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Puzzles!

slauricella — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:53:10 +0000

Now THAT got your attention, didn’t it…because who doesn’t love puzzles! Jigidi (we have no idea what that stands for) is a website with hundreds of puzzles for you to solve, but instead of pouring out the pieces on your living room floor you use your computer screen. You can even upload your own images and turn your friends or hobbies into a puzzle. Case in point – there is a Philly cheese steak puzzle posted. Another good thing? You now can’t lose that corner piece that would solve the whole puzzle.

Origami!

slauricella — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:02:39 +0000

Who doesn’t love origami? And it is more than the swans you remember. The site origami-make provides you with instructions to make trees, clothes, bears, airplanes…there isn’t enough paper to make them all. There are other sites of course that go to a whole new level of loving origami, including origami conventions. Wonder how many swans would be there?

Textorize yourself!

slauricella — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:45:32 +0000

What does that mean? Well, textorize means to create an image just using text. Are you thinking I could never do that? Well the nice people at flickr have read your mind and have software that does it for you. Enter text into the program, and it will use that text to create your image. Impress your friends (parent, pet) with your own text picture of them. How cool!

Being Crafty

slauricella — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:42:00 +0000

You know you are, so just embrace your inner crafter. But, what to do in so little time? Well this cool belt could be yours with only a little work. And if you missed the Wilton Library’s lesson on making duct tape wallets, that is another single afternoon project that you can do, without drinking 150 cans of soda. And at the Duck Tape website, there are instructions how to make lunch bags, hair bows, all with the Duck Tape brand of duct tape. Which is better than other brands because it comes in zebra and camouflage. Another idea is to paint those converse on your feet. In just a few afternoons you could be the envy of all other crafters! And, the best accessorized…

A sheet of paper…scissors…

slauricella — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:27:10 +0000

And tah dah! You can create all kinds of things. Who know about the possibilities? Well that would be Robert Sabuada at his website. He has a wide assortment of paper creatures you can make, from simple to advanced, that range from a simple bird up to a much more complicated (and kind of creepy looking) spider. All you have to do is print his .pdf directions onto a sheet of paper or card stock, snip on the lines, and presto instant animals. Depeding on your patience and skill you could have an entire zoo by the end of the day. Good thing he has directions for an ark on his site too…

Have a great idea for a T shirt and want money?

slauricella — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:57:23 +0000

Well get it out of your head and onto paper, because the Threadless website is having a tee shirt slogan contest. In case you aren’t familiar with Threadless, they are design forum but also an ongoing open call for tee shirt design submissions. Anyone can sign up, download a tee template and submit ideas, which are then evaluated by the Threadless community for seven days. Tee shirt designs are selected from the pool of the most popular designs as scored by the community. So that means YOUR design could be on a tee for anyone to buy. The best part is the winner of their current contest gets 2500 bucks! Who needs a summer job when you could design a tee shirt instead!

Do you have a dollar bill?

slauricella — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:59:08 +0000

Instead of letting it lay flay you can make it more interesting by folding it into a shirt, a butterfly, a ring. Or, you can track where your dollar has been on the Where’s George? website. And admire the pictures of folded dollars on the Won Park site. Notice how we didn’t say, actually do them. If you hit the website you will see koi that look like they could jump off of the page – amazing!