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Built by You

Simplicity is offering patterns from Built by Wendy.

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Megan : DIY Projects
June 21st, 2006

You Love them Not… You Love Them

Have you had a chance to salivate over the new floral fabrics at Reprodepot?

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Maggie : Raw Materials
June 20th, 2006

Kid Kanvas

If you’re anything like me, you have tons of scrap wood and MDF laying around. Instead of tossing it or convincing yourself you’ll use it a future project, turn it over to the kids.

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Mia : Raw Materials, Reinventing X
June 19th, 2006

Point of Sale Help

A lot of people have asked me about helping them with point of sale displays for craft shows, especially for selling jewelry. Laying earrings out on a table does not show them off to their best advantage and is not very creative.

The point of sale display must meet certain criteria: it must be cheap, portable, and easy to store. This table top design meets those requirements, and I think is kind of fun.

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Kevin : DIY Projects, Tools, Design IQ
June 18th, 2006

Incredible Shrinking Plastic

Shrink plastic (better known to you in the States as Shrinky Dinks) has to be one of the greatest inventions ever–in a craft sense, anyway. It’s one of the easiest ways to make personalised jewelry, accessories, and charms.

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Cat : DIY Projects
June 16th, 2006

Ground Glass Photography

Here’s a great way for thrifty film loving photographers to get all the analogue with none of the expense of film. It’s a bit of a balancing act but essentially all you do is use a top viewing medium format camera to focus on a subject and then train the lens of a digital camera onto the ground glass or viewfinder.

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Gayla : DIY Projects
June 14th, 2006