by Tara Diane
I was supposed to go to this dinky little local amusement park tonight, but things didn’t exactly work out. In an effort to hinder my depression, I felt like some fatty fair food was in order. I don’t need your Ferris wheel to enjoy myself, bitches! I remember going to the boardwalk in Santa Cruz when I was in high school. We would usually go down to the caves and take an educational tour of the local vegetation, then go pig out on funnel cakes. So let’s make some fricking funnel cakes!
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by Tara Diane
I feel like I need to add a disclaimer to this post, so: Disclaimer: there will be tons of ball jokes in this entry. Also, I promise I’m not playing a joke where I trick you guys into making as many random circle things as possible (this, contact paper, string lamp thing), I am just not that artistic and circles are really freaking easy to make!
Anyways, I came across this tutorial on making cloth pom pom ball shits on Chinese lanterns. I thought they were pretty cool, but decided I needed to jazz it up a little bit and figure out a lazier way of doing it. Our balls are going to be quite a bit larger than theirs. I basically just steal other people’s ideas and make them better most of the time!
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by Tara Diane
I really love this project, contact paper décor, because it’s great if you’re renting or living somewhere short term and want to jazz up the walls. If you’re renting you probably don’t want to paint, since you’ll just have to paint over it when you leave, and probably don’t want to spend a bunch of money on vinyl wall decals that cost a fuck-ton and aren’t reusable. These aren’t reusable either, but they only cost $6 worth of contact paper and an hour of your time. So… on with the tutorial!
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by Tara Diane
So this post is all about making dairy products out of… other dairy products. When I was younger my mom taught my brother and me how to make ice cream in a bag and butter in a jar, so I figured I’d share it with you! I found some great videos on YouTube, much better than I could make myself, so I’m just going to direct you to them (plus I’ve been out of town most of the week).
Oh and then I’ll tell you how to make chocolate whipped cream.
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by Tara Diane
I recently discovered quick-dry casting resin and can’t get enough of it. Casting resin comes in two bottles. When you mix them together it forms this liquid plasticy shit (I don’t really care about the science), which you can then pour into molds and let harden into a solid plastic-like substance. So today, our DIY project is space invader resin magnets! Or just any resin magnet shape you choose; we don’t discriminate.
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by Tara Diane
Today we are making a string… glue… balloon… lamp thing! This is probably one of my favorite projects to do; this is the third one that I’ve made. I can take zero credit for the idea, it’s totally 100% these awesome people. I’m posting a few variations from their instructions, but they’re the original, so they probably know better than I do. I’m posting it here because… well, I just fricking love it.
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by Tara Diane
So before you say “what the fuckkkkk” at the idea of chocolate bacon cupcakes, just hear me out. A while back I bought this chocolate bar
for my then-boyfriend. It was basically one of those I-am-buying-this-for-you-but-really-it’s-for-me things. Anyways, it was DELICIOUS. For realsies! So I made it a mission to make up a good bacon cupcake. Also, someone just told me they had bacon maple cupcakes on Cupcake Wars, so the idea can’t be THAT bad. [..]
