Design #8

Tetris is not only because it is a one of the most world-wide known game but probably one of the games I spent most hours in. So I had to have a design in my backpack. Honestly it is probably one of my least favourite designs, cause i did not really have the right colours, and the box should be on the other side. But people still recognize it, so I guess it is o.k.

Actually I got the idea from the original Uanyi backpacks, which I must say, it looks much better than mine. Though I actually prefer my touch of the squares at the side cause it looks more like the real Tetris.

And if you feel now that you wanna play Tetris, here is a link for you. 

Have fun!

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. 

Design #5

I still keep playing nowadays with Pokemon, one of the most played games of gameboy ever, and I wanted to show my love for Pokemon in one of my designs. So I decided to draw a Pokeball, one of the most known icons of the series. It is simple, but I think it looks great and looks even more awesome when I am wearing my own DIY Ash Ketchum cap.

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 :).

Design #4

I had to have a Zelda design, eventhough I did not have that many pixels, and this is what came out. I would say this design it's not that good as the other ones, but at least it has Link on it (one of my favourite chracters ever) and I love the heart, must do that again.

Design #3

One of my favourite Atari games: PONG, and it just became my favourite design at the moment :).

Design #2

The second design of my super cool Uanyi backpack, I still have to get more pixels though, they look a bit sad.

Geek Furniture: Functional Nintendo Controller table

As a true geek, I like everything of my life to be customized. One of the things in my list of things to do before I die is have all of my house with geek furniture. There are some quite cool geek tables for example, but I think the winning price goes to the functional Nintendo Controller table. Cause it is already cool to have a table with the shape of a NES controller, but being able to play with it: just genius. In this one for example it even has place for storage and some screenshots made of perler beads to decorate. You can see here more photos of this model made by a geek name "jocke" which says that the table cost about $200 in materials and 70-100 man-hours.Which I find totally worth it for this result.
Here you can find some the instructables by thisissafety where he explains how to DIY this awesome table.
For the ones that would not like to do the table on their own, there is an etsy shop called the bohemianworkbench where you can buy this table without the storage box for 3,500$ the functional one and for 2,300$ the non-functional.

The perfect backpack for a geek: Design #1

I just got the perfect the present for my birthday: a Uanyi backpack, the coolest thing ever for a retro gamer or just someone who wants to be original. You can choose between different models and colours, I got the backpack cause is the one I use the most, but there are plenty of things you can choose from, and prices vary from 50 to 80€. You get up to 240 pixels free, and you can start doing your designs as soon as you get the backpack (which was about 5 days for me). The thing is that for more complicated designs you should buy the colours separate cause you dont get much with the first bunch of pixels, so I try to improvise. I try to do a design each working day, cause I was challenged by my co-workers so here I go.

This is my first design: Luigi