Thanks to most stereo-types science puts most of us in mind of jam-jar specs, white coats and pale yet interesting people peering into microscopes and treading the less-than-fashionable style path. Pah!
Fie on those Jennifer Aniston "Here comes the science bit" haters. Science is full of some of the coolest stuff out there and here's a little how to that proves just that.
These DNA Earrings, were created for the happy petri-dish poking geek by Crafster member Mermaide. The results of a little beading and twisting are simple but splendiferous.
With science-flavoured accessories this good you'll have the likes of Professor Brian Cox making eyes at you across the lab in no time.
So make yourself some DNA Earrings and wear your Deoxyribonucleic Acid with pride.
There are a ton of patterns out there for crocheted bags and not all of them leave me very inspired as combinations of squares and sewing up are rife. Occasionally a goodun' does come along and when it's a good as this simple little bag you feel the need to share.
The free pattern for the Munro Bag from Roman Sock is about as simple as crochet a bag gets. The simple zig-zag pattern and cool colour combination make it a quick and easy project to keep to yourself of hook together for a friend in dire need of a bag makeover.
You can see some of her far-too-cute amigurumi creations over at Curiousity Cute too.
The festival essential when you're celebrating music and culture in the UK has to be the welly. You can go posh with Jimmy Choo snakeskin wellies, trendy with Dragon's Den Wedge Wellies or you could go crafty and customise your own.
The wellies pictured above were spotted at this weekend's V Festival by Osoyou's Jessica: the pink polka-dot glitter wellies were sprinkled in shiny stuff and varnished to keep them dotty, and the studded boots were made from parts of a Primark bracelet and a tube of trusty superglue.
This set of acrylic welly paints from Boot Kidz is also available for welly transformation.
Your festival feet will never be dull again.
It happens to us all. You are in dire need of a tune while squashed next to a sweaty besuited fellow bellowing into his mobile on a packed commuter train. You scrabble through bag or pockets for your headphones and when they appear one of the little earbuds is shamelessly naked. Showing off its smooth underbelly when it should be tucked neatly in a foam coat. Gah!
You can spend part of your morning trawling eBay for a replacement pair or try to find a minute to nip to the shops and buy a whole new set of headphones. Or you could make your own through the soothing powers of knitting.
Let the good folks over at Instructables tote you towards a place of brightly coated earbuds made by your own fair hands and a little light music, instead of listening to Gerald blather on to the team in West Bromich about profit margins.
Tiny knitted musical bliss.
Some crafty creations are far too cute to go unmade. I was outraged by how cute this particular craft creation is. It almost demands you go out and get fabric to make it immediately. I'm not even that big a fan of flowery stuff either. These flower buttons are very cute. You have been warned.
Behold Ravenhill: a world where happiness and flowery things abound. Cheerful mushrooms, smiling Russian dolls and perky little flowers. Want a piece of the cute-as action? Their loveliness continues with a free Cute as a Button Flower Tutorial.
The photo tutorial is really rather beautiful, the button itself is simple and sweet and easy to make. Altogether Ravenhill seems like a shiny happy place to craft and live.
Give yourself a quick dose of the Anticraft if it's a little much. Those buttons are cute enough to turn us all a little Stepford.
A swish set of vintage buttons can turn a simple piece of clothing into something rather fabulous in a few stitches. The trouble is that it's often tough to find the perfect buttons to make your item of clothing retro-chic.
One of my favourite 'hidden' vintage treasures, Nichols Buttons, have just dug out a new range of buttons from their seemingly endless supply. The buttons are made by Lionel Nichols who was a lone glass maker producing handmade couture buttons from 1946 to 1966 in London's Marylebone.
A 1958 article in 'British Buttons' called Lionel "one of the last British outposts of the glass button craft" and it's amazing that you can still buy his handmade treasures today.
Dixie Nichols, his daughter, runs special events and sells sets of his buttons, as well as some jaw-droppingly beautiful one-off buttons at their online shop.
Fancy adding a bit of flower power to your run-of-the-mill clothes? A little bit of colour can go a long way to changing the shelflife of a comfy but dowdy wearable.
I came across the easy four-step Petal Tee tutorial on Ruffles and Stuff recently and thought it was the perfect way to inject a bit of summer into your clothes.
The petals can be cut from the smallest remnants of some of your favourite fabrics or bits of clothing you love but are falling apart.
Then all you do is lay them along the neckline of the garment, zigzag stitch them in place and voila! Fabric flower power.
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