Mod Mischief

Happy Valentine's Day from CBC North! #Yukon pic.twitter.com/vs05avAjSU — CBC North (@CBCNorth) February 14, 2017 I hope you are having a fabulous Valentine's Day (or an equally awesome Singles Awareness Day ). Chris and I recently designed a fun little project for YuKonstruct's Valentines craft party . Inspired by some other little Operation games, we made a laser-cut version. I'm especially proud of the arms, which interlock to keep the candies in the game if you're giving it as a gift. Check out the full instructable .

So the big news is that we won the Instructables Makerspace Contest ! After our second summer of making things like crazy, it's so wonderful that YuKonstruct (pretty much our second home) gets to take home the grand prize of a new laser cutter and other great stuff. Since the contest has wrapped up, Chris and I have been working on preparations for Axel's birthday party. And people wonder why we still haven't finished the kitchen renovation... #weregonnaneedalotoffeathers A photo posted by Allison (@modmischief) on Sep 10, 2016 at 2:07pm PDT

Last year I challenged myself to write an instructable every day during the month of June for the Instructables Makerspace Contest . YuKonstruct narrowly missed out on the big prizes last time , so this year we're after redemption! While I haven't been completely successful at publishing a new instructable every day this month, I have managed to get 12 personal projects featured . I'm most proud of finally doing an instructable for our wedding invitations ! If you have a chance, please vote for them in the Wedding Contest ! Vault Door Wedding Invitation Cranberry Salsa Dr. Seuss-inspired Hair Zipper Flower Hair Clip Baked Zucchini Coins Easy Fun Fur Vest Lactose-free Cauliflower "Alfredo" Sauce Lentil and Wild Rice Stuffed Peppers Quick & Easy Backyard Rhubarb Pie Laser Cut Plinko Game Personalized Gift from Child's Finger Painting Dishwasher clean/dirty Magnet

When I set myself the challenge of writing an instructable every day this month , I don't think I fully appreciated how much time it would take to not just write the instructables, but actually make the things that I would be writing instructions for. I also didn't fully grasp yet how little free time I would have now that I'm back to work. While I didn't quite meet my goal, I did write a lot of instructables and helped give YuKonstruct an early lead in the Makerspace Contest . I've also worked on several projects that, while not instructables yet, will soon be ready to become instructables. Here's what did get published this month, many of these projects are entered in contests, so I would appreciate your votes! Medals of Honour Cat Shelves and Hideaway Helmet Horns Planet Fascinator Nuka Cola Ring Toss Klondike Bartender Costume Claptrap Card Box Rainbow Mohawk Bert & Ernie Costume Grilled Rainbow Vegetabl...

Instructables is hosting an epic makerspace contest with over $30,000 in prizes. The contest is all about quantity (the makerspace with the most instructables published between June 1 and August 31 wins) so I've decided to publish as many instructables as I can this summer. This month I'm challenging myself to publish one instructable every day. It is a great opportunity to finally push myself to write up a bunch of projects I've had kicking around for ages. I'll be publishing my personal projects as ModMischief and I'll also be writing up group projects for YuKonstruct - so you can follow both accounts to see all the instructables. I'm off to a good start having just published two instructables in the last two days: Discord Horns from InstaMorph InstaMorph & Craft Foam Stamps

How is it the end of March already? I thought I'd finally share some instructables I worked on back in February. Angler Fish Valentine YuKonstruct hosted a Valentines Craft Night and I created a few fun cards with conductive ink and LEDs. Firefly Card

Cardboard Airplane We've posted an instructable for those awesome cardboard airplanes Chris designed . The instructable is entered in a few contests and it would be awesome if you could vote for us! While you're in a voting mood, YuKonstruct has a bunch of other instructables that could use your clicks: Glowing Snowman Card Standing Scene Card Twinkling Christmas Tree Card Improved Mechanical Iris Card Edge-lit LED Card

In the last week we've received 2 new books in the mail! The always awesome Megan, a.k.a. Princess Lasertron , sent me a copy of Signature Styles . It's a very cool book filled with lots of pretty sewing projects. Instructables sent us How to Do Absolutely Everything which is especially awesome because we're in it! Our glow in the dark drinks are on page 60!

As promised , I've posted a full instructable on how to make our save the date cards with a pdf template so you can make your own. I've entered it in the Valentines Day contest so you can go check it out and vote for it over on instructables.com

Look what came in the mail today! It's The Big Book of Hacks from Popular Science and one of our projects is in it. The bed we built in the back of Bertha , and later rebuilt for Sally , is project #238. You can find the original instructions and all the photos, with significantly fewer armadillos (unfortunately),  over on instructables.

I get so excited when people send me photos of the costumes they've made by following my instructables ! Here are some great pictures that were emailed to me or posted on Instructables this year: Ludo from Labyrinth made by Stefernie Kidnapped Mermaids by kwmermaid by sarahabijo by studio9118 by SpankieLovesDan by dpiercy risken by gwen7478 Headless Brides by gbaenen by cbragg2 by sarahabijo by April Headless prom queen by Natasha If you've made one of my costumes, or anything else inspired by my blog or instructables, I'd love to see photos!