Vivienne Westwood Wallpaper Gowns
British designer, Vivienne Westwood, created these stunning gowns out of wallpaper from her new collection with Cole & Son. The gallery of gowns is gorgeous and highly inspirational. Enjoy! [via NOTCOT]
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Mummified alien hand prop
Supposedly from the personal wunderkammer of Austinite video game bazillionaire Richard Garriott. Some of the other items are NSFW. [via Propnomicon]
Desaturated Santa costume
No, they haven’t been photoshopped. Brody S. made this awesome black-and-white Santa suit for San Francisco Santa Con 2009. [via Dude Craft]
How-To: Tab Top Kitchen Towels
Mara of Klieo’s Belly shares a pattern and instructions for taking store-bought kitchen towels and adding a hand tab top to them for easy affixing to the stove door handle.
Maker Birthdays: Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 (died March 31, 1727). While this astoundingly-talented English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and natural philosopher is clearly one of the most influential scientists in human history, most of what’s generally known about him is more iconic/symbolic than real (think: countless Saturday morning cartoon depictions of apples falling on […]
Chocolat Chaud Recipe
I will travel far and wide for good hot chocolate (my very favorites are the shot of Aztec chocolate you get in an espresso cup at Marie Belle in New York and a cup of chocolate I had in Italy years ago that resembled nothing so much as hot pudding), so I’m always on the […]
Printable chess set
This fun chess set ostensibly can be printed by a 3D printer, though there seem to be a lot of overhangs to me. Nevertheless it’s a fun idea. Basically, creator laird designed each piece to display what moves it can make in order to “make Chess approachable for kids.” The king has the tallest ‘body’ […]