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Crafts Hacks for makers; a digital vision board with clever tips, ideas, techniques and materials for DIY creations.
Creating Happiness
Shoom pah shoom pah bright eyes wide open, excitement sizzling in the air Shoom pah shoom pah the magic I bring to my 5 year olds in the form of a pair of bright shiny Fiskars scissors. Scissor day is like the opening day of an exciting show, like the circus, or live performance, if my students knew what that was like. Their bright shiny faces awaiting to use the magic tool that they have seen me use that has transformed paper into so many interesting shapes and makes the greatest sound. Scissors are truly magical!
By Dee Mae Elva5 years ago in Lifehack
Turning A Dream Into Reality
Is there anything more exciting than the ability to create? I would be hard-pressed to think otherwise. In rare moments, when my mind has time to think outside of its processing and droning, I find myself in total awe of the world in which we love. Awesome, it is, to see the creations of nature and mankind intertwined in an ambivalence dance.
By Jasmine Hatton5 years ago in Lifehack
Favorite DIY project
My favorite DIY project that I make are cloth dolls. Even more specific than that are the Raggedy Ann dolls I make. I love cloth dolls because they remind me of an era long ago. My heart longs for the days when toys were simple and well made, not mass manufactured in a foreign country and end up breaking after a couple uses. Although, those days are long gone, making handmade items is a way for me to get back to those ‘good old days’. The days where little girls in pinafores and pigtails would have a favorite dolly they took everywhere, and they would sit at mother's knee learning the basics of sewing while making new clothes for their little cloth playmates.
By Candace Austin5 years ago in Lifehack
For the Love of Tufting
The project that inspires my creativity and brings me happiness is tufting. As someone who spends most of her time either tufting or researching tufting, sometimes I forget most aren’t immersed in it like I am. In fact, I’m learning most people have never even heard of the craft at all. So just in case, let me give you a brief description. Tufting is a textile art that involves using a machine called a tufting gun to continuously push yarn through cloth that’s been stretched across a frame. It’s typically used to make wall hangings and rugs. Simply put the process is:
By Jillian Harrison5 years ago in Lifehack
More than a crafternoon
I have been a crafter since childhood, but it wasn’t until recently that I recognized the role that crafting plays in my happiness and well-being. Scissors -- from my first pair, blunt-pointed and dull for my tiny hands, to pointed and sharp, for today’s projects – continue to play an important role in my crafting and my life.
By Francis Bertram5 years ago in Lifehack
Gilded Floras
As a craft maker who reflects on the ways of producing artificial flowers for interior and fashion decoration nowadays, I question why the desire to bring nature into our life ended up with bringing more petrochemicals to our surroundings. The domination of plastics as the main materials for artificial plants has been an unwanted and ironic truth for a true nature pursuer. The project is carried out in hope of providing a more natural alternative for friends who need a touch of long-lasting and easy-to-care joyful plants.
By Yi Hsuan Sung5 years ago in Lifehack
People say crocheting is only for grandmas
When I was a little girl, I asked my Grandma Annie to crochet an afghan for me. I remember waiting for what seemed like forever for her to finish it. I used to spend every Saturday afternoon with her. I vividly remember asking and asking when she would be finished with my afghan. Finally, my grandma presented me with a beautiful chevron afghan in six different shades of green (my favorite color at the time), from light lime to dark forest. I was amazed that someone could make such a work of art. I loved crafts at the time but was limited to lanyards and sand art. Each winter, I would wrap myself in the afghan and burrow under the covers. As I drifted off to sleep I would imagine the afghan was my grandma, wrapping her arms around me.
By Pamela E Ropelewski5 years ago in Lifehack
Unwrapping: sustainable happiness art during a pandemic
We are Goldberg Aberline Studio (GAS), two Australian artists who want to “save the world” in our own small way. We are passionate about telling human stories, and we make huge outrageous public inflatable artworks about sustainability, social inclusion and cultural diversity.
By Matthew Aberline5 years ago in Lifehack
