Upcycling is everywhere with money being tight and people becoming more concerned about waste. Fashion is taking a massive u-turn as folks turn from the catwalk to the charity shop in a bid to have something no one else does. The perfect find can be tricky but there are ways to end up with that one-off everyone else will want.
Adventures in dressmaking offers up a dress a day. An ambitious target that they almost live up to with an impressive amount of information on all things sew-flavoured.
The tutorial on how to take apart and reuse a garment takes a simple mumu dress and helps you turn it into something sassy. Step-by-step photos help you on your way with clear and concise instructions.
Excellent stuff for those of us who need to find affordable fashion from almost empty pockets.
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.
Tired of the same old cones and cups for your ice cream presentation? How about a little homemade ice cream sandwich to give a little order to your ice cream eating ways?
The Ice Cream Sandwich how to from instructables leads you through the whipping up of the cakey exterior and the spreading of the sweet sweet interior on the road to Ice Cream Sandwich perfection.
Step six of the recipe, amusingly, includes what can go wrong when your ice cream gets a bit on the melty side.
Suggestions to go off the (rocky) road and create different biscuit-ice cream combos open a whole world of ice cream sandwiches goodness.
Orderly squares of ice cream and biscuit heaven. Perfect summer sweetness.
Rubber stamping can get a bit addictive so I warn you now that the very easy tutorial that I am about to share with you may mean your entire is rubber stamped by the end of the week. Sorry about that.
The Homemade Rubber Stamp How To over at Skip to My Lou combines rubber cement and a bit of craft foam to start you off with a simple idea. The photo tutorial is so straight-forwards it almost looks too easy.
Once you know the basics you can start creating all kinds of stamped shapes.
I like the idea of Godzilla-style footprints stomping all over everything myself.
The good folks at fashion favourite Anthropologie have some stunning tops and tees on offer which is great if you're flush but not so great if you're saving the pennies.
Crafter Stephanie, also known as The Crimson Owl, fell in love with a singlet online and by the time she got around to buying it it was nowhere to be found. Lucky for her, and for us, she's a dab hand with fabric, scissors and a bit of heat-activated bonding.
Her tutorial for how to create your own Anthro Knock-Off singlet takes you from plain vest-top to something 'Anthropological' in a few easy steps with some lovely photography work to boot.
Check out her other fabulously clear and concise tutorials too.
Everyone seems to be drinking ginger beer at the moment as retro drinks become the new trend. So it's about time we turned our tastebuds back to the days of the Famous Five and made our own.
Over at Meet Me at Mike's they spent three weeks perfecting the finest of homemade ginger beers, and as always they're happy to share.
The recipe, which has taken its sweet time coming together as the perfect recipe was sought, makes 55 cups of the sweet stuff and takes three weeks from start to fizzy finish.
Add a little alcohol to make things more festive or just drink it 'beach style' fresh from the bottle. Yum.
The humble biscuit really doesn't get enough press now that cupcakes are on the scene. Maybe biccies aren't as trendy as cupcakes but we grew up with them. They went hand in hand with cups of tea, birthday parties and packed lunches. Isn't it about time they got a little love? In the form of a rug?
This Custard Cream Handhooked Rug is the work in progress of cat-drawing Jim Medway, a comic artist with crafty skills.
You can see the rug's beginnings in an earlier post along with a natty little cat rug he made.
And you can find a useful How to Hook a Rug tutorial on good old WikiHow.
With the how to knowledge sorted the biscuity rug world is now your crumb-covered oyster. Will you go for wiping your feet on a chunky chocolate Bourbon, a funky Jammy Dodger or a sedate Digestive?
If you'd also like to foray into the world of handmade comics it's worth signing up to Jim's upcoming Comical Animal newsletter too. It promises to shove kooky animal tales into your inbox twice a month.
Biscuit rugs and animals who think they're people? It doesn't get much better.
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