Homemade Holidays Winners Announced
Instructables and CRAFT Magazine are happy to announce the winners of the Homemade Holidays Contest!
While most people are out there trying to buy the perfect item, many of you were working to make the perfect gift and we love you for it. The personal touch of a handmade gift shows your creativity, and how much you care.
Once again we were delighted by the variety of Instructables that were submitted. The entries just keep getting better and better -- just one look at the winners here shows that!
Even though there are first, second, and third prizes, all of these Instructables deserve a look. Be sure to leave comments and pictures so the authors know how much you appreciate their hard work!
Thank you to all the judges: arwen, natalie, ewilhelm, randofo, canida, rachel, reno_dakota, noahw, fungus amungus , and nagutron.
While most people are out there trying to buy the perfect item, many of you were working to make the perfect gift and we love you for it. The personal touch of a handmade gift shows your creativity, and how much you care.
Once again we were delighted by the variety of Instructables that were submitted. The entries just keep getting better and better -- just one look at the winners here shows that!
Even though there are first, second, and third prizes, all of these Instructables deserve a look. Be sure to leave comments and pictures so the authors know how much you appreciate their hard work!
First Prize Winners
The authors of these Instructables win a CRAFT Boxed Gift Set, an Instructables robot T-shirt, a CRAFT T-shirt, and a laser-cut Robot holiday ornament. (in alphabetical order)
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Second Prize Winners
The authors of these Instructables win a one-year subscription to CRAFT Magazine, an Instructables robot T-shirt, a CRAFT T-shirt, and a laser-cut Robot holiday ornament. (in alphabetical order)
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Third Prize Winners
The authors of these Instructables win CRAFT: Volume 5 and a laser-cut Robot holiday ornament. Due to a tie, there are 11 winners instead of 10. (in alphabetical order)
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Slideshow/Video Prize Winners
The authors of these Instructables win CRAFT: Volume 5 and a laser-cut Robot holiday ornament. (in alphabetical order)
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Thank you to all the judges: arwen, natalie, ewilhelm, randofo, canida, rachel, reno_dakota, noahw, fungus amungus , and nagutron.
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Hoorah for the winners, and W00T! for Kiteman, two wins LOL, and for me :
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Jan 23, 2008. 10:16 AMyngla
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*happy*
Thanks a bunch. Lots of really great instructables in this contest!
Thanks a bunch. Lots of really great instructables in this contest!
Jan 23, 2008. 3:40 AMVery Keri
says:
Congratulations everyone! Even if you didn't win, there were so many good instructables to pick from, I know the judges had their hands full! Personally, I favorited about 50 of these projects and I never did get to look at all of them. Gonna go make my own robot ornament now, I'll be sure to post it. :P
Jan 22, 2008. 7:16 PMThe Uber Maker
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Well, my spirits are crushed :( But I guess you can't expect to win with your first Instructable. Altough it would have been nice. I'll probably enter again some other time.
Legal, shmegal - it was her work, and she'll be reading the Craft magazine.
Kitewife is Mrs Kiteman - she made the scarf, all I did was take a video of the end result. She gets the Craft magazine.
Jan 22, 2008. 3:39 PMGorillazMiko
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I realized that you did win, 2 times!
Congratulations, you get all the stuff, and I sit here.
In the corner.
Sulking.
Congratulations, you get all the stuff, and I sit here.
In the corner.
Sulking.
Jan 22, 2008. 3:53 PMGorillazMiko
says:
Yeah, but I can't really think of great ideas. I work really hard, but I don't get much. Well, I got a patch and stickers for helping out the community, but those Robot T-shirts... ahhhh!!!! You must have like 3, or something. You won two times in this contest... lucky. I will have to try harder.
Carry a notepad around with you, jot down any ideas that occur to you.
(Oh, and it's five shirts, plus a Leatherman and several patches)
(Oh, and it's five shirts, plus a Leatherman and several patches)
Kiteman, you have a lot of instructables stuff. (I'm jealous), But anyway, nice job!
I use Freemind an open source mind mapping software to keep track and categorize my random ideas and to-do lists. It's easy to shuffle things around and re-categorize my ideas. Lots of times little seemingly stupid individual ideas can become one really big stupid idea. And sometimes, with enough mediocre, bad, or really strange ideas a true gem stands out.
But, it's the same concept as the notepad... just keep track of your ideas (good, bad or indifferent) and you'll be amazed at what you can come up with. Sometimes the perfect catalyst for great ideas is a brain-dump.
But, it's the same concept as the notepad... just keep track of your ideas (good, bad or indifferent) and you'll be amazed at what you can come up with. Sometimes the perfect catalyst for great ideas is a brain-dump.
....If you delete any of the Instructables you'll have to hand it back. =P
> big eejit grin < Like I said, there's loads of time yet - I've just celebrated my second year here.
Jan 22, 2008. 3:58 PMBran
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I find that ideas just come naturally - I can't take ideas that are being forced upon me.
Jan 22, 2008. 4:09 PMGorillazMiko
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Same here. I like to think of something, then make it. I have a cool Instructable I am thinking of making right now, but I'm not sure if I'll post it, I might though, it'll be up soon (hopefully).
Way to go all......there's some really great stuff in there :-)
Several of the images link to instructables different from the titles.
Jan 22, 2008. 3:42 PMGorillazMiko
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Ha! I just tried it, and it does take you to something else... strange..
Jan 22, 2008. 3:27 PMGorillazMiko
says:
Dang... oh well. Congrats to everybody, I was waiting for this all day at school!
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