Chinese New Year Recipes
Check out Food 2 for a collection of delicious recipes for Chinese New Year. Feel like throwing a party? The site also has an overview on how to host a great New Year party.
Month: February 2011
Crafty Art Selections by Garth Johnson
Garth Johnson, everyone’s favorite Extreme Crafter, is curating a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, now through July 9, 2011.
Refrigophone
Ranjit Bhatnagar writes: For all four years of the instrument-a-day project, my noisy refrigerator has plagued me: I have to unplug it whenever I record a new instrument at home. Well, today I exploited it. Materials: refrigerator noise, filtered by resonant tin cans.
How-To: Trinket Tray
Stacy of Stacy Sews points us to Heather Bailey’s pattern for making a cute little trinket tray. As Stacy points out, you could make one with laminate fabric that would be great for wiping down as needed.
Solar concentrator from old satellite dish
Made from an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish, it is covered in about 5800 3/8″ (~1cm) mirror tiles. When properly aligned, it can generate a spot the size of a dime with an intensity of 5000 times normal daylight. This intensity of light is more than enough to melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant. It stands at 5’9″ and is 42″ across.
Red Velvet Pancakes
These Red Velvet Pancakes from Taste and Tell are brilliant. I can’t think of anything I would rather eat on Valentine’s Day. Except of course for her Red Velvet Donuts!
Greedo Amigurumi
Knithacker points us to this rad amigurumi Greedo from Flickr user BackyardBirderWa. The shaping of the head is spot on! I love it! More: Star Wars Amigurumi Star Wars Crochet and Knitting Charts Wicket the Ewok Crochet Pattern Crochet Yoda Hut