Amber Bouman - Crafty & Cashless

12 May 2010

Make Your Buttons Say Anything You Want

Buttons are undeniably awesome. They’re whimsical, tiny and fit on hats, ties, jackets, shoes, wristbands. They’re also often the cheapest thing at a merch booth, which means for a buck or two (or free! flirt with merch guys!) you can support your favorite comic/zine/band/sarcastic slogan. But’what about when you start

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05 May 2010

How to Cheaply Repair You CDs and LPs

It doesn’t matter if you’re a die-hard vinyl purist or, like me, way too attached to your giant wall o’ CDs to give ’em up, either way you want to make those treasured tunes last. And there are a variety of ways to do this, both spendy and broke-ass. When

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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28 Apr 2010

DIY: How to Make the Six-Pack Organizer

Does your counter look like this? Ugh! Hideous spills! Now for only $8.99 you too can own: the Six-Pack Organizer! Made from the finest quality pressed cardboard materials, the Six-Pack Organizer can hold, store and organize any household cylindrical objects! To operate: first, open and empty the “storage place holders”

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21 Apr 2010

How to Infuse Your Own Vodka

Vodka is a complex mistress. One minute she’s lovin’ up on ya, and you’re the suave, classy chick drinking vodka martini’s and charming strangers. The next morning you’re on your bathroom floor with eyeliner gobs in the corner of your eyes, wearing one shoe and hating life. However, vodka’s a

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14 Apr 2010

DIY Porn: Instructables

Dear Instrucables, How I do so love you’. From your LED Bike Wheel Images to your Star Trek Funerals, your PMA about DIY truly rocks my socks! Many an hour have I spent lustily pursuing your pages, learning the Sidewider, planning to exercise, performing gummy bear surgery’Remember the time we

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07 Apr 2010

How to Avoid Those Annoying Automated Phone Messages

There is very little I hate more than a phone tree (aka that automated bullshit when you call just about any company). Cold, mechanical, inefficient and infuriating; it’s altogether worse than say’being in line at the Post Office (where you can at least make faces at the screaming kids). Most

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31 Mar 2010

More Craft for Your Cash: $5 Etsy/MoCFA event!

Oh, hi there Etsy! What are you up to on Thursday? What’s that? You’re having a Craft Event at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco? Stellar! It’s free for students and a measly $5 for non-students? There’s live music and free* beer? Hooray! Etsy (aka the

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31 Mar 2010

How to Make Your Own Wrapping Paper

One of the things I refuse to spend money on is wrapping paper. The entire concept of buying something just to have someone rip it to shreds and toss it in the trash bugs me out’ Maybe it’s just that it emphasizes the futility of life, how no matter how

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