Guaranteeing supreme festive superiority for any tree it hangs on, this glowing Death Star ornament is actually a fun DIY project you can use to keep any kids—or restless adults—entertained leading up to the holidays. And the project lets you blur the line between being the Emperor and Martha Stewart—a line that may not actually exist.
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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.
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Now that it’s after Thanksgiving, it’s officially okay to talk about Christmas, and put up the tree. But even if you picked out a festive blue spruce, do you know how you’re going to decorate it? Well, you could put some ordinary department store ornaments on it, or you could go full on geek.
This set of Donkey Kong themed ornaments ($60) comes from Etsy artist LighterCases, and it includes everything you need to recreate the classic Nintendo arcade game on your Christmas tree. The set of 12 pieces includes girders, ladders, barrels, Jumpman and his Princess. To top things off, it comes with a Donkey Kong tree topper. Each piece is made from melted Perler beads to form the pixels.
If you’re not into Donkey Kong, their shop has got lots of other fun holiday ornament sets, including Super Mario Bros., Excitebike, Zelda, Tetris, Mega Man, and even some South Park themed sets among others.
The upcoming holiday season will definitely bring a smile of joy to most of us, as it will be a time of merry making as well as reflection for the year that has past, in addition to the hope of a new year that is just on the horizon. One particular activity that some families will bond over would be dressing up the Christmas tree with the year’s ornaments. How about taking a slightly different route with the $19.99 Classic Video Game Controller Ornament Set? After all, games are there for you whenever you are down, or if you have some spare time to kill, and best of all is, it does not demand a listening ear from you. Not only that, since games basically makes one jolly, it would be the ideal for the upcoming Christmas season.
Each purchase of the Classic Video Game Controller Ornament Set will arrive with a quartet of ornaments that resemble those of controllers, where they have been specially inspired by the favorite classic consoles of many over the years. All of the ornaments would measure somewhere between 3 and 4 inches wide, making fans of the Atari 2600, NES, Sega Megadrive and Sony PlayStation more than happy. It would be nice to see a future edition of this particular pack include newer consoles like the Xbox 360, Sony PS3 and Nintendo Wii.
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Your Christmas tree says as much about you as it does your love for the holidays. So this year why not skip the traditional ornaments like glass bulbs and shiny stars and go for something that will bring real character to your tree? If you’ve been a gamer for as long as you can remember, ThinkGeek’s got a $20 set of classic controller ornaments that pays tribute to the game consoles you probably received as gifts during Christmases gone by.
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I’ve seen my fair share of geeky Christmas ornaments in recent years, from Star Wars Boba Flakes to Mars Attacks! Christmas ornaments. It’s fun because you get to dress up your tree in ornaments that show off your true, geeky nature. For example, if you’re into sci-fi, then the aformentioned ornaments will obviously tickle your fancy.
If you’re a huge airplane buff, then you’ll probably find these aviation Christmas ornaments off the wall.
They don’t look like airplanes though, instead, they look like traditional tree ornaments. Upon closer inspection, you’ll see that each ornament features a specific event or special celebration in aviation history, like the 25th Anniversary in Space and the Berlin Airlift. One even shows off the history of the Boeing Flight Test.
When I was a kid, I remember wanting to be a pilot back then. That was the time when I first heard of Amelia Earhart’s story, and her passion for flying just really got to me. I ended up being an engineer instead, but if opportunity presents itself in the future, I’d definitely jump at the chance to earn my wings. Here’s to hoping.
Each of these Christmas ornaments are available online for $4.71(USD). If ornaments aren’t your thing but airplanes are, then you can find a whole bunch of other aviation-themed stuff on Skygeek.
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