Posts in category 'Craft Corner'

POSTED ON: November 1, 2017
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Leife Shallcross

Craft Corner, Fun Stuff

Three Australian artists creating fairytale artwork that’ll take your breath away

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By Leife Shallcross

I have this idea that writing fairy tales is a little bit like doing a colouring-in stencil. These old, old tales supply the outlines, but it’s up to me to imagine the details and add the colours. I think this is why I love silhouette illustrations so much. They leave so much unstated and offer the viewer such a delicious opportunity to exercise their own imagination.
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POSTED ON: May 24, 2017
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner, Fun Stuff
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Craft Corner, Fun Stuff

6 geeky plant accessories

By Fleur Clarke

Looking to add a touch of greenery to your apartment or office desk? Don’t settle for a sad spider plant. Level up with bulbasaur planters and Hobbiton terrariums.
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POSTED ON: April 13, 2017
FILED UNDER: Books, Craft Corner, Fun Stuff
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Books, Craft Corner, Fun Stuff

7 book inspired LEGO creations that belong in a museum

By Hodderscape Team

These people have taken their love for literature and LEGO to the next level with incredible tributes to classic novels. From a recreation of Hogwarts so detailed it may have induced a few tears, to a majestic diorama of George R. R. Martin’s Red Wedding, this LEGO art will leave you speechless.
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POSTED ON: November 16, 2016
FILED UNDER: Books, Craft Corner
TAGS: Christmas

Books, Craft Corner

12 Christmas crafts for geeks

By Sarah Tong

Add some awesome to your Christmas with these 10 crafty creations. From subtly bookish ornaments, to the not-so-subtle full sized tentacle covered trees, here at hodderscape we have it all!
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POSTED ON: October 13, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Craft Corner
TAGS: Halloween

Books, Craft Corner

Halloween crafts for book lovers

By Fleur Clarke

Whether you feel up to constructing an elaborate Cthulhu pie, or just want to scrawl on a mirror and call your bathroom the Chamber of Secrets, we’ve got a spooky selection of bookish Halloween crafts for you.
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POSTED ON: June 23, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner, Fun Stuff
TAGS: Animals, Rebecca Levene

Craft Corner, Fun Stuff

The Hunter’s Kind Cosplay: How to Turn Your Dog into Rii

By Catherine Sullivan

Great novels inspire great cosplay. And the best novels inspire the cutest cosplay. Today we’re delighted to share with you the very best of the cute-best: guest blogger Catherine’s instructions for turning a dog into Rii, the wonderful bat-like monster from Rebecca Levene’s Smiler’s Fair and The Hunter’s Kind!

Warning! This post contains the cutest dog-dressed-as-a-giant-batlike-monster pictures you’ve ever seen.
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POSTED ON: May 13, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Craft Corner
TAGS: Frank Herbert

Books, Craft Corner

11 majestic handmade Dune sandworms

By Fleur Clarke

This year is the 50th anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the world’s bestselling science fiction novel. Behind every great work of science fiction is a legion of fans who want to cosplay as it, bake it, knit it and recreate with LEGO. Today, we’re taking a look at some of the ways fans have paid tribute to the most recognisable occupant of the Dune universe, the Sandworm.
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POSTED ON: April 7, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner, Television
TAGS: Community

Craft Corner, Television

Our favourite pieces of Community fan art

By Anne Perry

If you’re anything like us – and if you’re reading this, odds are good that you’re a lot like us – you like Community, the brilliant, beleaguered television fan’s television show from the US. Not familiar with Community? It’s on Netflix, so go familiarise yourself! Go on. We’ll wait.
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POSTED ON: February 2, 2015
FILED UNDER: Books, Craft Corner
TAGS: Pierce Brown

Books, Craft Corner

Red Rising fan creations

By Fleur Clarke

Turns out awesome books have awesome fandoms, and Red Rising fans have been creating some amazing things to show off their love for the series. You can even wear/stamp yourself with some of them too!
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POSTED ON: January 29, 2015
FILED UNDER: Craft Corner
TAGS: Animals, Lego, Pickwick

Craft Corner

Dodo crafts to hatch at home

By Fleur Clarke

Dodo crafts? What a fantastic idea, I hear you cry. As many of you are probably aware, our logo is inspired by Pickwick the delightfully domesticated dodo from Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. It was created by the wonderful Sarah Anne Langton. If you’d like to try your hand at cloning a dodo of your very own, here are a few dodo crafts. Get cloning!
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