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You can make some great ornaments just using LEGO bricks. Check out these awesome DIY LEGO ornaments from LEGO builder Chris McVeigh. He has designed a fantastic set of original LEGO holiday ornaments that we can all make ourselves at home.

He offers downloadable build-it-yourself guides that tell you which individual bricks you need for any given ornament. You can use that info to purchase custom brick colors from LEGO’s online Pick a Brick store. Chris also has ready-to-build LEGO kits available to purchase from his store.

These ornaments will look amazing on your tree this year. I can’t help but love the Star Wars ones best.

[via Laughing Squid]

There is no better way to exterminate the past and usher in the future, and celebrate the institution of marriage with Daleks. As long as the Doctor doesn’t show up and ruin everything anyway. There’s nothing worse then a Dalek-themed wedding where the Doctor crashes it and blows up the Daleks because he thought they were misbehaving, only to then look around and see his mistake and apologize. Wedding ruined.

… at least until the good Doctor changes history and makes it right again and invites you all into the TARDIS that is. It’s all better now.Now it’s a crazy timelord party. And all thanks to a Dalek cake topper from Etsy artist gammarayrobots, who has lots of other cool stuff too.

This topper will set you back $95(USD) which is a complete bargain compared to what the rest of your wedding costs.

[via When geeks wed]

Do you think you are a badass at chess? No, you are not. Not until you play the game the way it was played in medieval times: using a chainmaille chess set while wearing a suit of armor. Well, I’m just guessing that was the way they played the game. This way if your opponent was a sore loser, you were protected from his sword or axe.

This cool set was made by David Gutenkauf, a craftsman who specializes in the creation of chainmaille. He crafted this set from woven steel and bronze. The board is about 12″ square and it weighs in at a hefty three pounds. Each piece is wrapped around a glass marble for stability, and the kings about two inches-tall.

It’s a nice looking set to take to the Renaissance fair with you. You’ll be king of nerd mountain for the day. It’s going for $750(USD) over on Etsy.

[via Nerd Bastards via Neatorama]

How would you like to have your favorite memories for snacks? You can even skewer them or heat them up to make some extra memorable smores. Sounds pretty impossible, but as long as that moment is captured and posted on Instagram, then Boomf can make it happen.

The process to transform selfies, family shots, pictures with friends, and foodgrams begins with Boomf. Simply link your Instagram account to the service and select the shots that you’d like to eat. You can order singles or multiples of any image. Boomf will do the rest and print your chosen images on fluffy, vanilla-flavored marshmallow squares for your snacking pleasure.

A package of nine printed marshmallows sells for £12 (~$20), and the service now offers delivery both in its homeland of the UK and in North America.

[via C|NET]

Firebox has a special offering to gamers in the UK who grew up in the 80s. The store is selling soaps that look just like the cartridges of Nintendo’s classic consoles, the SNES and the Game Boy. They even have cover art on them, although it looks like those are just made of paper and will quickly melt off the soaps.

The SNES cartridge soaps include Super Mario Kart and A Link to the Past, while the Game Boy soaps include Tetris, Earthworm Jim and Pokémon Red and Blue. The latter are even in their respective colored cases.

Firebox is selling the Game Boy cartridge soaps for £7 (~$12 USD) each, while the SNES cartridge soaps cost £13 (approx. $21). If you’re not from the UK, check out the famous Etsy shop Digitalsoaps. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if Firebox gets its stock from Digitalsoaps.

[via Game Informer via GoNintendo]