April 9

Glass Beadwork Beads: Pokeball and Pac-man’s Inky

Last week Make: Craft featured a post on glass beadwork on wooden beads. As a bit of a dabbler in bead-weaving myself I was keen to have a go, and soon found myself wondering how to apply the technique to something geeky, as you do. What do you reckon to my Pokeball bead and Inky from Pac-man?

Glasswork beaded beads - Pac-man Ghost and Pokeball

It took some trial and error, and they aren’t the quickest of things to make, but enjoyable nonetheless. If you want to give it a go you’ll need lots of tiny seed beads (I used 3 mm), some tough beading thread and something to bead around. The tutorial uses wooden beads, but I used polystyrene balls from a craft store, so they are actually pretty lightweight.

The full beaded beads how-to can be found here. The tutorial is in Czech, but the images are easy to follow and you can see the Google Translate version of the page here.

If anyone has any suggestions for other spherical geeky things that could be beaded like this, post below!

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April 9

Star Wars Pillow and Blanket

Star Wars pillow and blanket

In just a year, I’m going to be finished with college. Soon, I’ll have to decide what to do with the rest of my life! Every time I see a baby in a pram or stroller, I squee with delight, so little geeky addition sounds just lovely. Young children are a great inspiration for crafts. I honestly can’t wait to turn our study into a Nintendo-themed bedroom and start finger-painting Pokémon with the little ones.
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April 8

Winner of the Sheldon Cooper Ami Giveaway

0341_jimparsonssheldondoll-50c0d70bc2b98At the end of March, I posted an entry about A(mi)dorable Crochet’s giveaway of an ami Sheldon Cooper. The deadline to enter was April 7th, 2013 at 7 PM.

A(mi)dorable used a true random number generator to pick her winner. Out of 73 comments on her blog, the winning commenter was number 17 (d430f8d0-98d7-11e2-99e1-000bcdcb8a73, an AOL OpenId user), and he/she has until April 9th at 8 PM to email A(mi) and claim Sheldon. The winning comment on the best Sheldon moment was, “I fave is when Sheldon is dressed as the “FLASH” and does everything slow like he is really doing it extra fast.. LOL.”

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April 7

Chewbacca Domo

Chewbacca Domo

I think Chewbacca is one of the most misunderstood characters on Star Wars – probably because very few speak Wookie. Fortunately the pattern for this Chewbacca Domo appears very easy to understand, so with just a few snips and stitches you can have one for your very own. He even includes a video tutorial!

How cute would this look on your bed? I think it would make a great addition to a dorm room or geek den, too.

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April 6

Sherlock morse code bracelets

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These Sherlock morse code bracelets are fantastic!! I love them! Final Problem on Tumblr made them, and gives instructions! There’s also a link to a morse code translator to make other sayings! I can’t wait to try this out!! This quote is from the episode ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’ (S2E2) and is one of my favourite moments between Sherlock and John!

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April 6

Jawa Birthday Cake

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I just want to start this post out by saying I am a grown woman in her 30’s. And this cake made me jealous of the 5 year old girl that got this for her birthday last year. :)

Fat Tony 1138 shared this photo of a homemade Jawa cake on his Flickr account.

“Here’s another of my wife’s cake creations, this one was all her idea. It was made for our friends’ daughter’s 5th birthday. Chocolate cake with chocolate fondant using the same teddy bear cake pan as her two previous cakes, the Ewok and Nibbler. The light up eyes are mini party light LEDs from the craft store.”

There’s been no word on whether or no Fat Tony 1138’s wife would take orders on a cake like this. :)

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