Crochet Smart
Magda Sayeg of KnittaPlease created this Smart car’s crochet cover as part of Il Lusso Essenziale, a Roman arts festival. [via CRAFT] More: Gas-station cozy!
Month: July 2010
Easy Tea Cakes for Kids
Zakka Life shows you how to make easy tea cakes for kids. I love the petite size – perfect for kiddie tea parties.
How-To: Bow Tie Belt
I love this sweet bow tie belt from Tilly of Tilly and the Buttons. This is a great way of using up bits of leftover fabric. And it can transform an outfit. [via Wardrobe Refashion]
‘Liquid armor’ based on shear-thickening non-Newtonian fluids
Speaking broadly, non-Newtonian fluids are of two types: Either they get thinner under shear, or they get thicker. Shear-thickening fluids, like the common corn flour-water mixture sometimes called “oobleck,” obviously, get thicker when a force is applied. This new and highly secretive non-Newtonian fluid formulation by British defense giant BAE is like oobleck to the power of ten, and can, reportedly, be very effectively combined with Kevlar to improve human body armor performance against bullets. [via Fast Company]
DIY Pencils
Flickr user Whitluxus was inspired by this episode of How It’s Made to create these homebrew pencils.
Grand Central’s secret train station
Grand Central’s multimillion-dollar secrets @ Geek Gestalt – CNET News… When FDR was president in the 1930s, the White House put a simple demand on the owners of Grand Central: protect the secrecy of Roosevelt’s polio. They weren’t being vague: They had a plan, and that involved the construction of a secret, fully functional train […]
Logan’s Run Cross-Stitch Pillow
This Logan’s Run cross-stitch pillow from Flickr user, Kiddy Amunda, makes the geek in me incredibly happy. I did this pillow with the poster from the 1976 movie Logan´s Run for a friends wedding (it is his favorite movie). Lucky friends!
