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Hand Drawn Typographic Thankfullness
This November, designer and artist Frances has challenged herself to a little project to note her gratitude and celebrate all the things for which she's thankful.The project is a combo of these amazing...
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How to: Saber a Champagne Bottle
If there was ever a time for opening a champagne bottle with a sword, the holidays is that time. You don't actually need a sword - a chef's knife will do - but I figure this is just one of those things...
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Winter Style: Five Ways to Wear a V-Neck Sweater this Season
The holiday season always brings a bit of extra style uncertainty: our gathering and get together potential goes way up, and we're never quite sure how dressy an event might be. We bounce around from...
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Gift Guide: 10 Holiday Gift Ideas for the Guy Who Loves to Cook... and Loves...
Whether you're actually looking to buy a kitchen gadget or piece of gear for a man, or just fulfilling your mom's wish to "send her a list," here are my (Gabriel's) ten picks for some serious...
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A Introduction to Campfires: An Illustrated Guide from 1942
The 1942 version of the Boy Scout Handbook featured these amazing illustrated guides to basic firemaking skills, as well as the various styles and applications of campcraft. The originals seem to...
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How to Transform Your Photos into Rustic Wooden Ornaments
This holiday season, I wanted to come up with rustic, outdoor-themed ornaments. I love combining real, organic materials with modern tools and technology, and this project marries those perfectly: a...
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Blow My Mindsday: December 4, 2012
Each Wednesday, I post some of my favorite can't-miss links, images, and otherwise mindblowing goodies from across the web.Food artists Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves created this stunning...
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Audio Infographic: 100 Years Of Rock Music in Less than a Minute
Designer Brittany Klontz created an interactive infographic for ConcertHotels.com that maps 100 years of popular music styles, from the earliest pre-1900 folk music to the super subgenres you probably...
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How to: Make a Custom Leather Case for Anything
This tutorial from Matt Pierce for A Continuous Lean walks you through the process of using stiff leather to create a stylish and protective case for small items and kits. Here, Matt designs his for a...
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Let the Holiday Entertaining Festivities Begin! [Sponsored]
The last of the Thanksgiving leftovers have been polished off, the bombardment of black cyber deals are (hopefully) over, and it's time to settle in to the real grooves of the holiday season, and use...
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How to: Make DIY Marbled Christmas Lights For Under $20
I love the festivity of string lights and paper lanterns for the holidays, and they're so easy to come by cheaply at the discount store. Except that, well, they look like cheap paper lanterns from the...
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How to: An Easy Way to Find Waldo (Almost) Every Time
For many years, it was no longer about finding Waldo, but about turning the pages and pointing out where I knew he was, and trying to make it to the end of the book as fast as possible. Cause - between...
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Masculine Bedroom Design Inspiration: Shades of Gray
Sometimes we forget that our bedroom is one of the key areas of our living space - if not the most important. If you're still sporting an 1998 edition IKEA duvet and mismatched pillows that were...
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Recipe: How to Make Triple Layer Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cups
This year, I'm forgoing all my traditional holiday cookie recipes, and making nothing these: Triple Layer Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cups. Try saying that three times fast. Half Baked...
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The 75 Things Every Man Should Do
We've all got our personal goals. That collection of things where we won't feel like we've tried to give our best selves adequate space. Career goals, family goals, fitness goals, travel goals...all...
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No Tree? No Problem. Make This DIY Photo Tree Instead!
No space (or patience) for an actual Christmas tree? This DIY idea looks plenty festive, plus it leaves no mess at all. Bu-bye pine needles!The classics are great, but I love "outside the box" holiday...
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The Chart of Hand Tools
We're always big fans of Pop Chart Lab's work, but we get especially jazzed when they start talking about a most ManMade of subjects: hand tools. The team's latest chart is described as such: "With...
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How to: Make a DIY Industrial Geometric Dining Table
The DIY blogosphere is full of inexpensive table projects made from affordable dimensional lumber and galvanized plumbing fixtures....so, we consider that topic still clever, but substantially covered....
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My Dad was in a Band
My Dad was in a Band is a (relatively) new project dedicated to sharing the stories of the children whom, you know, had a dad in a band. Most of the bands experienced only regional success, but a few -...
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Free Downloads: Design-y Holiday Wallpapers and Desktops
This season, deck the halls your desktop with a little holiday goodness. Jessica from How About Orange has assembled some of her favorite computer desktop wallpapers, smart phone screen images, etc, to...
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