How-To: Dress from Button-Down Shirt
Instructables user emattrose made this super adorable dress from an oversized button-down shirt, and shows you how, too!
Year: 2009
Recipe: Split Pea Chowder
When the weather gets cold there’s nothing like a bowl of hot soup to make you feel good. I’ve never attempted to make a split pea soup but this recipe for easy peasy split pea chowder on Indie Fixx sounds super easy to make.
Contest produces cardboard furniture, trebuchet
Check out the winners in the Instructables Gorilla Glue contest, including a cardboard kayak, marble roller coaster, nightstand and trebuchet. Impressive!
How-To: Cure colorblindness in an adult primate
OK, OK, this is probably something you shouldn’t try on yourself, a loved one, or even a close friend. Still, it’s pretty flippin’ amazing: a full-grown animal, permanently (apparently) cured of a genetic defect by a few injections. Can X-people be that far behind?
(That’s a rhetorical question, BTW; those of you who know the real answer to that question is “yes,” just chill and give me my moment.)
Here is the original abstract at Nature.
Crafty Writers Talking Event in Portland This Sunday
Three of Portland’s best-known crafty writers will be discussing the craft world and their writing projects at Portland’s Hollywood Library this Sunday, September 20, from 2:00 – 3:30 PM. Panelists include Susan Beal of West Coast Crafty, and author of Bead Simple, Button it Up and Super Crafty, Diane GIlleland of Crafty Pod, and author […]
Enter the Laser Cave
Beyond having what may be the greatest name ever, Suryummy’s projection-mapped Laser Cave installation is overflowing with cool! [via Create Digital Motion]
Nightmare Lego
If you are clinging to Lego as the last uncorrupted innocence of your childhood, look away! This is creepy stuff, and at any other time of the year would be totally inappropriate content. Ain’t Halloween great?