MAKE’s Tools-N-Tips, Round 11: Gift-Making
By Chuck Cage
MAKE’s always full of fun projects, but the current TNT newsletter focuses on our favorite projects of the season: homemade gifts. You’ll want to check out the newsletter itself for others, but here’s our favorite: building your own personal Stonehenge.
Arwen O’Reilly: “For most of us, celebrating the winter solstice at Stonehenge is a bit of a hike. Paul Doherty has a solution for you: make your own. His fact-filled website has instructions for designing a structure with angles that point to solstice sunrises and sunsets in your chosen location, wherever in the world you happen to be. Bring your mistletoe and your mead, and you’re set!”
Now that’s a true Toolmonger-style project. Just make sure you get the scale right…
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:52 am
[...] Here’s one thought: ‘Pagan’ means little more than not Christian, Jewish or Muslim. Some take it to infer polytheism, but in any case it is not a technical term. Which pagan group, exactly, had their feast stolen? Was it the Roman cult of Saturn worshippers? Probably not, they had no doings on the 25th of December. Was it Egyptians worshipping a Sun goddess? Solstices would be important there, but what feast was stolen, and were you ready to claim that this theft occurred in Egypt? building your own personal Stonehenge. [...]