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Happy Hanukkah from Tosche Station!

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Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, and to celebrate, if you’ve not seen StarWars.com’s instructions on how to make a Hanukkah Droidel, here’s a link on how to geek up your Hanukkah celebrations; this particular dreidel still has the traditional Hebrew inscription referring to the miracle of the eight nights of light celebrated by Hanukkah.

All joking aside by our “Keep Han in Hanukkah” graphic, we here at Tosche Station would like to wish you a very Happy Hanukkah. May love and light fill your hearts and homes.

Coruscant Craft Fair: Star Wars Snowflakes

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We’ve featured Star Wars snowflakes on the Coruscant Craft Fair before, but in preparation for the holiday season, we’ve found even more. Matters of Grey not only updated the original patterns, but they’ve created new Star Wars snowflake patterns based on the ones we originally featured.

You can now download snowflakes that feature Darth Vader, Clone Troopers, Han Solo, X-wings, Star Destroyers, and Princess Leia! This might be perfect for your windows, especially if you’re getting ready to pull out all your Star Wars ornaments for the tree as well.

The Coruscant Craft Fair Rides Again!

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Sometimes, a girl just needs geeky shoes. Enter Etsy seller MadeInBoston and her made to order comic book heels. Hey–Star Wars has comic books that could be used for these purposes–there is even Star Wars comic book fabric now available at JoAnn’s Fabric Stores (I saw aprons made from this fabric for sale at FandomFest).

But Etsy has more treasures, ladies and gentlemen. Custom-made R2D2 beanies in four different options? Not to mention the perfect onesie for your geeky baby girl, trailing her ATAT along as her pet. (Check out the rest of EngramClothing’s shop for more awesome Star Wars wearables).

If you’re more into crafting it yourself, though, here are free directions on how to crochet yourself a Princess Leia hat.

Star Wars Party Ideas

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I was going to say that I want to have a Star Wars party like this someday for my kids. Then I thought, forget the kids! We should have this party NOW! I mean, it features a homemade R2-D2, and a Wampa Cave Cake. In fact, I think this woman needs to write the next edition of the Star Wars Cookbook.

Make sure you check out her links to the previous year’s party as well and check out the garbage masher cake too.

Star Wars…and Wales?

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The BBC has put together an interesting little slideshow discussing the Welsh background of Star Wars, which includes a couple of really interesting pictures of the construction of the Millennium Falcon from The Empire Strikes Back–interestingly, the only point at which there was a full-scale model of Han Solo’s ship during the entire trilogy. Compared with this picture of the Falcon in the Hoth hangar bay, it’s pretty interesting to get a sense of the ship:

Hunting down a picture of the Falcon in the hangar bay, I found a particularly interesting project afoot to build a full-scale Falcon by some fans. This, in turn, led me to a book I’d not heard about that’s been out for about a year that puts together sketches from the planning stages of the movies: Star Wars: The Blueprints. It’s a limited edition run–only 5000 copies, and the cheap version runs $500 a copy, so it’ll remain a book we all lust over for now. They still seem to have plenty of copies left, though, so if you have a spare chunk of change, I can only imagine that this would be an really interesting visual experience.