My daughter would love to have this in her dress-up trunk! Jessee Maloney of Art School Dropout designed this awesome super hero shield project as a birthday gift for her two-year-old, starting with a Frisbee. I love it – it’s definitely Captain America-worthy!
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I’m amazed by this spectacular, completely edible Imperial Walker holiday craft project concocted by Rachel Klemek that my friend Jen pointed me to. Wow!!
From the post:
Blackmarket Bakery owner Rachel Klemek, who made this — dare we say it — adorable AT-AT from gingerbread. In Klemek’s depiction of the infamous Battle of Hoth, the Star Wars assault vehicle can be seen traipsing over a field of candy canes and taffy, leaving a trail of destruction in its delicious path. The scrumptious scene also depicts a Rebel Alliance Snowspeeder wrapping a licorice tow cable around the AT-AT’s legs.
My PMQG guildmate Elizabeth Hartman just posted about her plans for piecing a Space Invaders quilt for her nephew. She used one of the Kyla May video game prints I also loved (found at Cool Cottons here in Portland) as inspiration, and she’s hand-drawn a blueprint for a super-unique pixelated quilt top made with Kona solids and prints…
I played around with a couple of different ideas before I determined that I didn’t actually want to use any of the print on the front of the quilt. Instead, I decided to play with the pixelated look of the print and make the quilt top into a super-enlarged version of the fabric.
I can’t wait to see this quilt project unfold!
I was downtown a few days ago and spotted this cool little Post-It Pac-Man scene that someone put together – an Oregon answer to the San Francisco scene Sherezada blogged about in May?
Love the power pellets and especially Pac-Man’s contrast eye.
You can find this one at the corner of NW 12th and Davis in Portland. It spans two windows for maximum horizontal video-game effect.
Whoever made this one, thanks! Any other Post-It Pac-Men sightings out there? (Or Tetris, or any other pixelated masterpieces?) Please snap a photo and add it to our geekcrafts flickr pool or comment with a link and where you spotted it, we’d love to see more of these.
My friend Meredith alerted me to this super cute Princess Leia baby costume on Craftster, which kibblesandknits made for her daughter’s first Halloween! LOVE it. She says it cost her $3 and took her less than 3 hours to pull off – there’s still time…
Imagine my happiness when I was buying some books at my favorite Powell’s for Cooks and Gardeners (in SE Portland) on Tuesday, and saw this huge, super amazing Yoda-with-a-leashed-dinosaur terrarium in the shop window! Megan Walsh and her Powell’s co-workers made this Star Wars-meets-Land of the Lost world inside a large antiqued glass box with ferns and lots of other plants. It’s beautiful in person and they will even open the hinged doors so you can see the scene more closely!
I also got word that Megan has been working on a Star Trek: TNG terrarium (starring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, of course) and I’m sure hoping to see that one too… stay tuned.