This is a cross-section of my particular flavor of nerderia, heavy on Katamari Damacy, Mario, and Perler beads. Who am I kidding? It's mostly reblogs of awesome stuff, including cats, owls, and unicorns, with a smattering of original content and some interesting commentary on the reblogs. I do, wild as it sounds, actually try to make friends (not just followers) on here.
Posts tagged perler beads
An Ocarina…. of time
(PUN!)
I can’t think of a single thing about this Adam won’t like! It’s got everything!
Our friends Nick and Jenny recently got married and their wedding was Lord of the Rings themed. Adam (iamswhatiams) and I made them these coasters with a Mega Man sprite style in the LOTR characters of their choosing. Can you name the characters?
I realized no one ever guessed. Maybe I should have offered a prize.
300 Follower Contest!!!!Hey everyone! It is time for my 300 followers giveaway! Giving out a lot more stuff this time around, and will have three winners. I hope you enjoy the prizes, I thought they were pretty nifty. Also to celebrate all of you lovely people who look at my work…I will have a coupon code listed so you all can get 15% off your purchases!
Coupon Code: SUPER300
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The Rules
1. You must be 18 years old or older, or otherwise have your parents permission
2. This is an International contest so you can enter regardless of where you live!
3. No sideblogs/giveaway blogs
4. Keep your inbox open! I will need to be able to contact you if you win!
5. No sore losers, this is all random
6. You can enter until March 3rd 12am (MST)
7. There are tons of ways to get new entries, but please don’t create dummy accounts just to enter.
The Prizes (Pictures up Above!)
First Prize: Huge Bag of Sprites (Retail value of $30)
Second Prize: 1 sprite magnet and fun shaped Erasers
Third Prize: Lot of fun shaped Erasers
Our friends Nick and Jenny recently got married and their wedding was Lord of the Rings themed. Adam (iamswhatiams) and I made them these coasters with a Mega Man sprite style in the LOTR characters of their choosing. Can you name the characters?
Today in obscure video game objects: the rainbow shell from Chrono Trigger!
I’ve never played Chrono Trigger, but Chrono Cross is one of my all time favorite video games.
Chickie for my momma! I’m going to make it a magnet. Super pleased with ironing here.
This is the perfect level of ironing; kudos to you!
So as promised, here’s the process!
The first day, I did the first pic. This should’ve taken a few hours. It took about 5, because I restarted it three times. I blame this for being exhausted. I threw the beads at one point because the colors were wrong. If you look at the sprite, you’ll actually see the brightest color is almost a pear greenish. I didn’t have it. So I had to recolor it slightly. (The sprite is here: http://cardgallery.tales-tra.com/csw_stand/linkbig.gif)
The second day was a lazy day. I did the sword. Then I had the joy of attaching the pieces. If you look online at large pieces, most people use several small boards. They interlock very nicely. As seen in the first picture, we use the big one which doesn’t interlock. It’s annoying. You have to hold it tight together and iron the crap out of it. Joy.
Third day was the rest of the sword and the rest of the shield. What a trouble! You might think if it’s just several shades of blue, it’s easy. The thing is if you forget the shade of blue and what you used for it, the shading can be wrong and one perler can ruin the shading completely. Again, had the joy of attaching is shown in the fourth pic.
The fourth day was the final piece - the legs. Well, it was easier as I used connecting boards instead of pushing and shoving. It worked well - attaching the legs wasn’t even that bad. The final product is in that last pic.
Great, right? All done!
Well, no. I ironed the crap out of that thing. Once one side was completely melted into a giant melted melty thing, I left the other side unmelted. I knew I couldn’t melt it evenly, especially as I attach them. So I ironed it, then picked it up. It bent in half. It was just so flimsy it bends easily, completely. It stayed together perfectly but it needed a backing. Thus, poster board was cut to its shape and hot glued.
And then the final product! :D
Again, for sale here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/106241526/link-perler-gigantic#item-title-en-US Maybe you’ll understand part of the issues and why it costs over $100. xD
HOLY EPIC PERLER!
Here you have the full set of Super Nintendo bead sprite coasters sitting on the table, all boring like.
But what you really wanted was this picture of them hanging out on a Super Nintendo console that just so happens to have a Donkey Kong sticker on it. I mean, because that’s what these coasters would do, amirite?
Solo posts:
50 Shades of Blue: The Story of Sorting Perler Beads
Also in this series:
50 Shades of Red: Or is it Pink? Maybe Orange?
TRUE FACTS
My set of coasters featuring Super Nintendo sprites with containers is complete with Mog! I’ll be posting a picture of the whole set together soon.
I’m making a set of coasters featuring Super Nintendo sprites with containers. Kirby is the third! The ironing didn’t turn out quite how I wanted, but considering that it fell apart three times during that process, I’m actually pretty pleased with it.
