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DIY Light Box on the Cheap

Speaking of ikea hacks, i found this DIY light box hack that Im totally going to do. If you read my blog you know I use a lot of Japanese sewing books, the issue is that they require that you trace the pattern you need. Because they put at least 5 patterns on one sheet tracing can be apain in the ass, heres where a light box can and will come on handy.

Baby changing table grows into light table.

Boris recycles his daughter’s old changing table into a lightbox. Love how it closes in a compact little thing.

“I made the Sniglar baby changing table into a light box. My wife, for a few years now, likes to practice sewing for our daughters. She buy a lot of books containing patterns she has to reproduce on white paper which she then uses to cut the fabric. It’s not easy to reproduce those patterns onto the paper.

As our youngest daughter is now two and a half years old, we do not need any more our Sniglar changing table, and I decided to transform it into a light table for my wife. I first thought to keep the table structure as it, but finally, I prefered to use the two level of the table to make one foldable table. I first fixed together the two vat with a long piano hinge. Then I stuck aluminium foil into the vats to reflect the light and I fixed four neon tubes into it. A few meters of cable later, I then closed the vats with two white and opaque plexiglass panels and that’s it.”

Via: Ikeahacker

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Better than Paint: Contact Wallpaper makes it easy

I have a huge empty white wall in my apartment I dont know what do do with.  I always loved  this wallpaper

I have been obsessed with it since I saw it in apartment therapy a couple of years ago, its from Cole and Son and is called Birch forrest. Tempaper, makes temporarily adhesive paper in a number of different designs and shades.

“Tempaper is a vinyl coated self adhesive wall decor. Our printing process incorporates the traditional technique of gravure or intaglio copper plate engraving with state of the artmaterials to bring a classic look and feel to the finished product. these designs available for your home or decorating needs.”

So you can stick it , move it, re stick it, and brink things like your nasty fridge back to life.  many of the designs are great, but they arent quite what im looking for, I have been ruined by the birch forest. Do you have any suggestions?

Tempaper.com

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OH MY GOD: a brief Journey in my search of the G-O-D, and how George Carlin Changed my life, Part 1 CheekyStick Craft Blog, Cheekystitch God Blog, CheekyStich Religions blog

My relationship with god began at
Academia Los Pinares: a Christian missionary school located in Tegucigalpa Honduras

It was a very conservative missionary school run for the children of
the elite, to them black people were a myth and gays were going to
hell, and trolls too, you know.
What I learned? Jesus is a scary
motherfucker, and most missionaries were dicks, yes dicks. I had huge
hair even then.  I didnt hate gay people, I knew gay people, liked
gay people. Most of what I was taught about modesty, my role/future as
a woman, and how I would obtain salvation or achieve damnation 
seemed fucked up.

My cousins went to El Liceo Militar Del Norte, a military school in
San Pedro Sula, that put a gun in my cousin's,  borderline
personality hands. I could always count on her to wake me up in the
middle of the night with a knife or something, threatening violence
over her mothers affection.

The Dodless ( Leti) threatened me with mortal violence, while the
God fearing ( Los PInares) Spooked me out with stories of deamon's,
which I immediatly filed under  the boogie man, the due that lived
under my bed, homeboy in the closet and the creepy tales from the crypt
gimp.

In my house my grandmother practiced Santeria, an afro Yoruba
tradition of worshipping  catholic saints which represented
African gods. This is a religion that was spreads why enslaved African
along the trans Atlantic slave route

DIY Screan Printing Machine: Instructables teaches you how to make that 4 color Che shirt on the cheap. Cheekystitch, Cheeky Stitch Screan printing blog, Cheeky Stitch Design blog

If your as fickle as me with he crafts some investments are not worth making it

• Gocco machine=  i dream of that kind of free time
• All those paints that were on sale = Toxic shit sitting in my kitchen
• Exotic Seeds = Grasshopper isnt that patient yet, but im working on it

I love instructables though it will help you with those in between projects you might not b so sure you’ll go through with. Glass cutter anyone?

Tools You’ll Need:

Power Drill/Screwdriver
Wood and Metal Bits
Miter Saw
Table Saw or Circular Saw
Electric Sander
Workbench Vise or Drill Press
Yardstick/Measuring Tape
Pencil
Level
Square
Clamps
Wood Glue
Welding Glue (or tools/materials for welding)
Paper or Cardstock

Read on Instructables.com

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be subversive, make it yourself

DIY Birdhouses: Apartment therapy and Habana Outpost are kinda into birds, not in the English sense. Cheekystitch blog, Birdhouse blog

At my job at Habana Outpost , I generally do marketing and event planning, office work, gardening, and a little bartending.
I also schedule events for our Kids Corner, we do Eco friendly crafts. We bought these DIY birdhouses for the kids to decorate. It was pretty fun and messy as hell. But the childlings seemed to Like it. The house shows above was the best to decorate.

"There’s something about this we really like. While at first glance we
didn’t think cardboard would be sturdy enough for a house, even one for
birds, we remembered just how light birds are, and think that as long
as this was in a covered spot, it’d be lovely."

Read more

www.Apartment therapy.com

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Screw Hallmark: JunkMail Greetings puts the mean into greeting cards. Cheekystitch, Greetingcard blog, Design blog, Crafts abnd DIY

JunkMail Greetings is the better designed alternative to one of my favorite websites someecards.com
Check out Carol Lee’s ruthless and delicious creations

www.carolleedesigns.etsy.com 

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Satchel of Gravel: Do it yourself Streetwear Company Parody makes me laugh so hard I threw up on your all over print, OHHH art.. CheekyStitch Streetwearblog, Cheelystitch Craft blog

Satchel of gravel makes me smile for all sorts of reasons but this was how i fell in love with them

Thats right kids, DIY streetwear below

Well take off that all over polka dot New Era fitted and loosen your
bandana because we’re going to show you how to get PAID, by starting
you own streetwear label in 10 easy steps.

1. Come up with an ironic name that only you and your immediate
circle of friends will get. This way, when you “blow up” you can talk
about the roots of the name in blog interviews.

2. Create a logo. Or even better, just re-appropriate someone
else’s. Go through your collection of mid-90s rap CDs, find the ones
that made you feel extra tough in front of your bedroom mirror and jack
the artist’s font. If you’re really not trying to do all that, then
just use one of the songs you like. Practically the whole streetwear
scene has gotten their brand identity this way.

3. Create a website. It’s important that you do this BEFORE you
actually have any product. This way, you can get people hyped about the
debut of your line (which reminds me, our new line of tees will be
dropping soon.) Promote the hell out of it by creating multiple account
names on popular street wear blogs and the making multiple posts about
your brand.

For more visit

www.Satchelofgravel.com

and ask em why they dont post anymore

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Fight for your Right: You though we woudnt notice calls out rampant design stealing, CheekyStitch design blog

This website is dedicated to calling design thieves of all kinds out on their collective shit, its a platform that original artist have established for themselves to support/rant about "THE  MAN" of their understanding

I told a couple of my corporate design friends about the site and its content and  the response was pretty much a unison shoulder shrug and a flippant "everybody does it"

Dicks.

Find out more at

youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com

champaign wishes

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Beautiful Machine: Brooklyn Made Bikes……. Go ahead, swoon

So Brooklyn Based sends out a carefully edited fun blast telling you what you should know about for the week in Brooklyn, Nicole put together these great resources for locally made bikes

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brookmachine.jpgBrooklyn Machine Works
What: Completely crafted by hand and in-house, Brooklyn Machine Works got started making downhill competitive bikes, but has recently unveiled a beautiful track frame called “The Gangsta.

Every bike is fully customizable.
For: Folks who know what a track bike is — single gear, brakeless bikes popularized by messengers — and can ride them, though Brooklyn Machine Works has added brakes onto custom builds.

Where: The Brooklyn Machine Works shop is in Williamsburg, but there is no storefront space. Call 718-387-3307 or email bmw@brooklynmachineworks.com to discuss your needs

For more info contact BrooklynBased.com.