Web Service yourfonts provides a software package for creating your own fonts. Although it's commercial, they offer a free web service that allows you to design your own handwritten fonts in a jiffy! Simply print out the template, fill it out, scan it and upload it back to the site. [via]

Are you sick of losing at Scrabble? Show that board who is boss by repurposing it into a cool picture frame complete with Scrabblicious tile captions. Next time your friend wants to play Scrabble you can point at the wall and say "Oh, sorry, I'm using the board for something else now."

Scrabble Board Picture Frame.

Okay so those two squares might not look like much, but within them is hidden a secret message! To see the message, you will need to open the images in Photoshop, go to the image/adjustments menu and select "levels..." to bring up the histogram. First do the small one, then the big one.

You can generate your own secret histogram messages using HistoFace, based off of a concept by David Friedman.

Here's another image and what its histogram looks like:

What you are (hopefully) looking at is the result of millions of dollars of investment and billions of man hours. The all new DIY:happy now with twice the Do-It-Yourself goodness and only 5% of the blue color that the other one had.

Along with a new interface and logo, we are proud to introduce our new user forum. To help get the ball rolling, we are offering prizes for participation. Details will be coming soon, but participation can start now! So help us bring the DIY:happy community together by checking out the forum!

The new site is might have a lot of bugs or other weirdness. If you encounter any such thing, please don't hesitate to let us know.

We have many more features in store, so stay tuned!

Everyone loves cake! Here's a new take on the old classic that will bring a little bit of color to your next creative confection. By separating your cake batter into several cups and coloring each one just before dumping it all into a cake pan, you can create all sorts of psychedelic patterns in your cake. Yum! [via].

These Bokeh lens covers can produce some pretty nifty effects in your photographs. Essentially, they appear to turn blurry parts of your picture into the shape of the hole you've cut in the Bokeh. For example, the hearts in the background of this picture of a dog are produced by the custom Bokeh lens. Learn how to make your own Bokeh and then go show off your stuff in the flickr group. [via]

Make your own Obama inspirational posters with this template from our friends over at worldlabel. It's one of the entries on their new label blog, which is worth checking out. You can replace "HOPE" on the poster label with "CHANGE," "PROGRESS," or if you're a player hater maybe "HYPE" or "MEH." DIY:happy will be there at the inauguration tomorrow, so watch for us right up in the front row.

disclaimer blah blah: This post is in no way intended as a statement of political affiliation. We're just letting you know about some cool free stuff. Please don't fill the comments with your political philosophies.

She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. No only can she make point five past lightspeed, but she can make the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs and outrun imperial starships.

I think this is about the coolest papercraft model to grace our pages. Simply print out the 6 or so pages of pieces and you're ready to go.

Millennium Flacon Papercraft. [via]

Don't miss out on the other awesome Science Fiction papercraft models from the same author (yes, they have the Enterprise).

Our friends over at worldlabel.com have released a large collection of label graphics under creative commons. You can use the labels for any of your projects or remix, reuse, and share them with others or on your website. The labels are in opendocument format so they work great with Open Office. You can also submit your own designs for display in their exhibition.

CD Labels and Address labels are available. Don't go with boring plain white labels anymore - get with the times and go check out the Label Graphics exhibition!

In case you've been living under a rock for the last year, everyone is poor. For the most part, we all have the same jobs, make the same amount of money, and inflation hasn't increased the prices of goods too terribly - but somehow we're all still pinching pennies.

Here's a few Christmas related DIY projects to help ease the strain on that old wallet of yours. Wait - wouldn't strain on a wallet be a good thing?

Christmas Tree Projector

Photojojo has some really cool ornament ideas you can make from any old photo you have lying around.

Christmas Light Controller

Ah, we wouldn't leave you hanging! Of course we have to include at least one project that requires you to dust off your soldering iron. This Christmas light controller can be made in 5 minutes ... supposedly.

Christmas Card Star

Got a big pile of Christmas cards on your kitchen table? Well aren't you popular! Put those cards to good use by turning them into a unique star to top your tree with.

Christmas Cards

Be sure your "friends" don't just cut up your christmas card as part of some misguided DIY Christmas Tree Star art project - make it unique! Here's a roundup of several DIY Christmas Card ideas.

Hidden Tree Watering System

Here's a project sure to disappoint - a hidden tree watering system disguised as a wrapped gift! Little Timmy won't know what hit him as he finds a bucket full of water inside the nicely wrapped box instead of that laser eyes super robot he wanted. Then again, if you were planning on giving him a bucket full of water anyway, this project is a great way to hit two birds with one stone!

Snow Globes

If you can make out that image, what you see is someone making their own snow globe out of an old jar. Pretty cool, and a good way to get rid of all those mini city models you have piling up.