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Jake from State Farm's blog: "Crafting"

created on 06/14/2011  |  http://fubar.com/crafting/b341695

Here is a great recipe for those hot summer days.

Your going to need the following

Ingredients:
2 cups white sugar
1 gal orange juice
1/2 cup powdered French Vanilla coffee creamer
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/5 gal (750 ml) 190+ proof alcohol, moonshine or Everclear works great. Keep in mind you can add less or more depending on how stiff you like it.
Directions:
Step 1 – Add the orange juice, vanilla extract, sugar and coffee creamer to a medium size pot
Step 2 – Bring to a boil while mixing
Step 3 – Boil for 3 min
Step 4 – Let cool, Add Moonshine and bottle in mason jars.

I like to let this site for at least a week before drinking. The flavors really meld together by letting it sit a bit.

Serving Instructions:
Put the Dreamsicle Moonshine mix in the freezer for a few hours before serving. You can Either drink it over ice or toss it in the blender with some ice to make a Dreamsicle Moonshine smoothie yum yum. Add a slice of orange to the top of the glass for style points.

Strawberry Wine

Ingredients
4lbs/1815g strawberries
3lbs/1360g sugar
4 pints/2273ml boiling water
2 pints/1137ml cold water
1 Yeast sachet
1 teaspoon each of Yeast Nutrient, Pectolase and Tannin

Method (First Stage)
• Mash strawberries in bucket and add sugar
• Pour over boiling water
• Leave 24 hours
• Strain liquid into demijohn using a sieve, putting strawberry pulp into large pan
• Pour cold water over strawberry pulp, letting it sit for an hour or so
• Pour strawberry liquid from demijohn back into bucket
• Strain liquid in pan into bucket, discarding strawberry pulp
• Add yeast, nutrient, pectolase and tannin
• Leave 5 (or so) days, stirring twice a day
• Pour liquid into demijohn
• Fit rubber bung and air trap
• leave for 2 months (or so)

Method (second stage)
• siphon liquid from demijohn into second demijohn, trying to avoid the sediment
• fill gap in second demijohn with syrup made from a ratio of 1 pint water:6 oz sugar
• leave for 4 months (or so)
• bottle
• leave until a year from collecting ingredients (if you can!)
• drink

A year from making to drinking sounds like an age, but don’t let this deter you. Start others in the meantime – I recommend blackberry – and soon you will have a wine cycle going where you are always starting a new flavour as you open a fresh wine. Both making and drinking are an absolute pleasure, and I urge you to have a go.


Rose Petal Wine

Clip rose heads as they are just starting to fade. If you don’t have enough petals in one go, freeze the flowers until you have enough. Don’t worry if they go a little brown. Collect strongly scented roses of any colour.

Ingredients
4 ½ pints / 11 cups rose petals
2 ½ lbs /1130g Sugar
Juice from one lemon
1 litre carton white grape juice (or similar)
6 ½ pints/3700ml boiling water
1 yeast sachet
1 teaspoon Yeast Nutrient
1 teaspoon Pectolase (optional)

Method (First Stage)
• Put petals, sugar, lemon juice and grape juice in bucket
• Pour over boiling water
• Stir until sugar dissolves
• Leave overnight keeping bucket lid on
• Add yeast, nutrient and pectolase
• Leave 5 (or so) days, stirring twice a day
• sieve liquid into your demijohn (a funnel will help), discarding petals
• fit rubber bung and air trap
• leave for 2 months (or so)

Method (second stage)
• siphon liquid from demijohn into second demijohn, trying to avoid the sediment
• fill gap in second demijohn with syrup made from a ratio of 1 pint water:6 oz sugar
• leave for 4 months (or so)
• bottle
• leave until a year from collecting ingredients (if you can!)
• drink

 

Plastic Cup LampNow that my university is closed for winter holidays, I finally have more free time to do all the crafty things I’ve been wanting to. One of these is a lamp made from plastic cups I’ve seen at taf, the art foundation, in Athens.
When I first saw it at taf, I was amazed; I looked closely and I couldn’t believe my eyes! The object itself is so peculiar, modern and alien-like it could be in any design exhibition. With my best friend’s birthday coming up, I decided to make it myself and give it to her as a gift. It turns out it was the easiest craft I’ve even done, the epitome of DIY objects!

 

I only needed a couple of things:

200-250 large plastic cups (recyclable, at least :P ) 600-700 staples a stapler a lamp socket, lamp cord and plug – mine came from a broken IKEA lamp!

Plastic Cup Lamp 1

That’s all you will need.

 

Plastic Cup Lamp 2
Start stapling the cups together as shown.

Plastic Cup Lamp 3

Staple again and again and again…

Plastic Cup Lamp 4

Until your lamp goes from this…

Plastic Cup Lamp 5

…to this!

Staple carefully the last cups to form the top of the sphere (if it’s a sphere, because it’s likely that it won’t be that round if some cups aren’t perfectly aligned). Leave the bottom part open so that the light bulb goes in the sphere and attach it any way you like to the lamp socket! My IKEA socket had a kind of base and some very convenient holes on it (as you can see at the first picture), so I just stapled green ribbons at the last row of cups and tied them on the base.

Plastic Cup Lamp 6

The alien lamp is ready! :)

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