May 022012
 
Blu Tack Porn

We found this creatively pornographic use of Blu Tack on our way to the local duck pond the other day. Nice recontextualisation of the existing cup-mark-like features of the wall. Sorry the photo’s a bit blurred – I was being pulled along by a toddler at the time.

 
 March 22, 2012  Posted by at 10:12 Eating with Machiavelli Id, Machiavelli Id's list of lists , ,  Comments Off
5 Fun Ways to Spruce Up Your Popcorn

This is a guest post by Marcela Spafford. Don’t forget to brush your teeth!  Popcorn has been loved for hundreds of years and while European settlers were a bit skeptical of the food at first, they quickly learned to love it. However, a few centuries can make a once loved snack into something tasteless and boring. Thankfully, there are several ways to punch up the flavor in this old favorite. Here are just five fun ways to spruce up your popcorn. Chocolate Who doesn’t love chocolate? This is one of the most popular ways to flavor popcorn and is much [...]

 
10 Weirdest Knitting Projects

Knitting things other than clothing isn’t that unusual, as we’ve all seen crochet tea cosies and knitted animals, but here are 10 other knitting projects that might surprise you.

 
Make Your Own Touchscreen Gloves!

Didn’t say I was an expert. [At anything.] But these do the job. Instructions: Buy cheap gloves Cut fingertip off the gloves for whichever fingers you use on your touchscreen. Put gloves on. Touch screen. Gasp in technoshock and awe as your bare fingertip works just like a bare fingertip.

 
Giant Lazy Fairy Cake in 7 Easy Steps

It’s huge, it’s awesome and it took very little effort. This is the ideal cake to make if you don’t have much time. Low-energy cake-making (and parenting) at its best.

Oct 312011
 
 October 31, 2011  Posted by at 23:39 Machiavelli Id goes forth , , , ,  No Responses »
Happy Hallowe'en!

Very impressive pumpkin carving by H upstairs… 

 
Image of the Week: Elsa by Altsune

This super dollfie pic is one of my favourites – the perfect glowing platinum hair, the skin texture, the way I can see into her wrist joints. And I like that she’s posed next to a mirror, too. Nice work, Ovada! You can see more dollfies and other stuff at Altsune.com. Want to Win Image of the Week? Send me the URL to your image, or email me the file as an attachment if you must.  I’m on Facebook and Twitter and my email is mi@machiavelliid.com. Give me whatever info you like about you or your image.  That’s it. [No [...]

 
The problem with "free"

I wouldn’t say “oh, I’ll only ever use free sex toys because they’re just for fun,” or decide that my walking shoes have to be free because I’ll only use them to explore. So why was I focused on getting my test on for free?

 
Cupcake decorating frenzy!

We made these cupcakes today. Frosted ones with jelly drops on top, fairy cakes with lemon curd and lime buttercream icing, blackcurrant jam filled ones with lids, and my experimental ones with frosting over lemon curd. Nom.

 
"You will keep getting older, and then you will die."

Figure out what you really REALLY WANT and then go after it with every fucking piece of you, right now. Repeat. Don’t stop. Ever.
Time is running out. Now. It isn’t “Do or die,” it’s “Do *then* die.”
Get on with it.

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