! Those mass collectors of novel and interesting fragments, Davy and Peter Rothbart (founders of FOUND magazine) are hitting the road in honor of FOUND magazine’s 10th anniversary. They plan to … Read More ...
You and Me: The Scrappies
Technology is allowing more and more people to create spectacular things in ways our grandparents couldn’t have even imagined. Take these adorable figurines called “The Scrappies” designed by Ulrich Schwanitz to commemorate his 30th wedding anniversary. Inspired by junkyard findings, … Read More ...
Corrugated Fountain by James Grashow
As a kid, cardboard is prime building material for everything. You need a fort? Cardboard. Doll needs a house? Cardboard. You need an interstellar spaceship capable of faster than light travel? Cardboard. However, most cardboard creations retain a certain essence … Read More ...
Creature Cup Set by Creaturecups
How great are these cups from creaturecups on Etsy? Imagine the comments you’d get as your guests got to the bottom of their coffee, only to discover an octopus. Or the delight you’ll get each morning from the unexpected presence … Read More ...
Easter – les têtes d’oeuf
The internet has been flooded with some of the most amazing egg art this year, but for me, this set, called “les têtes d’oeuf habitent ici” or “the egg heads live here”, is a personal favorite. There’s something … Read More ...
DIY Painted Belts (and a behind the video look!)
In my neck of the woods, spring’s been a little hesitant this year. So, in order to hurry it along, I’ve been sprucing up my wardrobe with fun bright colors and new spring prints. Which is probably why I flipped … Read More ...
Photography + Jewelry – Puur Anders
Check out these amazing art jewelry pieces by Miranda van Dijk, the artist behind the Etsy shop Puur Anders. Her Hidden Memories collection is a stunning mixture of natural shapes and images from photographs, a combination which highlights the … Read More ...
What Brings Portland Joy – Bot Joy
I’m a little jealous of Portland at the moment. You might be too after reading about the “What Brings Portland Joy?” art experiment. Artist Gary Hirsch scattered 200 of his adorable hand-painted joy bots around the city with instructions to … Read More ...
Hipstaprint Notepad – Hazel and Agnes
Have you ever wanted a fun indie craft project that uses all of those Hipstamatic and Instagram photos you take? Check out Hazel and Agnes for this adorable tutorial on how to turn your favorite prints into super awesome notepads. … Read More ...
Pacman Skirt by Go Chase Rabbits
While I’m on the subject of nerdy crafting, I adore GoChaseRabbits on Etsy and her wonderful, playful skirts. This one is on reserve for a customer, but she’s got other fun, nerdy clothes in her store and she does custom … Read More ...
Death Star Pinata
There’s been a lot of Star Wars crafts featured on the web in the past few years–cakes, candies, softies, pillowcases, and even dresses–so it takes a lot to impress me in this department. But the Death Star pinata managed it. … Read More ...
Baseball Screen Printing
Perfect for spring and a variety of baseball and non-baseball themed ideas, this guest post by Sabra of Sew a Straight Line on Whatever Dee-Dee Wants details how to create an easy screen printing set up with some basic crafting … Read More ...
Easter Påskris with Aunt Peaches
Two words: Feather Trees. Aunt Peaches rightly points out in this post that the Swedes have some of the coolest Easter traditions, including Påskris, these wonderful, colorful feather trees. No tutorial with this post, but a quick trip around the … Read More ...