JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey Reader! The hardest part of having a new house, besides the incessant people trying to scam you, is not having anything where you want it to be. As I continue to toil away on walls and plan big projects like window re-framing and other amazing interiors , my other projects fall to the side. I was actually just about to write, "my smaller projects." I never really thought of my puppets or quilts as small projects until I took on a whole house. This is some next level stuff I need to get used to. The timelines are longer, the work is harder, and progress is significantly slower. The reward is coming soon though, I can feel the walls getting closer to completion. So you probably gathered that walls are not done, based on the paragraph. This means that another week has gone by with no visible progress, and my craft and media rooms are still crammed in boxes in what will eventually be the guest room. That can be frustrating for wanting to progress reasons, but also for mak...

Hey reader! This post is not very photo heavy. Sorry about that! This whole blog has always been craft projects and stuff. I have been making shirts online for a while and never thought it would be appropriate to include them since they aren't a craft. Technically speaking, this is a making blog, so making stuff should count no matter what! Yay rationalizations for not having a craft room finished yet! I have made some fun shirts in the past. For Kirk's birthday a few years ago I did a Gremlins themed shirt. I went with a deep cut and recreated the Peltzer logo that is used by the main dude's father. If you aren't familiar with Gremlins, shame on your face. Since the podcast is deep in season two of Dollhouse. It was time to make new shirts to commemorate! I do all my shirt editing using Photoshop. I am fortunate enough to have one of the old copies before they completely sold out and went to a month to month pay model. I have no interest in that, especially how i...

Hey Reader, This project has really been on the backburner lately, and sadly it still kind of is. I did want to give you an update though. When we last left it over a month ago, I had just laid down all the squares in the pattern I wanted. I also quipped that my blog would probably become a lot of quilt posts because I enjoy quilting these rag quilts a lot. A lot has happened since then, namely buying a house. It will probably be a while before I have the time for a quilt again! Anyway, I said I wanted to give you an update so I am going to do that. Just like previous quilts, I sewed the lines and created little rows of quilts all together. It is still important to be careful about orientation of the strips so that I didn't accidentally double up a patch - even though I am doing a crazy non-pattern, I did avoid same patters sharing a side with each other. This is going to be like my last rag quilt , in that it is very very warm. I was getting hot just sewing it together. I ...

Hey Reader! We are back at it with another edition of the ongoing and exciting saga, "JoshPrime vs. Textured Walls." When I started telling people that I planned to de-texture my walls, the most common response was "your walls are textured? I hadn't noticed." After I internally seethed with rage at other people's lack of ability to see the thing that causes me so much sleepless nights, I explained that my walls were indeed textured. I then tried my best not to get into a tirade about how much I hate textured walls, and then began explaining the process. I will fully own than "my best" frequently meant a rant of 10 minutes or less. The next thing that people would say is, "that is way too much work you should just live with the texture." Reader, it is like the people around me don't know me at all. My cousin warned I would rue the day I started this project. My parents explained that it is an art form and that I could become obs...

Hey reader, We only talked about bathbombs two weeks ago, but here we are making another batch. As I said before, that is largely because I forgot to write about the 3rd attempt and didn't notice until I sat down to write up this most recent attempt. My sincere apologies for such a grievous error. I am sure you have been chewing your fingernails to nubs wondering if I have figured it out. This time, you will find a horrific story. Mentally brace yourself for the horror show you are about to witness. Not since Texas Chainsaw Massacre has a recipe gone so badly. See that is funny because in that movie they make food out of people. Wow this blog must be really niche if it combines discussion of cannibalism with bath bombs. Whatever. pictured: not a WB character I have gotten much closer to success, but still I am not making the perfect Lush bombs I want to be making. Each of my attempts has been too powdery or too greasy. My newest suggestion was to try witch hazel. Am I the o...