Sunday already

Not sure where Saturday went to!

I'm not a huge fan of February.....it's neither nowt nor summat if you know what I mean, with winter hanging on by it's fingernails and spring not quite on the horizon. Plus, I've got sciatica so I'm feeling a bit grumpy (that would be an undestatement!) Having said that it was lovely down on the seafront this morning, still damned chilly though!

OTHER STUFF

Came across this site on Friday that looks like it might be fun for all you photographers out there.... "Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about. You play Noticings by uploading your photos to Flickr, tagged with 'noticings' and geotagged with where they were taken. Each turn is a day, and at 3pm GMT every day photos from the previous day are imported from Flickr and the scores calculated. Noticings aren't very transient things, like people, and you should only take one photo of each thing you spot."
Link to noticings

Another photography-based link for snappers on the move. I loved this because it's such a simple idea that actually works, a light tent made from 3 sheets of paper and some paper clips......

Find the instructions here

Then there's this online drawing application that runs in any browser.....really quite impressive, shame I can't draw!

Link to Sketchpad

Better get those dishes washed.........

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Impromptu day off today (woke up....thought 'need to wash my hair/don't have any clean clothes/REALLY need another hours sleep/nothing important happening)... I should probably feel a lot more guilty than I do, but y'know life's too short.Very little achieved except staring at the kitchen walls (not a pretty sight), listening to radio4 and being plagued by manic kittens (above seen 'in semi-repose', a rare sighting!) Until I hit the 'Publish Post' button I'm not sure whether the upside-down text in the subject line will work (if it does you can do the same here, type in your text and copy-and-paste the result, oh yes......hours of fun for all the family!)

Speaking of listening to Radio4.....here's a segment (with a bit of local NE interest) from Womans Hour today (you chaps can switch off unless you're heavily into knitting!) I'll be watching out for the exhibition when it gets a bit closer to home, and what a great idea for 'Art' funding.....(thinks: wonder whether they could use that half-knitted jumper I started in the 80's, maybe turn into the back-end of that bike?)



Maybe it's the time of year but I'm bored with my desktop wallpaper. Now usually I head over to Vladstudio or A walk through Durham Township (in both cases it's a short browse, a right-click and sorted) BUT I happened upon this online app today......

There's a BIG library of  here's-one-I-made-earlier 'elements' and backgrounds that you can combine/alter....on the other hand you can work from scratch if you're feeling creative....just perfect for the deep, dark nights of winter!

Get creative and download your desktop work of art here

WARNING.....I've been poking about in cupboards tonight (not always a wise move), if it's a bad weather day tomorrow expect illustrated vintage dance steps/dressmaking patterns for victorian underwear/possibly the odd ancient map.....who knows?

A few bread recipes

Granny Whites Bread Recipes

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Do-it-yourself Nutrition easy recipes

Fire up the printer

Nice paper critters to print and make at 3EyedBear

Who are YOU looking at?.......

Build your own papercraft CCTV camera. Download the plans here

Gracious living

I've just downladed Mrs Beetons Household Management etc etc (1907 edition) from Archive.org (big download at 288mb, but it's 2266 pages are well worth the bandwidth!). I rather like 'the slipper' mode of folding, now you won't see THAT very often in your local bistro!

100 papercraft models

As in links to...click on the images in this page at Creativecloseup.com for direct links....the UK weather being what it is, I might be visiting in August rather than November!

Finger knitting

I'm older than I like to remember and I never knew how to do this (Oh Ma, you failed me!!) Now where's that bloody wool.........

Vintage papercraft

...a post for the nimble-fingered and french-speaking. You can build yourself this rather splendid "automobile moderne" if you visit Agence Eureka (post for 23rd May 2008)

Design your own font

Why not get creative? fontstruct is a free, online, modular toolkit that allows you to build your own downloadable truetype font.....or you can just be lazy and download one that someone prepared earlier! Requires registration.

Timewaster for the taste buds

I suspect I'll become a regular visitor at TasteSpotting.....who can resist (because I know I can't!) gallery after gallery of pictures of delicious food? Find something you like the look of and click on the picture to link to the recipe.....couldn't be simpler.

Papercraft pinhole cameras to download

Five different snazzy designs to download and make here

and here you'll find a slightly more conventional (retro) model, the Dirkon....originally printed in a Czechoslovakian magazine in the 70's

Online Web Publishing

Create your own magazine, convert it to pdf and upload to Issuu for some free, slick, web publishing. And before you ask, no I didn't do the one embedded above!

I'm not sure if this is an April Fools Day spoof but....

....the only way to find out is to start knitting! Knit your own Elvis wig.....pattern here (apparently!)

Papercraft Ceiling Cat......every kitchen should have one

No arguments....just do it! Dig out your scissors and glue stick this minute and get printing.

Link

Space Puppets

Scans for instructions to make the toys you always wished you'd had at Black Olives on my Fingertips

Build your own metal detector.....cheap

Turn A Calculator Into A Metal Detector - video powered by Metacafe

Fold a towel cat....

....in pictures at WikiHow

Paper Box Designer

Design and print a cuboid box to make here

Other people's festivals

Japan....Setsubun is held on the 3rd or 4th of February and signals the start of spring. More details here at Japan-Guide It could be just the excuse you need for making and wearing the above mask, traditionally worn while you scatter beans with abandon to guarantee good luck. I originally downloaded the pdf from Canon 3D, but when I looked tonight to post the link it had vanished. So I've done the decent thing (but probably infringed copyright in the process!) and uploaded the "here's one I did earlier" to the boxfiles on the right hand side of the blog.