HOW TO – Satin Stole
Learn to make this elegant satin stole for all the season’s holiday parties with the help of Weekend Designer. [via OnePrettyThing]
Year: 2008
Sprout in your toilet
The work with sprouting seeds is rinsing them: don’t rinse enough and you get really unappetizing mold in with your fresh greens. Here’s a solution to that problem that makes your toilet a little less wasteful. In action: Of course, you have the added benefit of the odd looks you’ll receive when you explain that […]
Energy, engineering, the future – All part of an automakers bailout
The talks of bailing out GM (and other auto-makers) are dominating the headlines, it’s an interesting debate and I think we (the USA) will end up “bailing them out” – not because it will save them, but because it will postpone an even harsher economic reality. I’m curious what the makers here think – it’s […]
Motherboard Dishtowel Embroidery
Life with Monkey combines old-school techniques with computer-inspired imagery with this fun motherboard dishtowel. i used to work for an electronics manufacturing company, back in the days when the aerospace industry was still big in my neck of the woods. i always thought the designs on the PC boards were pretty neat, so i thought […]
Airpopper coffee roaster video
Here’s a follow-up to my backyard coffee roasting post. All around great makers Mikey Sklar and Wendy Jehanara Tremayne made this video showing how to roast coffee with an airpopper. It doesn’t get any easier than this! They used an unmodified West Bend Poppery II, which is a somewhat legendary machine in home roasting circles. […]
HOW TO – Cardboard Photo Frame
WhipUp points us towards HowAboutOrange’s photo frame tutorial, which uses recycled cardboard as a base. Easy and clever!
Carved carrot clarinet
Linsey Pollak drills out a carrot and turns it into a clarinet and plays it, live looping with a Boss RC20 to record 3 layers….from his solo show “Making Jam” Wow – I thought you coud only get tone like that from a gourd! [via Boing Boing] More: Handlebars as wind instrument
