After I made my own geekiest lamp in all of geekdom a friend of mine (the very friend who lent me his Enterprise D blueprints) commissioned me to make him a table lamp with an Enterprise design. Took me ages to find a lamp I could customise and then ages again to actually decide which bit of the ship to put on it, but I really like what I ended up ( Read more... )

So, today's crafty post. I had this floor lamp that I loved very much, but some of the panels had been damaged over the years, so I decided to cut all the panels out, replace the ones that were too badly ripped and salvage the ones that weren't. Maybe I'd add some small embellishments, I thought. Then it turned into an epic stencil project that ( Read more... )

In what seems like forever and a day ago, I promised to post pictures of the wonderful Wireopoly that rooferrocks made us as a gift. And so finally I get around to showing off her genius blending of Monopoly and The Wire.

I had also said I would write the "standard internet nerd essay about why [The Wire] is the best thing ever on television" but I think many ( Read more... )

After the cut, some pics of a wee handbag and purse I made for my Mum, and an Aberdeen FC cross stitch for my Dad.

( Onwards... )