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Jen : Reinventing X, Events
July 25th, 2008

MacGyver Challenge: Bumbershoot Special Edition

Calling all music-loving MacGyvers! In case you missed the deadline for our most recent round of the Challenge, never fear: you’ve now got a special-edition situation on your hands…

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Jen : DIY Projects, Raw Materials, Reinventing X, Events, Sustainable living
July 23rd, 2008

Audience participation: Re-fashioning theater seats

As someone who’s always wanted to renovate and run an old movie theater, I flipped over these Marimekko -clad movie theater seats. After scoring some old theater cast-offs, Sonya of the KnitSonya blog let them languish for a while in closets and hallways before deciding what to do with them. Then she…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X
July 16th, 2008

MacGyver Challenge: Hangers [Less than a week left!]

It’s officially crunch time, folks—you’ve got less than one week left to submit your genius project ideas to the hangers edition of our MacGyver Challenge (the contest ends next Monday, July 21, 2008).

Surely you are brimming with ideas. Here’s how to submit…

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Jen : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Events
July 15th, 2008

It’s an illusion! Build an invisible bookshelf

Instructional video website VideoJug has posted a a great DIY project inspired by those invisible bookshelves that are popping up everywhere these days. To make your own floating shelf…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X
July 9th, 2008

Cash money [clip]

Scott Amron is one of our very favorite ReadyMakers—so much so that we wrote about his genius toothbrush redesign and other projects in Issue 32. Now he’s come up with another bright idea, and this time Amron is all about the money…

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Ilana : DIY Projects, Ideas We Wish We'd Thought Of, Design IQ, Reinventing X, Stuff We Love
July 7th, 2008