March
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March
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Mario Quilt – Flickr Thursday
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.
March
1
Muppet Mania!
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.
March
1
Come to the Dark (Chocolate) Side
Since yesterday’s post was a duplicate of an earlier one (oops!), I decided to atone for the mistake by posting something delightful (and not a repeat). Voilà the following awesomeness.
Damn, I would totally join the Dark Side if work parties involved cakes like this one! Talented baker Bernice Camlin (aka Smurfesque) has not just created a Death Star cake that both looks awesome and sounds like it tastes amazing, she has graciously posted a tutorial so even those of us who aren’t professional cake artistes can make our own. At some point in my life, this is going to happen. I will make it so! Wait, that’s the wrong sci-fi. See, I’m just that excited about this cake.
February
29
Handmade QR Code Die
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!
February
29
A Rad Ray Gun
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.