July 20

There’s a Dalek in my front yard!!!

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Dulcet is a member of the Craftster community and recently posted about a surprise that her husband made for her: a Dalek for their front yard.

“Every time he rides his bike to work, he brings home metal stuff from the side of the road. We’ve been talking about him making something from them for quite a while. A few months ago, he got a crash course on welding from our neighbor who just happens to have a mig welder…The only things he purchased were the half-spheres, which are pipe caps. The eye-stalk in mounted in part of a truck hitch, and swivels up and down. The arm without the laser is made from a jack, and telescopes out. The head is a propane tank sliced up, with pieces of our broken garage-door-opener spring on top. The whole thing is four and a half feet tall.”

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July 19

Knit a Very Cunning Cupcake

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Jayne strapped on his hat
And in five seconds flat
Stole everything Boss Higgins had to steal.
Hero of Canton, The Ballad of Jayne Cobb

The hero of Canton had a hat.  Some tried to take the yarn away from us. Well then I say let us knit cake! Cupcakes, cunning ones at that. Blogger wipinsanity has created a free knitting pattern for a  Jayne cupcake.

Look at that cake, you know you want to make up.

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July 16

Half-Life Headcrab Cushion

Half-Life Headcrab Cushion

Have you seen Half-Life this headcrab cushion? I want one. Even if it is just so I can wear it on my head occasionally and flail my arms around the living room.

This amazing creation was posted on the Craftster.org forum by user luchadork138. Take a look at her post as there are more great photos of it, though this is the only one of the dog I’m afraid. Man, that’s one brave puppy.

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July 13

Spock Bacon Art

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Jesse Azarian of Plainfield, VT has painted two portraits of Spock from Star Trek: TOS that are pretty interesting: he’s contemplating a slice of bacon.

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Each of the paintings are 12″ x 15″, acrylic on Masonite, and are available in Jesse’s Etsy shop for $250 each. And yes, Vulcans are vegetarians, so maybe that’s why Spock is so interested in the bacon. He’s never had it before.

July 2

Handmade Star Wars Dress

We’ve featured a few great handmade dresses on Geek Crafts recently – there was the Starfleet dress, the dragon dress, the space dress and the rather bizarre bread tag dress. So here’s another wonderful user submission – a handmade Star Wars dress:

Star Wars Dress by Cation Desgns

Cindy of Cation Designs last year acquired some original Star Wars: A New Hope bed sheets, and did what any crafty science teacher would do: turn them into a dress. And while Cindy is pretty critical of it on her blog, I think we can all agree that it looks incredible.

There are a few other geeky dresses on Cation Designs as well that are worth a look. Check out the Batman Dress or Spiderman Dress, for example. It’s times like this that I wish I owned a sewing machine, knew how to operate one, and had patience in buckets. But then if we could all do this, it wouldn’t be nearly as awesome, would it?!

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