A Better Way to Slice a Pumpkin
A clever modification to the traditional way of cutting an opening in a pumpkin.
Home
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Marshmallow shooter battle this weekend in NYC
If you’ve built one of the marshmallow shooters from MAKE, vol 02, this Saturday’s Marshmallow Civil War is for you.
Headless Marie Antoinette Costume
Make our Headless Marie Antoinette Costume from Nicole Magne on Etsy’s The Storque. This creepy cool project was featured in our special MAKE Halloween issue is available now in the Maker Shed.
Loss-proof remote control
My cell phone has a little eye molded into the case for attaching a lanyard strap. I want my A/V remotes to have the same thing so that if I should decide that I want to tie one of them to ,say, the leg of my coffee table, I won’t be driven to the same lengths as
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
This autumn take on a cookie classic from Giggly Mama and Family seems like the perfect treat to bake up this weekend! YUM!
Threadbanger’s Roundup of Knit and Crochet Halloween Costumes
If you have nimble fingers, you should be able to whip up one of these knit or crochet masks in time for Halloween. Lee Meredith at Threadbanger has gathered up the coolest and weirdest knit and crochet costumes for the season.
How-To: Make chemiluminescent soap bubbles
No photos yet. That’s a homework assignment for the bubble chemists in the audience. But I couldn’t resist sharing my excitement over this paragraph from US patent 5246631 for glowing soap bubbles:
An example of practice of the present invention involves using a liquid dish such as LEMON JOY available from Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio). Although the LEMON JOY may be diluted with varying amounts of water, it is preferred that the dishwashing liquid be used at full strength. Approximately 9 milliliters of CYALUME solution made in accordance with the manufacturers instructions are added to approximately 120 milliliters of the dishwashing liquid. Although this particular mixture may be used to produce adequate self-illuminated bubbles, it is preferred that 3 to 4 drops of glycerin be added to the solution as a bubble hardener. The solution is then ready for use to form self-illuminated bubbles.
I’ve never actually measured how much Cyalume (wikipedia) is in a standard glow-stick, but I’m betting you could come up with 9 mL of the stuff by cutting open two or three at most.