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Rainbow Puppets! Blue Pt 5 - Finishing Touches

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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...

Easter Soap!

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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 -...