"Crafts" Blogs & Blog Posts

I massively enjoyed this video of a drum-maker crafting a biggun. Sadly it's been denuded of authorship and context at Reddit and I couldn't find it anywhere else. Making a drum the traditional way byu/knownothingwiseguy inoddlysatisfying I lov...

A woman returning to the United States from a trip to Kenya had a curious declaration at the US Customs and Border Protection checkpoint: giraffe poop. The woman explained that she intended to turn the giraffe poop into a necklace, a craft she had...

My friend and neighbor is a beader. She told me today she is beading rocks, they are beautiful. I would rather have a rock necklace than a diamond necklace, far more interesting. Funny thing, one of my neighbors and I were talking about clearing o...

Cats are terrifyingly destructive. Aside from their shocking effectiveness as predators, cats are also reliable chaos machines in our houses. It’s not their fault, of course—they’re animals we’ve chosen to allow inside our homes, and no cat w...

Often touted as a feature of tiny-home living, using the inside of your walls as storage space can be a good solution for any sized home. If you need a low profile medicine cabinet or some stealth kitchen storage, a hidden cupboard is a project that...

Do you have to use a step-stool to reach your taller cabinet shelves? Do you have mobility issues that make it difficult or impossible to reach cabinet shelves? If this sounds like you, or if you’re interested in making your kitchen more universall...

Welcome to “How I Became,” the Lifehacker series where I ask real people about how they really got their jobs. This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Matt Chapman, a modern watchmaker. The official term is “horologist:” someone who stu...