Detroit Maker Faire 2011

Yesterday my mom took me to the Detroit Maker Faire. I had an absolutely awesome time. It was everything I hoped it would be and more.

I learned to cross stitch (so now I can video game craft in a better medium

Here is my first project (I'm still working on it) It's not too impressive, but it's a start. The kit to make him was free at maker faire, so that was pretty darn exciting.




I also learned to sodder, but I took the battery out of my makerbot pin so that it would last longer (no picture yet, but I'll take one later)

I met storm troopers and tusken raiders





and the Rancor


Not to mention all the exciting shows and interesting crafts.
My favorite show was the life sized mouse trap, but it went too fast to get a good picture of it in action.

Star Wars Stuff

Today my sister and I flipped through a Wilton Cake decorating guide from 1983.



It was a lot of fun. We saw some wrecks, and some neat ideas.

Here are two of my favorite wrecks from the book (There were a lot of gems though)


(That mama kangaroo is made from a bowling ball pan)


(This was made with the bear pan...)


One thing I particularly liked was the Star Wars decorating stuff.



The candy molds being my favorite:


I would love it if I could mold candy into wookie and R2D2 shapes. Fun fact though, these candy molds are now out of production and worth a fortune.
After bumming for a bit about the fact that I can't have the coveted candy molds, I did a quick search for what star wars goodies I can have.

I found these:

Cookie cutters from williams sonoma

Cupcake stencils from williams sonoma

They also had pancake molds, sandwich cutters, and ship-shapes (like x wings and the millennium falcoln).

I was at the mall earlier, and all the ship ones are half off, but I really want the star wars character ones...

I Edited a Picture

Eric: This is so cheesy
Me: But don't you love it? I put us in space, and I added those little doodles.
Eric: *silence*

Mario Perler Set Complete (Maybe)

I've finished all my Mario Perlers (I think).

Here is my last one:



And here they all are together:


I'm thinking about making a few more. Maybe a Toad or a Yoshi, but maybe not.

I still have more to do with them to make them into a complete craft, but there they all are.

More Mario Crafts

I finished two more mario perler projects, so I'm well on my way to my coaster set. I'm trying to figure out whether I want them to be coasters at all, or if I'd rather they were incorporated into a decorative hot pad or cork. I'm thinking about different materials as possible backgrounds.

Mario Perler Craft

I've just finished making my very first perler bead craft (other than all the ones I made when I was very small). It's Mario in his goomba shoe. I think I'm going to make a few more types of mario/mario characters and end up with a lovely coaster set (inspired by these coasters)



More Mario/Nintendo crafts to come! (I hope...)

Ferdinand Goes For a Walk

I took Ferdinand out for a walk the other day and got some cute photos.



She always fights me when I go to put on her leash, but then she loves hanging out outside.