Tag: diy

  • DIY Darth Sweater

    DIY Darth Sweater

    I’m really happy with this quick sweater “hack” I made with an old crewneck sweater and child’s Darth Vader costume that I found at the thrift store. These costumes are really easy to find used, or you can buy one online. I didn’t do anything fancy, I just cut off the silkscreened chest piece from…

  • Homemade Fernet Jelly

    I recently gave Christine a copy of Cooking with Fernet Branca, a silly book about a biter writer who has to suffer the unpleasant company of his neighbor. The book isn’t actually a cookbook, but it does contain some rather adventurous recipes. In fact Christine just made chocolate fried mussels from one the very first…

  • How to make cultured butter at home… OMG it’s so easy.

    A few years back, I learned how to make my own homemade butter and I’ve been hooked ever since. The basic process involves pouring some whipping cream into a mason jar, adding salt to taste, and then shaking the hell out of it. Recently, I learned how to make cultured butter at home, which certainly…

  • My homemade DIY Synthesizer

    My homemade DIY Synthesizer

    One of the highlights from last weekend’s Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop was the session on building a 4093 NAND Synth. These kits are easy to assemble and sound pretty gnarly, so I bought a few extras to bring back home and spend more time on. Phoebe is the first of these more fleshed out synths.…