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Wedding favours for kids and adults

I’m not a big fan of wedding favours, to be honest. On all these bridal sites they list ideas like commemorative keychains and magnets with the happy couple’s names and image emblazoned upon them like some bizarre “I was there” wedding tourist trophy.

Plus getting all that stuff manufactured somewhere is going to be some kind of expensive and it’s also just more plastic in the world, yay. They’re like special occasion UPOs – Useless Plastic Objects – as my dad called McDonald’s toys and all the other cheap plastic detritus that tends to clutter the life of anyone with kids. I did not want UPOs to be part of my wedding.

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by on May 23, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on May 23, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/05/wedding-favours-for-kids-and-adults/

bonus post – Podipus plushies and how to get one

Leelee Scaldaferri, one of the talented artists behind Extra Credits, once drew an adorable little octopus into her webcomic, NameGame. The adorably oozing creature was named Podipus, and though he sometimes just sits around looking cute, he’s also been known to show superhero aspirations and political savvy.

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by on May 21, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on May 21, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/05/bonus-post-podipus-plushies-and-how-to-get-one/

Star Trek combadge earrings (or pin)

I had a wonderful childhood, full of many great adventures and privileges. Yet in one way I found I was deprived: I missed out on most of the world of 80s and 90s TV programming. We didn’t have cable, and my parents weren’t down with a lot of TV watching (this was before my mom discovered her love of Survivor, something I still really haven’t come to terms with about her), so while my brother and I watched many National Geographic and history videos rented from the library, we lacked our friends’ comprehensive knowledge of things like Transformers, Captain Planet, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Creek and, yes, Star Trek.

I’ve been catching up on many of these shows in my adult life, and just now my fiancé and I are about to finish Next Gen and are starting into DS9. (Sisko’s not bald yet, so it hasn’t gotten really good, but it’s moving in that direction.) We watched some of TOS a few years ago, but the first season was as much as I could get through. I understand that it was pretty revolutionary at the time, but it didn’t seem to me to have aged all that well. I mostly just wanted to smack Kirk upside the head.

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by on May 17, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on May 17, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/05/star-trek-combadge-earrings/

comics, jointed paper dolls and movie mockery

On last week’s Strip Search (a reality TV series about webcomics), the elimination comic challenge required the artists to make use of the themes “mystery” and “naughty.” I decided to try the challenge at home with jointed paper dolls.

Long before I ever had sex myself, I saw it in movies and read about it in books. In those imaginary settings, everything is always perfect. Nobody ever farts, no one bangs a shin on the side of the bed, and all the clothes seem to just magically slide off the perfectly sculpted bodies.

The comic below imagines what might happen if two characters from such an outrageous imaginary world suddenly had to contend with sex in the real world…

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by on May 7, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on May 7, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/05/comics-jointed-paper-dolls-and-movie-mockery/

Fblthp plush

A little while ago I was asked to make a Fblthp plush, and I happily agreed. Thankfully, the request came via email, so neither of us had to worry about saying the name out loud, though I did experience difficulty while actually making the plushie and trying to answer my fiancé’s question of “So, what were you working on today?”

Happily, after a lot of tongue-twisting and inadvertent spitting, I did work out how to pronounce the name out loud.

As you can see in some of the pictures below, Fblthp turned out just about life size, if you go by the fact that he appears to come about calf-high on the humans around him on the card Totally Lost. He’s soft and cuddly but no matter how many times you hug him, he just can’t lose that worried look like someone’s about to kick him. Or like he has no idea where he is and who you are.

Looking worried together:

And speaking of MtG, here’s a fun bonus thing: I got to be part of the most recent episode of Friday Nights, the MtG webseries by LoadingReadyRun and Wizards of the Coast! Check it out Check it out here.

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by on May 2, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on May 2, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/05/fblthp-plush/

lampshade from paper circles (and an upcycled atlas)

I have a special bonus post for you today – a picture post detailing the process of making a lampshade out of a bunch of paper circles!

The reason: For almost two years now, our living room lamp has been hanging bare, like a warehouse light, in desperate need of a lampshade. I’ve been meaning for ages to make it one. I also wanted to get this done before the end of April, to participate in this paper upcycling challenge over on jakeandmaya.com. So this is juuust in time!

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by on April 30, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on April 30, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/04/lampshade-from-paper-circles-and-an-upcycled-atlas/

felt appliqué projects: drawing with felt

I used to draw a lot. Like, a lot a lot. I filled several note books in high school, and just about every night when my homework was done you could find me either reading a book or drawing a picture.

Now I don’t draw much, except to doodle craft ideas and draft patterns. Instead, I mostly sew. A lot. But lately I’ve started fiddling around in a place where drawing and sewing meet, doing all kinds of felt appliqué that is, essentially, drawing pictures with felt and thread instead of paper and pen.

It’s an easy enough process, the main trick is just getting practiced enough with the sewing machine that you can neatly stitch small, precise details. The procedure, though, is the exact same one used in my sad panda mask tutorial. You start by drawing your image on paper:

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by on April 25, 2013  •  Permalink
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Posted by Tally on April 25, 2013

http://tallystreasury.com/2013/04/felt-applique-projects-drawing-with-felt/

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