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Crafts Hacks for makers; a digital vision board with clever tips, ideas, techniques and materials for DIY creations.

Weaponized Cuteness
Before I begin operating on my fuzzy friends, I sit down and examine each patient and select the best candidate for the job at hand. I lay out my tools and supplies while they all gather round. I make sure my surgical shears are nice and sharp, and I have plenty of rocks for fill, bamboo fluff, rice, abd gloves to protect my hands from drying out. Tiny sewing scissors come out the bag first and like a surgeon I line my tools up exactly how I need them. Spools of thread, pins, scissors and a little lamp, crystals, and plenty of essential oils.
By Sterling Finney 5 years ago in Lifehack
Star-cross-stitched lover
Cross-stitching began as a pandemic hobby for me. It’s similar to embroidery but different. Instead of being free to choose the style of each stitch, all the stitches are uniform X’s, crosses (pixels if you squint). When I began, I cannibalized my mum's old, unused kits. I started with a friendship bracelet cord before I knew what DMC floss was. Then after obsessing through Instagram hashtags, I ordered both Gina Coleman's books of Stardew Valley and Undertale patterns, as well as threads and fabrics. You can really go overboard with this stuff, I am ashamed to admit how much it cost. I spent many evenings sitting on my carpet, stitching, listening to what was on TV, but missing most of it as I looked down at my work. When I’m cross-stitching I feel like a young, Victorian maiden (despite looking like a small wannabe punk with turquoise hair and loose t-shirts). It gives me new admiration for my women ancestors who struggled through their samplers.
By Blaise 5 years ago in Lifehack
The Jewelers Journey in Mind and Body
Written by Jason S Jowett This most popular hobby started quite innocently for a traveler on a shoestring. Sometimes you can’t say no. No matter the financial burden the choice carries, when you’re approached by that mystery person clad in ethnic garb, walking a path thousands of generations, if not hundreds of thousands have trod, you just have to cave in. So it happened that I found myself in possession of a bundle of jewelry strings with no plan to wear them. The justification was to offload these at a later date to another fortunate soul as a gift. A realization however eventually struck me like a bolt of lightning. I could be a jeweler.
By Jason Steven Jowett5 years ago in Lifehack
A Tale of a Broke Girl Who Could Only Afford to DIY. Top Story - May 2021.
A creative outlet has always been essential for my mental health. Sewing, painting, playing piano, writing, making homemade gifts or cards - just anything and everything. I get so obsessed with learning how to create new things that some projects are way beyond reason, making most people respond with, "why? Just why?"
By Flora5 years ago in Lifehack
Handmade Happiness
Here is where all the magic happens ✨ #home #thecastle Here I am crafting a handmade pillow. As you can see I am using small scissors because I had to improvise. I misplaced my working scissors lol.
By Butterfly Nation 5 years ago in Lifehack
Arts & Creativity
Being an aunt to Gen Z kids is fun but challenging. I am a millennial and a 90s baby, meanwhile my niece and nephew are both under the age of 10 and yet they know more about social media, video games and technology than their parents, grandparents and even me! My niece is five years old and she can turn off a computer and work Microsoft teams better than me. My nephew tells me how to work a smart TV and he is nine. The two of them would either be focused on their video games, favorite Youtube channel(s) or wanting to take part in my Instagram account. I felt that it was hard to entertain them or find something that the three of us can do. That was until Covid hit 2020. My niece and nephew were bored so much that not even their video games or other technology/social media activities were able to keep them entertained. Within the first month of the pandemic, I had to find something to help keep them interested while babysitting them. It was a test, but I was able to help them have fun and bring out the creativity from within.
By A.A.C.5 years ago in Lifehack
Arm Knitting and Coping with Pandemic Anxiety
In April 2020, I found myself in an unhealthy relationship with my phone. I didn’t really notice it at first. I would check the Covid numbers and updates every few hours. However, as time progressed, I started to find myself checking for updates multiple times an hour. I would be watching TV, and would hardly even be paying attention to what was going on in the movie or show, because I was so focused on my phone. I also started finding myself going down holes, reading comment after comment on social media. I was slowly being sucked into the negativity of the world.
By Joyce Kay5 years ago in Lifehack
Crafting IS Art
Art is art in any form. Art is anything you create out of your own mind. It could be a complex oil painting with depth and movement, or it could be a paint by number kit you picked up at a craft store. Art might also show up in the form of a chain of paper dolls that you meticulously took your time cutting out, paying close attention to every detail. Art has no boundaries. Art is all around us. It might be simple and hardly noticeable, or you might seek to find it in a museum where it is worshiped and revered. Nevertheless, art is everywhere you are. Art is design. Everything you use, wear, touch, taste and feel required the mind of a creative thinker to make whatever object you're using become a reality.
By Wendy Sanders5 years ago in Lifehack
Tiny Bedrooms
Who would've thought I could build an entire mini bedroom, from scratch, and finish the job by adding a working lamp? Definitely not me...but I did it!
By K L5 years ago in Lifehack
I Am Puzzled !
Who knew? This is my latest puzzle which is going to be disassembled and put back it the box for future use. I started puzzling when I was a teen. I wanted something unique for my then young nephew for his 6th birthday. I found a wonderful Muppet puzzle and I wanted him to be able to keep it so I took every piece and glued them together so he could hang it in his room. I did that many more times. They became birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day and every other day gifts. I would imagine I put together at least 100 puzzles. As I grew more addicted to puzzles, I discovered that I liked one particular brand and I think I have kept that company is business for many years. They continue to be my favorites and I still buy puzzles from them. I now, sometimes, have to wait for new releases to add to my collection because I have so many of them. As my puzzle skills grew, I played with different ways to keep them as art and created different shortcuts to gluing them.
By Barbara Gode Wiles5 years ago in Lifehack
Stainless Pleasure
Definitions of a hobby include an activity that you enjoy doing for fun, an activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure or an activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
By Gerald Holmes5 years ago in Lifehack
THREE GREAT DIY PROJECTS YOU CAN DO AT HOME
Every now and then, you may feel that itching need to change things at home. A few new accessories here and some rearrangements there may be all it takes for you to feel more comfortable. People will change their minds about what they like and what they don’t want, and that’s unavoidable and completely fine.
By Trending Us5 years ago in Lifehack