Today I would like to show you the amazing work of Carrie from Etsy. She makes the most amazing beaded bracelets that must take so much time to make. She mainly makes Pokemon jewelry but also has:
I highly suggest you check out her shop and get yourself some geek chick jewelry.
I was taking an animation class just for fun at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design when Spirited Away came to the USA. That was more than a decade ago, but I remember hearing about the movie, pining to see the moving, and begging some friends to come along and watch it with me. We saw it at the beautiful Landmark Oriental Theater and I can’t remember a time before or since that I was so riveted by a movie. If you haven’t seen it, I implore you: Stop what you are doing right now and go see it.
It is certainly difficult to pick a favorite character from the movie, but one of the most memorable is surely No Face. A strange, silent spirit overcome by greed. Unable to verbally communicate on his own, we’re left to ponder his intentions and motivation.
Love & a Sandwich (aka Chelsea Bloxsom) captures this unusual character in an embroidery hoop: the distinct mask paired with an amorphous body, among spa tokens and cold coins. Absolutely perfect.
Selecting a project from Love and a Sandwich was rough, by the way. She’s got a million projects (OK, maybe a few dozen) on her Flickr that made me FREAK OUT, but No Face takes the cake.
My husband and daughter recently returned from their annual sojourn to a local anime convention, so I thought it might be nice to introduce you to it as well. Dubbed Naka-kon, this convention is held annually in Overland Park, Kansas, to “celebrate Japanese animation and the influence anime has in the Midwest and around the globe by educating people from all walks of life in many diverse facets of popular and traditional Japanese culture.”
No matter whether promoting Japanese anime, video games, or the otaku lifestyle in general, these Kon-goers love to cosplay! The following are but a few examples that my husband took over the weekend.
I spy cosplayers as No Face from Spirited Away (or what I call “that freaky ghosty thing”), Mojo JoJo from Powerpuff Girls, a Stormtrooper, Mario & Princess Peach, and GLaDOS from Portal, but I don’t recognize the others. Do you?
Have you ever found that your face just isn’t expressive enough?
Ever looked at your cat and thought “wow, you’re really onto something there!”… well get yourself out of that litterbox and hop over to Instructables for Abetusk‘s tutorial on how to make these stunning Animatronic Cat Ears!
I realize I already did a Totoro week, but that was so last year. This plushie is just too amazing not to mention. It may very well be the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. I just want to hug it.
This plushie by yael360 on Etsy is absolutely amazing, just crazy amazing. Did I mention it is amazing? Seeing this made me look through the rest of their shop, but there are so many cute and geeky things there that my head exploded and I am writing this with my last breath. Happy Valentines Day.
This week’s awesome Flickr find is this adorable Totoro hat by mojo.
Who doesn’t love Totoro? I just want to squish him! I especially love the whiskers on this hat.
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