Continuing the project I started in Part 1, to complete the Zelda Quest I needed to make a treasure chest filled with rupees and, of course, the legendary Triforce! The Chest For the treasure chest, I started with a simple treasure chest I got from Michaels. I was modeling everything in this set of ZeldaContinue reading “The Legend of Zelda Quest – Part 2”
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The Legend of Zelda Quest – Part 1
It all began several years ago, with a book – The Hyrule Hystoria. With it, and its companion books, the Art and Artifacts and the Zelda Encyclopedia, our then two year old fell in love with the world and characters of The Legend of Zelda. Since our days since then are filled with stories aboutContinue reading “The Legend of Zelda Quest – Part 1”
Uranium Glass Hat Display
Several years ago we were gifted a small glass hat from my late grandfather’s collection. It sat on a shelf in our living room as a small memento until my wife read about uranium glass. We noticed that our little glass hat had the yellow-green pale color of uranium glass so we grabbed the onlyContinue reading “Uranium Glass Hat Display”
Halloween Craft – Mummy
We have been busy crafting up a storm here to fill our house with Halloween decorations, and my toddler is loving to help. She is absolutely in love with all things monster and scary. Looking around on Youtube for ideas, she instantly took to the idea of making a mummy, like found here. Needing aContinue reading “Halloween Craft – Mummy”
Giant Cardboard Ghost Trap
My house normally likes to go big for Halloween – making costumes and decorations from scratch is right down the Maker alley. However the current COVID situation had put a damper on our usual festivities, so we decided to reuse our Ghostbuster costumes from a previous year. It has been my hope to someday buildContinue reading “Giant Cardboard Ghost Trap”
Book Vault
One of the most fun things that I have been recently making are items that enhance or go along with playing tabletop games. One idea I found online recently that I wanted to try out for myself is a book vault to hold a set of dice and double as a rolling box. Luckily, IContinue reading “Book Vault”
IKEA 3D Printer Enclosure Hack
Inspired by the 3d printer enclosure here: https://blog.prusaprinters.org/cheap-simple-3d-printer-enclosure_7785/, I tried to construct by own out of two extra LACK tables that I had sitting unused. I first secured the two tables on top of each other with four dowels drilled into the top of the bottom table and the legs of the top table. TheContinue reading “IKEA 3D Printer Enclosure Hack”
TBT – Lego Pirate Map
Returning to my backlog of projects that I have never posted about is an incredibly fun, short project I made for our nursery. Fitting with the adventure theme detailed in the bookend post, I wanted to make an adventure themed wall art display that also had some childhood whimsy, and a LEGO Treasure Map fitContinue reading “TBT – Lego Pirate Map”
Seritech Workbench 