Cool Find- Stylish Geek

Stylish Geek makes clothes, some boring fashiony ones and some super cool cosplay ones!  Cosplay is where grown up people dress up in Sci-fi/fantasy themed costumes.  It’s v. big in Japan, that’s how you know it’s cool!

Here’s her Han Solo costume!

Valentine’s Day

“Valentine’s Day’s coming? Aw crap!  I forgot to get a girlfriend again!”- Fry, Futurama

I know nothing pisses you off when you’re a sad and lonely singleton than Valentines Day and all that arbitrary romance that consists of obnoxious couple aggressively flaunting their love, and if you’re happily in a couple I know nothing pisses you off more than Valentine’s Day when you’re expected to spend lots of money on arbitrary romance that consists of dead flowers* and over priced restaurant specials.

Anyway I will be celebrating Valentine’s this year, with boyfriend, with a free evening in front of the TV and a general (though probably unspoken) acknowledgement that I love him and vice versa.  So in that spirit I found a few quotes that should satisfy you whatever your romantic situation.

‘Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love’- Charlie Brown

“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy

“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
William Shakespeare

“I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”-Harry from When Harry Met Sally

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!  Thanks for reading my posts!

*They died when you cut them to give to your betrothed- you monster…

What To Do With- Felt

I think I mentioned earlier that I love felt!  It is cheap and easier to hand sew (I generally hate hand sewing but not with felt), but mainly it’s because you make such cute things with it!

I started off with this little guy; a zombie that I made using a template that someone had photocopied from a book- meaning I only had one template!  So a lot of the little people I made are the same shape!  I followed it up with a ninja in plain black that I made and gave to boyfriend who liked it and took it to work, alas I can’t find any photos of it 😦  But I made a better more interesting ninja for boyfriend who then rejected it so I kept it for myself.

I made some really cute Christmas decorations from felt for Christmas 2011- I think I took a week off work to make Christmas decorations because that’s the way I roll.  I made felt Christmas trees, presents, gingerbread houses, and gingerbread men.  My favourite is the gingerbread houses which took a little extra time but I love the little candy canes I sewed on them.  The gingerbread men were the worst to make, they were really tricky to stuff and by the time I came around the sewing their faces I was in a bad mood and some of them are a little funny looking!

 

 

 

 

 

I made a few geeky felties including Mario from Super Mario, I also made a soft toy of Mario which I prefer but I got some good feedback on this little guy.  I also made a tie fighter from Star Wars, which I made for boyfriend but kinda ended up keeping it for myself…he loves tie fighters but couldn’t figure out where to hang it in his room.  I now have a picture of a scene from Star Wars if Han and Leia so I have a very small Star Wars corner in my room!  And I made a terrarium (a little garden arranged in a scene) for boyfriend (hmm there is a theme here) and made a felt Ewok to live in the terrarium.  He ended up being twice the size of the little houses!

And a tiger!