I do Believe – that All the World’s a Star…

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 4 Comments

…Beyond that heav’nly light I shall fly far!”
Luke (ACT I, Scene 7), William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope.

One of the things on my bucket list is to see all of Shakespeare’s plays, live on stage. (I’ve made a decent dent – about a dozen different plays live, plus another 10 plays recorded live on stage, or movies)

So needless to say, when M4P friend Amy sent me Ian Doescher’s, marvelous 3 book boxed set William Shakespeare’s Star Wars for Christmas last year. I squealed with surprise and delight! It’s like they were written just for me!!!

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2 Princess Leia Perler Pixel Patterns

November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 1 Comment

I have mentioned this before, but it deserves repeating: Star Wars is a “chick flick.”

It has love, romance, a smart and beautiful heroine, a scruffy nerfherder with a heart of gold, confused family dynamics, romantic tension, and did I mention LOVE? …. It just also happens to have a bunch space stuff. (They just disguised it as a guy flick – so we can get our dates and hubbies to watch something WE want to watch for once.)
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Drawing on our Imagination! (DIY Star Wars Crayons)

November 13, 2015November 13, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / Leave a comment

One of the marvelous things about the Star Wars franchise is how it engages people’s imagination. Just like countless other kids in the late 70’s, the hubby spent a good chunk of his time drawing TIE-fighters and pretending to be shooting at stormtroopers. Now a generation later, our kids are drawing X-wings and having Lightsabers fights.

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Sorry, I was so Sluggish in Posting! (Space Slug Gift Wrapping)

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / Leave a comment

M4P friend Gene Ha will tell you this gift wrap is NOT a space slug, it is a lobster claw…

Of course he has a compelling argument… He bought the Admiral Ackbar bobble-head that was inside for me (yeah!!!), AND he created the wrapping. And as all of Gene’s fans know, Gene has a somewhat warped sense of humor, so a lobster claw wrapping makes perfect sense to him. Calamarian… Red gourmet seafood… Lobster.

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BB-8 Perler Pixel Pattern

November 9, 2015November 9, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 3 Comments

The first batch of the M4P The Force Awakens Perler Pixel Patterns are done! #1 and I have completed 9 designs, so that will keep us posting The Force Awakens patterns on our “Pixel Mondays” until the end of the year. And I would think that once we see the movie, we will want to create a few more. I am especially interested in Lupita Nyong’o’s and Andy Serkis’ motion capture characters.

#1 had been looking forward to making BB-8 for months, so it was the first one we completed. It seems to be a good one to start with, here as well.
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Fortunately, we made a Bib! (DIY Bib Fortuna Bib)

November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / Leave a comment

There are bad guys, and there are scary, snarly, nightmare inducing guys. Bib Fortuna always gave me the creeps more than any other character…. I think even more than Darth Maul.

This creates an interesting dilemma when making children’s clothing… On the one hand there is the opportunity to use a pun like Bib, on the other hand you don’t want to scar your young child for life.

(and yes, in case you are wondering, we are not quite done with the candy yet. …so 1 last post about Bib… See Monday’s post)
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