Geek Crafts

In case you don’t know, Jen of Cake Wrecks fame has a newish blog, Epbot, which is devoted to a variety of things crafty/steampunk/sci fi/Disney. (Dunno where the woman finds the time to run both blogs, but she does it somehow!)

For Christmas 2011, Jen and her husband, John, opted for a steampunk tree, which was a multi-step process that involved making/customizing ornaments—gears, test tubes, snowflakes, all kinds of things. But my favorites are these fabulous mini hot air balloons, for which Jen has helpfully provided a thorough tutorial. I know the holidays are over, but given that most of us don’t have the apparently boundless energy of Jen and John, I thought it might be a good idea to start crafting now so we’re ready for next year….

• Jen’s mini hot air balloon ornament tutorial

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Happy Chinese New Year! In honor of the year of the rabbit I am featuring my favourite amigurumis, the Moon Buns! Moon’s Creation has so many different Moon Buns for any season or reason, and I think all good geeks should show their excitement for the Year of the Rabbit with their favorite Moon Bun. I’m certainly ready for the tumultuous year of the tiger to be done with and the tranquil year of the rabbit to take over – here’s hoping, right?

• Moon’s Creations Etsy Shop
• Moon Yen of Moon’s Creations on DeviantArt
• Moon’s Creations Blog

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I’m loving this new Mistle-TIE Fighter holiday craft project from Bonnie Burton — awesome!

And this embroidered Darth Vader ornament from blackrose1151 on Etsy is one of my favorite things ever. I ordered two of them last year — one for me, and one for my nephew who loves Star Wars as much as I do — and mine is on my tree right now! Maybe I’ll get each of us another one of her other Star Wars ornaments this year to keep up our tradition…

• Mistle-TIE Fighter
• Darth Vader Ornament

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The Super Colossal Crafty Wonderland sale is coming up this Sunday in Portland, Oregon, and there will be some fantastic geeky crafts for sale!

My Imaginary Boyfriend will have her screenprinted + embroidered robot ornaments there (I bought one from her at Felt Club two years ago and it is one of my all-time favorite holiday finds),

Berkley Illustration will have plenty of superhero artwork (like this Captain Burnside print),

Leethal will be selling her excellent Game Knitting ebook,

and Bread and Badger will have astronaut etched glassware!

If you’re not in Portland, no worries, all of these crafters have their work available online as well – click the photos or see the list of links below.

p.s. If you are coming to the sale, please stop by the craft demo area between 1 and 2:30 to make a set of button hairclips with me! Maybe some evil buttons?

• Crafty Wonderland
• Robots from My Imaginary Boyfriend
• Superheroes from Berkley Illustration
• Game Knitting from Leethal
• Astronaut Glassware from Bread + Badger
• Button Hairclips Craft Demo

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