HAPPY NEW YEAR 2K12: The Nyan Cat Edition

I hope everyone had an enjoyable New Year's celebration! I had to work at eight in the morning, so my night was pretty low-key, although I am excited to go to a New Year's party tonight at Jay and Carly's. Why tonight? Well, pretty much everyone in our friendgroup works service industry or healthcare jobs where holidays are only sort of real. I'm planning on making a vegan chocolate silk pie, yummmms.

Anyway, I wanted to use this festive day to show off this awesome gift that Eric got me for Christmas. Several months ago, my friend Heather made her cat a Nyan Cat costume, and of course, I promptly exploded. Eric secretly commissioned a second costume for the Artful Dodger as a present to me.

It's pretty much the most amazing thing ever. Dodger does not quite appreciate the amazingness of it, unfortunately.

She is surprisingly tolerant of it, however, and when she walks in it she creeps around the house with this weird belly-dragging walk.

The sequins are hand-sewn on, the poptarts are stuffed for a little bit of depth, and the whole thing is held on with velcro straps around the chest and the belly. It's an incredible thing, and I am very thankful to have such creative friends as Heather and people who appreciate my humor like Eric.

In case you're not familiar with Nyan Cat, it is this:

Yes really, it's just that, and it goes on forever. The first time I saw this video, I laughed for probably a good fifteen minutes straight. Also, thankfully because we live inside the Internet, there have been many many many many spin-offs of this that you can enjoy.

For instance, there are many international ones, like this Russian Nyan Cat:

Or this live action one (this one you need to watch through the end):

And then there's some talented people making music:

And then I found some girl doing a dance:

And I thought, "well, that's kind of a boring dance and not terribly impressive." In the related videos off to the side, I spy more Nyan Cat dance videos and think, "well, maybe one of these will be more interesting." So I click:

Wait, so it's the same dance? Is this A Thing? I click another:

Wait, the SAME DANCE! This is A THING. That people do, and then make videos of for the Internet. This is seriously blowing my mind.

But finally, I leave you with this last video, which is a spacey remix of the song that is actually pretty good, and also features a kitty in a cupcake rocket ship. Happy New Year.

Hello again!

So, sorry for the silence around here - in the week leading up to Handmade Arcade, I worked 90 hours in 8 days and all extra time went to crafting and band practice, so I didn't have very much interesting to say.

Speaking of Handmade Arcade, it was super awesome! Unfortunately, I didn't sell a whole lot, but I did see some friends, talked with a lot of really nice people, and had a blast hanging out with my mom (she split my table with me).

Obviously, I couldn't help but pick up a few things for myself...

... like this ridiculously excellent narwhal tee from Gnome Enterprises... I had a hard time deciding between it and this fox tee, but in the end I couldn't pass up a narwhal.

My mom bought me this print from Brainstorm Print & Design, and it's pretty much the best thing ever. Although I have often played the role of the lecturing English teacher saying, "Swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary," I love a well-placed obscenity.

I also picked up these lovely earrings (because I've recently started wearing earrings again after many years of not) from One Common Thread. The mushroom is from My Paper Crane, and for the second year in a row I had to reign myself in from geeking out all over Heidi Kenney, because she's kind of my crafty hero - "OH hi um I'm a really really big fan of your work and I read your blog and you seem really nice and your house is really cool and you seem like a really nice person and I'll take this pin it's super awesome and I think you're awesome and okay I should go now I guess thanks a lot mumble mumble..." (followed, of course, by awkward shuffling away).

But anyway, Handmade Arcade gave me some ideas for some new or different approaches, and now I have some time to get back to some personal crafting - and Christmas presents soon too! So stay tuned for more cool stuff and a lot more regular posting!