Over the past few months, it seems like I’ve run across so many cool folded paper-type projects that I finally had to try my hand at some and see how they turned out.  Inspiration - and yes, instructions - came from a few places, among them, these gorgeous creatures on Etsy:
Apartment Therapy’s re-nest.com had a [...]

The Polaroid camera was a staple of my youth, and while folks in love with the digital format may believe that the quality of photos left something to be desired, my fascination with the immediacy of the finished product has never waned.  I thought that I had seen a recent resurgence of interest in the [...]

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On a recent Saturday afternoon I posted a quick Twitter about the music I was listening to, which happened to be one of my favorite “local” bands: Bloodcow. I have my tweets set up to sync to my Facebook status. A few minutes later, I got a Facebook message from a talented Minneapolis artist D.Witt [...]

I’m a hands-on kind of girl and I know my way around some power tools, so I’m a much greater fan of exploring the ways that creativity can transform an already existing object into a completely different one, than I am of staring at a blank sketchbook, waiting for an idea to hit me upside [...]

If you know me, you know how much I love finding a new life for cast-offs, or refusing to let something be thrown away until any notion of utility really is non-existent. Given that, is it any wonder I’d want to start scouring the curbside trash piles for legs (the furniture kind, not the [...]

I am waiting for my soup to cool down from lava-hot to ok-hot when I begin to wonder if there is a WorsPress plugin for the iPod Touch. Turns out, there is! I am not sure of the value other than making quick notes. There’s no fast way to copy a link, and posting images [...]