Check out my test project: I upgraded an electric fireplace to use programmable lights and WLED. These fancy LED...
I just published my latest guide on the Adafruit Learning system: I hacked a Teddy Ruxpin doll from 2017...
Check my latest tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System. I built a dress using NeoPixel LEDs and Arduino code...
Exciting news! We will be exhibiting art and performing at the Tiki Oasis convention in San Diego on August...
‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book while it’s closed. Oh, I know it’s full of...
Last month I was interviewed by Paul Cutler, the producer of the Circuit Python Show. The podcast is all...
I’ve got a new tutorial up at Adafruit.com: make a jellyfish umbrella with lots of animated lights and WLED....
I recently got hired by ThemeDream Productions (IG: @themedreamproductions)to create and wear a Tron costume. They specifically wanted the...
I get a lot of questions from folks who are new to the world of LEDs asking what...
Check out the recent Redfin article we were featured in: Decorating your apartment with art can add personality and...
Build a motion-reactive LED Chinese Dragon puppet for Lunar New Year - full tutorial is up!
Bring the magic of the movie Moana to life with this DIY Heart of Te Fiti necklace tutorial. This...
Check out my newest tutorial: NeoPixel Novelty Cufflinks with scrolling text. Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixel-novelty-cufflinks-with-scrolling-text/overview In this tutorial, we’ll show...
Our kid’s show in January was a sold-out success! We had so much fun that we’re doing...
There’s a new chocolate cafe in Sacramento! Cafe Xocolatl serves cacao, coffee and tea, and chocolate from around the...
I just published my latest tutorial over on the Adafruit Learning System: Add Lights to your Costume with nOOds...
Mermaid Glimmer’s Jellyfish Grotto 50 iridescent jellyfish hang silently over the heads of viewers. During the daytime the sunlight...
Dive Bar is in the process of updating their decor, and have hired me for a couple different light...
Check out my latest project: decorate your fish tank or aquarium with color-changing lights. This tutorial shows how to assemble...
You asked for them, and they’re here! Purchase your own PaperCraft Crystal Gem kits. Three different styles are available:...
As part of this brand-makeover process I’ve been working on lately, I’ve created a brand new YouTube Intro Video....
I’ve launched my brand new web site! I’m very excited. Please come take a look! Let me know what...
Halloween is my favorite holiday, but this year I am a little ambivalent. With Covid still running rampant (though...
Check out my newest tutorial – just in time for Ada Lovelace Day! Make a lovely glowing bottle lamp with...
I’ve been meaning to upgrade the lights in my bedroom since the day we moved into this house. I’ve...
I’ve been on a quest for the perfect glowing necklace for years, and I think I’ve finally cracked the...
Check out my newest project tutorial: make an epoxy resin Minecraft-inspired torch lamp. This lamp has a strand of warm...
I’ve been playing with epoxy resin a whole bunch lately. I’ve seen a lot of these online and the...
I refinished this old stained end table with epoxy resin and mica powder and I’m just delighted with how...
LED Ukulele!! And a fun video shot & created by the increasingly awesome cinematographer Darrell St. Blaine. And of course...
I made a magical mermaid fairy fantasy castle out of recycled bottles. I am absolutely in love with it. ...
I love vertical gardens. Every time I see them I get all excited, and I’ve wanted to build one...
I’ve got crystal fever. I’ve been spending all my spare time making and folding paper craft crystals, as I...
These things are great! Splice wires together for strong electrical connections without using a soldering iron. They’ve got hot-melt...
“Smart” plugs for your home can be a lot of fun, allowing you to create lighting scenes, activate security...
I’ve posted a new tutorial: how to sew a cotton mask to help slow the spread of Covid19. This...
It’s the first week of Covid19 quarantine and I’m going a little nuts. What’s helping me stay sane is...
I just finished my latest tutorial over on the Adafruit Learning System: make a Burning Wizard staff. It’s got it...
My Tree Ent Lives! I have completely made over my guest room. It’s glorious. I’ve been having such a...
Fairy bottles.I made my first glass fairy bottle almost 10 years ago, before I’d really started on my LED maker journey....
I’ve been redesigning the guest room in my home, and it is becoming the most magical place in the...
It’s the holiday season and I’m feeling a bit festive. I used my Cricut vinyl cutter and a Circuit...
Our oceans are our largest natural resource, filled with beauty and mystery and life. There are more than 15...
Just launched a new tutorial: make a glowing Crystal Wizard Staff. Here’s the link: https://learn.adafruit.com/glowing-interactive-crystal-staff It’s interactive! It does...
I got a new bike. 🙂 It’s electric! It’s a Specialized power-assist expensive magical device that turns its riders...
This week’s project is an upcycled book case, painted with chalk paint. I’m absolutely delighted with it. I’ve had...
This might be the easiest project I’ve ever posted. But the impact is just so stunning that I couldn’t...
I just published a new tutorial: create amazing cosplay glowing crystal gems! From the guide: Crystal Gems will always...
I love her so much. I got inspired to make a paper mache dragon by Dan Reeder, who writes...
I spend a lot of my time developing and performing with LEDs. My company, Fire Pixie Entertainment, offers a really popular...
I just published a new tutorial over at the Adafruit Learning System: make a PowerPuff Girl themed Valentine candy...
This might be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever made. We moved away from the San Francisco Bay Area...
This is my new favorite necklace! It changes color when you touch it. I get obsessed with a particular...
I may have outdone myself this year for Halloween. It took me months of trying, failing, swearing, and trying...
I made a birdhouse. It lives in my soul. Backstory! I’ve recently moved out of the San Francisco Bay...
This year’s big project: we’ve sold our house and are moving away from Fremont, to the foothills. We lived in...
Seven were forged. Behold! Summon the Horde Rune necklaces, modeled in Fusion360 and 3d printed, then sanded, molded and cast in pewter. ...
The Horde Fierce female fighters who fear nothing. Fabulously feathered and filled with fire and ferocious fancy. (Photos by Lee...
I made some art. This is a bit of a departure for me. I’m not a painter (well, except...
I love Angel’s Trumpet flowers. They smell amazing, they look beautiful, and they bloom all year round. The moment...
Just a sneak peek of my favorite behind-the-scenes photo… pro images coming soon! 🙂 🙂#summonthehorde
I absolutely love these neopixel strands from Adafruit.com. They’re rugged, nearly indestructible. They come in 4″ or 2″ spacing. They’re WS2812B...
Check out my newest tutorial over at the Adafruit Learning System: a magical capacitive touch wearable unicorn horn! It’s got...
My fabulous husband and mer-tender captured this pretty video clip of Mermaid Glimmer swimming at a private school fundraiser...
They asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I couldn’t think of anything, so I asked for inflatable costumes....
The Sonic Runway.. a tunnel of sound reactive LED lighted hoops with beautiful light animations that strobe over and around...
New tutorial is live over at Adafruit.com: make a creepy electronic Eye of Newt just in time for Halloween. First...
Hello all! I just finished up a tutorial about how I made these fiber optic whips. Here’s a little...
Hello lovely readers. I’m writing to you from the comfort of my dodgy motel room in Salem, Oregon. I’m...
This past July I had the good fortune to travel to Mexico with Way Beyond Productions to shoot photos...
I am a magical rainbow unicorn. This was my very first attempt at anything involving animatronics, robotics, automatons, servos,...
The new Wonder Woman movie is coming out June 2.. do you have your costume ready? Make these super awesome Wonder...
I just published a new tutorial at the Adafruit Learning System: it’s a quick and easy Neopixel Jewel necklace....
I have one of the best jobs in the world: I work as an LED light dancer at high...
I just published a new tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System: how to make an LED and glass pebble...
My LED light dance show is getting complicated. Problem 1: Dancers When I’m onstage dancing, my focus is in my body....
It’s beginning to be that season where I get to go out to fancy events and play with all...
I joined an all-female barbarian cosplay group. We’re called “the Horde”. I’ve been working on my barbarian costume and...
New from the Adafruit Learning System: Sparkle Skirt Playground. Use the Circuit Playground board to create costume art with motion sensitive, sound...
January 21-22 found me at NC MerMania 2017: the largest gathering of Mermaids and Merfolk in the world. Performers and...
My Rainbow Chakra hoodie guide is live at the Adafruit Learning System: Rainbow Chakra Hoodie Tutorial Festivals and events...
I’m not very good at relaxing. Every time I take a vacation I always seem to find a way...
Making myself a third set of POV LED Supernova poi this week. I finally updated the Adafruit Industries tutorial...
I just finished making this gorgeous brand-new Ariel cosplay mermaid tail. (Awesome underwater photos here!) It’s made from neoprene...
Once upon a time the Moon, weary of her travels, set rashly upon the ocean and sank to the...
I made a very very pretty hoodie. I found this amazing hoodie at Maker Faire, made by Kinetic Couture. I...
I was invited to perform part of my light dancing show at GlowCon 2016. GlowCon describes itself as “an LED...
It’s been hot the last couple of weeks, and we’ve been trying very hard to get away from our...
Mermaid Glimmer is the world’s only swimmable LED mermaid tail (as far as I know). She’s my pride and...
This past weekend was the 16th annual Maker Faire in the Bay Area. I got to go for the very...
This video will walk you through how to create, convert, and choreograph images using the KineticPOV code that is...
Once upon a time I transformed a boring candelabra wall sconce from Target into a delightful LED remote controlled...
Finally found a minute to photograph and post this is a gorgeous one-of-a-kind 3d printed Sunspot necklace with color-shifting...
My newest post at the Adafruit Learning Center is up.. learn to make a light-up twinkling parasol. This parasol will shield you...
I’m always getting excited and posting photos of my LED props and costumes in action. Since I create most...
I had the opportunity to perform for Chinese New Year celebration for the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce last night...
This morning I got to visit the teamLab art installation in Palo Alto at the Pace Gallery. teamLab (f....
I just completed a new guide on the Adafruit Learning Center detailing how to build your own giant 36...
I got a pewter Ingot for Christmas this year. Ingot. What a great word. Ingot. It just feels so...
It’s been just over a year since I got my 3d printer, and for this whole year I’ve been...
I have a magical fairy bedroom. It just became a big more magical this week with the addition of...
I managed to finish this costume just in time for the holiday season to start, and just took it...
For those following along, I’ve spent the last month working on this Wasp costume for Adafruit’s #ElectronicHalloween project. Here’s...
As summer winds to a close I’ve been lucky enough to book Mermaid Glimmer at a fair number of events. She’s...
Last Spring, I built a neoprene mermaid tail that was a reimagining of Queen Elsa from Frozen, if she...
Reblogged from Adafruit.com — more about our Electronic Halloween Wasp Costume construction! Here’s the original post.. reblogged here for...
3d printed Wasp Halloween costume helmet goodness!! I’m so excited. Orignal post here #ElectronicHalloween 2015 at Adafruit – 9/25...
I’ve got a new Adafruit Learning Center guide up: how to make your own LED, persistence-of-vision double staffs. I’m calling them Morning...
I’m working with Adafruit.com on a super exciting Halloween costume project. Halloween’s my most favorite holiday, and this year...
My company, Fire Pixie Entertainment, was selected to perform at the ISES NCC Gala in San Francisco this year. The...
Check it out! I was interviewed by 16 Hertz, a New York based web site and store focusing on...
I just finished up and shipped off a gorgeous custom black and gold Wizard hoodie. I have been getting...
I just completed a new tutorial over at Adafruit.com — make your own Galaxy Pendant. I wanted an LED necklace...
Fire Pixie will be performing at the NCC ISES gala event on Tuesday. I’m spending this week working on accessories and...
I had a fantastic fire dancing – and – swimming mermaid gig last weekend and got some wonderful video...
I had the very good fortune of visiting Venice this spring. Venice.. the city of Carnival, canals, masks, and...
Last week I was in Venice. If you haven’t been to Venice, GO. It was amazing. It was more...
The construction is all done on my Elsa Mermaid tail, and it’s time to make it PRETTY!(part one, construction,...
I got it into my head that I must have yet another swimming mermaid tail. I will not repeat...
For some reason, I always seem to lose my focus and motivation in the spring time. Maybe it’s the...
My favorite kind of project is the kind of project that makes me happy and also makes someone else’s...
The new DotStar LEDs from Adafruit.com just arrived a couple weeks ago and I am the lucky lucky duck who got...
I just got back from NCMerFest in North Carolina. I am a Mermaid performer and this is the best Mermaid convention I’ve ever...
My second Adafruit tutorial post is live! Cosmic Turtle Loves you. Check it out! I made this for my...
I got an UP! Mini 3D printer for Christmas this year. Wowza. I’m SO excited.. I haven’t stopped playing with it...
I’m having a blast with my new 3D Printer, and the first thing I’m printing is jewelry. Tiaras, necklaces, pendants,...
So, this is exciting. I’ve been invited to become a contributor to the Adafruit Learning Center — Adafruit’s online shop is where I...
My latest project is officially finished! I made my first set of LED Isis Wings and they are, of...
Halloween costume #3: Aeronaut Erin and her magical arduino powered flaming rocket pack. 🙂 Featuring interactive steampunk goggles, a glowing fairy...
This upcycled leather Steampunk Festival Belt is really fun. It’s got a steampunk octopus. Who doesn’t love a steampunk...
So, I have been making stuff. I never stop making stuff. I just haven’t been posting about it all....
I’m finally getting caught up with life after 5 days in Mexico with the Mermaid Portfolio Workshop followed by a crazy-busy...
This year has been all about mermaids. I’m going on Bob and Malena’s Mermaid Portfolio Workshop to Centoes in Mexico in...
I’m listening to the audiobook verion of Stormlight by Brandon Sanderson while working on things, and woke up this...
Now that my LED Mermaid Tail is functional, I’ve been spending every waking minute adding bells and whistles, animations and...
I haven’t posted in the last few months because I’ve been pouring all my energy into creating this. I...
My current plan for world-domination through illuminated fashion: a programmable LED swimmable mermaid tail.Electronics and water don’t play well...
I woke up in the middle of the night and heard a very odd sucking noise in the bathroom....
I’ve been modifying my light-up shoes and now they’re extra-awesome. I got some new velostat, which works a treat. The velostat...
I have always wanted a pair of light-up shoes. All the kids are wearing them. They can stomp and...
I got home from a fire show the other night, exhausted from a very long day. As I was unloading the...
It’s finished! It’s finally finally finished! Well, except for all the additional decorating and sequining and seaweed and such....
I finished this peacock fairy costume yesterday. With the sunset getting later and later this time of year, there...
My new embroidery machine arrived today!!! I am SO excited. It’s a Brother SE400 Embroidery and Sewing Machine. Originally I...
Wow! So, I’ve been out of the country, fire dancing at a theme park in Japan, for most of the winter....