Piece of Craft: Beading Made Easy
Last April, I wrote about Alisa Burke’s book Canvas Remix and how I became inspired from some of her various tutorials using canvas to make beads. I attempted to use canvas paper to instead make the beads because I was having a hard time finding sheets of rolled canvas. This worked out fairly well, although [...]
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Piece of Craft: The Perfect View
I made a pinhole camera once in third grade and thought it was the coolest thing in the entire world. I hadn’t even thought about making another one until recently when I became interested in photography. There’s something to be said about not only taking your own pictures and developing them, but also actually making [...]
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Piece of Craft: Guide to Making Your Own Stencils
After my post during Halloween week regarding various ways pumpkins can be decorated other than just the stereotypical carving, I received quite a few e-mails about stencils. Specifically, most people were interested in creating (or finding) their own ASU related stencil to carve on their pumpkins. From my own experience with pumpkin carving, I have [...]
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Piece of Craft: Sparkly Studded Oxfords
The hipster within me just loves oxford shoes. I bought my first pair the other day and decided it was the perfect opportunity to begin a new DIY project. I bought a black pair and my first instinct was to spray paint them gray or silver and go from there, but while searching at Michaels, [...]
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Piece of Craft: Halloween Aftermath: The Best DIY Costumes
No matter if you love or hate dressing up, no one can deny that if you have a good costume (and one that you made yourself no less) your Halloween is bound to be a fun, successful night. This past Halloween weekend, I saw so many great handmade costumes and I didn’t know what to [...]
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Piece of Craft: Ahhhhh! Real Zombies!
This year for Campus Movie Fest, my friend Andrew decided to make a zombie film. For most of his films that I’ve seen or helped with, there hasn’t been any need for any extensive make-up use or creation of costumes so this was something entirely new. Despite our doubts, the zombie make-up used for this [...]
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Piece of Craft: ‘Tis the Season… For Pumpkins!
As is tradition around this time of year, it’s time to break out the pumpkins and get to carving! Or is it? Sure, pumpkin carving is the standard Halloween decoration, but is there other things you can do with a pumpkin? When I was growing up, every year like clockwork, my dad would go to the [...]
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Piece of Craft: An Easy Bird Feeder Craft
Finally, it’s nice enough in this desert to actually spend time outside for an extended period of time without frying half to death. It’s refreshing. I love to be able to sit outside and relax with a nice book, taking in all the fresh air and the wonderful sights and sounds of nature. And as [...]
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