DIY Faux Felucia Flowers

As the surreal landscape where Jedi Knight Aayla Secura bravely fought for the last time in Revenge of the Sith, Felucia is shown as a planet full of weird fungal lifeforms and gigantic, colorful plants. Many of the plants populating Felucia are partially or completely translucent, so when the sunlight hits their blooms the colors give off a beautiful glow. Now you can make your own unique plantlife with this craft project on Faux Felucia Flowers.

The cool part of creating these fake flowers is that you can make them from almost any material like craft tissue paper, felt, fabric, colorful shopping bags, origami paper, and so on. For big, lush flower blooms use brightly-colored plastic shopping bags. For smaller, denser flowers try using felt. And for fluffy and light blossoms use craft tissue paper.

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Faux Felucia Flowers

Richard Cheese: Star Wars Swings!

Shocking as this may sound to some fans, lounge-singer extraordinaire Richard Cheese never watched the Star Wars films as a young lad, but instead when he was an older, wiser adult playing a gig with his band in a cocktail lounge -- much like Max Rebo and his bizarre-looking band mates.

"I never saw the Star Wars movies in theaters; I guess the whole Star Wars thing passed me by the first time around," Cheese confesses. "I mostly watched films like the Maltese Falcon, Goldfinger, and anything with Frank, Sammy or Dino in it. Then, a few years ago, I played at a hotel cocktail lounge that had one of the Star Wars movies playing on a big-screen TV, as sort of background eye candy. It looked like a crazy heist flick, just like Ocean's 11. This gang of good guys was trying to knock off the biggest casino in the galaxy, the Death Star. So I had the rest of the movies sent to my room, and I watched them between sets. I was struck by the 'futuristic' vibe in the movies. I guess the 'Wars' take place in space or something. Not normally my scene, but I dug the chick with the hair and the electric swords -- those were swingin'. Oh, and the floating car was a gas."

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Richard Cheese: Star Wars Swings!