JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey reader! I had done this project a while ago and somehow the pictures for it never made it to my folder for blog writing. This is very sad for many reasons. Full disclosure, this is attempt number 3 and I have already done attempt number 4 at this point. Sorry, that means that you are going to get two bath bomb posts really close together. Also spoiler alert: neither attempt is very successful. That might take some of the heart pounding suspense away from my blog's normally high-stake writing style. I think we will find the power to press on though. You might recall in my last attempt , I used vegetable oil in the recipe. This led to a really oily experience that I wanted to avoid. I read some things that told me I might have more luck using avocado or coconut oil in my recipe. PS. What is up with the love affair with avocado lately. What did we do before discovering this wonder food. Our collective skin must have been so dry. Avocado seems to have worked really hard to...

Here we go reader! The finishing touches of Sprocket! I really like the look of this little guy. The fun fur is great, but every time he moves he winds up with fur in his mouth. It hides his face and makes it less effective. With Grizwald, I gave him a serious haircut on this face to make it less noticeable, but he still winds up with fur in his mouth. I had seen Adam great hair tutorial and wondered if it would work on a whole body. He uses glue like a hair gel on the puppet to hold the hair in place. I was extremely nervous coming at my puppet creation with glue after I spent hours getting him all ready. Adam insists that if it messes up you can just thin it with more water, but I was still nervous. I definitely felt a little strange squirting glue on my hands and rubbing it on fur. It was like all my life I had been given the message never to ever do that. Next Adam will be telling me to play with matches or leave the stove on. I also tried to do what he does in the tutoria...

Hey reader, I am just as surprised as you are that I am getting to a part 2 immediately after a part 1. I feel like I have been all over the place lately. I am starting my YouTube channel and that has cut into my craft time considerably! This puppet needs to be finished up so that I can get it to the auction though, so back at it! The next step in the process is to make the mouth plate. I have done card board mouths, poster board mouths, and plastic lid mouths. The plastic lids are the most secure and long lasting, but the creation process is much longer. I think I finally worked it down to a quicker process though. I punched four holes on either side where the elastic will go, and then sew an X into the elastic. It is much faster than my method where I force the needle through and need a pair of pliers, that's for sure. It kind of happened by accident. I have reorganized my craft supplies and couldn't find my thick elastic for mouths. I was left with a thinner elastic I ...

Hey reader! I know I promised you cotton candy making, but this post is time sensitive! This is kind of a unique post today. I am writing about my experience making the Foodstirs Out Of This World Donut Ki t . What is Foodstirs? Foodstirs is the new box dessert delivery company owned by Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy fame. All of the ingredients in a Foodstirs box are ethically sources, non GMO, and organic. The recipes are also designed to be fun and easy to make with kids. JustLeah and I host the weekly Buffy podcast, J and L Watches , and when we saw that this product existed we thought it would be super awesome to give it a try. We are pretty much children ourselves, so this could be a great project! We were not paid or compensated in any way for this review, but if Sarah Michelle Gellar wants to send us more donuts, we are very cool with that. Anyway, even the packaging is adorable! It didn't come with quite everything we needed to make donuts. We needed to provide ...