Well, my last few posts were pretty bookish, so I thought for a change of pace I would tell you about my dear husband’s favorite website, instructables.com. Billing itself as “the world’s biggest show and tell,” this site offers instructions for all kinds of DIY projects. Some, like the aluminum siding made of beer cans, are very useful. Others, like the zen garden rake for your ashtray, are perhaps less so. All, however, are extremely entertaining.
Steve is dying to make a bacon placemat.
Joey is dying to make kat litter cake. (Yes, that is a cake.)
As for me? I’d be quite happy with a Lego tape dispenser.
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Joey! What are you, twelve? Oh. Right. OK.
I had kitty litter cake once… it was at a church pot luck for Halloween, and the woman was serving it with a litter scoop. (Hopefully, it was a clean one.) It was… um… interesting.
I have two cats, and the kitty litter cake is definitely grossing me out. I’d go the lego tape dispenser any day, but the idea of woven bacon is a total winner…
If you think woven bacon is a winner, try the ‘How to build a super top secret bunker under your house’
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Super-Top-Secret-Bunker-under-Your-/
…but best of all is eating a woven bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, IN a ’super top secret bunker’ (just a guess–haven’t even made woven bacon yet, much less the S.T.S.B.U.Y.H.)
Something I just realized: I loved the ‘Family Handyman’ magazine and related DIY publications like ‘Old House Journal’ (’til it sold out) and ‘This Old House’–the magazine, and the similar TV/cable shows (’til they became the ‘This Old Product Show-case’) [remember the one hosted by 'Dean and JoAnne'? Whatever happened to them? They seemed like a happy, hosting couple, then suddenly Dean had a new helper and the show was never quite the same. What was the untold story there?]
Anyway–Instructables.com is like a DIY version of those DIY shows/magazines.
What’ll they–we?–think of next?