Laptop Cover

Some heavy downpours of rain made me realise I really needed a somewhat waterproof cover for my laptop when travelling. Unfortunately my backpack is not the correct shape for a traditional backpack raincover.
I bought faux leather upholstery fabric years ago, and the snaps, to make weird softcover books.
The blue bias binding is leftovers from hackspace ovenmitt.

Dress-up with Build-a-Bear ponies

Not much to say about this. Just using some scrap fabric. The tiara is a pound shop My Little Pony tiara.





The apron is modelled after the on in the episode Dragon Quest. Pinkie's dress is just Pinkie-ish.

Silly Retro Crocheted Fish Shaped Bowl

Pook Pook Pook!

Dinosaurs from Foamboard

Based off of those wooden dino skeleton "puzzles", easily available from the likes of eBay. I'd punch out the pieces, then take a picture of the leftover "waste"... convert that picture to high contrast, trace lines in Gimp and make a cleaned up bitmap and printed it out in MS Paint over several sheets of paper. Pieced these together with tape and cut them out then laid them out on foamboard (foam coreboard).

Here's Stumpy (nicknamed that because the design and accompanying photo made him look quite short & stout):


and Pterri, who now hangs from the ceiling of London Hackspace

Random Pretty Pictures #3

Needle felted Minecraft Squid & Spirited Away Soot Sprites

Both handfelted using a felting needle and pre-dyed merino wool.

Cookery: Malaysian Goodies!

I can't even remember how I first found random Malaysian cookery things on ebay but it sat in my watch list for so long I finally decided to make a move on purchasing.
Luckily it was all fairly cheap things and the postage was very reasonable considering it was coming from the other side of the world.

I decided to buy a fish-shaped cake pan:



These are Bahulu They're very similar in texture to trifle sponges here in the UK.

I also bought a mooncake press, which I've still not tried out.


and a jam tart cutter/mould... which I did not read carefully on the size so it's actually the smallest jam tarts I've ever seen.