Posts tagged: magnet
fridge magnet
By sergun
there is a mouse house on my fridge, but it is so clean:)
see this fridge magnet on my blog
fridge magnet
By sergun 
a day in the garden!
creative, handmade fridge magnets by using paper and acrilic paint.
made by sergun
Wooden Magnetic Knife and Tool Holder.
By Chrisjob
The on-the-wall magnetic knife block is a safe and efficient way to keep your blades sharp and on hand. But metal surfaces can scratch your tools and look a bit industrial, if that doesn't suit your style.
As an alternative, Lie-Nielsen offers the Mag-Blok an alternative with an all-wood facade. With options in sugar maple and cherry, it's made to fit your butcher blocks, and many models of cabinetry. And at $35.00 for an 18" model, the price is » READ MORE
17 Cool Magnetic Tricks.
By ChrisjobHome use and DIY projects, geek crafts, handmade toys...there's nothing wrong with keeping a few neodymiums in your tool box. The clever team at Evil Mad Scientist have assembled seventeen helpful uses, with original photographs!
Some highlights:
- Extract batteries from stubborn holders
- Find studs in your walls
- Make a homopolar motor
- Make LED Throwies
- Demonstrate magnetohydrodynamic propulsion
- Make a simple compass
- Experiment with self assembly
- M » READ MORE
Make Magnetic Photo Bookmarks of Your Friends (or enemies)!
By ChrisjobThe always playful Photojojo has teamed up with Kodak for this fun tutorial: handmade magnetic photo bookmarks. Simply take a full body photo, print it and its mirror image, cut them out, glue the top and add magnets to the bottom for a photomagnet sandwich. Then, READ!
How To: Attach Stuff to Walls without Drilling Holes.
By Chrisjob
Instructables user HighwayKind wanted to keep his kitchen a little more organized: "I didn't want to ruin my
kitchen tiles and wall by drilling a giant hole through it, but I did want to hang my knife and paper/foil thing to the wall. Solution: superglue and magnets."
Check out the process here...I'm not quite sure whether it's any more wiser to superglue stuff to the wall than to drill into it, but clever, nonetheless.
Make A DIY Stud Finder.
By Chrisjob
DIYLife points out this cool video from MetaCafe: A homemade stud finder. Simply glue a magnet to some fishing line, and pass it along the wall.
Mid-Century Furniture Magnets.
By Chrisjob 
Snowden Flood knows how much you'd love to own all those classic mid-century furniture pieces like an Eames rocker, Arne Jacobsen swan chair, or a Eerio Saarinen pedestal Tulip chair. And they recognize how much it'd cost to buy each of them. Even those mini-versions from Vitra cost over $100.
So they've offerend a different option: Mid-century fridge magnets. They offer each of the designs mentioned above, plus a 3 legged table that sort looks » READ MORE
How to Make Crafty Fridge Magnets.
By Chrisjob "Food comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and packages. Your kitchen cabinets, pantry drawers, and refrigerator shelves are already filled with marvelous little boxes and baggies of goodies. Some of these are cultural icons, others are silly modern wonders of neo-retro design.You may even have your own little collection of interesting little containers in the form of left-over little boxes of candy from Halloween. What can you do with all th » READ MORE
How to Make Magnet Photo Corners
By DIY Maven
I’ve proclaimed my refrigerator door a ‘pictures only’ area. I wanted a quick, easy and cheap way to make a collage of them. Here's what I came up with.
What you need.
Photo corners (I bought 250 corners for 4 bucks, which I had on hand from another project.)
A sheet of magnet (this is also a great way to recycle those magnetic calendars and business cards you get in the mail.
A scissors
What you do.
It probably goes without saying, but you » READ MORE
Sheet Metal Headboard
By NimueWe made 2of these a couple years ago for our boys space themed room. I later painted the frame black and really like that look with the cool steel. The names were made by punching a nail through the sheet with a hammer (but be careful, it scratches easily; 'liquid nails' was used to glue on the wood frame, and then it was screwed into wall studs.
Now that our oldest has his own room with a loft bed, we've hung it on his wall. The kids lov » READ MORE
Make your door more useful...magnet style.
By jrysavy
You could do this on any door, but it worked out really well on the closet doors in my kid's room. The sheet metal is held on by 6 screws and then to avoid warping, glued with some industrial type glue. Pretty cool and pretty darn useable.
Not just on the frige: magnetic primer makes magnets stick anywhere
By alexrussell
The refrigerator is no longer the only place for your magnetic collage skills to find full expression. Kling Magnetics makes a magnetic wall primer that you can paint over in with any final color. It's simple: one coat of magnetic primer, a coat of the paint of your choice, and then you can finally expand your magnet collection to any size your walls will hold!
