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Silver Solar System Spinning Pendant / MirielDesign

The Sun in the middle spins around itself, and the circles spins in opposite directions. The inner ring has the four smaller planets, and the middle ring has the four larger outer planets, and the outer ring has a tiny little bead at the bottom; Pluto — via Etsy

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Santa Cthulhu with Shoggoth / DraigAthar

Shoggoth, with your luminous pustules so bright… It looks like very bad, indescribably terrible weather this year. Santa Cthulhu’s sleigh doesn’t pull itself. He knew just who to ask for help. Pulling the Octi-Sleigh and squirming bag of hugs is a rapidly morphing, protoplasmic vision of a Shoggoth. Don’t stand and look too long, he’s gaining on you — via Etsy

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My Little Pony Celestia Themed Chainmail Vest / TheGiantsnoll

This Chainmail vest is themed around Princess Celestia the vest is mainly a frost white to match her coat and has her Cutie Mark adorning both the front and back. The shoulders are in the colors of her mane and tail and they were done in a diagonal pattern, but I noticed when they drape over the shoulder they appear to curve/wave which I thought was cool. I didn’t feel like making full sleeves for several reasons so these shoulder pieces are more for a flourish — via deviantART

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Nail-through-wood trick / Steve Ramsey

Woodworking For Mere Mortals. Easy woodworking projects every Friday. About this video: I used pine wood and boiled it in water for about ten minutes each time — via Youtube

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Norway broadcaster NRK to show 12 hours of knitting, sheep-shearing in ‘slow TV’ broadcast

Hoping to take slow TV to a new level, Norway’s public broadcaster will air 12 hours of knitting from Friday night, complete with needle tips and a how-to on knitting a cover for a Harley Davidson motorbike.

Broadcaster NRK, a veteran in quirky programming, will also feature an attempt to break a world sheep-shearing record currently held by an Australian shearing group.

We’ll dive deep into the world of knitting, then from midnight, we’ll turn down the pace, if that’s even possible, Rune Moeklebust, a producer for public television NRK, said.

We’ll watch the arm of a sweater get longer and longer; it will be fascinating… but pretty strange TV — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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Baby Cthulhu / Cassia Harries

Baby Cthulhu doesn’t wait dreaming. He’s bright-eyed, curly-tentacled, and ready for your squeeing worship.

Cassia Harries of Monster Mind Sculpts made this little guy. She cast the original sculpture and will soon have an army of Cutethulhus available for sale — via io9

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Amigurumi Rocketship / NeedleNoodles

Explore the stars with your wicked-cool rocketship! Hand crocheted and designed by me using a cotton/acrylic blend yarn and filled with polyester fibrefill. Measures about 4.5” across at its widest point, and 8” long from tip to the end of the flame. Can be hand or machine washed in cool water, and air dried — via Etsy

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Sad Little Octopus Mug / RileyMicaDesigns

I hand painted this mug with high quality porcelain paints, which are baked to set, so the mug is dishwasher and microwave safe, but due to the inconsistencies in dishwashers, I still recommend hand washing, to ensure the longevity of the design and please no abrasives on the designs — via Etsy

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Yarnbomb Squid Tree / Jill + Lorna Watt

Foster City, California-based Jill Watt of the blog Dapper Toad collaborated with her sister Lorna of Knits For Life to create this amazing Yarnbomb Squid Tree. They covered a big Magnolia tree using four miles total of mostly blue yarn in San Mateo, California and made it look like a giant squid (complete with a very cool trapped crocheted goldfish). Lorna, an artist-in-residence for the Downtown San Mateo Association, wrote up a great post on how she and her sister conceived of, designed, and then created the Yarnbomb Squid Tree. Jill reports that it took 20 hours on a sweater machine to make enough to cover the tree and that it took them 14 hours to install it, in 33°C weather — via Laughing Squid

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Eggtopus / jberengut

Because a soft boiled egg without tentacles is like a HP Lovecraft novel without an ominous sense of doom. These egg cups are guaranteed to make your breakfast at least 70% more awesome — also hold your boiled egg in place — via Shapeways