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 [...]

Spring is in the air,  Easter is just around the corner and the daffodils have started blooming in the yard.  Aside from loving to use my vintage um-buh-rella on rainy days, my favorite thing about this time of year has to be the Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest!
The first year “Reservoir Peeps” won my heart.  [...]

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 [...]

Colin Smith is an artist that I have followed for quite some time now. A few years back he self published his own book, Angry Young Cliché, which discusses a multitude of ideals that allow insight in to questions all designers ask themselves at one time or another.
While I, along with the rest of the [...]

Just got the news about Layer Tennis - 10 player worldwide exhibition match today! I hope it’s a good one! http://layertennis.com/090206/

You know, sometimes ‘modern’ makes me gag.  I get fed up to here with trashy Mondrian rip-off junk and vague amalgamations of style, worked up in plywood and stainless steel.  Don’t get me wrong - I like to think Gropius and I would have been fast friends, and I appreciate what places like Target and [...]

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’ve had the link to Ponoko in my email for a little over a month, but haven’t really taken the time to explore it…until yesterday.  Then, of course, it sucked up a good 4 hours while I tooled around the site poking into its utilities, how-to guides and - most fun! - what other users [...]