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Shopping Cart Chair

Jill Harness — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:47:36 +0000

It might not be comfortable or all that functional, but this shopping cart chair is just undeniably cool. It can even work as a wheelchair if necessary. Instructables can tell you how to make one of your very own.

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Knitted Hats For Babies

Jill Harness — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:36:39 +0000

Etsy user Tiny Tangerine, aka Kelly Burghardt, knits these adorable baby hats. My favorite is the cow hat. Craftzine has a great interview with her or you can just click on the link and look at her great gallery of work.

Link Via Craftzine

Sew a "Where the Wild Things Are" Hat!

Queuebot — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:40:46 +0000

Jessy Ratfink shows us how to make an adorable "Where the Wild Things Are" hat (With whiskers and pointy ears.). Make one for your child to wear for Halloween, or wear it for Halloween yourself, or better yet, wear it to the cinemas as you watch the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are movie. Let the wild rumpus start!

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Plush Cell Model

Jill Harness — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:35:07 +0000

What better way to get kids interested in biology at an early age than to make them their very own plush cell? Instructables has all the info you need to make your very own cuddly block of life.

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Periodic Table Sweater

Jill Harness — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:13:14 +0000

All you science-lovers on Neatorama should appreciate this great sweater featuring the Periodic Table of Elements. The sleeves feature fungi and bacteria names. The creator made it for her husband, a microbiologist working in the pharmaceutical industry.

Link Via Craftzine

Toilet Paper Tube Faces

Jill Harness — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:56:12 +0000

Artist Junior Fritz Jacquet crumples and folds toilet paper rolls until they make faces displaying anguish, happiness, disgust and more. Once they’re folded right, he adds just a bit of color to help bring out their color and then they’re ready to go.

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Simpsons Mosaic Table

Jill Harness — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:47:25 +0000

This Simpsons mosaic table is made of leftover tiles and places from a Target clearance sale and leftovers at the local home improvement store by craftster user redflag. She completely freehanded the pictures, which is pretty impressive. I like how suspicious Moe and Mr. Burns look.

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Graffiti Needlework

Jill Harness — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:24:43 +0000

This great needlepoint work was created by Tennessee artist, Jacquelyn Royal. If you like her work, there’s more on the site, but I don’t think any of them look nearly as real as this one.

Link Via Craftzine

What To Do With Capri Sun Packaging

Jill Harness — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:13:26 +0000

If you’re a complete Capri Sun fiend and just hate wasting all those left over packets, this jacket design might be just what you needed. It only takes 140 pouches.

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Geek Rug Mimics Circuit Board

Jill Harness — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:04:37 +0000

This latch hook rug was obviously made by a computer nerd. On the page is an image of the circuit board it is based on -it’s amazingly well-replicated.

Link Via CraftZine

Felted Jabba The Hut

Jill Harness — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:54:48 +0000

Never before has Jabba looked so sensitive with his deep brown eyes and sweet little stuffed bunny. He’s part of the Star Wars Exhibit previously mentioned on Neatorama.

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Plush Star Wars Tauntaun

Jill Harness — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:56:02 +0000

This masterpeice was entered in the upcoming Stitch Wars exhibit at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery in Florida. The little blue Luke Skywalker is zipped inside for a super Star Wars surprise.

Link Via CraftZine

Rubber & Cardboard Cuckoo Clock

Jill Harness — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:52:50 +0000

These cuckoo clocks by artist Nathan Skiles are created with cardboard and rubber. They may be a good option for people with walls too weak to hold up heavy wooden & metal cuckoo clocks.

Link Via Craftzine

Handmade Coraline Doll

Stacy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:36:33 +0000

I figured it was only a matter of time before little Coralines started popping up on the craft sites. Craftster purplekappa made this one for her daughter, and I must say, it’s pretty perfect. She even comes with Wybie’s cat and her very own button key.

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Electronic Embroidery Kit

Jill Harness — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:07:31 +0000

How cool is it to have a light up needlework project sold complete with the lights, wiring and battery to make it work? Way too cool, that’s how cool.

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Embroidered Knee MRI Slice

Jill Harness — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:44:30 +0000

This is one of the strangest craft projects I’ve ever seen. Becky Stern says she plans to continue working on different segments of the MRI to see how her project will turn out.

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Duct Tape Roses Instructable

Jill Harness — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:25:19 +0000

If you like the roses above, or just forgot about Valentine’s Day until all the roses were sold out, there’s an easy to follow instruction guide for them over on Instructables right now.

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Female Merit Badges

Jill Harness — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:27:41 +0000

There’s something delightfully fun about these semi-retro and slightly-sexist female merit badges created by Artist Mary Yeager.

My female merit badges illustrate female “rites of passage” as well as the myriad physical manipulations women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty, such as weight watching, whether or not to shave or wear makeup, etc. I’ve created tiny replicas of female products, such as a birth control pill pack and a pregnancy test. The miniature scale and meticulous, hand-embroidered surfaces convey my impressions of growing up female in our culture.

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How To Crochet Master Shake

Stacy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:47:32 +0000

My crocheting skills are pretty minimal (as are my knitting skills, and pretty much all of my crafting skills), but I’m tempted to give Master Shake (he’s from Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force) a shot anyway. I think he would look smashing sitting on my desk at work. Great, now I’m going to have the ATHF song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

Link via Craftzine

Obama Crafts

Miss Cellania — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:21:12 +0000

Sure, you can buy plenty of Obama souvenirs, but you can make your own, too! WhipUp has indexed a wide variety of Obama craft projects found on the internet, from Obama crochet portraits to Obama knitted sweaters, even Obama dishcloths! Link -Thanks, Kathreen!

How Pantone Keeps Colors Fresh

Queuebot — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:58:20 +0000

Expo TV has a video interview with Lee Eisman, the Director of the Pantone Color Institute. In the video, Eisman discusses how Pantone chooses its colors and predicts color trends.

You may or may not be surprised by the amount of research that goes into selecting new colors and keeping existing colors fresh – factors ranging from economic conditions, world affairs, clothing featured in the entertainment industry, home décor trends and art trends play into the decision making process.

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From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by whitespace.

DIY Atari Lamp

Stacy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:19:50 +0000

There are instructions to create your own, but honestly… it looks pretty hard. Maybe it’s not if you have all of the right tools, though. Difficult to make or not, dude deserves props for ingenuity.

Link via Geekologie

Fan Dress Uses Recycling For Couture

Jill Harness — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:11:42 +0000

I love this cute fan dress. Best of all, the fans are actually made from folded up junk mail and then sewn onto canvas. I bet you never thought all that crap you throw in the trash every day could be made so pretty.

Link Via Craftzine

Creepy Denture Soaps

Queuebot — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:54:01 +0000

These soaps are really cool, in a disturbing, nursing home kinda way. Apparently, they even have a nice minty scent.

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Sock Monkey Goddess Sarasvati

Jill Harness — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:02:35 +0000

Every year, this crafter makes a new sock monkey. I love this one, it’s the Hindu goddess of the arts, Sarasvati.

Link via Craftzine

Papercraft Animation

Jill Harness — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:56:47 +0000

This video is truly amazing to watch. City made of books, sounds like my idea of a good hometown.

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Origami Hamburger Kit

Stacy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:59:57 +0000

Giving up fast food for your New Year’s Resolution? You can still have it – since it’s made out of paper, it’s much healthier for you. I probably wouldn’t recommend eating it, though. For $6, you get 16 pieces of paper that will allow you to make two burgers, fries, a soda and a tray to put it all on.

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Cuddly Toys of Death

Jill Harness — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:21:47 +0000

If you’re sick of all the cute, sweet plushies out there, then these great toys are for you. They’re by artist Patricia Waller who has a ton of other awesome designs as well. These specific toys belong to her “Accident” series and the “How to kill your first love” series. I love the teddy bear myself.

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Stitch Your Way Across the U.S.A.

Stacy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:42:16 +0000

…or Europe, or the whole world, actually. But those didn’t rhyme, so I went with “U.S.A.” Next time you go on vacation, take a few of these little beauties along, and with a tiny amount of sewing, you can show your besties back at home exactly what routes you have taken. Yeah, you could do the same thing with a Sharpie, but that’s not nearly as cute.

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Snail Sweater: Adorable & Cuddly

Jill Harness — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:23:39 +0000

If your snails are getting too cold this winter, just get them a cute little sweater like this guy has. I can’t begin to say how strangely cute I think this is.

Link Via Cute Overload