With all the fantastic geek fabric hitting the stores and interwebs these days, you may be wondering what to make with it. Here’s an idea from Sasha of Tattooed Martha – add some flair to your favorite pair of shorts. Her tutorial walks you through creating a custom panel for shorts you already love, with the … Continue reading Add Geek Flair to Your Shorts
A Monster to Love is this great online shop where, for every cute little monster doll you buy, Sam, Ben, and their dad Ray, donate a monster doll to a kid in need. They partner up with children’s hospitals and even the World Relief Refugee program out of Atlanta. I ran across their awesome work about … Continue reading Huggable Monster Dolls for Kids in Need
With Easter almost upon us, it’s time for creating eggs that show off your own natural geekiness! For the steampunk fans out there, Jen from Epbot has once again created some beautiful metal-looking eggs with charms added as a great extra bit of cuteness. She used papercraft eggs as the base, and then modified metal … Continue reading Geeky Easter Eggs
There was a lot of celebrating on the farm today. After three weeks and two days, we finally found our cat, Ari! Apparently he was hiding out in our closest neighbor’s shed the whole time. I was pleasantly surprised that even after a 23 day stint in the pitch-dark shed he didn’t really resemble Gollum at … Continue reading Return of the Geek Cat
Ah, yes…it’s that time again: Earmuff Day! Actually, I’m ashamed to report that somehow this very salient holiday escaped my notice until this evening, when a friend alerted me to its existence. My response was, of course, to make little miniature earmuffs out of all of my leftover pipe cleaners and mini yarn pom pom … Continue reading Happy Earmuff Day!
My boyfriend’s birthday is this weekend, and I’m getting him a new smartphone(!) which has been quite the ordeal. And apparently while I have been transfixed on trying to select and purchase the perfect gift on the sly, my shiftiness has become evident to my boyfriend, who smugly mentioned this afternoon that he “knew” I was throwing him … Continue reading A Very QWERTY Birthday