Merry Christmas Day

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Never too early to become a Trekkie

Last week I gave you a sneak peek at a gift I was making for my co-workers new baby girl.  But there's more!

After I made her cute little love tree onesie, I remembered that I had some Star Trek iron-on transfers!  And my co-worker is a super huge Trekkie.  I like Jean-Luc Picard as much as the next lady, but my co-worker is a straight up Trekkie, so I thought it would be cute to make his new baby a Star Trek onesie.

Unfortunately, my iron on's are so old they won't actually iron on.  But I couldn't get the image out of my head so I made something even cuter!

A floral communicator!

I love it so much I think I'm going to have to make one for myself! A floral communicator that is, not a onesie~

I think my coworker will love it.  He'll hate that it's not gold but hopefully he'll have a sense of humour about it, you never know with those Trekkie die hards though~

And just so I'm not totally breaking from this week's birthday card theme, here's the pretty little card I made to go along with the gift.

 

Ahhh, back to shabby chic prettiness~

I'm trying to get myself to use more layers and play with pattern and texture more.

Inside I used some teeny tiny scraps to make some photo corners.

There's only one thing I enjoy more than making things for babies....

Destination: weekend!  ENGAGE!

This project was featured here:

Proud to be Canadian (and a little Geeky)

OK, today's post is completely off topic but I'm pretty excited about it so I figured you might be interested too...

Have you been following @Cmdr_Hadfield on Twitter?  He posts the lovliest photos from the international space station, plus he's Canadian so I like to support him~

It's entirely possible that I've been slipping his name into conversation too often lately because a friend of mine recently sent me this link: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/webcast.asp  along with this note: "Something tells me you'll be interested in live streaming this".

What? Commander Hadfield and Captain Kirk chatting live through space?

I have no idea why my friend thought I would find that exciting~

The Canadian Space Agency is hosting the live chat today at 10:30 EST HERE or on Ustream HERE.

Commander Hadfield is also releasing a new song with the Bare Naked Ladies (another group of awesome Canadians) on Friday on CBC music!  It doesn't get any more Canadian (or geeky) than that!

Update: Also on YouTube HERE.

Show and Tell: Halloween Costumes

In the spirit of Halloween I thought I'd share some of my past Halloween costumes with you.

I can only remember one year, when I was about 3 or 4, when my mom purchased my Halloween costume (Barbie Bride).  From then on she always made my costumes, either sewing them from scratch or using things we had around the house, and I have proudly carried on that tradition throughout the years.

I was all set to go back to my university days and share my pics with you of me dressed up as a hippie, and a vampire, and a pirate.  And then I took a look at the photos, and remembered that they were all taken in the 80's and 90's.  I realized that I 'm not quite ready to share my big hair days with all of you just yet....maybe next year.

So for now, I'll show you my top 2 favourite Halloween costumes from my past:

#2-Star Trek (original series)

It's not a great picture but trust me this is a great costume!  So great that I actually call it my uniform...not my costume.  I made it from scratch with the perfect polyester fortrel and ironed on the communicator emblem.  If I could wear it on days other than October 31st I probably would.  I'm not even going to ask you if you think that's weird because I'm pretty sure I already know the answer~

#1-Flower Fairy

I love this outfit the most.  I just took a slip and hot glued lots and lots of fake flowers to it and then basted some netting onto the bottom.  It's so pretty!  If you look closely in the first picture you can see my home made wings too!

I was living in Japan when I made this and had only been there for a couple of months when I went to a Halloween party/dance in this.  Throughout the night people had to vote on their favourite costume and I made it to the finals!  Unfortunately I lost to a fellow dressed up as Kim Jong Il.  I'm not sure his costume would've been quite so popular or even recognizable at that time if we had been in North America but I have to admit, he really did look like him. 

However, I only just noticed now that my little number card that I was holding was backwards.  Maybe I should've won after all!  Hey!  Kim Jong Il!  Get back here with my prize!

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  Are you a flower fairy kind of girl or would you like to spend some time with Jean-Luc Picard????? (Next Generation, I know, but don't make me get all nerdy on you and explain time travel~)

Hey you guys!  I just entered my Flower Fairy Costume into another contest.  Check out While He Was Napping and give me a vote.  I have some very, very good competition~