Geek Crafts

My friend Rachel Hobson is a huge space geek — she went to Space Camp as a kid, she listens in to Mission Control chatter and follows NASA on Twitter, and she’s covering the upcoming shuttle launch for MAKE: magazine. Her husband Chris made her a secret, incredible Christmas present this year in their garage: a real, working handmade telescope!

Rachel has more to say about it on her blog… and don’t miss her space reporting for MAKE: coming up!

• The Handmade Telescope

I stumbled upon this hilarious version of ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas–Star Trek, while trying to find some geeky Christmas cookies, but believe me, if you surf over to fiftiesweb and read this poem in it’s entirety you won’t be sad I didn’t didn’t find any cookies featuring Spock in a Santa Hat.

It’s Riker, It’s Data,

        It’s Worf and Jean-Luc!

        It’s Geordi, And Wesley, the genetic fluke!

        To the top of the bridge, to the top of the hall!

        Now float away! Float away! Float away all!”

       

        As leaves in the autumn are whisked off the street,

        So the floor of the bridge came away from our feet,

        And up to the ceiling, our bodies they flew,

        As the Captain called out,

        “What the Hell is this, Q?!”

The ornament pictured is from Hallmark’s incredibly popular Star Trek ornament line–a new one comes out every year, so check your Hallmark store for this year’s, and have a very geeky Christmas Eve!

• ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas–Star Trek
• Hallmark

Craftster user, Kirsa, crocheted this adorable Darth Vader Amigurumi as a Christmas gift for her nephew. The coolest thing about this Darth Vader is the detail on his chest and…his helmet is removable! (Okay, so I lied, the coolest thing about him is that I got to use “adorable” and “Darth Vader” together in a sentence).

• Darth Vader Amigurumi

Craftster user elmooro needed ornaments for her first Christmas tree so she made two geeky ornaments - Golden Snitches from Harry Potter and Tribbles from Star Trek!

• Geeky Christmas Ornaments

Craftster user RikaHeart made this Dr. Who Tardis stocking for a stocking swap. Any other geeky stockings out there?

• Dr. Who Tardis Stocking

It seems like Domo has been everywhere, from silly internet photos to Target and even 7-11, but where is one place he hasn’t been? Your Christmas tree, of course! And why should that be? If you check out LolaValentinos etsy shop, you’ll see that your tree doesn’t have to go Domo-less another year, thanks to her made-to-order Domo Kun Christmas Ornaments! And, looking at the picture, Domo would also look really nice on your shrubbery, too.

• Domo Kun Christmas Ornament