JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey reader! I am in the middle of some very exciting stuff. I am closing on a house this week! You probably aren't surprised given the title of this post, but I didn't want to bury the lead.  Owning a home and being able to make it my own has been a dream. I kept a binder through to my early 20's with sketches of dream rooms and decorating ideas. Nowadays I can store that kind of material on a Pinterest board instead of lugging around a 3 ring binder like some kind of gay caveman. As you might have gathered from 42 weeks of blog posts, I enjoy making things. Getting a house is an extension of that. I am going to get to nest now. Apartments are great, but I can't paint or install skylights or put in track lighting. In my home I plan to do at least one of those things. This blog might be changing for a while as my craft projects turn more decidedly DIY. To be honest, I am not sure. When I started this blog, I didn't expect to still be working on it nearly a year...

Hey readers! We have had a bunch of posts about long term bigger projects. I wanted to do something that I could summarize in a single post. This project was something I saw on Pinterest a while ago for a friend's unicorn themed birthday party. I was invited to another unicorn party and decided to break this one out again. I guess unicorns are in right now. I wish puppets would become in. I would be WAY cooler if that happened. Well, I can dream. I went out and got myself a pinata and a few packs of tissue paper. The messiest part is ripping off all of the existing paper - don't forget to save the eyes if you plan to reuse them like I did! The first time I did this, the pinata had glue on nearly every inch of the tissue paper. This time, it seemed to only be glued on the edges. I also found that this pinata was covered in clear packing tape. The last one I did had no packing tape on it anywhere and was held together completely by glue. I guess I bought a different brand,...