Geek Momma Life

For my son's 4th Birthday he decided he wanted an Octonaut birthday party.  We had so much fun making all the decorations for this party.  Most of the ideas came from Pinterest or my husband's crazy thinking :) Pin the Eye Patch on Kwazii Homemade Octonaut Hats Applesauce Kelp Cakes My husband created wooden cutouts for photos,  we decoupaged images on we printed from the website.  Our local Gerritys grocery store made a Octopod Cupcake Cake from a design I created.  We added gummy sharks and M&Ms for more details.  My husband made a Jello Snotblob because my son is obsessed with the Christmas Octonaut episode.

My husband loves to try new ideas to make shirts. He was at Wal-Mart and saw this plain purple shirt and got the idea to bleach it to try and make a Tye-dye shirt. He knew that purple bleaches pink and took a chance that it would come out looking good.  All he did was wrap the shirt and spray it with some bleach. He rinsed it, let it dry and then ironed on a dark iron on transfer he printed on our printer. I think it came out so great and such a simple, creative design.   Back View    Close Up 

My son is obsessed with the show Octonauts but you can't find the anything to buy in the store because its based in  the UK. My husband got the great idea to make him a shirt using a bleach technique. He printed out the picture he wanted using freezer paper. Cut it out the image so that it was revered and the image was the only part of the shirt showing.  He then ironed it onto the shirt. Using bleach in a spray bottle he sprayed the image. Once you remove the freezer paper, you can see that the areas you bleached are a different color then the rest of the shirt. Step 1: Print our image you want Step 2: Cut out the image, leaving the outline Step 3: Iron on to shirt Step 4: Using bleach in a spray bottle, spray the area of the shirt showing, inside the outline Step 5: Peel of freezer paper Step 6: Rinse and let dry  It came out great!   Close up of the image

Finding Nemo Handprint Craft We wanted to make a personalized painting for our new Finding Nemo bathroom. I looked on Pinterest and found a couple very cute hand print crafts as inspiration. I had my son paint the background, the coral is his finger painted different colors.      I painted his hand orange and white stripes, for Nemo I kept his finger a little more together. We used blue mixed with white for the jellyfish.     I outlined the jellyfish so you could see it better. The eyes are fingerprints.    

Last year my husband got  us tickets for Star Wars night at our local baseball stadium. I needed to quickly make my son something to wear so I found a great tutorial on Pinterest. Link to Pin I Used for Tutorial 

DIY Bobba Fett Sweater My husband wanted to make a sweater for our local baseball team's STAR WARS NIGHT since it was going to be freezing. Of course he decide it the afternoon of the game.  This was a speed project, took about 1 hour total.  1. He printed the images using a dark iron on transfer.  2. We cut our pieces of flannel for the chest plates.  He used a template he found on the internet.   3. I pinned and sewed the fabric in place. I used a rough zig zag stitch since Bobba Fett is known for being damaged and rough, I didn't want it too look to neat and clean.  4. The final step my husband ironed on the images. Finished Product:

My son used his hand prints to make a Star Wars craft for my husband for Father's Day. We used a blank canvas, craft paint, and fabric markers -  Cost less then $5. First Step - Make Handprints with different colored craft paints   Finished Project - just added accents with fabric markers   Yoda and Chewy     R2D2 and C3PO - Tie Fighters are Thumbprints    Star Wars Inspiration Pinterest Board  

My husband surprised me with tickets to meet my Doctor - David Tennant and Billie Piper. It was amazing. I'm so blessed :-)

We had our first official May the 4th Be With You Party Today.  It was a blast. Star Wars Food  Vader Veggies Vader Taters  Jedi Juice Luke Skywater Bantha Milk - milk and blue jello Hoth Dogs Star Wars Mac and Cheese Lightsabers Death *star* by chocolate brownies obi-wan kabob-ie Wookie Cookies - They are Chewie       Pool Noodle Light Sabers

So we decided that we needed some Star Wars decor for our May the 4th Be With You party tomorrow. I took a $1.99 clock from Ikea and replace the face with a print out of the death star. Took about 5 minutes abs I think it came out great!    $1.99 IKEA Clock Finished Product 

We got our son the collection of Star Wars Cars diecast cars from Disney World for  May the 4th Be With You Day. We knew he would need track so my husband find a Cars racetrack on sale and decided to make it Star Wars themed. We replaced the cur out pictures with printouts of Hoth and laminated them do they would be more sturdy. It came out so good,  I can't wait to see his face in the morning.  Original Track   New Star Wars Track