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Website of the Day: More Cloth
I'm a total DIY freak, and appreciate websites that help me reach my crafting goals. Take my last DIY project: the charging station I made from an Ikea shelving unit. Now if I wanted to take that a step further, I could add some decorative fabric to the back panels and really make the shelf pop.
5 Adorable Handmade Nintendo DSi Cases
As if covering your cell and iPhone with amazing handmade goods wasn't enough, I went ahead and found five adorable DSi cases on Etsy that are worthy of a look-see, and maybe even a purchase if you don't already have your console protected. That DSi was an investment, no? Might as well keep it free of scratches and dings with one of these!
DIY Geeky Pac-Man-Carved Pumpkins
The hardest part about making these adorable 8-bit gourds is finding just the right pumpkins to carve! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories the creators of this Pac-Man-carved creation, suggest finding a bagful of these decorative gourds at the grocery store — try to find one with a curvy base and a rounded one with a flat base.
And now that you've got the perfect pumpkins, here's how you should carve your pumpkins:
Gourds like these have a hard shell, about 3mm thick, that is rather hard to cut through.
Geek Tip: Age Your Photos Instantly Without Photoshop
There are a ton of things you can do with your digital photos and a photo editor besides just adjusting light and focus. You can make them into movie stills, or turn them into Lomo works of art. I happen to like the aged look, and it's always fun to turn them into Polaroids, but if you aren't using Poladroid, this can take forever to make the effect yourself.
Geek Tip: Learn to Fold Origami With a Little Online Help
I'm a big fan of origami (I can't tell you how many of those little birds and shirts I made from my old Netflix flaps), but learning how to fold everything just right was kind of a nightmare. But with some animated step-by-step instructions from this site, you can banish your cramped hands and get it right the first time.
No more folding and unfolding, or wondering which way to flip the paper over, 'cause you have the animated instructions right in front of you!
Glitzy Super Mario Bros. Fashion Collection
Any articles of Super Mario Bros. apparel I've seen before usually consist of hand-knitted creations like the 1Up Mushroom or the beautiful Princess Peach scarves. Well feast your eyes on this glamorous Super Mario Bros.
5 Awesome Handmade Cell Cases
I've already showed you some stylish yet geeky handmade iPhone (and iPod Touch) cases, and I didn't want to leave out my peeps who don't rock an Apple. These handmade cases will fit anything from your standard flip phone to your trusty Blackberry. Variety is the spice of life, my friends, so click away and check out these awesome creations.
8 Geeky Handmade iPhone Cases
I like to keep my gadgets covered to prevent cuts and scrapes, and most of all, from my own clumsiness! Since my iPhone goes with me everywhere, there's a higher chance that I'll drop it and I certainly don't want to break it. Check out eight awesome handmade iPhone cases I found to keep your iPhone (or iPod Touch) scar-free.
3 Popular Charging Stations to DIY
It's a battle: 'mo gadgets, 'mo problems. Well not so much problems per se, but more cords, and more outlets needed to plug in all those gadgets to charge. Which, then necessitates the organized geek's BFF: the charging station.
Turn Inexpensive Furniture Into All-In-One Charging Stations
I bought this Ikea Aneboda ($40) bedside table over the weekend, and am drafting up plans to turn it into an all-in-one charging station.
I realized after searching and scouring the Internet to track down the best charging station possible, that it probably wouldn't hold everything I wanted to charge, and the ones that might were way out of my price range. I don't see anything that could hold my laptop anyway.
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