Even those Geeks among us who have a green thumb want to have the coolest gardens possible! Jackielantern shared her latest geek inspired garden gadget over on Craftster.
A Dalek planter!
Jackielantern also gives a brief description of her thought process in creating the planter.
I now must have a matched set…or two..maybe three…
GERMINATE! GERMINATE! GERMINATE! – POTTERY, CERAMICS, POLYMER CLAY.
Check out this amazing bag at Quirkie Crafts. I love all the Doctor Who elements that have been put into into it to create a cool patchwork look.
Keep a look out for her etsy shop opening soon!
Especially when your candy dish is this beautiful stained glass TARDIS candy dish. Created by Xandrigirly and posted on Craftster, the colors of TARDIS blue and crystal reflect the light with the same glow as the heart of the TARDIS itself. This 3D project in stained glass is quite a beautiful piece of work.
Your standard Dr Who scarf is impossibly long and very colourful.
This is not your standard Dr Who scarf .. :-)
This Dr who scarf moves your childhood dreams into a grown up reality, the subtle and intricate stitches that make up the TARDIS are awe inspiring! I LOVE IT!
And you can make one for yourself thanks to Kate Atherley‘s free knitting pattern :-) awesome!
…Dalek dress? Why yes, yes it is. Color me impressed. So impressed, in fact, that I’ll admit that Daleks kind of turned me off of Dr. Who at first. In fact, I first met them during a sewing project.
I 
was working on something challenging and the show was playing in the background. My sewing project hit a frustrating snag and all I heard in the background was that horrible >>EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE<< and I.just. got. stressed. out.
The way my story ended was with a poorly hemmed pair of fuzzy pig print pajama pants and a moratorium on Dr. Who in my house (or at least in my presence). I do not have the skill and tenacity of somevelvetmorning, who produced with sewing poetry (also known as sewitry).
She shares the step-by-step instructions with us to attempt to replicate her awesomeness.:
Can one be a “non-practicing Whovian”? I think that’s what I am. I have seen a handful of episodes, and appreciate various Dr. Who references when I see them out and about, but must admit I don’t always get what I see in the shows. Maybe because I haven’t watched a whole season all the way through?
Practicing or not, I can still give mad props to young Oraicia, who painted her locker, and two of her friend’s, as a TARDIS (which, by the way, stands for “Time and Relative Dimension in Space“).
Here is how she described her project, which apparently was an art project for school (get to paint your locker for a grade?? Cool!!)
The process of painting the locker was a bit lengthy. I first had to prime the locker, which left it in a nasty-looking shade of grey. It stayed this colour for much longer than I would have liked, due to the no-blue-paint issue. After I got the locker primed, I went on to sketch out the design. This involved a lot of measuring, in order to get proportions as close as possible, and to get the design to be symmetrical. When the design was sketched out, painting could commence. I taped the borders, so that the paint would only go where I wanted it. Each part of the locker required multiple layers of paint. Anywhere that was white took two layers. Blue areas took three; a light layer, a medium-toned layer, and a dark layer on top. Because I painted the layers on with a sponge, you could see some of the lighter layers through the darker surface layers. This was done in order to recreate the ‘wooden’ texture of the TARDIS.
I know there were several points in my high school career when I wished someone would just appear and whisk me away – maybe Oraicia created the ultimate “Get Out of High School Free” card with a few strokes of blue paint. If only I had known that’s all it took, I could have saved myself many embarrassing moments.
I also have to wonder if the lockers are bigger on the inside.
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