LydMc

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and if you haven't found a card for your loved one yet, never fear! While the greeting card aisle of your local shopping center may be stripped bare, you can still share the love in style. Remember when you made your own valentine cards out of construction paper and glitter as a kid? Well here's a grown-up take on the handmade Valentine card, complete in the nerdy meme of your choice.  But wait, there's more! Valentine Cards, phase 2: If any of these cards strike your fancy, feel free to share with your special someone!  Happy Valentine's Day, all! <3 For a sweet treat to share with your loved ones, try these  Heart-Shaped Donut Muffins  - yum!

Alright everybody, thanks to all the wonderful folk who voted in the poll a few weeks ago, it's time for a proper Firefly Shindig! (And just in case Firefly wasn't your chosen geekery, I've added a new poll with more options for future nerd parties - cast your vote!) Pretty cunning, don't you think? I admit, I'm a big fan of Joss Whedon's show Firefly (and the subsequent film Serenity). Such a fan in fact, that I've actually thrown a Firefly themed shindig before. In order to be as comprehensively nerdy as possible, I went ahead and included some of the throwbacks along with the new creations I cooked up just for this. Girl's a mind reading genius,  can't even figure out how to eat a rice planet! To start things off, I wanted to pay homage to River's problematic food, the Ice Planet (from the Firefly episode The Message). I didn't want to run the risk of getting my guests all melty though, so instead of ice cream or the...