(A Lady and a Gentleman Fused… Richard D. James-esque!)

Okay, if you’ve ever had a girlfriend that you’d love to have children with, because she’s just THAT type of lady - but you worry about what your kids would turn out looking like… here’s a nice site that can either confirm your worst fears of having the only ugly baby in the neighborhood (that you actually pay attention to), or you can sleep with a fabulous amount of ease. Any way it goes, if you have a beard, your kid is going to turn out heinous, according to Morphthing results. No hard feelings. 

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Bubble mailers are the manilla envelopes used to shop photos and other semi-sensitive materials (see above picture). This instructional can teach you how to make your own sweet bubble mailers that you can customize using stationary or anything else your creative little brain allows. Just don’t use them to cushion mail bombs. Those are soooo 1995.

14 days until the END OF THE LOGO CONTEST!

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If you hollow out an old lightbulb - okay maybe not old, they get too frosted and foggy - you can make a ton of things! The latest, coolest, hippest thing with the kids is to make a condo for Sea Monkeys out of it. Simply hollow one out, slap in the sea monkey kit (easier said than done, there are formulas and kits with several different chemicals involved), and there you have it, a lightbulb Sea Monkey condo!

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If you’ve ever seen Terminator 2, or any other sweet action flick wherein folks are nonchalantly chucked through windows - and you wondered “how’d they do that?!”, you’re in the right place. This instructable shows you how to make sugar glass (read: glass that you can break over your head without getting a concussion). Easy, less than $20, fun. Freak people out! You can be the next Criss Angel and eat a lightbulb made of this stuff. Miiiiindfreaaaaak!

15 days until the end o’ the logo contest!

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These wreaths, depending on what kind of herb/foliage goes into them, can be conducive to the celebration of ANY holiday! Easy to make, cheap to construct, customizable… what else can you ask for? The instructions make it easy to collect things straight from nature, so it’ll give you ideas on how to brainstorm to make the best natural wreaths possible. High five!

16 days until the end of the logo contest!

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Here’s a cool site that has about 20 informational articles, charts, calculators and other things that will help you build your own aquarium. Everything you need to build an n gallon tank to house a fish or two. Or six hundred thousand.

16 days until the end of the logo contest.   

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Here are a few highlighted Ikea hacks that I enjoyed from a blog I stumbled upon while looking for ways to mod some of the purchases I recently made from Ikea.

Artsy ceiling lamp.
Weird kitty litter boxes.
Sexy curvy table.

Exciting.

17 days until the logo contest results are calculated. ENTER NOW!

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Spotbit.com offers a variety of awesome manuals and zines. From how to get rich, to Artzmania, an awesome indie art ‘zine based out of Malaysia (yet somehow in English!). There’s even a zine called “DIGI GRAPHYX” dedicated to graphic design (coughDIY:happylogocontestcough), there are childrens’ books, business guides, everything! 

In Spotbit you can either download a .pdf file, or for those of you haters (you know who you are), you can download the .exe file and get a whole really cool program along with it. The prog even has a page-flippy noise and you can manually turn the pages with the mouse as if it’s right in front of you. Cyber-magazines! What’s next, cyber-babies?! Er…

 17 days until the END of the DIY:HAPPY LOGO CONTEST! 

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This site is useful, it has a somewhat college/vintage/kitschy feel to it, and it allows the user to create their own animations using icons from yesteryear and little cartoons. Background music, recording, and saving are all encouraged here. Make Captain Picard say something funny to a dinosaur with an industrial rainbow background while Verdi’s ambience sets the tone. Anything you want, you got it*. LOLcats, too.

 *excuse the bad grammar.

18 days until the END OF THE DIY:HAPPY LOGO CONTEST!

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Here’s a fabulous instructable that can teach all you noobs (affectionate) how to solder. If you’ve seen someone solder and you’re not familiar with it, it seems freaky and dangerous - and because of the scale of the soldering iron vs. the solder; very delicate. However, it’s relatively easy, and basically anyone with 10 fingers and hand-eye coordination can master it! 

18 days until the end of the DIY:happy Logo Contest!

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Print these cute little robot guys, and apparently they’ll love you more unconditionally than your children!

“Fold and glue him together so you two can begin to enjoy quality time together. He is a huge fan of electronic music, especially glitchy techno and algorithmic minimal 3.1415-step. Sometimes he might seem more interested in his playlist than you, but don’t take it personally–he is infinitely more happy in your presence than being alone by himself. He also enjoys the nostalgic comfort of basking in the electrostatic field of CRT computer monitors.”

Crazy.

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20 days until the logo contest is over!

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Everyone loves sushi, right? And everyone should love making stuff and holding it together with straight pins, right? Connect the dots! This adorable little pin cushion is shaped like a sushi and made out of felt and foam. Minimal sewing, maximum kitsch.

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This document is a .pdf document about how to build all different types of camera triggers, so you can photograph objects remotely. There are 46 pages of camera hacking goodness enclosed, so don’t be surprised if you get more than you bargained for. Includes schematics, examples, and all kinds of cool stuff. 

21 days until the end of the logo contest. Boo. 

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Well, even though these are probably sold in stores, and everywhere else around the ‘net, you can still have more fun DIY-ing this case for a USB flash drive, made of METAL ( \m/, for those of you who are afficionados). Admire how valiant your flash drive is with its shiny armor! Or armour, if you’re British (I think).

 Behold! Only 21 days until ye ende ov the LOGO CONTEST!

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A lot of folks would love to design something to build that they can wear. Some, like Diana Eng from Project Runway, like to combine fashion and function in a technological way. Some just want to make a cute shirt or an awesome tee for no apparent reason other than to be more hardcore DIY. Any way it goes, we support you - so we enable you to make your clothes without going into it cold. Here’s how you can go about sketching the design to make your dream into a reality. No $100,000 in student loans for a Fashion Design (read: hypothetically useless*) degree!

*No offense to all you lovely fashion majors. We tease because we love. 

22 days until the logo design contest is over!

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