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Felt Trivet Tutorial: Very easy with stunning results. These are so cool that I would use them as place mats or even something to hang on the wall! ;D

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"French" framing technique: get a sophisticated framed look without the high price. Very clever!

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Articulated paper creatures, these would be great for a stop-motion movie.

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Stylish and super easy coat rack. All you need are wooden rods and some twine.

Recycled paper basket. Excellent! I have a ton of this type of paper.

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Decorative paper inside drawers. Perhaps laminate the paper for added durability?

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Modern bean bag pouf tutorial. Hardest part is which fabric to choose!

Mount Fuji Tissue Bag by Tomohiro Ikegaya

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Craft paper critters

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Laser cut seaweed, making something already intricate even more so

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Toyota iQ Font: a font created by a car I'm not sure if it's /royalty/ free, I can't find the licensing info, but it is free...let me know if anybody finds out 100%.

Pixel art in the real world.

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A great tutorial on how to make string-tie envelopes.

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Geo Ball...an easy way to make some interesting looking baskets for small items...or big items if you had big enough paper!

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The girl effect: educating a 12-year-old girl can change the course of an entire village for the better

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'to create ideas is a gift, but to choose wisely is a skill' by Ryan Morgan

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Look closely...247

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These "Desktop Companions" are functional and put a smile on your face. Too bad that they're a student project and not an official Kleenex product.

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A great idea! You can buy them from puxxle.yoyo.es/ but they ship from Spain, $24

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Alice Springs Vet

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Could make a nicer looking rat house for Sachmoe and Yuki using this.

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Dueling Watson the Cat Poster, $24

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There are so many choices in type...why do people continue to use comic sans?

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The color choices on these are great.

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Great way to turn something unpleasant into something a bit more appealing.

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Great use of color and illustration

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This is a very clear tutorial on how to make some really cute pillows.

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WESTON - "The main purpose is to provide designers with font, suitable for modification in logos and headlines. Combined wisely, Weston will spice up your design adding the “not-your-usual-font-choice” effect. Inspired by the evergreen Grover & Rockwell, this font would love to find his place in your library."

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CS BENWOOD - "This font is unique and would serve a large variety of print design work, be it posters, CD covers or any other project that requires a non-traditional typographic spin. Each glyph has its own unique “woody” appearance. Designed by BenChalit Sagiamsak, and available in OpenType format."

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MAVEN PRO - "Maven Pro's unique curvature and modern forms make it very distinguishable and unique when in context. It blends styles of many great typefaces and is suitable for any design medium."

OVALIAN - "Type based on oval and circle shapes"

DIAVLO - "Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, Medium, Bold and Black."

Hah. If I can get my hands on some carpet samples I'll be in business!

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Balsa wood is really easy to cut, so this should be a snap!

Good idea for saving some money on cool fabric.

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People are finding a lot of uses for binder clips lately. This is a great idea!

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Oho, I could get rid of my "no magnets on the fridge" rule if I had some of these! Useful, and cool!

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Not as hard as it looks!

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This tutorial is very detailed, and the results are stunning!

I will never pass up an old office chair on the corner again if this is what you can turn them into! Great choice of fabric too.

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My new apartment has lotsa windows...I'll definitely be trying this out.

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I'll have to brush up on my x-acto knife skills before attempting this.

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Genius...simply genius.

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Very clever. Who needs shelves when you can make these? pennycarnival.typ...

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ALLERTA - "Allerta is an open source typeface designed for use in signage. Allerta was designed to be easily and quickly read from a distance. Each letter exploits the most unique aspects of that individual letter so that each character can be easily distinguished from any other."

PATAGONIA - "The Mara, or Patagonian Typeface, is a sort of long-legged giant guinea display face based on 19th century aesthetics that fills the niche of a small headline in the Patagonian design ecosystem."

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SINGLET - "Sniglet is a free true type font that works on both Mac and PC and comes with a full character set so you can type in Icelandic or even French! Designed by Haley Fiege in 2008."

BLACKOUT - "Eats holes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Inspired by filling in sans-serif newspaper headlines. Continually updated with coffee and music. Makes your work louder than the next person’s." Two styles: Solid and Reversed

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LEAGUE SCRIPT 1 - "This ain’t no Lucinda. League Script 1 is a modern, coquettish script font that sits somewhere between your high school girlfriend’s love notes and handwritten letters from the ’20s. "

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