If you’re ambitious enough to still use an SLR and happen to break your lens hood, a jar of peanut butter could be your savior. Demonstrated by filmmaker Casey Neistat after dumping his camera — he shows a quick and easy DIY using a few simple tools and a peanut butter jar lid.
And mad respect for choosing Goober Grape, which makes for an extra stylish hood.
[via Laughing Squid]
Give the kids a chemistry lesson they can chew on. The Make Your Own Chewing Gum Kit supplies all of the ingredients needed to do it yourself gum. It includes sugar, flavorings, and gum base — made from natural chicle and the sap of the Sapodilla tree. This apparently borrows from a more natural method of making chewing gum. Either way, enjoy it stuck underneath all of your tables.
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Are you psyched about Mardi Gras, but not looking forward to what you’ll have to do to ‘earn’ some beads? Jasmin of 1 Fine Cookie found a great way to do your own, while still retaining your dignity… and her version is edible. Just grab some gumballs, string or ribbon, and a drill. Party on!
The ‘how to’ can be found here, keep your shirt on!
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People are sometimes surprised to hear how well fried chicken and waffles go together. Fortunately, Nick from Dude Foods is in the know, and came up with an ingenious way to save you the trouble of dealing with two separate food items.
Chicken and Waffle Wings, although they might look like something created in Seth Brundle’s transporter, is one of the greatest lazy man food items ever created. The simple instructions can be found here.
[big thanks to our man, F. Moronski]
Even though they’re not a bowling alley, A Christmas Story Leg Lamp Cupcakes could still be a major award at any holiday party. Brought to us by The Party Animal, they provide pretty simple instructions for creating your own.
And will you look at that? They must be Italian.
