Handmade piranha plants? Stompable balloon Goombas? A DIY chain chomp piñata? Homemade mushroom cupcakes? This has got to be the best Super Mario-themed birthday party ever! I hope this kid appreciated it—it was only his fourth birthday. I’d be pretty psyched if someone threw me a party that awesome now, and I’m 31.
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.
With the coming of March, my mind turns to starting my container garden. I love working in the dirt, planting seedlings and then cooking with the lovely veggies and herbs that I watched grow. It’s a labor of love for me.
Last year, the concept of garden art fascinated me and I’ve spent several months thinking about how to decorate my planters. While surfing the Net for ideas, I came upon this and was blown away!
Mario inspired garden art made with Sculpey and chicken wire!
Kalapusa made a Piranha plant, a teething baby Piranha plant, a suspicious carrot and my absolute favorites, some green thumbs! She has also created a video on the making of the Momma Piranha so that you can see the basic steps in her process.
It hurts me a little inside (or should I say, I get a little smaller, and lose my rings!) to see these two guys side by side. I love them both so much but it just reminds me that there won’t be any new SEGA consoles anytime soon… and that reminds me of the Dreamcast (swoon) … and that reminds me of Shenmue… I digress…
Instructables member SheWhoMustNotBeNamed has the perfect solution to my discontinued-game-console woes, with a fantastic Mario and Sonic quilt tutorial.
I could wrap myself up in it while I play my old Master System games…. doesn’t look the same on a 32″ TV *sniff*……………
I stumbled on this little video by Marcus and Hannes Knutsson on Youtube and I knew I had to share it. I can’t even fathom how long it must have taken to put this together with all of the animation involved using perler beads. There are a few different similar videos by the same makers floating around Youtube, but I haven’t yet found a dedicated channel for them.
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I love finding videos like this one. It absolutely makes my day. If you know of anything similar, let me know in the comments.
In the meantime, take a look at some other Mario Bros stuff on Geekcrafts!
I absolutely have to share this great geek-cake-of-win that was made by my friend Kirsty for her husband, John’s 30th Birthday. John is co-founder of gaming blog and retro console shop angrydinosaur.co.uk, so this cake works on so many levels.
Gotta love that little Shy Guy down there, but wait, no Luigi?
