skip to main  |skip to sidebarBuild/Make/Craft/Bakehow and why we construct the functional, the wearable, the edible, and the beautifulSPONSORS Artist spotlights:➤ Holden Lee, Robosaurus creator [interview]➤ Patrick Gannon's papercuts [interview]➤ Jim, the skull artist [interview]➤ Makoto Tojiki's glowing creations➤ Janet Waters, macro photgrapher [interview]➤ Christopher Delange [interview]➤ Chris Jordan's statistical art➤ Brock Davis: make something cool every day➤ Jud Turner, mixed media sculptorFriday, January 1, 2010Happy New Earth Year!Happy New Earth Year to everyone on our tiny planet. May your 2010 be full of adventures and safe homecomings.Posted byWendyat10:42 AM7commentsLabels:earth,holiday,newyear,videoTuesday, November 24, 2009Craft exchange, anyone?I've been invited to participate in a craft exchange but it involves recruiting a few other people. Anyone interested? You'd have to send something handmade off to 6 people one person and recruit 6 others to do the same. In return you'd get 36 unique handcrafted thingamabobs in the mail. I happen to know a few people who are participating; the crafty loot promises to be pretty high quality.If you are up for it, email me (wendy at buildmakecraftbake dot com) and I'll send along the full details. If not, that's cool. Note: I'll update this when I have 6 volunteers. Happy Thanksgiving![Update 12/06/09: Thanks to the careful reader who pointed out that I had the wrong details down for the exchange. You only have to send something to ONE person. Much easier. A few spots are still up for grabs if you're interested.]Posted byWendyat10:24 PM2commentsLabels:announcements,art,craft,exchangeSunday, November 15, 2009Book-making processMy friend Anna is in a book arts program right now, so I imagine her making the books in this video, but they're actually the work of Abigail Uhteg at the Women's Studio Workshop. I find the stitching that starts around 1:30 particularly mesmerizing. Seeing the process video for an intricate project like this makes the end product seem like a steal at $700, don't you think? (A free PDF of the book is also available here.)Posted byWendyat9:03 PM3commentsLabels:book,bookart,photography,photos,process,videoTuesday, October 20, 2009Stuff, moving, and a link to a cool giveawayPacking to move is forcing me to sort my art and craft supplies. I'm getting rid of a lot and what's left will be much more organized. It will be great once it's all done but for now it sort of feels like a minor amputation every time I toss something into the "donate" box. I try to not get attached to Stuff, but my weaknesses are books and craft supplies because they're not just Stuff. The knowledge and imagination in books is worth schlepping a dozen boxes of them from state to state every time I move. (And yes, I also make use of the library.) Art and craft s