We were hoping to start this series with a tutorial on how to do a basic mani-pedi at home, but then this shit happened. Here's how to save a broken nail. » 1/26/15 6:50pm Yesterday 6:50pm

Hey, all you origami lovers out there: go back to folding paper, and then folding it again, because I have here a grave offense to your craft. » 12/15/14 6:40pm 12/15/14 6:40pm

You probably won't be surprised to learn that Pinterest has a corporate HQ full of twee, crafty little touches that fair scream D.I.Y. It is enough to make me run screaming in the other direction. Yes, I know that I am a cranky, crotchety bat. » 9/02/14 2:40pm 9/02/14 2:40pm

When Sarah Goer and her husband discovered a disused storage space attached to their son's room, they decided to convert it into a Secret Treasure Room. For years, they concealed the room's entrance with a dresser, waiting for the perfect moment – their son's fourth birthday – to reveal its existence. Here, Sarah… » 8/10/14 5:19pm 8/10/14 5:19pm

If you've been wishing and hoping (and thinking and praying) for a way to create a dress that's even a little bit like some of the amazing fashions out of The Hunger Games, your dreams have just come true. Natalie Walsh has posted both this video and instructions on how to make your own fantastic luminescent dress… » 6/01/14 6:02pm 6/01/14 6:02pm

A new survey shows that more women are becoming "do-it-yourselfers," spending money and time fixing things around the house themselves—GASP—without the aid of a man. » 4/21/14 10:30pm 4/21/14 10:30pm

There’s a new DIY and it’s all about mixing home decor with clothing design. Who needs a Forever 21 faux fur vest when you can just fashion one from your roommate's IKEA rug. Yes, I’m serious and yes, that is a thing. » 2/18/14 9:00pm 2/18/14 9:00pm

It would appear that a full third of women in the U.S. are really, really into mason-jar D.I.Y. projects and inspirational quotes overlaid onto stock photos. Because according to the latest numbers, 33 percent of American women who bother using the Internet at all are now on Pinterest. » 1/02/14 12:20pm 1/02/14 12:20pm

Anybody else here love Angry Asian Man as much as I do? Then behold Phil Yu, the man behind the bloggy magic, expertly rapping the Left Eye part of TLC's "Waterfalls" in this amazing 10-person cover. » 12/11/13 4:35pm 12/11/13 4:35pm

Sick and tired of essentially living inside a giant cloud of pepper spray, residents of Irwindale, CA petitioned to have the Huy Fong Foods factory (makers of Sriracha) shut down until they can regulate their fumes. Yesterday, city officials filed suit. A judge will decide on Thursday whether or not to grant the order. » 10/30/13 1:30pm 10/30/13 1:30pm

Cronuts, the hybrid CROissant-doNUT that's captivated the internet's lust for novelty sweets, can only be found in one bakery in Manhattan — until now. » 6/03/13 8:30pm 6/03/13 8:30pm

Much has been written about the so-called "new domesticity," the surge in interest in things like canning, pickling, cooking, bread-baking, sewing, knitting, and gardening, which — at least if one were to judge by the pages of Etsy.com, the "crafts" category on Pinterest, or the stalls of your local hipster market —… » 5/08/13 1:20pm 5/08/13 1:20pm

Roopa Vasudevan, a graduate student in New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, used cross-stitch to represent women's voting patterns in this year's presidential election. Her work, currently on display in New York, is a series of embroidered panels, one for each of 11 chosen states. In each… » 12/17/12 3:25pm 12/17/12 3:25pm