Steampunk jewelry has never been for me, but I still respect people making things in this currently popular style. So I often find myself searching for Steampunk stuffs on Etsy.
I recently found and can’t stop thinking about these awesome converted toy guns by River Wraith.

Can you believe this is a converted Nerf gun, made of [...]

The American Craft Council show in Baltimore is huge.  I mean really, really huge.  With 3 days and over 700 craft vendors, craft sensory overload is common.  Hello Craft was fortunate to have the on-site aid of shoppers who stopped by our booth to share their hard-sought, handmade finds.
Here, in ACC Baltimore Part 1, I’ll [...]

For the holidays Hello Craft sponsored an Upcycled Secret Santa Swap over at swap-bot. The aim of the swap was to repurpose materials to make something new for your secret Santa.
Well the results are in and we have some very crafty people out there. Here is a handful of what was created:

Kim with a rockin’ [...]

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade.

This week, Tripper Dungan tells us about the shadow puppets that he makes from cereal boxes.
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This [...]

We were so enamored of the swap process over at swap-bot, that we decided to give it a try. So please join us in our Upcycled Secret Santa Swap.
In the spirit of promoting handmade and a dash of conservation (good for both your wallet and the planet) we will be using items you probably already [...]

As someone who is obsessed with the upcycling craft craze, I was totally psyched to hear that the Garth Johnson, the man behind the cerebral and often hysterical Extreme Craft blog, has signed on with Quarry Publishing to pen 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, the next book in their “1000 Series”.
Johnson is currently looking for [...]