http://www.freeprintable.com/free-printable-paper?page=2 Forget flash and hype: This is the kind of site that makes the Internet a fabulous thing. You may only need graph paper, or music sheets once in a blue moon, but you know that when you need them, they’re but a click away. Terrif.
Category Archives: Crafts
Weaving a wicker basket; the most comprehensive basket tutorial on the internet- jonsbushcraft.com
http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/basicbasket.htm Basketweaving 101. For real.
picturing_food: Naturally-Dyed Easter Eggs
http://community.livejournal.com/picturing_food/4610060.html Incredibly beautiful “organic” Easter eggs, made from natural dyes and impressed with garden clippings. What a shame that they must be smashed apart to ultimately be enjoyed.
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http://www.goodyblog.com/playing_house/2009/04/the-easiest-easter-eggs-of-all.html Bringing new meaning to the term “tie-dye”; Easter eggs worthy of the boardroom.
Yip Yip Costume
http://www.instructables.com/id/Yip-Yip-Costume/ If ever there was an incentive to get over my aversion to costumes, this is it. I’ve got over 360 days to practice my bbbbriiiiiiiiing-ing.
RobertSabuda.com: Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make!
http://robertsabuda.com/popmake/index.asp Master papercraftsman Robert Sabuda very generously shares some free pop-up patterns, as well as the detailed instructions on how to assemble them.
Origami Paper Box
http://www.netflixorigami.com/box.htm The karmic repayment for my ability to calligraphise, I suppose, is that all my origami attempts have been abject failures. It seems I am a master of the Crumpled Uneven Paper form, and not much else.
Craft Challenge #13 – Rockin’ Sock Monkeys – The Results! | Craftster.org Blog
http://craftster.org/blog?p=123 More reinforcement from The Internet. This time, I can practically hear the “neener neener neener”. My foolish attempts at sock monkeys are being pitied by this beaut:
I made a mini &Yip-yip& alien! – FIBER ARTS
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=200247.msg2128256 Felted Yip-Yips. What remains to be said but, “uh-huh, uh-huh, YIP YIP YIP YIP!” Want.
Home Based Jewelry Business
http://www.squidoo.com/homebasedjewelrybusiness I thumb this down, though I worry it’ll make me look like a big meanie. I organised a craft fair last year, and more than two thirds of the applications were jewellery. Of those, more than three quarters was completely indistinguishable as individual work. My concern is that people reading this will be caught […]