I have decided to join a global movement known as Movember to bring much needed attention to men’s health and prostate cancer.

Movember is the month formerly known as November where men start clean shaven and commit to growing a Moustache for the entire month. That’s right, the Prostate Cancer Society is bringing back the Moustache to raise funds and awareness for men’s health. All the funds I raise go directly to Prostate Cancer Canada.

What many people don’t know is that 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer to afflict Canadian men with 25,500 diagnosed and 4,400 dying from the disease each year.

My Father was diagnosed with colon cancer a few years back and what was suppose to be something they could just remove easily, soon spread throughout his entire body and killed him. For this very reason, men should never take their health lightly because even something as small as back pain or an problem with iron in your blood can turn out to be more serious.

Now clearly I can’t grow a moustache but the love of the men in my life has convinced me I should get involved and I am hoping that you will support me with a donation.


To make a donation, you can either:

- Purchase one of my moustache necklaces over at Pixelated Creations for $10 plus shipping. $5 will be donated to the Prostate Cancer Society of Canada.

- Click this link and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account

All donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Prostate Cancer Canada will use the money raised by Movember for the development of programs related to awareness, public education, advocacy, support of those affected, and research into the prevention, detection, treatment and cure of prostate cancer.

For more details on how the funds raised from previous campaigns have been used and the impact Movember is having please go to http://ca.movemberfoundation.com/research-and-programs.

Thanks for your support, Dtoiders!

I've been doing a lot of minor projects on the side over the past couple of weeks. You can find some of these in my store currently while others I haven't decided if I want to sell them or not. Check them out and tell me if you would buy them.


Clank from Ratchet & Clank.


Robot from Earthbound


Master Chief Keychain


King's Quest Heroes from 4,5 & 6


Mew from Pokemon series


Mew Keychain from Pokemon Series


Onii from Little King's Story


Patapons


Princess Schala from Chronotrigger


Drunken Pigeons and Rat from Sam & Max series


Sam & Max: Hit the Road Art Piece

Available at Pixelated Creations

It's been a while since this girl gamer has been on TV but luckily I tend to run into the right people through all my journeys. At the end of August, I went to the Fan Expo in Toronto and happen to run into Amber MacArthur, tech guru and host of Xbox Live's Girls Go Geek.

I had been conversing with Amber online and she invited me to do her show's tip of the week segment. Of course, I suck at games on Xbox so we opted to just talk about 1 vs 100 instead of trying to pawn some weak wisdom of mine onto the masses. I doubt you guys need to hear my Fable 2 fashion tips.


Anyway, the episode, Episode 6, that the tip appeared in is now up on Xbox Live in the US only but non-US subscribers can see a preview here. Just hit the preview button for Episode 6.

Try not to make fun of me too much. I'm not the best in front of a camera.

So this is my entry for the Super Punch Scribblenaut's art theme contest. It's not much but its my own design and I made it in one day.

I don't really make a lot of my own videogame designs and this is probably the coolest one I've made on my own - completely on my own. No pattern to start with.

I don't think I'll win with it but the blog owner of Super Punch did feature it on the site today which was nice. Kudos for me. Yay!

I can't wait to play this game. It looks so awesome.

"ALSO WHERE'S THE ARTSY FARTSY TAG GONE?!"

I'll just start by saying I am the worst secret keeper in the world but amazingly I managed to keep one secret of more than 2 months from the entire Destructoid community and one special member of the staff.

A while back I was asked by community member, Maya aka Bushofghosts to create a custom sprite of Hamza's alter ego, CyberneticTigerZ out of perhaps a Metroid sprite for a special PAX gift. After looking at pictures of the Shark suit, I realized that it was just a modded version of Master Chief's armor and decided to mod a Master Chief sprite instead of a Metroid one.

I started with this:

which was less blurry when I zoomed in on it.

Used these pictures for references to the Shark suit.


Thank you, Mikey!

And in the end, came up with this:


If I had to do the piece over again, I would have added in a fin on the back and fixed the glove on the right as I didn't match the colours up to the other glove when I was playing with the colour scheme. Otherwise I am happy with it.

Of course, I forgot to take a picture of it after I ironed it but hopefully Hamza will do that for me. *big grins*

This piece was given to Hamza this past weekend at PAX by Maya in a touching moment which I can only assume was this:


Yes, I troll facebook quite often looking for those beautiful moments caused by my bead sprites. This looks like a truly epic one.

So there you go. That's what Hamza looks like as a videogame character. I hope he liked it. I was told people were late to dinner because he did, so I figure that's good. Choosing my work over food.

So I finally got around to posting some new stuff in my store this week as well as putting some of the old stock on sale.


I've reduced the prices on 8 different items in the store from a Tiny Toons set to a bunch of keychains. Everything on sale is already pre-made and ready to ship. That's why its on sale, cause I need to move the leftover stock. Nothing is over $8 and all items are marked with SALE in the title.


All the new stuff I've posted is pretty cool too. I've got a Pokemon bag tag listing, a new Donkey Kong picture frame, a Legend of Zelda magnet set, Final Fantasy bag tags and a Dig Dug magnet set. Check out my store at Pixelated Creations


I've also gotten into jewelery making recently but those pieces are not for sale yet. I'm still perfecting my techniques, but here's a few pieces I've made so far.


Pac Man Neckalce


Pac Man Earrings


Mushroom Necklace


Mickey Mouse Necklace

As usual, comments and suggestions on the new stuff is always welcome. I love to hear what is a good and what needs work.