18 posts tagged “nintendo”

Hi all!

I have been very busy lately coming up with brand new ideas for my shop, which I will be posting over the next few days!  The first brand new original item that I have created is made from Perler Beads, and is a new take on my Question Mark Keepsake Box ... this time with a new twist!

And here it is!  The Question Mark Keepsake Box with Interchangeable Powerups!

This keepsake box comes with interchangeable power-ups to attach to the top of the box! Each power-up can stick inside the top of the box lid - there is a Red Mushroom, a Green 1UP Mushroom, a Fire Flower, a Coin, and an Invincibility Star. You can display the box normally without the power-ups with the question mark to the front, or flip the box around to the side where it looks like Mario has already hit the block, and place a power-up in the top of the lid! This is a versatile keepsake box with six different looks in total!

As for the box itself, it is made to look like a Question Mark Block from the Super Mario games for the Nintendo.  It has a lid on the top that has two layers - the second layer allows the lid to fit snugly on top of the box.  You can keep anything inside this box (it would be great for your gold coins!)  and it would look great on any desk, shelf, bedroom, office, you name it!

I hope you enjoy my newest geeky creation!  I'll be posting more very soon, too!

Hi everyone!  I've made two more Nintendo DS cases - made to fit a Nintendo DS Lite video gaming portable system.  They can also fit a variety of other things since it is a zippered knit pouch - your camera, iPod, cell phone, make-up, or anything else you would like to organize or transport around with you!

The first case that I made is made from green Merino wool - the lining is super cute and has little pigs!  The fabric is straight from a fabric shop in Kyoto, Japan. 

The case is knit by hand and the fabric lining, as well as the zipper, are all sewed by hand.  On the front of the green case, there is a cute 1" pinback button attached, featuring a cat jumping into the air, like a Jack-in-the-Box (a cat in the box?)  :) 

The green knit case is available for purchase in my Etsy shop for $15.00.

The next case, also available in my Etsy shop, is made with a beautiful shade of green-gray wool, 100% Merino wool.  It has slight hints of gold and blue in the sunlight - a great natural earthy tone called "Treebark Mix" by the company.  Similar to the other cases that I create, there is a Japanese fabric used on the inside featuring swimming turtles on navy blue.  The fabric and the zipper are sewed by hand.

There is a kawaii button on the front as well, a smiling pink tofu :)  Super cute!


The green-gray knit case is available for purchase in my Etsy Shop, also for $15.

I've created some brand new items for my Etsy shop!  These are all completely handmade, fully hand stitched, needlepoint fridge magnets!  I have brought back my Tetris fridge magnets (which were featured in the wonderful Craft: magazine online blog a while back!) and added some new ones to my shop as well, including a Mario set, a Bubble Bobble set, and a Pacman set!

The Mario fridge magnets (pictured to the left) feature a question mark block, a red mushroom, a green 1up mushroom, a fire flower, a star, and a gold coin - all in fridge magnet form!

The Pacman fridge magnets are a set of six needlepoint magnets:  Pacman, Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde (the four ghosts), and the dark blue ghost that Pacman can eat. 

The Bubble Bobble / Bust a Move fridge magnets are also a set of six, that feature four of the enemies (including the super scary invincible white ghost that comes to get you after a certain amount of time...if you played Bubble Bobble as a child, I'm sure you were pretty scared of him, too!), and the two dragon heroes (Bub and Bob). 

All of the fridge magnets are completely stitched by hand and the back of the character is covered completely with felt to hide all of the stitches.  Attached to the felt is a sturdy magnet, allowing you to use these on your fridge, your locker, or anywhere magnetic!

I hope you enjoyed viewing these as much as I enjoyed making them!  More to come in the works...or if you have any requests, I can pretty much make any video game character, and I'm always happy to take custom orders!  :)

Hi!  It has been a long, long while since I posted to this blog so I apologize to any of my readers!

I just wanted to write about a couple of new items in my Etsy shop - these fun, super geeky pen holders for your desk or office!  I currently have two different ones in my shop - one is a Mario themed pen holder with Mario, along with various power-ups (mushroom, Fire Flower, invincibility star), and one is Pac-man themed with Pacman and the ghosts. 

These containers are pretty versatile and can also be used to hold pretty much anything - another great use is as a toothbrush holder!  Since they are constructed from Perler beads, the small holes allow for adequate drainage so they would function well as a toothbrush holder. 

Hope you enjoy my newest creations! 

More DS Cases!  Thanks to everyone for the great response on the first two cases that I made - they both sold, so I made some more!  I made three cases:

A Blue-Green Case - with chocolate and turquoise polka dot fabric lining, and an Animal Crossing button on the front

A Chocolate Brown Case - with Kawaii pig fabric lining (fabric from Kyoto, Japan) and a super cute Relax Bear button on the front

A Striped Brown and White Case - with retro-styled autumn leaf fabric lining and a cute Orange Boy Kawaii button

I decided to try my hand at making a case that would fit my pink Nintendo DS Lite and it worked out really well!  These DS cases are knitted pouches that are completely lined, have a zipper added, as well as pompoms attached to the zipper.

I have made two so far for my Etsy Shop:  a Pink DS Case with black and white lining, and a Blue-Green DS case with a flower lining.

The Blue-Green case has a pale blue zipper with a delicate flower lining - tiny flowers of pink, blue, yellow, and red with little green leaves. 

The Pink case has a black zipper with a black and white pattern that also has flowers and leaves.  The pink and black looks awesome together!

The pouch can also be used as a wallet or for pretty much anything else, too - your iPod, cellphone, keys, money, change, credit cards - it is incredibly versatile!

The entire pouch is made by hand - the lining and the zipper have been completely sewed by hand, as well as the knitting. Attached to the zipper are two pom-poms. Also, a 1" pinback Nintendo button has been attached to the front of the pouch as well, to showcase your love for playing games on your DS!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to post about an awesome podcast called Radio Ninty. If you're a fan of Nintendo, this is the podcast for you. This is a newer podcast (began this past summer) but with already nine podcasts and plenty more to come, the passion is definitely there. The two hosts, Stuart and Centy, are huge fans of Nintendo - but there is also plenty of opinion and critique that they offer as well.

In their last podcast, Radio Ninty 8, Stu went to the Leipzig GDC and gives us all of the latest news & the goods about what happened at the convention. In the latest podcast, Radio Ninty 9, there are plenty of news and reviews of the latest games coming out, including Kirby's Airride and Tiger Woods DS '08.

There's also a forum for fellow gamers to discuss the podcasts, anything Nintendo, and pretty much anything else you've got on your mind.

Everyone should definitely check out the podcast and the site! I've also teamed up with Radio Ninty, so if you purchase anything from my Etsy shop and mention Radio Ninty, I'll send you a set of special customized Radio Ninty pinback buttons :) They're pretty sweet!

Here is a little display of the Nintendo needlepoint pins / patches / brooches that I've been making lately for my Etsy shop.  They are all miniature versions of the much larger Mario needlepoint scene that I stitched a little while ago, made into wearable art!  Each patch is needlepoint by hand and a piece of felt is stitched to the back to hide the stitches.  Also, a safety pin is stitched into the felt so you can easily pin the video game character to your clothes, your backpack, your purse, or wherever!

You can check them all out in the Lost Mitten Etsy Shop in the Needlepoint Pin section of my store.

My newest craft!  This one has been an ongoing project that took about 30 hours to complete.  It is a complete Mario scene from the Super Mario Bros. 1 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System!  It is a full scene from World 2-1 where you can make Mario climb up a vine into the clouds to collect coins. 

The project measures 9" by 11" approximately, so I plan on finding a nice frame to put it in to hang up on the wall.  This is the first of a whole bunch that I plan on making - scenes from my favourite video games.

I decided to create a Mario 1 needlepoint first since this game holds a special place in my heart.  We first bought our NES when I was six or seven years old on a family vacation down to Florida.  It was the first big vacation that my family went on and getting the Nintendo was awesome.  I used to play the game with my sister and my dad, and we eventually beat the game together.  Such fond memories!!!

Back to the craft - I handstitched the entire piece, so every bit of colour is a stitch - including the entire blue background!  That definitely was the most time-consuming part. 

For now, in my Etsy shop, I make much smaller versions of this craft - needlepoint patches and fridge magnets of video game characters.  I plan on adding more of these to my shop soon, so stay tuned! :)