Wow! Anna the Red was asked to make a Google Chrome icon bento, and to videotape the process. I knew she was really creative and had mad bento skilz, but after watching the work that goes into making one bento, I think she’s a little nuts(in a good way).
Here are some great plans for a recycled plastic bottle greenhouse from REAP, an organization in Scotland that works for sustainable development. via Hyperlocavore via Kitchen Mage
Ki Nassauer from Junk Revolution is doing awesome stuff with junk again - she made this totally adorable four-poster cat bed from an old table. Oliver the cat looks quite pleased.
I had a strawberry plant explosion this year - a few plants out back turned into hundreds, sending out runners and making little plants everywhere, even in my little bit of lawn! I’ve been digging them up and putting them in pots, giving them away; I even sold a box of them at our yard [...]
WebUrbanist has another wonderful round-up of recycled art - this batch is all from obsolete technology. My favorite is this dangerous-looking cat by Jeremy Meyer - it looks like it’s made mostly from typewriter parts.
This ridiculously wonderful strawberry bus stop makes me so happy! I don’t know what’s so charming about miniature and giant things, but this is great. I want a little house like this in my back yard. I like the watermelon and bus bus stops, too. Toxel.com via Chaos Theory via Stranger Slog
Ki Nassauer of Junk Revolution makes the most amazing things out of junk - she has a great eye for seeing the potential in stuff. She recently had an Ugliest Light Fixture in the World Contest asking her commenters for ideas about what to do with a truly horrible light fixture. There were some great [...]
I grew up in that era of frozen cardboard boxes of vegetables, iceberg lettuce salads, marshmallows suspended in Jell-o, and fluffy, weightless white bread. Somehow, I was still really curious about real cooking, real foods, how things were made. As a teenager, I baked bread and cookies, and experimented with making wine from concentrated grape [...]
You don’t have to get as fancy as Anna the Red to do bentos, they can be really simple (though I’ve noticed a lot of bento makers tend to really go over the top). And they can be really frugal - there’s a lot of planning ahead, and using leftovers. Plus bento boxes are charming. [...]
Anna the Red makes the most amazing bentos I’ve ever seen - she does Totoro, Yoshi, Kirby, Pikachu - you have to go look for yourself, they’re incredibly detailed and charming, and she generously shares all her techniques. I really like the bentos, but can’t imagine making them myself. But, one of these days, I’m [...]
