Outdoor Fun

Colorful ice sculptures: ordinary life magic

This colored ice activity looks a little too stain risky to me, but the results certainly are beautiful: hurrayic

Indoor Fun

Animal sewing cards: just something I made

Crayons and watercolor paints make beautiful snowflake art: art projects for kids

The most adorable Martin Luther King Jr. portraits, made by preschoolers: preschool daze

More quick indoor activities that use household staples: ohdeedoh

Hope you have a great weekend!

Make your own gift card-holding (or other useful purpose-serving) monsters: white waxflower

Waxing furniture to add age and character: design sponge

Turn a paperback book into a custom hardcover: ohdeedoh

Great ideas for saving summer memories: Martha Stewart crafts department

These would be a great project for kids! Tutorial for making beautiful friendship necklaces: honestly…wtf

Good advice for any graphic design student: Frank Chimero

It’s a book: YouTube

Inspiration for making a cute and fun lunch: two straight lines

Elsie Marley is once again hosting her Kids Clothing Week Challenge, from September 20-26. See her blog for details.

Owner of CityCraft in Dallas named one of America’s coolest young entrepreneurs (congratulations, Callie!): Inc.

A great video prank using two sets of identical twins: YouTube

You’ve got to have a very sound sleeping infant to pull off wonderful photos like these: Mila’s Daydreams

Links to all the posts done during the Ice Cream Social: BadSkirt

The case for $320,000 kindergarten teachers: New York Times

Googly-eye buildings: Build Blog

How to move a 242 ton sculpture across a continent: Moving Serra

And, finally, what you’ve all been waiting for. The next big thing in sewing is…: The Selfish Seamstress

Diane Savona’s Closet Archaeology exhibit: via the Textile Blog

American Woman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

And its sister exhibition, American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

You might also be interested in viewing this hour-long talk, Revealing Garments: A Brief History of Women’s Underwear: Art Babble

If you’re in Nashville this summer, check out the Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957: The Frist

Eco Chic: Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion: Scandinavia House

Where I’d like to go this summer: Balenciaga: Designing the Limits: Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

We’re also looking forward to fall and the upcoming Japan Fashion Now exhibit at the Museum at FIT

Coming to London this fall: Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909 – 1929: Victoria and Albert

A little bit of tennis magic: YouTube

How they turn the lights on each morning at the Museum of Modern Art: YouTube

Please stay in your assigned lane: Improv Everywhere on YouTube

It’s jam making time again, and it looks like the jam will be wonderful: Inchmark

Looking for a novel family vacation idea? How about cow trekking in Switzerland: SwissMiss

Beware of traveling fabric salesmen: WBTV

Running your business vs. pursuing your hobby: CraftMBA

Drooling over this beautiful sewing kit: Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

Such a beautiful party: LMNOP

Chloe Sevigny takes you on a walk through New York’s East Village and visits some of our favorite neighborhood shops: Bust Magazine

We would love for our paper dolls to have backs, too: LMNOP

A brilliant solution for piecing of tiny patchwork squares: Sew Mama Sew

Cutest tape measure ever: Betz White

They certainly know how to do rush hour in the Netherlands: How We Drive

And, speaking of the Netherlands, these are the most adorable store windows ever: Design Sponge

If there’s already Spanglish, why not Chinglish too: The New York Times

What sewing machines and pre-paid cell phones have in common: Harvard Business Review

Gummi bear surgery: Like Cool

Our next non-sewing craft project will be these cork vases: Paper n Stitch

Made me laugh; the horrors of long legs: Heather Bailey

Have vitamins and exercise replaced girdles yet? Paleo-Future

Nope, not yet. Not even close according to this data on U.S. obesity trends. I knew it was bad, but I had no idea it was this bad: Chew Your Grouse

The rest of the country may be carrying a few extra pounds, but these guys certainly aren’t; beefcake quilting fabric: The Selfish Seamstress

How to convert a pattern into a downloadable pdf: BurdaStyle

I really need to get myself a subscriptions to Uppercase

Photos of the volcano in Iceland: Boston Globe and The Telegraph (be sure to click through the whole slide show on the second link)

Wear what you’ve made in May: the Me Made Challenge

One of these days Gertie and I will run into each other on a shopping trip to the Garment District: Gertie’s New Blog for Better Sewing (via Colette)

Where I’d like to spend an afternoon: Posie Gets Cozy

Enjoying the Collection a Day blog

Excellent advice on mixing prints: The New York Times

I remember shopping here: The Sartorialist

Taking this advice to heart, especially when using a rotary cutter: Radiolab

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, in Legos: Apartment Therapy

Keds, with unicorns: Heather Ross

Another in our occasional series of links to brilliant music videos describing the roots of the financial crisis (remember this gem?). The complicated Magnetar trade explained in 90 seconds of song: This American Life (Vimeo)

Take out lids: SwissMiss

How thread is made: AllPeopleQuilt.com

The most haunting, tear-jerking story you may ever read is this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for feature writing. Gene Weingarten on parents who accidentally left their children in the car: The Washington Post (Update: this is a very important, but troubling and difficult, article to read that you may not be able to stop thinking about once you’ve completed it: hence the word “haunting” in the description. If you’re a very sensitive person you might want to read the comments on this post before following the link.)