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San Jose Craft

Coffee for the weekend

This week, Santa Cruz'sVerve Coffee Roasterswoke up in Portland, OR for the2012 United States Barista Championship and Brewers Cup(USBC) where...
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Class: Creating Your Online Store

Have you thought about creating your own online craft store but you do not know where to start?Sometimes thebooks on this very subject are...
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Make a magazine trimmed mirror: San Francisco

  • magazine mirror
  • March 14, 2012
Rainy days were always craft days when I was growing up and today in San Francisco, it's raining. Recently I've been obsessing over the...
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Handful of salt: exploring the intersection of design and craft

  • handful of salt
  • August 12, 2011
I’ll admit it. I’ve never been a “crafts” person. Sure, I had a paint-by-numbers set as a kid and was intrigued seeing my...
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Build your dream gingerbread house

Creating and designing gingerbread houses is a classic holiday activity. It can also be messy and time-consuming, what with baking the pieces for...
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Nature craft with the California Academy of Sciences: Bird nest and nest building station

Memorial Day is upon us and with this holiday spring seems to be almost over. However with the wet and cold weather the Bay Area has experienced so...
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Nature craft with the California Academy of Sciences: Flutter-by butterfly

The butterfly's metamorphosis never ceases to impress young and old. The success of Eric Carle's 1969 bookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar is a...
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Nature craft with the California Academy of Sciences: Stone turtle and the science of turtles

Following these simple instructions designed by the Early Childhood & Family Programsdepartment at the California Academy of Sciences, you can...
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May Day history and craft

May Day is an ancient festival originating in England before the Middle Ages; An annual observance that celebrates spring, flowers and children.It...
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Remember the Titanic with an ephemera collage

Tuesday, April 15, 2012 marks the one hundred year anniversary of the sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Titanic. Probably the most famous...
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