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With only 49 days to go until the Royal wedding on April 29th, you better start knitting soon... A new craft book, Knit Your own Royal Wedding , by Fiona Goble, shows you how to reproduce all the key players of the upcoming the royal nuptials in wool and yarn. You can even knit the corgis (naturally). My favourite is the Queen... You can read more about the book on the Telegraph site and also check out a slideshow of the wonderful wooly royal wedding party .

File under: Awesome. The scientists and engineers from National Geographic apparently watch a lot of cartoons. Inspired b ythe Pixar movie UP, they decided to see if they could really make a house fly by attaching a bunch of balloons to it. 300 eight-foot-tall weather balloons later, a 16x16 foot house is floating more than 10,000 feet up in the sky. The whole project new series that'll be on the National Geographic Channel this fall called "How Hard Can it Be?" Check out some more photos and a behind-the-scenes video on the NGC blog . A team of scientists and engineers from National Geographic, created a real-life floating house based on the Pixar movie UP. The house reached an alititude of more than 10,000 feet, pulled by more than 300 weather balloons. (Tenuously related, but cute: An UP-inspired wedding cake! )

Today's Craft Rock Friday video is best experienced first thing in the morning, to wake you up slowly and softly... a cup of coffee and a plate of eggs sunny side up, with a side of ukulele,  mouth organ, xylophone, and soft bossa nova voices. Also an adorable little dance where the band wears shirts with raindrops on them and bob up and down. Say good morning to Lullatone . (via Ladies and Gentlemen )

Happy Pancake Tuesday! A fabulous day for flat foods all over the world. Read up on your Pancake Tuesday facts and trivia over at The Guardian , and also pick up a few recipes . The sweet potato pancakes sound lovely. The pancake is prehistoric. Grinding boring but nutritious grains into flour, blending them with protein-rich liquids such as milk or eggs and cooking the mixture made for an extremely palatable food, and it seems likely that pancakes were among the first things humans learned to cook. Once you've got fire in your caveman arsenal it's easy to heat a piece of flint or slate to make a basic griddle. The Roman food writer Apicius describes a batter of eggs, milk, water and flour which was fried and served with honey and pepper. It sounds rather good. -- The Guardian Though this is likely to change on a daily basis (and is closely linked to what pancakes are within my range of smell..) my top three forms of pancakes right now would probably be: Dosas (If you&

These knitting prints by Laura McCabe are fantastic. Perfect for those who have stashes of yarn that are big enough to live in. You know who you are. You can buy Laura's prints from her Etsy shop , and keep up with her on her site and blog .

Following up on my Paris post earlier, here are two videos that'll make you want to fall in love, go to Paris, or both. (via CoolHunting ) You can watch other videos in the EF "Live the Language" series here . (via NotCot )

Ooh la la, I need to go here. Luckily, it turns out I'll be staying about 3 blocks away when we visit Paris this summer. SO excited, all round. La Droguerie in Paris. See more pics on Oh Happy Day and read all about their adventures in Paris . This place - Le 104 - also looks fabulous.

The LetterMpress project is really interesting... As different as they are, letterpress printing and iPad do have some key elements in common, especially the fundamentally tactile nature of both. Read more about it on Craft.

Top 40 meets old skool in this video for "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars. Gotta love cassette art.

Good things come in threes... and sometimes more. Reading my RSS feed in last day or two, I've seen a ton of super cute desktop wallpapers or desktop calendars for March. So I thought I'd share a few of the best here. It's time to pretty up the screens in your life! Alexander Girard Hello Friend Shanna Murray Christiane Engel There are also a few (branded but cute) wallpapers from Fossil clothing