Crafts and Junk
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Harry Potter Treats
Yer a wizard Amanda. The four words that were never once said to me *sadness*. However, we can make up for that! Imagine my immense joy at having found recipes straight from Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and Honeydukes. I might have squealed a bit. From Acid Pops to Chocolate Frogs to Licorice Wands to Cockroach Clusters to Butterbeer and BUTTERBEER CUPCAKES. Wut. And as an added bonus some Caldron Cakes if you ever feel like taking a Potions class. It’s okay to cry; I know how you feel. I’m dying to make these too. You can thank me later.
Recipe for sweets here. And for Butterbeer, Butterbeer Cupcakes, and Cauldron Cakes.
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reblogging for reference
Reblogging for future reference
Reblogging for future reference
that is AMAZING
Woah
That “put it back in the first place you looked for it” is such a good idea. I’m going to start doing that, I think.
Woah so THAT’S why they call it squeeky clean…
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SCIENCE!
science has figured out how to open a portal to hell
It’s Cthulhu!!!!!!!!
- sand
- alcohol or lighter fluid
- sugar
- Mix 4 parts powdered sugar with 1 part baking soda.
- Make a mound with the sand. Push a depression into the middle of the sand.
- Pour the alcohol or other fuel into the sand to wet it.
- Pour the sugar and baking soda mixture into the depression.
- Ignite the mound, using a lighter or match.
Oh tumblr, what would we do without you.
REBLOGGING AGAIN FOR THE EXPLANATION
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• Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens it.
• Bananas release dopamine, eat them when you’re sad.
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the one handed version of CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Don’t brush your teeth hard, it makes them sensitive and removes enamel.
• Don’t like spiders? Put citronella oil on your walls and they will not go there.
• Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink you have, you’ll get drunk without getting a hangover.
• Get clear ice cubes by boiling water before freezing it
• Heal paper cuts and immediately stop the pain with chapstick.
• If you accidentally write on your dry erase board with a permanent marker, scribble over it with a dry eraser marker to remove it.
• If your shoes smell, put them in the freezer overnight, it will kill the bacteria.
• Make bug bites stop itching with a banana peel.
• Make a paper longer with 12-point text, but 14-point periods and commas.
• Need to get around a blocked website at work? Try replacing the http:// with https://
• Never send your resume as a word file (unless asked) Instead, print it to a pdf file, it’s much cleaner and professional looking.
• Pick a flavor of gum you don’t normally chew, and chew it while studying during a test.
• Place a piece of bread in a container with your homemade cookies and they will stay soft.
• Put a dry towel into a dryer with wet clothes, they will dry faster.
• Put toothpaste on a pimple and it will dry out.
• Practise fake smiling in the mirror every day before going to work/school, you’ll genuinely start to feel happier.
• Rub canola/olive oil on knives before cutting onions, you won’t cry, alternatively chew gum and you won’t either.
• Short on time with a wrinkled dress shirt? Hang it up in the bathroom to steam it flat.
• The night before, place things you don’t want to forget the next morning on top of your shoes.
• Use hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains from clothing.
• When cleaning windows use newspapers or coffee filters instead of paper towels, they will not leave streaks.
• When microwaving bread products/pizza put a glass of water in with it, it will keep your bread for going spongy.
• When you move into a new place you’re renting, take pictures of any and all damage, then post them on facebook (privately if preferred) so you can use the reference date as proof you didn’t do it.
• When searching plane tickets online delete your cookies prior, prices go up when you visit a site multiple times. <sma(via peoplecallmepottsy)
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How to Make Tiered Wedding Cake Cake Pops {click link for full tutorial}
- This is also cute for a sweet 16 or fancy anniversary party
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these are awesome, it’s like am action battle skirt. just high enough not to step on, the front has ample leg maneuverability, and it looks rad. Want
I ummed and ahhed about reblogging this to my art main for a few days, because I wasn’t sure any of you guys would want to see my fashion designs. That’s right, this is my skirt design, you can buy it from Chicstar.com, and it’s my name on the label. If I sound proud, it’s because I am! I don’t know jack about fashion so when I succeeded in getting this and several others through the Chicstar system I was over the moon! Chuffed to buggery and back!
I don’t wanna get on my followers wicks, so I’m asking! Would you guys like to see more of my fashion designs on here (produced and unproduced), should I upload them them just to my personal tumblr, or should I make a fashion-design specific blog? But for the record, I’d only be likely to update it a few times a year - I don’t do this a lot.
WOAH NO WAY YOU DESIGNED THIS? I would love to see more of your things holy crap. This is an amazing skirt and I’m sure whatever designs you do have are all really awesome!! :D (ALSO THANK YOU I REALLY WANTED TO BUY THIS)
Weird… I’ve seen these before. When I did a student campaign for Retroscope Fashions… they sell these.
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DIY Miniature Hobbiton Garden Tutorial from Craft Tuts here. I just saw this featured on DIY with no source and so I had to post this. This is another amazing tutorial (rated easy) that’s incredibly detailed, beautifully photographed with easy to follow directions. It includes all the steps to put together this mini garden including detailed instructions on soil, moss and plants. There are additional tutorials for:
- Bilbo’s House made out of clay (with template)
- Bilbo’s Chimney made out of clay
- Mini Toadstools
- Clothesline with Little Hobbit Clothes made out of Washi tape
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DIY Paper Lantern Garland ♥ Found here!
Click here for more DIY inspiration!
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so my uni library has this thing where you enter in the date your assignment is due and the date you want to start working on it and it suggests which steps you should take and when you should complete them by
it’s kind of cool
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Top 10 Storytelling Cliches Writers Need To Stop Using 1. Characters describing themselves in mirrors
2. Broadcasting an upcoming plot twist
3. Blaming bad behavior on bad parenting
4. Too many inside jokes/references
5. The chosen one
6. Countdown clocks
7. Veiling your message in a dream
8. Using sex as wish fulfillment
9. Magical Negroes and Noble Savages
10. Knocking characters unconscious for plot convenienceFollow the link to find out why you shouldn’t use them.
This is a good list. Here are some ideas on what to do instead.
- Describe your character’s appearance by how they feel about it. People have complicated relationships with their appearance and even what they wear. Don’t let the chance to explore your character slip away by neglecting that!
- Don’t broadcast - foreshadow. People broadcast plot twists because they think it’ll keep the reader’s attention. Hinting at what’s to come instead, with in-story clues or even just a general sense of foreboding, is a great way to keep your readers hooked.
- Explore the parents, don’t blame them. Your bad guy’s parents are just as much characters as anyone else in the story, even if they’re not actually there. If the villain blames his parents, why? Are they just trying to throw blame off themselves?
- Make your jokes accessible. A little reference here and there isn’t going to hurt anybody, but the more readers that can understand it, the more they’ll be able to enjoy it. This runs the risk of explaining the joke, but it can be done!
- The wrongly chosen one. The chosen one trope is never going to go away. All the more reason to screw with it as much as possible. Maybe they’re not the chosen one after all, but the sidekick. Maybe they were wrongly chosen, intentionally or not. Mix it up!
- Use time to your best advantage. The last second countdown is a trope that only works in certain mediums, and even then, sparingly. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to
- Don’t discard the use of dreams, but do tread carefully. Probably one of my favorite uses of dreams was a very brief mention of them in a webvlog horror series. The characters had no idea how relevant the dream was, but the viewers did, and that’s what made it effective. Dreams can be used right, but you have to make it work!
- Use as much sex as you goddamn want, as long as it’s plot relevant. People like to write sex. People like to read sex! If your genre of choice is romance or erotic lit, there’s going to be a lot of sex. There’s gonna be sex in other genres too, because, hey, it happens. One difficulty with it is that too few writers use it to advance the plot, but sex can easily used to show something about the characters. If you are working on some sex scenes, consider the plot and character development that might come from it.
- Don’t be a goddamn asshole and treat all your characters as people. Sorry, I’m pretty tired of these goddamn tropes. They’re lazy and racist and yes, so-called ‘positive stereotypes’ are racist. Your characters are people. You’re a good enough writer to write them as people. Don’t let other lazy writing tell you otherwise.
- Find other ways to take your character out of the action. There are plenty of reasons to take a character out of the action for suspense and plot necessity, but often times it turns into Because The Plot Says So. If you have such a scene, look at it carefully. Outline out alternatives; they might even be better than the original plan. Like the original post says, a blow to the head is going to cause a medical emergency, not a quick blackout. Don’t fall into this shortcut, because it’s just more lazy writing!
-Agent Black
I agree with most of these, especially 7, 8 (we have a whole article on this topic), and 9.
But I do have a character in a story of mine who describes what her face looks like while looking in the mirror, but it’s because she’s been punched in the face and is inspecting the bruise. Thoughts?
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