Lauren Steeper (Sheffield, UK) has a cross-stitch game, Lottery Words, and I want to play! It is just the sort of highly ordered and yet completely unnecessary ritual that I love. And it combines crafting and words? So awesome! To start, she cut every word out of the dictionary and threw them in a jar. […]
Textile artist Ferret (Harrow, UK) made this impressive quilt, “Bad Rain,” inspired by an illustrated spread in the graphic novel Cancertown. She then brought the quilt to a comic show, and scored a photo with the graphic novel’s artist, Stephen Downey, and the author, Cy Dethan (below). Unfortunately the 629 pixel width of this blog […]
Smile Mermaid on Flickr made these awesome Star Wars eggs posted on Between the Pages. Each one is funnier than the last, with Yoda slaying it completely. Wouldn’t Princess Leia work well with chocolate Cheerios as her buns? So awesome and hilarious to boot.
Rebel. Alliance. Glitter. SHOES!!! Etsy shop aishavoya is filled with amazing geeky sparkle shoes. She’s got Star Wars shoes, Sailor Moon shoes, and Nintendo shoes. The shop is on vacation until the end of the week, but I couldn’t resist posting these beauties today. In the meantime, check out her past sales to satisfy your […]
I always enjoy seeing the different things people do to decorate Easter eggs. Super Mario Bros.-themed eggs. Why not? My only question is, where is Peach? These lovely eggs were decorated by Instructables user lmnopeas. More: Angry Birds Easter Eggs Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs
Earlier today you got a taste of Pysanky, cookie-style, and I’m pleased to present another non-traditional version of the Ukrainian egg decorating techniques. This amazing Dalek egg made the internet rounds a couple of years ago, but when it resurfaced on Neatorama this morning I felt it was well worth sharing. I especially love that […]
Artist Jeremy LeClair, of Various Artists Records, had these beautiful glass resonating phonograph horns made for him by glass artist Joe Forestall and now he can acoustically play to two different parts of a record at the same time!
