The Perfect Cup of Lemonade

Hello my beautiful readers! I was spending some time outside in the scorching sun watching all the blooming flowers and lemons sway in the wind. This is when I came to the realization that if I didn't make lemonade now; I couldn't after the sun's rays burn them to ash, and I would have to wait a whole year for citrus season to come once again.
As I walked into the garden I snatched some eggs from our coop and noticed the bright orange oranges.
At this point I was ready for the most magnificent cup of lemonade. With a bag filled with juicy citrus and a couple fresh eggs

The small yellow things are loquats, had them as a snack!

I proudly marched in through the kitchen door and started setting up.

Heads starting popping from every window and corner requesting a cup of the freshly squeezed bright colored juice. I knew I had to quadruple production.

To keep up with the demand, I washed and cut a bunch more. That ended up not being enough either, I had to go back and pick a couple more lemons and oranges off the trees.

Using a citrus squeezer and a funnel,

 I filled two glasses: one of lemon juice and another of orange juice.

Now it was time for the final step.
I had to combine the lemon juice, with orange juice, and dilute it to PERFECTION. This step was to ensure everyone was enjoying their amazingly fresh lemonade.

I was not underwhelmed by the final product. It turned out to be one of the best drinks I've ever tasted!

And that is how I made the perfect cup of lemonade! You should try it yourself too. All you have to do is: plant a couple trees, wait around 10 years for them to grow and start producing the most juiciest fruits there ever was, harvest them, and follow the same steps I did in this wonderfully laid out picture tutorial. (I had that whole 10 year tree thing taken care of, thank you grandma!)

Hologram!

Yes, you read the title right. I made a hologram -- kinda.
I had purchased some cds which came with cd cases which was just what I needed for this project.

Oh boy was I excited!

Materials you'll need:

1. CD plastic case

2. Smartphone or tablet with Youtube

3. Exacto knife or other cutting tool

4. Hot glue gun

5. Pen

6. Pencil
7. Ruler
8. Scissors

How to Do it!

Step 1: Gather your materials ^_^

Step 2: Draw a 1 cm x 3.5 cm x 6 cm isosceles trapezoid

and cut that out to be your template.

Step 3: Break off the cover flap of the case

and snap off the sides.

Step 4: Trace the template onto the flat plastic.

Step 5: With your cutting tool either score the material or if you are using a tool that grates away material, cut straight through. (A grating tool would be like a high speed rotary tool.)
This was where I went wrong. I stupidly tried to use a pair of scissors to cut it out, this is what happened.

Step 6: For me, scoring the plastic with an exacto knife 

took about 30-45 minutes per trapezoid.

Snap out the piece.

Step 7: Use your first piece as your new template. Trace and cut 3 more trapezoids.

Step 8: If needed sand down the sides to make sure they are the right size. (I just shaved the sides with an exacto knife.)

Step 9: Arrange the pieces into a 3D square pyramid with top and bottom corners touching.

Step 10: Hot glue each piece to the other until you are left with your hologram maker thing.

Step 11: On your phone pull up youtube and play one of these channel's videos:

Hologram Videos!
And put your hologram maker small side down in the middle.

Nail Polish Cup Decorating

For you my friend, I decided to try this out: Nail polish-water-mug-dipping-thing!
I headed over to the thrift store; no luck finding a plain mug. Next I went to the 99 cents store; wasn't anything different. Last resort was Dollar King, There was not a SINGLE mug.
But there were some clear glass cups. Glass cups and mugs are practically the same thing.
Good enough I guess. Next was nail polish.
I personally don't own any so I had to purchase some. Two bottles: one pink and one blue seemed plenty.

Because it was a large cup, I found it necessary to use a big bucket for the water.

Hypothetically, I'm supposed to drop nail polish into the water and let it bead up to form a cool design.
I'm not entirely sure if I was doing it right or if the water wasn't the right temperature. Possibly the quality of the nail polish?
But then again, the whole set of instructions was in Italian.
And the only Italian words I know are baguette, curly mustache, and Eiffel Tower-- that isn't even Italian is it?
Anyways that just added to my struggle of this all. What ended up happening is the blue polish created a weird film on the water

which just was not attractive on the cup when I swooped it down into the water.

It looked like a complete mess. But no one wants to keep that around.
I went back to Dollar King and bought another glass. And a more expensive ($5) pink polish from CVS. This time when I dropped the polish in it beaded up, and then created a film layer.

At this point I didn't really care, so I swooped it back down into the water to pick up the stuff.
It... it didn't look too great, but it works.

 I was broke from the $10 DIY so I had no choice but to call it a day.