Category — Craft Projects

Gift wrapping can get so boring, and I get super jealous of people who wrap gifts all tastefully and creatively. So here are 2 ideas from the internetz about some easy and fun ways to step it up from a gift tag perspective.

1. You can print out these free gift tags from Angry Chicken, there are a bunch of designs.

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Have you tried Yearbook Yourself yet? You can upload a photo and see how you’d look through the eras.

I think these are my best three, if by “best” I mean most amusing. Heh. I’m tempted to use one of these for my next Christmas card.

My friends got married on a mountaintop in Israel, and had a little local shindig to celebrate the nuptials stateside. I offered to make a wedding cake for the party, and they gave me absolutely NO guidance. These folks are avid kayakers, backpackers, skiers, and mountaineers- but of all those, kayaking is definitely their #1 love. Furthermore, they met on a kayaking trip. So this was a no-brainer: I had to surprise them with a kayak wedding cake!

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YaYa Chou, a Taiwanese artist, created this bearskin-shaped rug out of Gummi Bears and fake nails, and it’s amazing.

I have no words. I love it.

Visit YaYa Chou’s site for more info and photos of this and other works!

It seems I’ve been serially bookmarking a whole bunch of odd and unusual DIY lighting ideas so I thought it was time to clean it out and share a few with you.

Latex Glove Lamp by Katarina Britse
STUNNING- the trick would be keeping them inflated for more than a couple hours.

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Check out these stylish bracelets made out of dead Starbucks gift cards.

Now I’ve seen everything. Young whippersnappers today are really just way too crafty, talented, creative, patient, eco-conscious, and skilled for their own good, I SWEAR, it’s almost enough to make you sick- that is, until you realize you’re just feeling sick because you’re jealous of their mad skillz and ability to execute ideas successfully and efficiently.

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I am so enamored of this decoupaged table I saw on Craft:! I want one!

The Lush Collection from Bright Lights, Little City, is all about making light fixtures out of cocktail umbrellas dipped in phosphorescent paint. The shocking thing is that they actually look pretty cool. Because what I just described sounds like what your 2nd grader made in art class.

They look even better turned on, as in the picture on the right. The big ones (shown) are $85 and the prices go down from there for other styles. I was thinking about just stealing the idea and making them myself but at that price why bother?

Happy Father’s Day! Now get to work. All the best dads know how to make shadow puppets.

Trashball posted a super helpful shadow puppet guide on his site. Which is great for me- whenever I try to make shadow puppets, my nieces and nephew are always like “wow Karen, you REALLY suck at this.” Even the ones who can’t talk yet. But think how amazed they’ll be when I bust out that super sweet 2-handed teddy bear… oh yeah. I will regain status as coolest and most favorite aunt. AND THEN I SHALL RULE THE WORLD!!! (Not really.)