You know you want to… Go check out the instructable here. (Uh, and sweetie, darling, dear child… please keep it on the ground, and away from the glass window panes, okay?) Thanks Handy Hubby for helping to make my latest crazy vision a reality! Oh yeah, and I’ll remind you that you have to go vote for it (if you like it of course…but remember I REALLY need a fifth instructables t-shirt.) on 4/20. edit: if you like this, go VOTE for it! (it’s the 7th one in this list, i think)

Rubber Band Powered “Hot Wheels” type Car Launcher – More…

Snow Day! We got several inches of snow here in Atlanta yesterday, which meant the Boy had the day off from school today, and we had a fun day together playing in the snow, hitting the science museum, and having mexican food. So here is a tutorial I did a while back for Whipup.net. I’ve posted the end product here before, but not the actual tutorial, so I figured it was about time. Hope you enjoy!

This is a quick and easy thing to do with those little wire tops that hold champagne corks. And with New Year’s Eve coming up, you know you’ll have some of these lying around (unless you buy twist offs, of course!). These would make cute little dollhouse chairs, a neat xmas tree ornament, or just a fun tiny nicknack!

It’s really easy to make… Just remove the wire from the bottom, and transform it into the ‘back’ of the chair. I’ve written up a step by step Instructable HERE!

Don’t Miss the 2008 Project Roundup… Most everything cool on Dabbled last…

Handy hubby took inspiration from the always ultra cool Evil Mad Scientists to make their Dark Detecting Pumpkin. He has LEDs for eyes, and they come on when it gets dark.. How totally cool and geeky, no?

Other Dabbled references to the Evil Mad Scientist projects

Here are some pumpkin pics, and for instructions, go here..!

(I have no idea why that one pic is sideways… it doesn’t look that way on the original!)

Oh, and check out these cool pics of the Halloween Bubble Cocktails…

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April 09 edit: Welcome Ikea-hackers! Stick around and check the place out! You might like more stuff built by the handy hubby…

I was browsing through the As Is section at Ikea and came across the parts to a Kritter child’s bed. I wasn’t really planning on getting the 3 yr old a toddler bed (his crib converted to one by taking off the front rail), but for basically $6* I couldn’t resist–it’s too cute! When I got it home I realized that (duh) it takes a longer mattress than a crib mattress. Well, The Boy doesn’t need a longer mattress yet,…

Let me state for the record that drugs are good, mkay? Well, at least the ones that I’m taking which are making me feel much better, since apparently i have the lingering ick.

On to cooler stuff… A Finger Puppet Bus!

We got the boy a set of finger puppets from Ikea, which are cute, but of course small, so they would inevitably be lost. Plus, little hands sometimes have a problem with getting the puppets on their fingers to play with them. So we came up with the idea of a ’schoolbus’ with wood dowels where the puppets could live! And…