Yooper Gal

Freebie – Printable Owl Library Cards

YooperGal — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:20:30 +0000

These are absolutely adorable!

The set, from Love vs. Design includes several colors of owl, but also includes the library cards!

I’ve been looking for library cards!

Check them out and <Download Here>

Tutorial: Rock Cairn Photo or Tag Holder

YooperGal — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:49:03 +0000

GardenMama has a great tutorial for these awesome photo holders!

I think they would be perfect for pricing or item descriptions at a craft show.

I’ll post more when the snow clears and I can get to the rocks to actually make a few of these!

Tutorial – Transferring Images Onto Stone

Tutorial – Transferring Images Onto Stone

YooperGal — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:07:35 +0000

GardenMama’s blog is awesome!

I am soooo going to make these and leave them around town!

C’mon spring!
I can’t wait to go to the lake and find some smooth lake stones!

Maybe I’ll have to go freeze my fingers off!

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Freebie – Valentine’s Day Printables

YooperGal — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:50:49 +0000

I’ve run across several different Valentine’s Day Printables around the net.

Here are a few of the ones I really like!

Super cute printable valentines – from Hello! Lucky:

18 Valentine’s Day cards (6 designs in 3 different colors) from Thank You Card Shop:

Printable mini valentines from A Pair of Pears (3 different designs):

Adorable Valentine’s Day cards from We Love to Illustrate (designs from 7 illustrators available – Jennifer Bell’s shown below):

images from their respective sources.

I hope you enjoy these printables as much as I have!

Freebie – Printable Mini Valentines

Tutorial: Easy Tiny Envelopes

YooperGal — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:48:55 +0000

This is an awesome DIY found at <PoppyTalk>

I have boxes of scrapbook paper and I don’t really scrap!

Guess I’ll be making some of these then!

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Freebie – Printable Mini Valentines

YooperGal — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:40:10 +0000

Check out these awesome FREE Printable Mini Valentines from PaperCrave.

You can check ‘em out and download them <Here>

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Tutorial: How to Make Concrete Tealight Holders

YooperGal — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:23:52 +0000

Check out this awesome tutorial on how to make your own tealight holders!

All you need is fine mixed concrete, small silicone molds, oil, a paintbrush, a spatula, and some tealights.

1. Begin by oiling the molds. You technically don’t need to oil silicone molds, but it doesn’t hurt to be on the safe side.	2. Oil the underneath and sides of the tealight.
3. Mix the concrete and fill the mold with it to just below the top, stopping the concrete from overflowing when you push in the tealight.	4. Shake the mold to get rid of any air bubbles and to level the concrete’s surface.
5. Press the tealight into the center of the concrete, then leave to set on a flat surface. It will take about 24 hours to set.	6. Carefully remove the holders from the molds, and then wash the molds so that they can be reused

I used to work with hypertufa, or “tufa” for short. It’s a lightweight cement mixture.

I’m definitely going to try these with some tufa this coming spring!

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Flying People!

YooperGal — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:53:04 +0000

Look up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane.

It’s an RC plane designed to look like a human being! Up close it’s obvious that these are very simple RC planes, but from a distance they look like people flying through the sky. They were flown over New York City to promote the movie Chronicle.

How awesome!

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Geeky Paintovers using Victorian Portraits

YooperGal — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:40 +0000

Up-cycling at its geeky finest!

Artist Alex Gross creates geek-tastic portraits!

Gross takes old Victorian portraits and paints over them, transforming them into characters from comic books and Sci-Fi movies like Batman, Wolverine, and Darth Vader.

At first it seems a bit disrespectful to take what is most likely someone’s only surviving portrait from like 100 years ago and turn it into a kooky character, but the truth is that it’s an honor.

Source

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The Internet as a Physical Being

YooperGal — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:52:06 +0000

I was browsing in the RSS feeds of the blogs I read and came across a short documentary by Ben Mendelsohn titled Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors.

With so much of our lives taking place online, it’s easy to think of the Internet as some abstract, ethereal gathering of information with no physical presence. After all, most of us never see the physical infrastructure that is required to shift all of that data around – and we rarely have reason to even think about it until something goes wrong.

But Ben Mendelsohn thinks about it. He sought out some of America’s largest physical information hubs, the unassuming buildings which facilitate the shuffling of mind-boggling amounts of data every day. In his short documentary, Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors, Mendelsohn takes a close look at a nondescript building in lower Manhattan that just happens to act as one of the world’s largest Internet nodes.

This fascinating documentary takes the viewer inside the types of facilities that most of us simply never stop to think about. The staggering arrays of cables all bundled together and the massive machines taking up entire rooms are the physical representations of a realm that we tend to think of as entirely virtual. Who would have thought that the Internet would have such a palpable physical presence right there on Hudson Street?

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