DIY Mickey Mouse Wreath
This tutorial shows you how to cheaply make a Mickey Mouse wreath like the ones I saw on vacation at Walt Disney World.
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A Hazzard County Birthday
How do you celebrate a birthday for a little boy obsessed with The Dukes of Hazzard? Comic Salvage’s Sue Smith shows us how.
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A Perfect Lego Christmas
When a boy’s favorite things are Christmas and Lego bricks, it’s easy to make him happy.
Continue ReadingKick Your Halloween Up A Notch With A Projector And Decor DVDs
Make decorating for Halloween a little more exciting with a projector (see this review of the Epson PowerLite 2000) and AtmosFearFX DVDs.
Continue ReadingWhy I Hate Christmas (and Why I Hate That I Do)
I really, really want to like Christmas. It would make my wife deliriously happy if I did, so I try hard every year. But I lose the battle every year.
Continue ReadingWindow Monsters — Easy, Cheap DIY Halloween Decorations
I love Halloween, but my wife and I rarely find ourselves with enough time and energy in late October to do much in the way of house decoration beyond carving pumpkins. So when I came across an idea on Reddit …
Continue ReadingWindow Monsters — Easy, Cheap DIY Halloween Decorations
When I came across an idea on Reddit for an easy and inexpensive, yet really different and effective, way to decorate, my wife and I decided to go for it.
Continue ReadingDr. Seuss at Pottery Barn Kids
I grew up in a French-speaking town so Dr. Seuss was just not part of my childhood like it is for many kids in the US. When I moved to California, I took a job as a mother’s helper while I attended college. One evening, their 5-year-old son asked if I could read to him […]
Continue ReadingPez Are Climbing My Walls!
You know your favorite geeky character has hit the big time when they are immortalized in Pez dispenser form. The problem with Pez dispensers is, once the grainy candy has been consumed via the complicated dispersal system, you are left with a little plastic shell, most likely with beady little eyes staring at you and pleading, “Please, don’t throw me in a […]
Continue ReadingSurvivable Holidays: Our Christmas in the Trenches
Last year my husband took ill just before Thanksgiving. He was out of work for about 10 weeks with severe damage to his inner ear. It came on suddenly, knocked him on his back and kept him there. I had a 15-month-old, a full time job and it was the holiday season. Thanksgiving was the […]
Continue ReadingDIY Star Wars Snowflakes
Our good friend Anthony Herrera has done it again. Who wouldn’t want to decorate their homestead with cut-out paper snowflakes in the faces of awesome Star Wars characters. And what’s best is that he’s made all the designs so you …
Continue ReadingWhy I Hate Christmas (and Why I Hate That I Do) – GeekDad Wayback Machine
I really, really want to like Christmas. It would make my wife deliriously happy if I did, so I try hard every year. But I lose the battle every year. I was brought up culturally, though not very religiously, Jewish. …
Continue ReadingTop 10 Geeky Christmas Decorations (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
We’ve all seen the ornaments Hallmark comes out with every year, and to be fair, some of them are excellent. There are a few Star Trek ones each year, and Star Wars ones, and other somewhat geeky ones, but they’re …
Continue ReadingCalling All Michael Dorn Fans!
Like any self-respecting Geek, I know how to obsess over something, and one of my obsessions is decorating for the holidays. I limit myself to the fall build up to Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I don’t decorate for Easter, New Years, Halloween, etc. So every time I see something I like I get it. We […]
Continue ReadingWindow Monsters — Easy, Cheap DIY Halloween Decorations
I love Halloween, but my wife and I rarely find ourselves with enough time and energy in late October to do much in the way of house decoration beyond carving pumpkins. So when I came across an idea on Reddit …
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The Ultimate Star Wars Party: Original Trilogy Only Please
I love planning my kid’s birthday parties. It gives me an outlet for my creativity and I can be as crazy with paper, glue, and cardboard as I want. My daughter and I pick a theme several months in advance so we have plenty of time to make things together. It is great mother-daughter bonding […]
Continue ReadingGoody Bag Paradise: The Dollar Bin
Goody bags themselves have always presented a conundrum to me. On the one had, apparently it is a sin to send kids home from a party without one. On the other hand, they are usually filled with junk that ends up cluttering up geekette’s room. Goody bags at our house have been known to disappear and […]
Continue ReadingDIY Lightsaber
In the ongoing preparations for the best Star Wars party in the galaxy, geekette and I spent one morning making lightsabers. Yes, that’s right, lightsabers. I searched the web high and low for a fairly cheap and easy way to assemble the weapon of choice. I found two that were fairly easy. The first tutorial […]
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Cue The Imperial March: The Death Star Pinata
We have been busy at our house preparing for the galactic event that is our kid’s birthdays. Geekette will be turning 7 and little bro will be hitting the big one, all within 6 days of each other. How we did that I will never know, but my mom and her dad were born on […]
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