DIY Cotton Candy Machine

So using the process above one can make their very own cotton candy machine.

I then thought perhaps a dollar store handheld fan would be a perfect motor:




Take off the blades of the fan and then take an aluminum can and poke holes into it using an awl, or a drill if its something thicker. It doesn't need to be thicker.

Find a plastic bowl that you can use as a container to catch the spun sugar. Most manufactured machines come with a heater, but for DIY machines you don't have to have a heater, just have the apparatus by a stove and melt your sugar in a bowl on the stove and then pour it into the holey container.

Attach the fan holder to a piece of cardboard and test your apparatus!

Oh what glorious centrifugal force brings us! :D

PS: If you buy tonic water and add a little bit of it to the melted sugary mess you might be able to get glowing cotton candy. Tonic water has quinine in it which glows under a black light.



(I hope my mom has her black light bulb still)

Paint Thinner Transfer

Why do I sense that I may need to do this for a package design project in the near future? :P
Gotta make sure to get paint thinner before I go back to school.

Tutorial: http://mademoisellechaos.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-transfer-bw-picture-onto-almost.html

Printed Fabric Tut

Source: http://www.polishthestars.com/2010/08/how-to-print-on-fabric.html

I want to see if I can try this on the big format printer. It would be cool if I could print textile designs with it. Not sure how well it'll load into the printer though.



This is a cute idea too. =3

Source: http://cornflowerbluestudio.blogspot.com/2011/01/minis.html