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Chemical Woodburning

Don’t have a woodburning iron? Use chemicals and a stamp to burn your mark!

Cocoa-Coconut No-Bake Cookies

This recipe is great for holidays or any other day. It’s easy and fun to make, and the little ones will go crazy for them; I know we do.

Roger Korman meets Man Ray in this from-scratch assemblage that requires virtually no skill. It does, however, require a little vision with respect to overall style and design, as much as stacking cottage cheese containers constitutes “design.” The lamp base is composed of plaster forms cast from plastic food containers. Reusable storage containers like Tupperware […]

Hogwash Bacon Soap

I wanted to see if it was possible to make soap from bacon fat. The bonus challenge: to make the soap look like bacon.

Backyard Biodiesel

Biodiesel is vegetable oil (often used) that’s been chemically converted into a fuel thin enough to spray through a diesel fuel-injection system. No special equipment is needed to “cook” a small batch of biodiesel that will work in any diesel engine, from a model airplane to the family car.