Share the Love with this DIY Gift Idea

Looking for something to make for your significant other this Valentine’s Day? Jessica from the Nifty Nerd has got you covered with this fun Geeky Love Quote Collage Tutorial. You’ll find step-by-step instructions with pictures in Jessica’s tutorial. Plus, she’s included quote ideas for you, as well as the template she used to make her Geeky Love Quote Collage. This is a great gift idea, plus it’d be super easy to customize for your special someone. You could use Shakespearean quotes for a literature buff, or quotes from Neil Degrasse Tyson for a science fan. How would you customize your collage?

Geeky Free Printable Valentines

It’s never too early to get started on those Valentines, and I’ve found some great ones for Star Wars and Doctor Who fans.

The first series of valentines are designs from Alecia at AleciaDawn Photography. She’s got seven separate designs, all of them epic, and all of them perfect for kids and adults (and anyone in between). All you have to do is download and print them out on some card stock.

The second series I found while exploring the wilds of the intarwebz are valentines from Heidi Schulz and her blog Frantically Simple. These exploit my ultimate weakness, Doctor Who. These are definitely worth traveling through space and time, but you’ll only have to download them and print them out on some card stock to enjoy.

The last series of valentines I found are from Hanasaurusrex! Nothing says “I love you” like zombies, so look no further for Valentine’s Day cards than here!

Get Your Last-Minute Geek On with Christmas Printables

The countdown to Christmas is down to single digits now – are you ready? I still have some wrapping to do, so of course I turned to the Internets for some ideas. And they did not disappoint. Here are several options for adding some geek flair to your gift wrapping.

First up is a series of Doctor Who-inspired printable holiday cards (like the one pictured above) by Natalie Shaw at Doodlecraft. (You may remember her Doctor Who Holiday Countdown I recently linked to.) Well, she has even more Doctor Who craft ideas up her sleeve! She created A2 card size (1/4 of a sheet) images featuring Daleks, Judoon, Weeping Angels, the Silence, and Cybermen. Hey, even villains celebrate holidays!

Next up, Ellie Petrov designed some Minecraft gift tags and graciously shared them. She offers a PDF of Minecraft Santa tags, and one of Minecraft snowmen.

Liz over at Being Geek Chic also has some Doctor Who-inspired printable wrapping options – both gift tags and wrapping paper.

Have you found any other geeky wrapping options? How are you planning to add geek flair to your holidays?

Links of Interest:

Printable Doctor Who-inspired holiday cards at Doodlecraft
Printable Minecraft gift tags by Ellie Petrov
Printable Doctor Who gift tags from Being Geek Chic
Printable Doctor Who wrapping paper from Being Geek Chic
More Christmas crafts on GeekCrafts
More papercrafts on GeekCrafts

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November 21

Gift A Geek: Geeky Ornaments

The Holidays are coming! The Holidays! Currently its early enough that you can still make something, or get gifts to decorate for the holidays. So we are going to start with geeky ornaments. Hallmark is surprisingly good at this, but we have so many options, from making to buying. And its not too late to start making!

For the Geek Crafter/Soon to Be Crafter –

Mini Jayne Hat Christmas Ornament Knitting Pattern
Crochet Snail-venger Pattern
Nerd Knitting Craftsy pattern store
Craftsy – Sign up/gift classes to learn or brush up on the geeky craft of your choice
Holiday Yarn Sampler from Knit Picks
General Knit/Crochet Tutorials on Knit Picks

For the Geek Shopper –

I’ve put together a treasury list of a variety of geeky ornaments one can find from a variety of sellers on Etsy. They are a mix of shapes, styles, and fandoms and nearly all the shops cover more than the fandom pictured. So I would say give it a click through and enjoy.

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January 19

Robot Love

How about a little robot love for Valentine’s Day? With just under a month to go, you have just enough time to whip up something for your geeky sweetheart (or yourself!)

I found several cute robot projects so I thought I would do a mini round-up. First we have this adorable Luvbot (pictured above), a knitting pattern available from Anna at Mochimochiland.

Next we have the cute Cara the amigurumi robot from Rachel at CrochetSpot (subscribe to her newsletter to get the pattern for free, plus get a heads up on free patterns every week!)

Another fun amigurumi robot project from Bubblegumbelles on Etsy:

Here’s an advanced-beginner cross-stitch project with a little binary code to say “I love you” in robot – Alicia Watkins has the cross-stitch kit all prepped for you on Etsy.

Then finally we have this fun crochet robot lovey blanket from Sarah at Repeat Crafter Me, so your favorite wee one can cozy up and dream of robot besties!

Do you have any geek-crafting plans for Valentine’s Day? Hook us up with links in the Comments section below!

Links of Interest:

Luvbot pattern by Mochimochiland
Cara the amigurumi robot from CrochetSpot
Amigurumi Romantic Robot from Bubblegumbelles
“I love you” in robot cross-stitch from AliciaWatkins
Crochet Robot Lovey blanket by Repeat Crafter Me
More robot crafts on GeekCrafts
More Valentine’s Day crafts on GeekCrafts

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November 22

One Geek to Craft Them All

I’m going to let you guys in on a secret. I’m a crafty geek. I know you are all stunned I can see it. Can you imagine a geeky crafter? Okay, I’ll stop being silly now, but the fact is I make geeky jewelry, knitting patterns, and stitch markers. I have had an Etsy shop for a few years, and it full of items inspired by Comics, Books, Movies, TV, Mythology, Fairy Tales, and so forth.

What fandoms you may be asking? Well the photo above, were from my Addams Family line of Stitch Markers. You will also find, Game of Thrones, Marvel Characters, DC Characters, Game of Thrones, Lord of The Rings, Sherlock, Merlin, Doctor Who, Stargate, Harry Potter, Supernatural, to name a bunch of the places I have been inspired by to make things. Like Spoilers Earrings.

Earrings inspired by River Song, and her diary. Full of time travel secrets. Doctor who not your cup of tea, what about a pair of Loki Earrings?

And I’ve posted so much about knitting here lastly I leave you with a set of my Aquaman stitch markers.

So feel free to check out my shop. The November update goes live later today, and will be full of things in honor of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who and other geeky items. There may be pie involved.

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