Geek Crafts

Make This Pi Pie Plate for Pi Day

Pi Pie Plate for Pi Day

If you are into celebrating geeky holidays, there are quite a few. One of the most famous is Pi Day, which is celebrated on March 14th (get it…3/14, ha) and features, well, pie of course! The stores around here sell out of many of their pies leading up to this day. We usually celebrate with […]

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Valentine’s Day Tutorial for the Linux Administrator in Your Life

As you may or may not have guessed from the ‘rm -rf /’ picture in the header for the page, I do a lot of work with Linux in my job. Linux can be very divisive. People who are familiar with it think it is great, to the point of saying it’s better than Windows […]

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Can Comic Book Movies Teach You How to Be a “Super Friend”?

Learn how to be a super friend from comic book movies

My birthday was almost two months ago. Lordy lordy, look who’s 39! It was a pretty insignificant birthday, to be honest. Nothing spectacular to celebrate or lament. I had lunch with my mother, and took my flight back home (I was on a business trip that week). I’m at the age where no one plans […]

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Halloween Boxtume: 8-Bit Video Game Princess

DIY 8-Bit Video Game Princess Boxtume

This post was written by me and sponsored by Amazon through my participation in the Mom It Forward Network. See my Disclosure Policy for more details. Video games have been a part of my life since I was a kid in the 1980s. I’ve mentioned before how Mom would make sure we did our homework […]

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Make Your Own Marvel Decals with a Cricut

Finished Team Cap decals on a Cricut

I was so excited when I saw that there were Marvel images available in Cricut Design Space as part of my Cricut Access account. I knew I HAD to use them somehow. Down the line, I will be making projects using the Guardians of the Galaxy Kawaii cartridge (so adorable!) but for my first project, […]

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