Getting carried away…
My current craft project is making pendants and brooches from a recently re-discovered stamp collection and an industrial-sized box of microscope slides. It turns out I was a secret geek as a child and gathered stamps on all subjects from Russian space exploration, to figures from children’s stories, to the animals of the Galapagos.
I decided to find others with a similarly nerdy take on arts and crafts and, as always, the internet has thrown up a scary amount of people who combine glitter and glue and geek culture. Indeed, Etsy has an entire section on geekery (which includes these awesome punctuation earrings)!
However, there are some corners of the web where a minor geek could be well out of her depth… For example, Alicia Kachmer has crocheted this cute (but extremely educational) Pi cuddly toy.
But the geek winner has to be this superb Blade Runner-style origami unicorn that you can make yourself here courtesy of Shigeki Hayashi. Why not give it a go and post your successes/failures to our Facebook group?
All these crafters peddling their wares have made me wonder whether some niche collector out there is in the market for a nice set of jewellery featuring stamps from the Queen’s coronation, 1953. Somehow I think there might be!
