Makes a T Shirt blanket!

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while! Well, good news! Over break I made this lil' guy!

It's a t-shirt blanket! I quadrupled the thick padding I got so it's super warm and thick and smushy! It also has fleece edges that I'm not super happy with and might redo someday.

Construction time: 6 hours
Construction cost: $15-$20 ish? I bought the red flannel, fleece and backing

Makes a Most Shocking Discovery!!!

I work in a lab and titrate a LOT of solutions. I measure a LOT of pHs. There was ALWAYS this one that I REALLY wanted to know the pH of. And I finally, after 3.5 years did it. I measured the pH of my Mountain Dew.

I setup the above test in between titrating a 5L flask of 0.01M NaCl to pH 5 and moving pH's for some mobility samples. I used the cutest mini-beaker ever for the Mountain dew and because we're an amazing lab, the meter was recently calibrated. The results are accurate.

*Warning: This. May. Shock. You.*

Right. So, I've followed up my research with this website: http://www.21stcenturydental.com/smith/pH_drinks.htm . It compares more sodas and their data seems to think that Mt Dew is actually a pH of 3.22.

FAQ

1. Are any sodas worse than Mountain Dew? Yes. Obviously because Mountain Dew is amazing. A short list includes: Coke original, Battery Acid, Capri Sun, Gatorade, Pepsi, Country Time Lemonade, Lipton Brisk, Hawaiian Punch, Dr Pepper, Propel, Snapple Tea, Code Red, and many more.
2. What else can we compare this to? Stomach Acid is usually around a pH of 2. Water is pH 7.
3. How bad is this for your teeth? Ok it's bad. "Demineralization, or loss of tooth material, begins at a pH of 5.5"
4. Well, I'm a smarty pants that wants to pick on you more about your Mountain Dew consumption. Isn't it also true that Mountain Dew has an extraordinarily high amount of sugar? Oooooh where'd you hear this? The smart people store? Mountain dew has 46 grams of sugar. BIG DEAL. It's the best tasting stuff ever. So. There. There's more carbonated water than high fructose corn syrup (WATER!!) AND the third most present ingredient in this beverage is concentrated orange juice. Fact.
5. I'm guess this new information will stop you from drinking it, right? Guess again.

I don't know what to say. Except for that I just bought a 24 pack for $4.80 aka THE BEST CHEAPEST DEAL EVER! This new shocking discovery about Mt Dew's pH hasn't exactly stopped me. Perhaps one day....

Make Guppy a Wheel!

And does it ever work! If you ever decide to sleep in our apartment, be prepared for this little guy to be running ALLLLLLL night. Yes. Turns out they weren't kidding that hamsters are fairly nocturnal!

Construction time: 1 hr
Construction cost: a small amount of a $1 wooden dowel. ~$0.05
 

"Guppy!"

*Disclaimer: This video makes it seem like this wheel is really loud. It isn't.*

Make Crosses during Discipleship!

Today we did arts & crafts for discipleship! I should've taken pictures of all of the crosses but this is what I have to show for now!

If only you could've seen them all! Close up on the base... see the Mary Medal? :D

Construction time: Each one took like 20 minutes
Construction cost: $0.15 for a candle and $0.30 for some hot glue. The rest were freeeeebs.

Check this and others out on the front desk, the missionaries' office, and Hilary's house!

Make that Footrest for my Bunkbed

The fact that our apartment supplied us with full sized mattresses is AMAZING but every year that I've had a bunk bed (all of college) I've found something to help me up. A dresser or a ladder, you know. Welllllll this year was different because our bed is back in a little nook and no such helping furniture existed! There were gaps in the bed boards so this was made:

It's just a little step but exactly the thing to make it not be entirely arm strength to get up and down!

It has a stop in the back that makes it only stick out so far and pushes in for storage and beauty. That back stop spins too so you can turn it and pull it out when we move or want to put it on the other side? I don't know!

Cost: $0.00 (scrap wood and a screw. so maybe 10 cents..)
Construction time: 10 minutes to round the corners and assemble

Make Grand's Flakey Pizzas!!!

O M Geee. One day I was SO hungry after an extraordinarily long school day and didn't know what to eat. I saw Grands Flakey Layers in my fridge and decided I could use it as a pizza crust! Well.. instead of putting it into one big ball, prior to cooking, the creation looked like this:

Eight little pizzas! I smushed the Grands to flat-ish pizza crusts. Pasta sauce from the fridge, freshly shredded medium chedder cheese and parmesean as well. Then pepperonis! Oven was 400 and they were in there for 13 minutes!

After trying to get them off, we decided pam would've been an amazing idea but all that happened was that both Ov Gloves got pizza all over them and lost cheese on a couple. Oh well :)

I forced Olivia to cut them up like real pizzas and they were a great success enough to make the blog!!

Thus, Grands Flakey Pizzas were born!

Make People Aware of the effect the Ad industry has on you and your daughters.

Dove Campaign for True Beauty

(By the way, every time I watch this, the 'softer' girl makes me the maddest. I just want to pick a fight then cry.)