Re-Waxing The Gloves

My friend found a new and easy way to add wax to the sliding gloves to help keep the pucks in a little better shape. She used melted Scentsy wax and just painted it on! Worked like a charm and smelled great. 

Little Fun Projects

Duct Tape Flower

Alcohol + Colors = This

I drew both of these. Hoping to one day get one  as a tattoo.

The-dye is super fun and easy! You can buy kits at almost any craft store.

Just plain ole coloring. I keep empty canvases at my house because all my friends love to come over and doodle or do their own little crafts on them. Maybe I will do a post on all of those later. 

DYI Video Camera Extension

Need longer arms to get that perfect shot while boarding? Well wait no more! We have a solution to your problem right here! (At least a temporary somewhat terrible one).

My friend slyly made this little contraption. She took the end off of a broom stick, poked a whole in a cigarette pack and taped the pack to the pole to have a flat "sturdy" surface that we could tape the camera to so that we could get different angles while filming. Yes, it was a good idea in retrospect, but the tape slowly became flimsy and it was difficult to keep the camera at the  angle we needed.

So after all that, we ended up going out and buying a regular camera extender thing (idk what it's called). I am super stoked to get out and use it.

DYI Sliding Gloves

Attempt #1 

My friend and I went out and picked out the gloves we wanted to use for the sliding gloves. She chose a pair of biking gloves that had added padding in the palms and thumb area (I recommend this). Next, she took a piece of PVC pipe and cut it into 4 pieces (2 for her and 2 for me) to place in the center of the glove (thats the part that will we sliding on the ground). After that, she sanded down the sharp edges, spray painted them black (to match the gloves), and then covered them in wax. After that came the hard part, gluing the PVC to the gloves. We took a mens deoderant and put it inside the glove to fill it out so that the PVC would be kept in the right place. Next we used massive amounts of Gorilla glue and whatever other adhesives we could find around the house, tied the PVC tight to the gloves and let it dry.

The gloves worked really well, but only for a few uses before the PVC came loose from the gloves. 

Attempt #2

These are my gloves that I made the exact same way and same day as my friend did above. The only thing I did different was I bought different gloves and added finger pieces to them for extra sliding. To do this, I took small round magnets that I had and melted plastic from a 2-liter bottle around them. After that I used fabric adhesive to glue them on and then hot glues them after that. On my PVC part, I used even MORE Gorilla glue than my friend and used a whole bunch of hot glue to cover the rest. The gloves may not look great, but they work amazing and have lasted me over a month.

Attempt #3

Our third attempt went about as well as out first. We think it was because we bought gloves that fit a little snug so the tension is what kept pulling the PVC off of the glove. To fix this, my friend added more Gorilla glue and a whole bunch of hot glue... then she added her own special touch...

Attempt #4

Duct tape! It really does do wonders! She put it on strip by strip and then used a blow dryer on it to melt the sticky side of the tape more into the gloves. It's worked like a charm ever since!