Con season has started for me! Thus far we’ll be at: Setsucon (State College, PA – January 29-30) and Katsucon (National Harbor, MD – February 18th-20th) I will also be trying to Otakon and AnimeUSA, but I won’t know for sure until later. My button queue is still open for up to 500 more pickups, so if you still need 1″ buttons to sell at either convention, contact me ASAP. I’m also still open for [...]

X-Posted from my other blog A Family of Geeks I whipped this up really quickly yesterday morning (about 10 minutes) because I knew Baby Geek wasn’t going to put up with wearing her costume all day. I made this hat entirely out of scraps, but if you’re making this for an older child, you’ll need between 1/4-1/2 a yard of orange fleece (enough for 2 actually). I used scraps of jersey for the features and [...]

I know I said “next week” in the last tutorial on how to make a cellphone lariat, but this is soooo easy I put it up today. This is the tutorial for the lanyard, the charm seen here was prepared via my How to Make a CellPhone Charm tutorial. You could easily use one of these guys as a zipper pull as well. Anyway. The ingredients: One elastic hair tie (any color), one split ring, [...]

A few people have been having trouble locating cellphone lariats for my Cell Phone Charm/Zipper Pull tutorial. So here’s a quick and easy way to make some. First off, this is what we are hoping to emulate. This is what you will need to make this silly thing. That’s a split ring, 1 or 2 crimp beads, a pair of pliers and your string. I’m using fake leather cording, but you could use waxed thread, [...]

So here is the NON video Badge-A-Minit 1 1/4 in. button tutorial. It’s long and has a heck of a lot of images, so dial-up users, you might want to click the break and then make yourself some tea or something. Step One: Get Your Stuff Together!

Non-video tutorial coming soon.

I don’t quite understand the appeal of dangling things hanging from your cellphone, but who am I to argue with trends? This tutorial will explain, as simply as possible, how to make your own cellphone charm.

And yet another set of buttons, this time from scanned kimono fabric patterns. Still $1.50 a button.

Buttons #5-6 1 1/4″ Price $1.50 per button, incl. shipping

I’m starting to get my buttons ready for Anime Mid-Atlantic. Here are the first four designs. The picture doesn’t do the attorney badge justice. If you are not a convention go-er and want one of these buttons for some reason, it’s $1.50 incl. shipping.