Robots on the go

I can't believe I missed this site while I was ramping up for Robot Lab Birthday. This is interesting and cute:



Kacie Kinzer at Tweenbots.com finds the most intersting part was that "ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object." Now, if I could only get my amigurumi on wheels . . .

Robot Day Smiles!

Yep - it was a busy two hours but Birthday Boy loved his Robot Birthday Party. Look at that smile! He is wearing a name tag made from a full-page sticker sheet. The opening activity was coloring name tags - we had their names already printed.



After getting in a quick game of "Feed the Robot" - clothespins in the bottle - we made robots out of art supplies.



Youngest Daughter drew the cute robot for "Pin the part on the Robot" and then the whole gang broke out the moves for some "robot dancing." You haven't laughed until you watched 10 six year olds dance and sing along with "Yellow Submarine!"



Knitting-wise, I'm getting ready to start binding off at the arms. I think I've spotted one faulty cable - perhaps some severe blocking will help?

Down to the line . . .

With tomorrow's Robot Birthday Party looming on the horizon, I've been spending a lot of time this week researching crafty "robot" themed games and crafts. I think I blame the Twitter updates from Craft and Make magazine - each Tweet is better than the next!



These two little guys were real learning projects for me - I discovered I making a double crochet stitch every time I thought I was making a single crochet stitch. They are from the Crobots book and they were very fun to decorate. The large buttons will make wheels for the smaller robot. These will be prizes for "Feed the Robot" and "Pin the part on the robot."



I combined two different birthday banners for this project - the Birthday Banner from SouleMama and another made up of letters on circular scrapbooking paper which I unfortunately forgot to bookmark. I am sewing the banner but pining on letters to spell out "Happy Birthday."




It was a lot of fun picking out scraps of fabric to make up the banner - very circus like! There is a great tutorial on making the banner over here.

Martha Stewart Twitters as well - so I used her magazine's Bottle Cap pins and magnets as one of the items in our "goody" bags.



I cut out circles with small robots on them from some robot-themed fabric that I bought from Crafty Planet. GFMelissa gave me some of her bottle cap collection so I used craft glue to fix the circles in the caps.



Dear Mr. Daisy mixed up the clear casting cement and poured it into each of caps. After they set for 72 hours, I hot-glued magnets and pin backs to them.



Some of them worked better as magnets - I think it had to do with the weight of the casting cement.



Craft magazine led me to the customized cupcake toppers over at The Naughty Secretary Club. I had one of my daughters draw some robot heads and scan them. I think they will be a little big as cupcake toppers but - hey, at least I didn't have to make a Robot Cake!



For this week's Saturday Seven, I found these books while cleaning out some bookcases at our house. I don't usually give away Bibles but one of my daughters received this as a gift in third grade. She has at least two other copies that she uses so I don't feel too bad giving this one to a rummage sale.

Robot Weekend

This is not what is going to happen at our Robot Birthday Party! Sunday is liftoff for the Youngest Child's 6th birthday party.

I've been crocheting, making robot magnets, robot cupcake toppers and folding boxes for our robot craft. When I haven't been Dr. Roboto, I've progressed a few inches on the front of the Baby Aran Sweater.

Tomorrow, I promise photos!

Seven pathetic things

When these are the best items in my Saturday Seven, things are getting pretty sad. Yep, I was cleaning out the basement and found three puzzles and a Trivial Pursuit game that needed to leave. I also weeded out the "'80s edition Trivial Pursuit" and Pictionary and a pair of shoes. Those photographs were pretty pathetic so I just thought you should use your imagination.

Luckily, things are looking up. I am moving things around to set up my growing table for starting seeds in the basement and I'm hoping to have some nicer photos by next week.

Robot updates:

I also had a trip to Crafty Planet today for some really cute robot fabric. Good Friend Melissa is parting with some of her large soda bottle cap collection so I can make robot magnets and Craft Magazine has instructions for "cupcake toppers." More robot crafts to follow!

I'm thinking these are more than I want.

These racing robots sound just right - Bristle Bots!

Robots ate my brain

Well, that may be an overstatement. I really think he only showed up for the cake.

Youngest Boy just turned six and we are planning his "real" party for an upcoming weekend. Robots are the interest of the moment so I'm designing a "Robot Lab" birthday party. Youngest Daughter created the birthday robot artwork and we'll be making matching cupcake toppers, a "Pin the part on the Robot" game, as well as a "Feed the Robot" game. That's the classic "Clothespin in the bottle" game for all you oldsters out there!

I'm considering how much time I should spend on making crafts for the gift bags - either "plushies" or amigurumi robots like this one from La Fee Crochette. Pretty cute!

My baby sweater is moving along pretty slowly but I have discovered I love Blackberry Stitch!


Front - aran sweater
Originally uploaded by humbledaisy

In the meantime - enjoy this glimpse into Robot Life:



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