Ahh, nothing better than gaming swag you can make yourself (especially if, as Wired points out, it looks 100% better than the official game swag). Crafterbation runs through the basic steps required to turn the plain pink apron into an awesome Cooking Mama apron, but you'll have to provide your own ability to sew and stack chunks of felt until they come to resemble something adorable. Yeah, that counts me out of the running for making one of these, too.
Cooking Mama: Cook Off
Okay, I confess. I just wanted to post this neat picture I saw on Kotaku. But... look at it! That's so damned neat. I love tables with "alternate" surfaces like stone and tile, and this one is really nicely made. I could only like it better if it was an 8-bit Link instead.
I don't know much about Kickass-Peanut, but she seems to be a talented young lady who likes to make handcrafted plushies out of... well, everything. Just go to her DeviantArt page to see plushies of junk food, band-aids, and even an Xbox 360.
Seller inkyfingersjunior is currently auctioning off her latest plush creation, a smiling life-size plush replica of the Nintendo Wii that comes complete with plush Wii Remote and Nunchuk. The starting bid is £30, which works out to about $58.70 US. Worth the money if you've always wanted a more huggable and slightly cuter version of your Wii.
Between this and the Super Mario Mushrooms, I really need to bust out my needles. Knitting Ninja has instructions and sample pics up of the awesome Chain Chomp hat, a simple yarn cap that uses a few modifications to give it the visage of the mighty Chain Chomp. The instructions are preceded by an awesome essay about the evolution of the glorious Chain Chomp:
An enemy in the Mario Bros. franchise, they first appeared in Mario Bros. 3, as a black ball with eyes and teeth, attached by a chain to a block. The chain would lunge itself at Mario, teeth a-chomping, if Mario was within its range.
In later games, the chomps could appear on a loose chain, trailing after Mario and friends. They also adapted their own sound effect, a doglike, rumbling ARF ARF. In the latest release in the franchise, Super Mario Galaxy, Chomps are seen chainless, rolling around happily in their natural habitats. They have long been one of the many instantly-recognizable entities in the Mario world.
The only thing better than snagging hand-crafted Nintendo goodies on Etsy or admiring them on blogs is being able to download the pattern yourself and go at it. This knitting blog has generously posted up the pattern you'd need to make your own versions of these adorable Super Mario mushrooms. Suitable for handing to your favorite little pre-gamer or adorning a particularly geeky desk!
Actually, they look pretty simple to me, so I may try my hand at this. It's only been... fifteen years since I knitted anything! I'm sure I won't have any problems.
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