DIY chalkboard paint

If you like crafting, the chalkboard paint offers a lot of possibilites, and you can do some quite pretty awesome and original stuff. Here you can see some things you can create with chalkboard paint that I found in pinterest. Endless possibilities to a strong creativity.

You can buy chalkboard paint and spray in crafts stores, however in this video you can see how to make your own chalkboard paint:

Have fun!

Harley Quinn inspired shorts

Harley Quinn is one of my favorite characters in Batman and I have been thinking since a long time that I wanted to do some inspired clothes of her outfit.
At first I thought of a dress, like this one of ThinkGeek, but I thought it was too difficult, and I am not that experienced with my new sewing machine.

Then I thought of some leggings, like the ones of Blackmilkclothing, page which I already mentioned in my blog before. I thought too it was too complicated, cause I like leggings to be licra and it is difficult to print designs on it or to paint it.

I checked out some inspired outfits and everything and in the end I decided to do some inspired shorts, using this shorts as an inspiration and some old Tshirts.

I cut out the fabric and then I sew it around the edges of the short, but you can use fabric glue too.
Here is the result, an awesome pair of inspired Harley Quinn shorts.

Kerbal Space Program

Many of you probably have not heard of Kerbal Space Program, I honestly did not know either, but a really good friend of mine is now addicted to this game, and he goes on and on about this game all the time, so I wanted to try it. 

I downloaded the demo in Steam, and started to play it as soon as I could. The idea of the game is to send rockets and go out in missions to outerspace. Or at least that is what I think, cause I must say I was not able to play that much. At least in the demo, the game does not offer any kind of tutorial, and I was so confused, I really did not know what we were supposed to do. I just spent like 30 minutes clicking on types of rocket parts, with no idea what to do.

I just felt like Penny from "The Big Bang Theory", I just think I am too stupid for this game. I mean, I trust my friend and I am sure it is a lot of fun, but I just did not find it. They should do a tutorial or a version for people like me, cause I even looked on the Internet to see what we had to do and still nothing.


Feel free to check it out, you can see an awesome fan-made trailer here:

I wanted to show you too, the present I gave my friend for his birthday, I made a super cute Kerbal astronaut out of Hama beads. It looks so cute. Here you can see a picture he took of his little Kerbal friend in his orion ceiling. I found the pattern here.

Mario polymer earrings

Probably you have seen this image of piranha plant earrings by 9gag or other website:

 If you are wondering where to get these beauties, the original etsy shop was Ligglizz Shop, where you can find the earrings for $35 + shipping costs. In this shop you can find more geeky polymer clay. For example:

However you can find more geeky jewelry made of polymer clay in Etsy. Could bee yours for example, where you can find a piranha and chain chomp earrings combo. Here it costs $34 + shipping. In this shop you can find  more Star wars and other geek inspired earrings.

If you do not want to spent that money on the earrings or you just prefer to make things your own (like I do) you could try to do them yourself. For that youtuber and geek crafter NerdECrafter has created some tutorials for both the piranha and the chompers.

Probably this will be one of my next crafts, and definitely will post pics here.

Geek Furniture: Donkey Kong Shelves

Some weeks before I posted about the Space Invader Sofa, well looking at more of Igor Chak's designs I saw this awesome Donkey Kong shelves.

You probably recognize the screenshot and the shelves. But for those who don't here is a more bigger picture of the original inspiration:

As you can see it is pretty accurate with the design, it even has the angles of the shelves in pixels, which I think it is so cool. 


The designer, referring to these shelves, says in his official blog:

"The wall is made out of individual sections; each section is made out of durable but light carbon fiber, anodized aluminum pixels that are joined with strong stainless steel rods and toughened glass tops. The special mounts themselves are made out of steel and can support up to 60lbs"
The thing is, that this shelves are not really for sale is just a design, so we are left only with the dream to have these unique piece of furniture at home. However, creative geeks are all over the globe, and they brought us these awesome and real shelves:

Via Twitter (user @laurajsharples)

If you are looking for an easy thing you just can decorate your shelves with duct tape or paint it, get hold on some ladders and barrels, a mario or donkey plush and you got yourself a new geeky furniture.

For a more real look, via alcoholandnightswimming you can find how he did this awesome 20 degrees shelves:

More geek furniture: Rubik's drawers

Carrying on with my future dream house, I saw my future drawers for my bedroom. The Rubik's drawers. Made by a loving father for their kids, this awesome piece of furniture was created. 

It does not only look as a Rubik but it turns, you can change the position of the magnets and each drawer unlocks in a different position. The genius of this creation is instructable-user makendo and you can see how to make it here. It said that it costed up to 200$ all together to build it. Which I personally think is worth it, but you would have to think about all the hours spent too. Maybe you could build one that does not turn, I have seen comments of people that have done it and the result is good too.

Behold, the Rubik drawer in action:

Crafty Sunday: X-Men Purse

After my comic heels, I had this demon inside me, that screamed: MORE, MORE. And as I had comic leftovers already cut out I decided to upcycle a purse I had. And this is what I came up with. 

You can use the same technique described in the comic heels post. Basically Mod Podge and some comic cutouts, so easy and it look amazing. You should try this at home and make pictures. If you want one of your own without making it, try Etsy or contact me and I can make something for a reasonable price. 

Space Invaders DIY shorts

As a geek woman I don't find that much geek pretty clothes to wear, so I just make a lot of my clothes myself. I upcycle clothes with the touch of geek I need for all my clothes. This summer I did the cutest pair of shorts I have: Space Invaders short. 

I saw this tutorial of tribal DIY shorts and decided to make them because they look adorable.

 I was not sure what pattern to draw, then I thought of something geeky and thought that the Invaders would look awesome. So I got myself one pair of old jeans, I dipped half of them for some hours in bleach and let them dry. Then I got my black fabric pen and, with a stencil I did before hand with cardboard, drew my Space Invaders. 

The result is just fantastic, I hope you try this at home.

Crafty Sunday

Nowadays I try to stay home on Sundays and leave time to myself and do some crafts. That is why I wanted to start to post every sunday some kind of craft. I will probably start with the ones that I have already done, and keep going on posting some cool stuff.
This time I wanted to post one of the crafts I am most proud of: my comic heels. I actually learned decoupage from my aunt, but did not became a real fan until I saw the geek potential they have, for example with the comics. I saw at first this tutorial  where you can see the details of how to make the shoes:

Well, I mean you see them and you just have to make own of your own don't you?

But I must say the best tutorial I have seen so far is this one by Celesteknowsbest I think it really takes into account all the details and problems while doing this craft.

Here you can see mine which are based on cyclops and jean grey, one of my favorite marvel characters.  The sad thing is I don't have any picture wearing them on :(. But you see them quite well.

You know the best part about this project: you can use some shoes that you already have, like I did, that you just don't wear them anymore and revamp them with less than 5€ (cause you I got about 3 comics for 2€ in a local store and i already had the decoupage glue). Do not forget that they look adorable :)

I would like to know if you have made some shoes of your own, and post the pictures.
If you want one of them without doing the effort you just can find tons of shops in etsy that do them, and if you want you can try to contact me, and I can make some for you and a reasonable price :).

DIY Ash Ketchum cap

A few months ago there was some party in my home university where we had to dress up with the theme of cartoon characters. I dressed up as one of my childhood idols: Ash Ketchum. Looks so cool and is so easy to make.

 You only need some green gloves, some jeans, red belt, a black t-shirt and some sneakers, the 2 more difficult things to make are the jacket and the cap, and it was easier than expected too. You just need a red cap, that I bought for about two euros in local cheap shop, some fabric paint and some masking tape. Cover the edges of the cap with the masking tape so you do not paint on the rest of it and paint the design on the front. It just looks adorable and you can just wear it as a usual cap as I do.

It looks good with everything and gets you prepared to catch them all!