World’s Strangest

Craftster user zombiecakeses recently moved, and she made herself the coolest housewarming gift EVAR: Futurama coasters! We just moved flats and it needs brightening up and some ‘geekery’ adding. So having found a new love of Hama beads a little while back and bf’s suggestion of Futurama based crafts, i came up with these: Futurama Hama Coasters

In the 12th Century A.D., the rulers of the city of Hama, Syria, built enormous waterwheels — norias — to carry water into the city. These were expanded and enhanced for several centuries: Each of the wheels can be anything up to 20 meters in diameter (close to 70 feet( and the river water is channelled [...]