I know I said “next week” in the last tutorial on how to make a cellphone lariat, but this is soooo easy I put it up today. This is the tutorial for the lanyard, the charm seen here was prepared via my How to Make a CellPhone Charm tutorial. You could easily use one of these guys as a zipper pull as well.

Anyway.

The ingredients: One elastic hair tie (any color), one split ring, one charm.

I told you this was going to be easy!
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A few people have been having trouble locating cellphone lariats for my Cell Phone Charm/Zipper Pull tutorial. So here’s a quick and easy way to make some.

First off, this is what we are hoping to emulate.

This is what you will need to make this silly thing.

That’s a split ring, 1 or 2 crimp beads, a pair of pliers and your string. I’m using fake leather cording, but you could use waxed thread, etc.

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I’m getting increasingly frustrated with all the crap pages on Stumble. No, I don’t mean the sites I don’t like, I mean actually useless pages and bad links. So here’s a quick guide to not being an asshat when submitting a site.

1. Make sure you are linking to the first page of a tutorial, list or other paginated article. Some older sites lack navigational menus on every page, and its no fun when we can’t get to the beginning from where we’ve Stumbled onto a site. That and we lose the anticipation when you dump us onto the #1 item in a list.

2. Don’t link to sites with a million and one non-thumbnailed images or embedded objects that immediately load upon Stumbling. I’ve had my browser seize because of some Stumbles, and I’m running a nice computer on a fast connection.

3. Don’t Stumble one of those ridiculous Stumble Cards. Seriously. No.

4. Think if you’ve ever seen this content before on another site. That oh-so-hilarious compilation of bad accidents? Yeah, it’s been copied on dozens of sites. We don’t need you to Stumble yet another.

5. Don’t Stumble sites that don’t credit their sources. You’re often just spreading plagiarized content. If the owner doesn’t say they took those pictures, then find out where they got them from.

6. Generally speaking, avoid Stumbling sites that have yet to join this millennium. Leave blinking text, spinning .gifs, neon colored backgrounds and background midi files you can’t turn off back in 1997.

7. Pay attention when Stumbling sites with frames. If you want to Stumble a particular frame, you have to open it in a new window and then Stumble.

Bonus! 8. Just because you haven’t seen it yet, does not mean it’s not old meme.

Pretty easy tips to follow, no? Now go forth and Stumble some NON-crap so I can get back to my regularly scheduled procrastinating.

or “How not to look like an overstuffed sausage”

In honor of Halloween, here is a tutorial on how to properly wear a stretchy costume. This will go in a sort of chronological order from the first things you should do to what to do while wearing the costume.

1. Have a realistic body image and be comfortable with your body.
While I’m the last person on earth to tell someone that they can’t wear something, take a good look at yourself and make sure that YOU think you should be wearing spandex. If you are uncomfortable with your body, it will show.

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So here is the NON video Badge-A-Minit 1 1/4 in. button tutorial.

It’s long and has a heck of a lot of images, so dial-up users, you might want to click the break and then make yourself some tea or something.

Step One: Get Your Stuff Together!

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I don’t quite understand the appeal of dangling things hanging from your cellphone, but who am I to argue with trends? This tutorial will explain, as simply as possible, how to make your own cellphone charm.

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