Project Concentric Circles – the Ultimate God of War Shield

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Earlier this year, we replaced our two failing toilets with the fancy Japanese kind. The bathroom upgrade was life changing, and I was impressed by something else: the boxes that the toilets arrived in were made of double-layered corrugated cardboard! The discovery was like when a fictional wuxia blacksmith finds a special ore from outer

Ten Years of Cheshire Cat

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Happy Halloween! I carved a pumpkin into a Cheshire Cat. The Cheshire Cat is one of my favorite cartoon characters. I love his crazy, random, confident, and fearless personality, and I love his absurdly colorful design. He’s my go-to when I need an avatar or art project idea. As I reflect back, I realized that

Project Hegemon’s Spear – 霸王槍 Ba Wang Qiang

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My third crafty project of the year is Hegemon’s Spear (霸王槍 Ba Wang Qiang), from 馬榮成 Ma Wing-Shing’s manhua adaptation of 古龍 Gu Long’s Seven Weapons novel franchise. Although it’s a wuxia classic, the story is not my favorite. Most of its characters and weapons are just so-so, as well. However, this spear captivated me

LEGOs of 2020

LEGOs are among the very few things that everyone in our family appreciates. For years, we’ve enjoyed flipping through LEGO catalogues together, strolling through the LEGO store whenever we went to the mall, and stopping to look for new LEGO sets in Target’s toy department. We have always considered LEGO sets to be some of