This beautiful and hearty quinoa salad will satisfy any palate. It is richly spiced with cumin, creamy with avocado, sweet with roasted carrots, and tangy with citrus juice. Incorporate it as a side dish, or use it as the star of any meal. This dish is the most versatile recipe I’ve ever created. Feel free […]
I had some friends over last night for craft night and encouraged them to come with Thanksgiving project requests. Sure enough my best friend needed to make place cards ASAP for her family’s get-together, so we had an assignment we needed to make with the supplies on hand. Using heavier card stock I had in […]
I loved making paper chains when I was little as a way to countdown the days to something excited, like Christmas, or for impromptu decorations in my bedroom. Today I still love to make them, but sometimes I use such fun papers that I worry about storing them safely or, worse, having to recycle it […]
By Andrew Waser and Michele Lanan Wood has great potential for use as jewelry. It’s lightweight, easy to work with, abundant, and, as a natural material, it possesses near-infinite diversity. Wood also lends itself quite well to reuse. Gorgeous pieces can come from the most seemingly unlikely sources: a scrap of old hardwood flooring, a […]
By Emilee Gettle Growing up I was quite accustomed to the yearly ritual of selecting the largest turkey we could find and babying it through the roasting process. However, once I married my vegan sweetheart, my Thanksgivings would never be the same. As usual, my creative mom came to the rescue and taught me how […]
It can be frustrating to have to take off your gloves to use your touch screen phone. Capacitive touch screens sense how conductive your fingers are, and gloves are, well, insulators. Learn to mod your gloves with conductive thread in this episode of Becky’s Workshop. See the complete how-to on Make: Projects. Subscribe to the […]
By Jennifer Evans Gardner Photos by Kellen Gardner I’ve always loved Bûche de Noël, the traditional French cake that is rolled and decorated to look like a Yule log at Christmas. I’m particularly impressed that someone had the idea to create meringue “mushrooms” to make it even more log-esque. I have found that though the […]
