Melon!

Watermelon Felt Fuzzies @ KarmaBox.com

New! Juicy pink Watermelon Felt Fuzzies ~ Handmade felt hair clips and pins... slightly bitten. ;)

Obligatory.

Ring in the New Year... Don't Shoot At It

PSA for Our Fellow Texans: If your evening's festivities include getting completely Merle Haggard (and rightly so), please resist the urge to shoot your firearms into the night sky. What goes up, must come down. And what goes up at a drunken angle, comes down even faster (look it up). Besides, you'll need to save your ammo for the Mayan Zombie Apocalypse of 2012... 

Happy New Year! 

\m/ (>.<) \m/

Your Math Ate My Art

I doodle all the time; it's a big part of my job. So imagine my surprise to find that some of the doodles I make have mathematical principles to them (more specifically, Graph Theory). Gather the kiddies 'round and watch this fun (and fast) video which explains it all...



My inner nerd laughed out loud at her Parseltongue (Harry Potter) and Python (programming language) reference. /nerd

Find out more about this subject and the "mathemusician" who created the video,Vi Hart, at http://vihart.com/ She has lots more videos and other mathy goodies, too!

Merry Trololo!

My Monday morning just got more MacGyver-y...

Someone programmed a milling machine to play the MacGyver theme song…



I want to hug that someone. And I want a milling machine.

Mom, I don't want to do my homework!

For all those kids who think that they don’t need to go to college because Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college… May I remind you that these billionaires managed to get INTO college first. Not just any ol’ school either. They got into the highly competitive, ‘everyone who applies has an incredibly impressive resume’ ivy-league Harvard University.

Your argument is invalid. Go finish your homework.

The Disease Called "Perfection"

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The disease called "Perfection" : By Single Dad Laughing (Danoah)

As a warning, the following post was written in complete desperation. I have recently learned some very sobering truths from people that I love dearly. These truths have set in motion a quest within me to do whatever I can to make a change. Today is not geared at funny. Today is geared at something greater. Read it to the very end. I promise you will be affected in a way you have always needed to be. I spent more than twelve hours writing this post because its message is that important to me.

I wonder. Am I the only one aware that there is an infectious mental disease laying siege on us right now? There is a serious pandemic of "Perfection" spreading, and it needs to stop. Hear me out because this is something for which I am passionately and constantly hurting. It's a sickness that I've been trying to put into words for years without much success. It's a sickness that I have personally struggled with. It's a sickness that at times has left me hiding in dark corners and hating myself.

And chances are it's hit you too.

Felt Swiss Army Knife (... because I heart MacGyver!)

Whew! I've been wrapping up unfinished projects left and right all week long. This felt Swiss Army Knife pin cushion has movable tools. I embroidered the Victorinox logo, too. The tools I feltified include a big blade, little blade, combination saw/ruler/hook thingy, and a couple of combination flathead screwdrivers/bottle openers/thingies. Yeah, I don't know what half of the contraptions in real Swiss Army knives are actually for, but they sure come in handy when I need to diffuse bombs or get into the control panels of runaway robots!

Behold! It can open cans AND hold your stick pins!

The knife opens and closes completely. I even sewed in a little wire corkscrew! To finish the pin cushion, I covered the bottom and sides with a layer of glue and felt so that pins won't poke through.

Note the streamlined stitches and aerodynamic curves... ;)
Corkscrew = Essential

This knife isn't for sale... yet. I may put it on Etsy eventually. But for now, I just want to stare at it, a lot. (Pssst... Did I mention that I heart MacGyver?!)

Bacon and Egg: Together At Last

The long, LONG journey to make the perfect bacon Felt Fuzzi has come to a close. Out of the many felt disasters that didn't look a thing like bacon, comes this simple, majestic masterpiece:

TAAAAA DAAAAAAAAA!!!

And yes, that is a new Egg design. The yolk is padded for a more realistic sunny side up look. The bacon to egg ratio is 1:1 - we're not breaking up the set... for now. It would be sacrilegious. It's B & E, not just B. Enjoy these in your hair or on your shirt, but for the love of your digestive tract don't eat it!