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CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH!!
THE THEME: Election!
It’s election day in Canada! That’s kinda the same as Hockey Night in Canada, except there is less flag waving and more standing in line. Same amount of drinking though!
This election is especially important because of who we currently have as Prime Minister.
That’s right, this man:
So remember, my friends, my readers, to vote AGAINST KITTEN EATING THIS ELECTION.
For this theme, there are two other competitors:
Yermits!
Sarah Apple!
To see all the entries go to Craft Corner Death Match!
May 01 2011 | animals and myths and occupations | 3 Comments »
CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH!!
THE THEME: MIND CONTROL
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT BRAIN SLUGS. BRAIN SLUGS ARE GREAT. LET’S ALL WALK AROUND THE BRAIN SLUG PLANET NOT WEARING HELMETS. DID I MENTION I LOVE BRAIN SLUGS. BRAIN SLUGS ARE GREAT.
Here is a confession that will probably make all the nerds turn away in disgust: while I LOVE old futurama, it just hasn’t been the same since it came back. Much like a zombie!
And speaking of zombies, my first thought when this week’s theme was finialized was this: Zombie Ants! But let’s face it, GROSS. Also I don’t want to antagonize out new fungi overlords.
For this theme, there are three other competitors:
The Harpy!
Yermits!
Sarah Apple!
To see all the entries go to Craft Corner Death Match!
March 20 2011 | accessories and animals and homage and occupations | 1 Comment »
CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH!!
THE THEME: FOUR W’s
This week we just had to come up with something that had four W’s in it.
BEHOLD: WANDERING WEASEL WATCHES WARILY
So you bedda not steal his hobo pack! I wonder what’s in there anyways?
For this theme, there are three other competitors:
The Harpy!
Yermits!
Sarah Apple!
To see all the entries go to Craft Corner Death Match!
January 30 2011 | accessories and animals and moods and occupations | 3 Comments »
CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH!!
THE THEME: SQUIRREL ATTACK!
Look, if you’ve ever lived around squirrels you know they are little ninjas:
Though most of them don’t have teeny nutchucks.
For this theme, there are three other competitors:
The Harpy!
Yermits!
Sarah Apple!
To see all the entries go to Craft Corner Death Match!
January 23 2011 | accessories and animals and myths and occupations | 1 Comment »
CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH!!
THE THEME: FISHWIVES
I was so so excited about this theme. Fishwives are awesome, historically, they were sassy loudmouths who cuss. A lot. THIS ENDEARS THEM TO ME.
For this theme, there are three other competitors:
The Harpy!
Yermits!
Sarah Apple!
To see all the entries go to Craft Corner Death Match!
December 17 2010 | animals and occupations | 4 Comments »
YERMITS VS. ROBOTS VS APPLES: BATTLE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILY CUTE THINGS, OR MAYBE THINGS DRESSED AS OTHER THINGS WE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT TO CALL IT.
CRAFT CORNER DEATH MATCH!!(we have a shiny new title, thanks to Sarah Apple)
This is week thirteen! The Theme: CHAPS AND LIPS.
Chaps and Lips! Cowboys! kissing! Hooray!
Wait.
oh.
oh crap.
It’s CHAPPED LIPS?
really?
oh dear.
um…. oops:
Here is Jenny Yermit’s chapped entry:
Her outfit matches her lips! Winter chic. It makes me want to whip out the chap stick just looking at her!
Here is Sarah Apple’s lippy entry:
check out her entry to see the insane amount of work she put into those lips.
November 28 2010 | accessories and occupations | 3 Comments »
YERMITS VS. ROBOTS VS APPLES: BATTLE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILY CUTE THINGS, OR MAYBE THINGS DRESSED AS OTHER THINGS WE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT TO CALL IT.
This is week twelve! The Theme: Fabric Swap.
This week Jenny and I swapped some fabric, with the caveat that one had to use the fabric in this week’s entry. Here is the amazing stuff I got:
The possibilities! I thought and thought and thought, but there was one idea this fabric kept screaming at me:
This dude looks totally legit! Let’s buy our car from him!
Here is Jenny Yermit’s sparkling entry:
Pink! sparkles! I love the horns, I love the sweater. It’s adorable! And I’m sorry that fabric shed all over your room. But… pink sparkles make it all better, right?
NEXT WEEK: did we have a theme? fairy tales? odious people? pet peeves?
November 21 2010 | accessories and different materials and myths and occupations | 2 Comments »
YERMITS VS. ROBOTS: BATTLE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILY CUTE THINGS, OR MAYBE THINGS DRESSED AS OTHER THINGS WE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT TO CALL IT.
This is week eight! The Theme: NASA SPACE CHALLENGE.
We were inspired by the Etsy/NASA Space Contest (which sadly isn’t open to Canadians. Booo, waaah, grouse, etc).
It’s probably not typical, but when I think of the history of space exploration, I think of the animals that were actually the first astronauts. And since this was specifically NASA-themed, I couldn’t do my favourite, Laika. So I thought I would do the first monkey, Albert. Like many of the animals that paved the way for human spaceflight, Albert died in flight. So when I think of the awesomeness of space, and the amazing advances NASA makes in science, I also think about the animals that were the first Earth eyes to see outside of out atmosphere.
And then I think about how terrified the animals must have been, and I feel bad. Animals are pretty much always taking one for the team when it comes to humans. We are going to be SO SCREWED when they evolve opposable thumbs and giant brains.
And, because this is Robot a Day and we thrive on factual accuracies in our robots* here is Albert in his space helmet:
*bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Here is Jenny Yermit’s totally win-tastic entry:
Wow. Just…. wow. Seriously, wow. Amazing. Jenny really captured all the details here, the orange suit, the pose with helmet… the flag in the background. So perfect.
NEXT WEEK’S THEME: TBA
October 24 2010 | animals and homage and occupations | 4 Comments »
YERMITS VS. ROBOTS: BATTLE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILY CUTE THINGS, OR MAYBE THINGS DRESSED AS OTHER THINGS WE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT TO CALL IT.
This is week seven (really? seven?). The Theme: ROBOT AS YERMIT / YERMIT AS ROBOT.
I present: A ROBOT AS A YERMIT! I wish I’d thought of this 300 bots ago- it would have made this project WAY EASIER:
Okay, I’m just joking. Here’s the real one:
It’s a drunken bear! Though it does kinda look like Teen Wolf Gets a Job at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
Here is Jenny Yermit’s robotically awesome entry:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! amazing. How does Jenny do this every week?
NEXT WEEK’S THEME: NASA! SPACE SHUTTLE! YEAH!
October 17 2010 | accessories and animals and homage and myths and occupations | 2 Comments »
YERMITS VS. ROBOTS: BATTLE OF INCOMPREHENSIBILY CUTE THINGS, OR MAYBE THINGS DRESSED AS OTHER THINGS WE DIDN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT TO CALL IT.
This is week five. The Theme: Spinsters and Trollops.
I chose to go with: COUGAR BOT.
This is one of those bots where I know, I just know, that it’s something my mother is going to ask me to explain. As in “What’s a cougar?”.* I pre-emptively googled cougar, and mostly it’s just pictures of Demi Moore.
* If you don’t know what a cougar is, you should probably check out this link: THIS IS WHAT A COUGAR IS
Here is Jenny Yermit’ssuperbly fantastic entry:
Spinster by day, trollop by night!
NEXT WEEK’S THEME: POTATOES. I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING. IT IS POTATOES.
October 03 2010 | myths and occupations and Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
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