JoshPrime Makes Stuff

Hey reader! Happy 30th post! Where we last left our story, I had one week to create a drag outfit for work. I have one of the best jobs. Anyway, I had created my hip pads and now was the time to make the dress itself. I found this awesome tutorial from OnlineKyne. It is a quick and easy tutorial on how to make a mermaid dress. The only problem that I had, was that Kyne was working off of an existing bodysuit pattern he had. I don't have any such bodysuit pattern, so I would need to make one. I had read online about a thing called DTF . Before you clutch your pearls and are totally scandalized, DTF stands for Duct Tape Form. It is a pretty simple process that gives you a perfect dressform to work off of for your body - or in my case the new body I made out of couch cushions in my last post. If you are not sure what DTF means outside of this context, well then you haven't spent a lot of time on dating sites and you should consider yourself lucky. Making a duct tape form...

Hey reader! Let's get right on into it. You have seen the title of this post, you know what is coming. I was invited to participate in a drag show! Now, I am not a drag queen - I can't make that mouth click noise and I certainly can't death drop . If I ever wind up in that position, please just plant flowers on me and move on. Who needs both legs anyways? That being said, if you give me a challenging craft project and I am in it 100%. I decided to make my own dress and see what kind of sickening (am I dragging right?) look I could come up with. I decided I would try my hand at a mermaid dress. I found a few tutorials that I will get into later and so I figured thought I could handle it. When I told some folks that this was my plan, they told me they were mad I didn't have a dramatic reveal. I'll save that for a future look, lets just see if I can make one dress this time - forget about making two. I don't exactly have the most fishy (yea I have seen a few...

Hey Reader, I was doing a totally-medically-approved-not-at-all-made-up cleanse for two months and when it was over I wanted nothing more than to put nothing carbs and gravy into my body. I had no food but fiber shakes and sandwiches. I found myself deep in the Pinterest vortex looking at recipes - fantasizing about when I could eat again. I found myself drawn to two major recipes. The first is a chicken parm crescent bread and the other was the return of the cheese and garlic crack bread , I had made that bread for Thanksgiving last year - but spent the whole blog post talking about the cheese ball. Since I skipped it last time, lets start with the crack bread (features no actual crack). It is pretty simple actually, you take a loaf of hard bread - why is that so hard to find here in California... are your mouth's sensitive to crunchy things? - and stuff it full of deliciousness. I didn't use Parmesan like the recipe called for and instead used mozzarella. I really lik...

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 that I have a puppet project in progress right now, but I was asked to donate a puppet to a silent auction to raise money and I didn't want to give away a puppet that was part of a set - so it was time to make something new! I really enjoy making puppets with fun fur, but it is so expensive. I am always looking for reasonably priced fun fur. Grizwald was made from fur remnants that were already on sale so he was pretty much a the same price as a fleece puppet - but fur can be 3 to 4 times as expensive as fleece so it is always a little nerve wracking when I take the plunge and make a fuzzy puppet. Then the other day I saw these awesome carpets for college dorm rooms that were on clearance. I guess March isn't the best time to start decorating your dorm room so they were priced to move. This pink carpet is super cool with a nice thick fur that would work great for a puppet. I was slightly concerned that it would be tough to free it from the traction rubb...

Hey reader! I have been working as a pub quiz host for Geeks Who Drink for just over 2 years now. It has been a really fun opportunity to seem like I know trivial information that I definitely don't know! A few weeks ago I was celebrating my 200th pub quiz. I decided to revisit a project I had taken an interest in a few years ago - making cakes. Quizzers like cake! I don't really do a lot of cooking or baking normally. Cooking is an awesome project and I love trying new things, but food has always felt a little temporary. Making a bar of soap, or a puppet leaves me with a long-term tangible thing, while cooking creates a meal that (hopefully) is gone because you are an impressive amateur chef. Speaking of, there is a new show on Netflix, Nailed it , where people attempt to make awesome things with mixed results. It is definitely one of my favorite things right now. I will leave you all to decide if I nailed this one. I was hoping to cite my sources, but I was looking al...