JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey there readers! When we last left our friend Blue, he was all sewn together and had some fancy new gold horns. What he was lacking was eyes and some other little finishing touches. It is kind of upsetting that the eyes are the last thing, because they are pretty much the best part and really gives the creature a life of its own. I started with the mold I had made previously , to make some eyes for this little blue fellow. I had some leftover materials from that build and I don't think they held up as well as I was hoping. Some of the eyes I made came out great, while others never fully hardened. They had this strange gummy bear texture that I was certainly not tempted to eat. Detergent pods are not edible. I know this is only tangentially related, but why the heck are we still making detergent pods? So much money is being invested to make sure people know that the companies are doing everything they can to make the packaging safer. Why are they even a product in the first pl...

Hey readers! I am really enjoying making soap. I think it is partially because of how immediately useful it is. Making puppets is fun, but then you are left with a lot of puppets laying around your apartment like you went on a killing spree at Sesame Street. Wow. Three sentences in and I have already managed to create a word picture including murder and puppets. Damn blogging is fun - you never know where a paragraph will end up. Maybe that is more about my completely nonsensical writing style, but that is a level of introspection I am not prepared for right now. Unlike puppet making, soap making creates soap. Only the dirtiest of people will say that they don't need soap. Lots more people will say they don't need puppets. Go ahead and take a poll. I can tell you right now the results, but in the interest of science you better give replicating my study a shot. The other cool thing about making soap - at least the kind I am making that isn't 100% totally from scratch -...

Hey Reader! This week I am talking about a brand new thing I decided to try learning! Soap making! I am not going to be doing it totally from scratch - mostly because of the blindness issue. See, soap made from scratch uses lye, and lye can cause blindness if not used correctly. I wanted to make it totally from scratch, but when I went to Lowes, the 100% lye drain cleaner was out of stock. The fact that the product used to make soap is also used dissolve hair should give you a clue how dangerous this stuff is. I read a bunch of blogs and articles about soap making. Soap Queen has one of the best tutorials I could find on making soap from scratch and I do want to try it someday. However, I also like my eyes and flesh right where they are, not to mention there are hundreds of cool soap making tutorials and plans on Pinterest that use soap base. I did yoga the other day, and I will be honest with you - but just you and don't go telling other people. I'll be honest with you ...