How-to

How To Move To A New Hard Drive

A new hard drive with better speed or more space (or both) can really improve performance. We bought a 1TB drive and we need to migrate the whole of the drive.

Make your own household cleaners

Between being frugal and being green, there are many reasons to make your own household cleaners. In the past, I've done this in fits and starts but not any more! I decided to buy a set of spray bottles and a few other containers and create my own labels with the recipe printed right under the name of the cleaner!

Creepy Severed Body Parts Garland

I wanted a different kind of garland for our mantle so I whipped up a knit intestine and sewed a few severed body parts. I also entered this in the Craft/Instructables 2008 Halloween contest.

Cthulhu Has Risen

Cthulhu is ready! The project I began in April of 2007 is done. It started as an innovated way to use items destined for the garbage or the recycling bin. It morphed into an incredible use of Great Stuff foam; then an ill-advised amount of fiberglass. Put some rocks and mortar into the mix and voila! The Cthulhu water fountain is ready.

Sunday Afternoon Recycled Crayons

What do you do with a basketful of broken crayons?

Make new crayons!

Using Craigslist

Introduction to Craigslist

Ma Cobb's Hat

Kiddo modelling Ma Cobb's HatI wanted to make a hat, based on the hat Jayne Cobb receives from his Ma in the TV s

The 1974 Mustang of Elder Gods

Cthulhu with bondoThe course of this project goes something like this:
  • come up with the demented idea
  • source the materials (some recycled, some new)
  • build up the hard arma