LinkLatte Links

Artella's LinkLatte™

april 2008

1
http://www.artellawordsandart.com/aprilfoolery.html

Words of wisdom from Artella A. Jester.

2
http://www.printpattern.blogspot.com/

This is a website that celebrates the world of
surface pattern design.

3
http://www.patternbee.com/SCRAPHAPPY.html

Wonderful little crafty patterns and things --
lots of ideas here.

4
http://lulalouise.blogspot.com/2008/01/reversible-shoulder-bag-tutorial.html

Here's a pattern for a great, but very easy to make, shoulder bag. I'd like one for every outfit!

5
http://www.alteredcloth.com/blog/2007/08/diy-headband-collection.php

Want a headband? There are several patterns for headbands on this page -- choose one or
several to make for yourself or as gifts.

6
http://moderncraft.blogspot.com/

Each day this blog focuses on a different modern production technique or modern artist.

7
http://www.flying-pig.com/

Some of these wonderful animated paper figures
are unbelievable!

8
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/default.htm

You'll enjoy this really neat look at movable and pop-up books through the years.

9
http://brightbytes.com/cosite/cohome.html

A celebration of the Camera Obscura, with history, examples, and pictures.

10
http://www.grouprecipes.com/

Group Recipes wants to be the world's neatest food site, harnessing the tastebuds of the masses to
create a really useful resource for food lovers.

11
http://howaboutorange.blogspot.com/2007/03/thumb-tack-tutorial.html

This is a very clever, very easy, very nice project -- make fabric-covered thumbtacks. Several of them,
in a pretty plastic box, would make a great gift!

12
http://www.bloxes.com/

Bloxes are exceptionally strong, light-weight building blocks made of cardboard, each about
nine inches square. You can fasten them together
to build with. Be sure and click "PIX" for a slide
show of some structures made of bloxes.

13
http://thingstobehappyabout.com/

If you click on the sun, you will get a list of 109,185 things to be happy about, and that's not all
you can find on this site.

14
http://www.latteart.nl/fotos_etching.asp

This is a gallery of "etchings" on cups of latte!
Some are beautiful, some are incredible,
all are interesting.

15
http://www.freerice.com

This site is an interesting twist on the "Click here to donate food" sites. You are given words and asked
to define them, and for each word you define correctly, 20 grains of rice are donated
to the hungry!

16
http://www.lamponislamps.com/artworks.html

Light up your life -- take a look at these works
of art that just happen to be lamps.

17
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/obsessed/

You will love this series of stories about real
people who are obsessed with books!

18
http://tomkennedyart.com/

Tom Kennedy is an automobile artist. Or perhaps
he should be called a car carver. Or a sedan sculptor. You decide.

19
http://ginakamentsky.com/

Gina Kamentsky creates Automata and Kinetic Sculpture. She calls them "Mechanical
Confections" -- you'll call them fascinating.

20
http://girl-gone-thread-wild.blogspot.com/

You'll like this blog of a fabric artist. She does incredible things with thread!

21
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/28/opinion/20080222_MIGRAINE_SLIDESHOW_index.html

A dozen interpretations of the visual patterns migraine sufferers see. Interesting "migraine art".

22
http://www.diemchau.com

Vietnamese artist Diem Chau combines everyday articles with delicate pen drawings to create
striking vignettes.

23
http://www.writingaffirmations.blogspot.com/

Patti Mosca's Blog. Patti's Affirmation Mandalas are featured twice a week in the Artella Daily Muse, in the Calmics Section.

24
http://reelradio.com/

The Reel Top 40 Radio Repository, this site was created for the preservation and presentation
of radio history.

25
http://hbovoyeur.com/

The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the
theme of voyeurism -- "See what people
do when they think no one is watching."

26
http://www.counterfeitcrochet.org/about.html

Readers of this Web site are encouraged to
copy designer handbags in crochet.
The results are interesting.

27
http://www.petercallesen.com/index.html

Peter Callesen is a paper artist. Be sure to
see the "Large Scale Papercuts"!

28
http://www.annejulie-art.com/

Anne-Julie Aubrey's art is light, whimsical,
delightful! Her gallery is a good place
to spend some time.

29
http://www.creativechick.com/

Susan Sorrell is the Creative Chick. She paints
on fabrics, and the results are fantastic!

30
http://www.instructables.com/

Here you can find illustrated instructions
for doing almost anything, entered
by people just like you.