To answer the question I keep getting: Yes, I do commissions. You can read all about having me make you a costume on my cosplay site. First off, don’t be an idiot like me and decide to make the costume at the last possible second. While I ordered the boots, gloves and goggles a few weeks before, I didn’t actually decide to make the costume for the convention I was going until the day before. [...]

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, [...]

I’m getting increasingly frustrated with all the crap pages on Stumble. No, I don’t mean the sites I don’t like, I mean actually useless pages and bad links. So here’s a quick guide to not being an asshat when submitting a site. 1. Make sure you are linking to the first page of a tutorial, list or other paginated article. Some older sites lack navigational menus on every page, and its no fun when we [...]

or “How not to look like an overstuffed sausage” This tutorial has been moved to my costume site Beware of Ninja

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!

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.