Are you ready for an awesome find today? Are you sure? BAM! It’s a Mario Brothers quilt by the clearly talented _name_taken_. It is quilted tiny pixel by tiny pixel to equal a quilt of epic proportions.
So last week Bret McKenzie won an Oscar for the awesome song, “Man or Muppet” from the new muppet movie.
If you don’t know the song check out this video.
If you don’t know who Bret McKenzie is, check out Flight of the Conchords.
If you don’t know who the Muppets are…….I’m sorry, have you been living under a rock for the last 50 years?
Well, to celebrate this amazing Oscar win, you can do this pretty awesome Muppet Craft. It’s a 3d paper car, full of the Muppets. It’s not the fanciest, most original craft, but maybe it will inspire you to make a Muppet painting or a Muppet hat or a Muppet Theater Playset.
Yo dawgs, I heard you liked crafted geekery. So I found you a hand-needle-felted QR code die that, when rolled and then scanned, resolves to between one and six six-sided dice (1d6 to 6d6) being “rolled,” via random.org. So you could geek while you geek.
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OK, maybe that meme’s played out.
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Seriously, though, I can’t begin to express how pleased and impressed this craft makes me! First of all, my forays into needle felting were both unsuccessful and physically painful (I wish I were joking), and, second, just cross-stitching one QR code was sufficiently challenging that I promised myself I’d never do it again. There was some pretty serious time and dedication invested in this craft, which I found on Shannon Henry’s Flickr stream, via, of course, Pinterest. She describes it as a “meta die,” which makes sense, right? I wonder (but not enough to do the math myself) if it has the same distribution as a d36.
Anyway, hats off to one very geeky, very talented lady!
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make a ray gun? No, me neither. However, now that I’ve read this tutorial and have seen the finished result, I kind of feel like I might need to make myself one. Oh, and if you want a nice way of displaying said creation? Yeah, Epbot has a tutorial for that, too.
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 have to admit, right off the bat, that I am not a fan of glitter art. However, I think we would be doing the world a disservice if we did not admit that Adam West was born to be immortalized in glitter. It has made me change my mind on the whole use of glitter as an art medium.
Luckily for me, and for my new found appreciation for glitter, TigerGalindo’s shop on Etsy has a slew of great glitter art for any occasion. Some other celebrities that deserve glitter? Elvis, Willie Nelson and maybe even Sarah Michelle Geller.
