Over the weekend, I received an e-mail from Rachael of Glass of Win, where she informed me that she had bestowed the One Lovely Blog Award to DefectiveGeeks! It made my day! I met Rachael many years ago through mutual friends and she is a person I trusted easily. I am generally a shy and [...]

Haven’t made a post not related to crafts recently! Friday (June 25th) I went with my boyfriend to Hardrock Calling in Hyde Park, London. There were a lot of gigs on, but the head-liner was Pearl Jam. We had gone last year to see Bruce Springsteen, and it was awesome. I’m not as big a [...]

Gizzle and I made it out to the LA Film Festival on June 20th at Downtown LA for the Edgar Wright Saves the World panel, co-hosted by J.J. Abrams. The discussion involved Abrams asking Edgar Wright (director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the upcoming Scott Pilgrim Saves the World movie) questions as [...]

Just finished another Creepy Cute Crochet monster: This was a bit trickier because of the hair. The instructions in the book were..sparse. But, she did a detailed tutorial on her website: NeedleNoodles That tutorial really helped. I’ve got various states of the project loaded up on Ravelry. I absolutely love this website. It’s so easy [...]

I am SO happy that I got to go to the Scott Pilgrim’s SUPER FUN PARTY! An E3 after party hosted by I Am 8-Bit in conjunction with Universal Studios, promoting the release of both the movie and the Scott Pilgrim video game. I did not have work on the day of and managed to [...]

This post has been triggered by Neil Gaiman’s recent blog entry, in which he used the subject title: “I’m Sweet and I’m Cuddly, I’m Gonna Kill Scully!” I promptly twitted about this and wondered if anyone could guess the origin of those lyrics. I felt like such a nerd when I received no twit back [...]

I finished my bolero! I don’t have any shots of me wearing it yet, I need to block it (which involves getting it wet and stretching it). But I was too excited not to post. Front: Back: Shoulder seam: It’s an interesting pattern as I didn’t actually have to sew any of it together. The [...]