A look at the ways fans incorporate their fandoms into their everyday lives, from home decor to craft projects to cakes and beyond.


Fandomestic: Star Wars & Star Trek Nutcrackers

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For the final installment of this year’s posts on geekifying your holiday season, here are some Star Wars- and Star Trek-themed nutcrackers. It’s too late for this year, of course, but you could get a jump on next year’s decorations!

Fandomestic: 5 Geeky Menorahs

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Last Friday through this Saturday is Hanukkah, and as most people know, one of the most iconic elements of the Jewish Festival of Lights is the menorah. As with Christmas ornaments and nativity scenes, geeky Jews have found ways to bring their fandom to their religion. Here are five geeky menorahs, plus a bonus geeky dreidel!

Fandomestic: 10 Handmade Geeky Christmas Ornaments

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Along with the store-bought licensed Christmas ornaments that you’ve probably seen before, there are a lot of very creative geeks out there making their own. Here are ten handmade geeky Christmas ornaments.

Fandomestic: Geeky Nativity Scenes

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Nativity scenes are a traditional Christmas decoration, but — perhaps inspired by the famous skit from “Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean” wherein Mr. Bean plays with the nativity scene in Harrod’s department store — geeks around the globe have made their own fandom-inspired versions of the nativity scene.

Fandomestic: Thanksgiving Robots

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The very creative folks at Bolts & Bots use polymer clay to make adorable little robots themed on hobbies, characters from pop culture, and holidays. One of those holidays just happens to be today, so I found these three adorable Thanksgiving-inspired bots while searching for this week’s feature and couldn’t resist making a whole post just for them.

Fandomestic: Book Reviews: Face Food and Face Food Recipes

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Charaben are bento boxes inspired by, as the name suggests, characters from popular culture. I’ve featured charaben bento boxes here on Fandomestic before, so if you’ve been following along you know how amazing they can be, but perhaps, like me, you didn’t realize they constituted their own subset of the bento box art form.

Fandomestic: 10 Alien-Inspired Crafts

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Between The Fourth Kind and V, this week in fandom seems to be all about aliens. The truth is out there, and so are a whole lot of crafts inspired by aliens and UFOs. Here are ten that are out of this world (sorry, couldn’t resist).

Fandomestic: 5 Adorably Geeky Kids’ Costumes

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In honor of Halloween (just a few short days away), here are five examples of awesome fandom-related kids’ costumes that go beyond the plastic and polyester of the party store.

Fandomestic: 10 More Geeky Fandom Pumpkins

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Last Halloween, I featured 13 Geeky Fandom Pumpkins. This year, I’ve found ten more to add to the ranks, with plenty of time for you to get inspired to make your own jack-o’-lantern — maybe you’ll make next year’s list!

Fandomestic: 10 Cthulhu Love-Crafts

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H.P. Lovecraft was featured in last week’s Fan Art Friday, and Cthulhu himself recently made #36 on our ongoing list of the 100 Greatest Fictional Characters of All Time. So, it seemed an appropriate time to give Cthulhu crafts the attention they deserve. Here are ten of the most unspeakably great tributes to The Sleeping God.