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What I made
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My name is Scott Bedford and these are the things I have made to amuse myself, occupy the kids and frustrate my wife!
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Decidedly dodgy dice

1) Four flavours of dice, all decidedly dodgy! 2) Spelling it out… 3) Roman style… 4) Dots and stripes… 5) Sweet tooth… 6) Even building blocks! I’m really enjoying R...

16 nov 11

Everything I made in a year

1) 19 projects, 10 fineliners and 5 marker pads later… I recently celebrated a year of blogging by exhibiting a print called Everything I made in a year at the Art Sells exhibition in London. O...

27 oct 11

‘War and Peace’ bookend

1) “Hey, who put that hole there?” 2) “Boy, my arms ain’t half aching! They say a good soldier never leaves his post, well, this is now true of a toy soldier as well (mainly b...

12 oct 11

Funky freestanding telescopic light

1) Compact and bijou… 2) …tall and proud. I love making gadgety things, especially when they are engineered simply and from everyday things. This telescopic light (which first appeared in...

05 oct 11

Six cool coffee shop crafts for kids

1) Espresso train Bliss’ometer: 15 mins Pros: Kids love trains, enough said! Cons: Adults will need to get heavily involved 2) Table football Bliss’ometer: 10min Pros: Very easy, and grea...

12 sep 11

Steampunk inspired balancing robot

1) I wonder if he knows he’s made from toilet rolls… 2) …a plastic roll-on deodorant bottle… 3) …and a lid from a can of shaving gel? Here’s a robot that’s s...

22 jun 11 1 person likes this

Chopstick and Coke can bird feeder

I’m very excited by this craft project – mainly because it’s my first contribution to feature in MAKE: magazine (part of a new regular series) but also because I think it’s qu...

26 apr 11

Webby Awards – how to vote guide!

You could vote for ‘What I Made’ this way… Or you could do it the easy way, and vote online at the Webbys People’s Voice website. Of course, you don’t have to do either ...

17 apr 11

Twisted pen tidy

1) How could something so twisted and warped… 2) …be so cool?! I love it when my boys draw, but I don’t love tidying up their felt-tip pens afterwards (most of which are normally on the f...

13 apr 11 1 person likes this

Coke-cola light!

1) Turn a bottle of Coke Light into a… light! I recently came across some nice examples of jewellery and bowls made by melting recycled plastic in the oven – they really sparked my intere...

15 mar 11

Wire and bead ‘toast stackers’

This must be my most simple project yet… a bead with a piece of wire stuck through the middle of it, or what I prefer to call ‘toast stackers’. Perfect for kids, in fact anyone who ...

25 feb 11

‘Night and Day’ dimmer switch dial

Lights on: Day time Lights dimmed: Sunset Lights off: Night time My latest craft project is a bit of an oddity – in fact, I didn’t really know what to call it, the best I could come up wi...

17 jan 11

‘Home alone’ snail soup decoy

Every boy and girl has treasures they want to keep safe – pocket money, a stash of sweets, trading cards (their Nintendo DS games) but where can they hide them? Well, in a ‘Home aloneR...

02 dec 10

Egg cup from a bent fork

So here’s my latest upcycling craft project, a simple, yet attractive egg cup made from a recycled fork. I got the idea after coming across a coat hanger made from a bent fork – I immedia...

15 nov 10

Diaper sniper

While I put the finishing touches to my next craft tutorial (another upcycling project – all you’ll need is an old fork and a good set of muscles) I thought I’d share the above illu...

09 nov 10

A scary shark mouth container

Phew! This one has been a bit of a monster (excuse the pun) – I finished making the shark 3 weeks ago, but it has taken me ages to complete the hand drawn instructions. Anyway, it’s all d...

24 oct 10

A shiny new Facebook page

Firstly, apologies for not posting my next craft project – I’m still working on the hand-drawn instructions, hopefully I’ll have them done this week. One of the main reasons I’...

18 oct 10

Four pencil and paper-clip ‘bugs’

While working on last week’s rustic twig and wire bowl project, I had the idea of creating decorative ‘bugs’ to enhance your fruit bowl. Originally, I wanted to make them from the l...

27 sep 10

A rustic twig and wire bowl

Last week I used an empty baked beans tin, this week I thought I’d be even thriftier and use twigs! Okay, I also used some wire and an old biscuit tin, but the main material is good ‘ol twigs, ...

14 sep 10

A cardboard fort with escape chute

This cardboard fort was a bit impromptu. I started off working on next week’s craft project – next minute I was rescuing toilet rolls and old boxes and creating my son an ‘underwate...

09 sep 10

An elegant ‘tin can’ tea light holder

For this week’s craft I’ve rested my son’s felt-tip pens and pursued one of my other passions, creating beautiful things out of junk – in this case an elegant tea light holder...

06 sep 10

An illustration called ‘cement shoes’

I just came across the Illustration Friday website thanks to a post from Claudine Hellmuth (AKA Collageartist). So rather spontaneously I decided to have a crack at creating an illustration for this ...

02 sep 10

A cheeky paper fortune teller

Go on, pick a colour… Now, pick a number… Here’s your fortune… No. 1: You will be attacked by a killer robot No. 2: You will get grunged by the ‘poo’ machine No. 3...

30 aug 10

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