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Book Report: Plexi Class by Tonia Davenport (2007)
To keep with the recent theme of crafting books on the blog here and to have something to page through for a couple minutes while my children button mashed on the educational computers at the library,...
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Book Report: Modern Jewelry from Modular Parts by Martha Le Van (2007)
This book is pretty much what it says. It uses a lot of hardware store equipment, including thin rods, pipes, washers, and stamped metal to create necklaces, rings, brooches, and ear rings. It’s very...
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Book Report: Sand Art by Ellen Appel (1976)
This book is pretty much what it says: a book about sand art. This, like macrame, must have fluorished in an era where quaaludes were a good idea. Actually, sand art comes in a couple forms. One is...
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Book Report: The Stained Glass Handbook edited by Viv Foster (2006)
This book really is a handbook instead of a little crafting book. It starts out like a craft book, with a brief history of the art of working with glass, then moves into the tools used with making...
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A Fish Bowl Perfectly Sized For Two Lost Souls
I said I might get into glass painting. So I’ve done something here: I guess one can put a candle in it or just put it into the window. Next time, I think I’ll try drilling a hole into the side before...
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Mr. Fix-It, I Ain’t
My wife brought in a keyboard she suspected was defunct and asked me if I would look at it. I did. The keys work better now. As pins. To do this, I popped them out of the keyboard housing, ground down...
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Book Report: Crafting with Cat Hair by Kaori Tsutaya / Translated by Amy...
You might think that this book indicates I’ve gone off the rails for good. Oh, but no. This book cover cracked me up. Crafting…. with Cat Hair! I borrowed it from the library, and as we dwelt a little...
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Book Report: Great Wire Jewelry by Irene Frome Peterson (1998)
This book describes how to make wire jewelry. As you might now, in my youth, I dabbled into beadcraft. But wire jewelry isn’t beads. Instead, it uses a variety of stitches to weave the wire and then...
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Book Report: The Little Book of Whittling by Chris Lubkemann (2005, 2013)
I live in the Ozark mountains now, and I do own a pair of overalls. So why shouldn’t I start whittling as well? That’s what I thought when I saw this book at the library a while back. So I picked it...
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Book Report: Modge Podge Rocks by Amy Anderson (2011)
This book is the first book I’ve read this year, and it’s the end of January. My weeks and nights have been fairly busy through this part of the year, friends, and I’m suddenly afraid that I will never...
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Book Report: Awesome Projects from Unexpected Places edited by Noah Weinstein...
In my mind, there’s a line between crafting and Making; I’ve capitalized the m to emphasize the Make movement which is a combination of crafting along with power tools and harder materials. Since many...
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The Corkboard iMac
A couple years back, when I made the laptop mirror, I also decommissioned an old iMac that I’d bought my wife for her birthday somewhere after the turn of the century. It was one of the new-fangled...
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A Couple Carafes Of Note
I know, I know, you’re saying, “Hey, man, you’ve got a Handicrafts category here, and you haven’t posted anything in over a year! What’s the deal? Are you not doing craft stuff any more?” Well, gentle...
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A More Manly Art
There’s something about autumn that makes me want to sit at my garage workbench and work on handicrafts. I think it’s the fact that, for two weeks, the temperature in the garage is between boiling and...
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The Best Christmas Gift I Gave Out This Year
I have a cousin who listens to a lot of hard rock and heavy metal, so this year for Christmas, I gave her a framed hard rock album since I couldn’t find a different one at the thrift stores before...
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Another Christmas Gift I Made
I gave another cousin this bird tray thing: I bought the wood on sale at the thrift shop, so it’s marked .99 but crossed out and has a .49 written in red next to it. I think it was a little tray of...
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The Woodburnings of Christmas
As you might recall, gentle reader, I enjoy doing a bit of woodburning, which is essentially (at least in my case) tracing things with hot irons into wood. If you read any of the literature, it’s a...
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The New Craft Hotness At Nogglestead
A number of years ago, my mother-in-law gave us a decorative wine bottle for Christmas. It had a madonna-and-child painted on it and a string of Christmas lights in it through a hole drilled in the...
View ArticleA Four Hundred Dollar Millimeter of Plastic Averted
A long time ago, the non-Lexus vehicle stopped unlocking when you put the key into the lock and turned. Apparently, this is not a physical act but an electronic one, whereby a chip in the key tells the...
View ArticleIs This What I Do With Eternity?
Buy a Rubik’s Cube, order some black stickers, and then put the black stickers on it to create a Gothik’s Cube? Apparently, so, although in my defense, the actual sticker application only took a couple...
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