Peanut Brittle

Easy microwave peanut brittle (not good for dodgy teeth!), and all you need is salted dry-roasted peanuts, sugar, light corn syrup (or golden syrup if you're English), butter, vanilla extract and baking soda.

This is nice on its own, or broken up and sprinkled on ice-cream!

Flying Pig

Great site selling animation kits to make your own amazing card models, which move in many different ways. Excellent choice of animals and actions, and the models range in difficulty. Great for kids and adults (like me- i love them!), and perfect for learning about creating different movements using cams. Perfect for whiling away a rainy day.

All payable through Paypal.

If you like making card models and automata, then check out the following website too:

http://www.automatashop.co.uk/

http://www.scooterworks.com/Scooter_Postcard_Cut-Out_Mode_P6165.cfm

http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/index.html

Stupid Products

Fantastically fun website full of the most silly, stupid and plain weird products in the world, including the gross egg separator shown above, and the infamous 'Hillary Clinton Nutcracker'!

There are LOADS of items to choose from and i would personally love to buy a ton of this stuff but unfortunately they only post to the U.S. :-(

Great fun to look through the stuff though...and if you don't live in the U.S. and you see something you want, you can always google it to see if you can find it somewhere else which will deliver. Perfect for unusual gifts...

Enjoy the madness!

Tread Belt

Here's how to make a seriously cool belt from bicycle tyres! Really clear instructions and something you can wear everyday.

Patchwork Chair

This patchwork chair looks so comfy and stylish, and you could do something similar too! Just re-upholster a chair or ottoman with colourful blankets and voila! View the tutorial here.

Mosaic House Number

This mosaic house number is a great project for anyone to do, and it will add a bit of creativity to the outside of your house too - go here for details.

Making a Stencil From a Photo

This instructable shows you how to take a photo and make an awesome-looking stencil from it - and you can then paint over the stencil onto t-shirts, bags, placemats etc. Looks like fun!

Spun Sugar Nests & Baskets

I love the look of spun sugar and it makes any dessert look amazing! It is actually surprisingly easy, although a) it is messy so put newspaper on the floor and b) it BURNS so please be careful and only touch it when it has cooled down.

This recipe walks you through spun sugar (above), plus caramel spirals and baskets, this page contains a video of spinning sugar, and this page has some nice ideas for decorating desserts. Yum yum :) 

Nesting Doll Salt Shakers

This is a great idea from Design*Sponge - using blank wooden nesting dolls as salt shakers!

Googly Eye Pins

 This fun little idea from Zakka Life involves glueing googly eyes to thumb tacks to make them a bit more interesting - and you could also glue the eyes to magnets too for your fridge! 

And on a random side note, I think this is a pretty cool use for noticeboard pins :-)

Honeycomb

Yummy and interesting recipe - you can eat it on it's own, you can dip it in chocolate, or you can break it up into tiny bits and decorate ice-cream!

All you need is a baking sheet, a whisk, a large saucepan, a sugar thermometer, baking soda, sugar, honey and water...easy!

Go here for the recipe.

Impossibly Cool

The Impossible Cool is a stylish collection of photos showing the most impossibly cool famous faces, and inspiring quotes.

Take a Road Trip

If you're planning a road trip, click here for 18 useful tips. The photos certainly have inspired me to take a road trip, but it doesn't take much to give me itchy feet :-)

For more inspiration, have a look at people's dream road trips here.

Fun Pincushions

This link shows you how to make unique pincushions from household objects and toys - I love this idea, and the truck above looks so cute! 

Tuile Biscuits in Puddings

I love the look of this pudding (I've always secretly harboured an ambition to be a pastry chef!) - and it consists of a tuile biscuit cage with mixed berries and ice-cream in the centre, and a spun sugar decoration on top - mmmmm! Go here for the recipe.

For better instructions on making tuile biscuits in different shapes (such as the squiggles in the chocolate mousse shown above) then go here.

Kitchen Backsplashes

This is a fantastic project I found ages ago, and it involves making your own kitchen backsplash out of wood, and then covering it in resin. In this example, they have embedded cutlery in the resin, which looks amazing, but you could embed all kind of objects in there from sweets to flowers!

The instructions are here, and the video is here.

For other ideas for backsplashes, click here.

Felt Snail

This snail made from felted sweaters is so soft and cute - go here to find the tutorial.

Head Hoods

Head Hoods has a cool range of hoodies with faces on the hoods - from Elvis to Obama, and from gorillas to Audrey Hepburn!

Portable Cushion Seats

These summery seat cushions would be so useful to carry around so you can sit anywhere, anytime - go here for the tutorial.

Burda Style

Burda Style is one of my favourite websites, and if you're a fan of clothes and sewing, you probably know about it already. There are free how-to's and patterns on the website - including the pattern for the skirt shown above (click here), which is definitely one of my favourites :-)