Tutorial: Little kid’s toolbelt
Megan from RyBug and Bug Creator continues her celebration of National Sewing Month with a tutorial showing how to make a pint-sized toolbelt. Kids love things with pockets! They can use it when playing with pretend tools, or take it outside for some gettin’-dirty gardening, or to keep crayons and glue handy when making their art projects. …
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Tutorial: Little kid’s toolbelt
Design a spooky cool Halloween tote for the Frank-n-Tote Stitching Contest at Totally Stitchin’ , and you could win a new sewing machine. First prize is a Babylock Grace sewing machine. Runners up will recieve a tote bag with $100 in sewing supplies. The Viewers Choice winner will receive a tote bag with $250 in sewing supplies. …
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Frank-n-Tote Stitching Contest
Pretty genius and festive way to decorate a cake, huh? Check out this balloon cake featured HERE at Hip Hip Hooray! . Find all the details of this balloon-themed party HERE at inchmark
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Balloon Cake Toppers for a Balloon Party
I can’t speak a word of French beyond bonjour despite the number of times I’ve seen Amelie . I really feel I’m missing out on the blog Les Ethiopiques , which is written in French. Even if we aren’t fluent, we can still get out our polymer clay and follow along with the pictures in the tutorial for making this fabulous …
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J’aime en cuir
I want to follow your needlework blog. In fact, I may already have your blog in my reader — as of today, I’m following 885. My reader is stuffed! To keep it performing well, all blogs that have been inactive for 60 days are deleted.
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Don’t get trashed!
Monika of the blog I Love It All sent in this great idea for recycling those old beautiful leather day planners that we all used to carry before our lives were organized on our electronic devices. I should admit though I still use a paper day calendar, I sketch in it as well as note my appointments and such.
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Recycled Day planner
On March 4 2010, Gordon Cook was able to interview me in Bangkok. This became the basis for the August-September special issue of the Cook Report, a newsletter that is distributed to telecommunication leaders. It’s the most in-depth profile of our work to date and the first 17 pages, which feature a detailed comparison of John Robb’s work with ours, will be serialized separately
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The Gordon Cook Interview (4): Peak Hierarchy and Open Agriculture
Amy from Our Daily Obsessions shows how she turned a woman’s knit skirt into this fabulous ruffled toddler dress, inspired by similar dresses at J.
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Tutorial: Ruffled toddler dress from a woman’s knit skirt
Nicole from Create and Delegate kicks off her Make a Sweater Better series with a tutorial showing how to turn an unwanted sweater into an awesome pair of leg warmers. Get the tute .
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Tutorial: Make a pair of leg warmers from an old sweater
Filed under: Fashion , Hair , Celebrity , News , Hair Color , Celebrity Hair , Designers & Brands , Celebrity Style Here’s what’s happening around the web this morning: Karl Lagerfeld Swapping Runway for the Web Karl Lagerfeld has announced that his eponymous label will have a ready-to-wear collection sold primarily online in lieu of a runway show during Paris Fashion Week . It’s like we don’t even know who he is anymore. [ WWD ] Carey Mulligan Covers October Vogue Carey Mulligan dons Chanel for Vogue ‘s October 2010 cover
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Karl Lagerfeld Cancels Runway Show, Carey Mulligan Covers Vogue October 2010
Ben Brandzel insists , online political organizing goes way beyond clicktivism , excerpt : “First, we should be clear about what ‘online organising’ actually means, and it is simply this: people collaborating over the internet to convert whatever resources we can spare into social, economic and political change. These resources include our opinions, votes, time, relationships, material goods, and creative talent
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A response to the “clicktivism” critique
Salt dough is a favorite medium of mine. I’ve spent many years making crafts with kids and have made countless cookie sheets full of salt dough shapes. It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s inexpensive
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Salt Dough Halloween Bowl Fillers
Just out of the oven, check out this quilty Moda Bake Shop recipe Twin Nine Patches . Featuring fabric line Arnold’s Attic and a simple nine patch these fraternal twin blocks are not identical and that’s the beauty of them. Getting value differences in a quilt is the key to a good outcome.
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Twin Nine Patch quilt
Halloween. According to MSN’s Money Central, and this was two years ago mind you: “This year, the National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend a record $5.07 billion on costumes, cards, candy and decorations for the holiday, with the average consumer spending $64.82 compared with $59.06 a year ago.” [ source ] Meg from Mega Spooky is going to help…
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Make a Life Sized Yard Witch for Halloween
Filed under: Fashion , News , Fashion Week Bigger, brighter and better is the promise of the new Lincoln Center home to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week , and StyleList has snagged the first tour of the premises in the above video. The evening before the official opening by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg , IMG Worldwide senior vice president and managing director Peter Levy led us through Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park , which the company has promised will move New York’s fashion shows firmly into the 21st century. And for those pining for the familiarity of the Bryant Park Tents , where the fashion flock first set up shop in 1993 with 35 shows and closed with over 70 shows during the Fall 2010 season, Lincoln Center’s larger floorplan, bigger venues and additional show spaces signal an obvious improvement over the midtown square
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Exclusive First Look at Lincoln Center Tents, New Home to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Please take a moment to check out this unique project, which will benefit youth all over the US. Twenty-five leading letterpress printers were asked to create fifty unique notebooks (one example is shown above). They could do whatever they wanted.
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Feedback Loop Notebook Project
Filed under: Beauty , News , Makeup , Skin & Body Photo: Getty Images Beauty is beginning to say so long to old-school plastic. Two of the industry’s biggest players — Whole Foods and Procter & Gamble — are passing new regulations for sustainable and recyclable packaging that are causing a growing rumble in the marketplace, where other brands are beginning the shift to using renewable materials. The new Whole Foods regulations go into effect this month, and mandate that suppliers use packaging materials that are easily reused or recycled, are non-toxic, and that they switch from plastic to glass when possible
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Beauty’s Emerging Green Packaging Trend Bids Goodbye to Plastic Bottles
The ancient Berber kingdom of Numidia existed between 202 BC and 46 BC in what is now Algeria and part of modern-day Tunisia in North Africa. With the sparkling Mediterranean Sea to its north and the unforgiving Sahara Desert to the south, Numidia had the Roman-ruled province of Mauretania on its western border and the province of Africa, which was also under Roman rule, to the east.
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Ancient Numidia
Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge, laid the foundation for the country’s industrial might. Der Spiegel discusses a book by Eckhard Höffner that shows that a key reason for Germany’s rapid industrial and scientific development in the 19th century was it’s lack of copyright, while at the same time the Copyright law in England hampered the publishing industry and innovation .
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The constraining role of IP and Patents (2): case study on why Germany overtook England in the 19th century
And the book, the bestseller Eat, Pray and Love , became a movie, hopefully a blockbuster. As we hinted last year, Julia Roberts (yes that Julia Roberts!) plays Elizabeth Gilbert touring the world after a divorce in a quest for the perfect life, i.e.
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Eat, Pray and Love, the director’s cut