25th Anniversary of Mario

My love for Mario started at the age of four when I can remember sitting next to my dad watching him playing Super Mario World on his SNES for days on end. These precious memories made me what I am today as a full time gamer and Mario fanatic. My most favoured memory of any Mario game is the first time I laid my eyes on Yoshi, breaking from him egg, which started a whole new feature to be developed further as later Mario games were developed such as the great Super Mario Galaxy 2.




I too have been greatly excited about the celebration of 25 years of Mario, so in commemoration to this, I did not bake a cake, but instead I though I would create something that would last a little longer that a few seconds, so instead I used my time to cross stitch this piece.

Toy Story Alien

I've loved Toy Story all my life and I've been one of those kids who is now 17 and has waited the 15 years or whatever for the 3rd film. So in preparation for its release I designed and made this.

'YOU SAVED OUR LIVES, WE ARE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL!'

My HUGE 1UP quilt + Cushion

This was a Project I around June time and I've now just finished it. So enjoy :) I also made a smaller Cushion with the left over material to go with it : )

The Cushion

Me and the Quilt. Tis HUGE!!!

The Quilt

Cushions

I made these Cushions AGESSS ago using some old Mario curtains I found on ebay, and as I dont have any decent windows for curtains, I think I've put them to good use : )

My Other Birthday Cake

I came to realise that for one's 17th birthday that one cake will not do. So as a solution to this, along side with my Morph Ball cake I baked, I asked my girlfriend to also bake me a cake, and so after stealing my NES controller necklace to copy, she set to work. She slaved away in the Kitchen for two whole days to produce me this incredibly, luxurious NES Controller cake, filled with strawberry jam and butter cream then decorated it with her icing pens and all. It was truly appreciated as it tasted a lot better than the cake I made myself.

MY BIRTHDAY CAKE

There is only a certain number of times you can get away with getting the same old boring cakes from the supermarkets, so this time, being as it is my birthday in a few days I thought I would bake myself a special birthday cake. Being as I'm soon to be seventeen, I originally thought to bake a Mario Kart cake to sow that I can now learn to drive but I saw that this was donein a previous issue, so instead I baked this Morph Ball cake, surrounded by baby Metroids, ready to drain the cream and jam filling. I assure you, it is delicious.

ME with the Cake

Surrounding Metroids

More Cross Stitches

Here's some more I did recently : )

I felt i was being too strict when it came to keeping with sprites so I changed a few for a difference

PURPLE koopa troopa??!?!?!?!

8 Bit Samus custom sprite wearing the PED suit from Metroid Prime 3 : Corruption

Where the SHELL would I be without you?

REAL METROIDS

Ok, so they're not exactly real :P I made these out of plastcine and tied them to a jar which I filled with water and put blue food colouring in for effect :P

Bigger Metroid I made

Smaller Metroid

Both Metroids side-by-side

Samus Aran Cross Stitch

8 Bit Samus cross stitch i recently completed

METROID CAKES!!!!

To make these I followed a simple cake making recipe, then for decoration I used blue food colouring for the icing, three red Skittles for the eyes and for the claws, those banana sweets you can buy quite cheaply :)

THEY WERE YUMMY!!!