hi friends...
so i made my own paper...
let's just say I hope I never have to do that again lol
let me put away my little emotional support.. plant
it was actually a super cool process but zero parts, ZERO parts of the whole process
was easy... or quick
FIRST: you need materials
which means you got to start with some cut up recycled paper. that part was actually pretty
easy, it just took me like two hours to cut them all up into like tiny little pieces,
so not quick. my points stands.
now i looked it up on the interwebs to see how long you would need to soak it
if you had a really shitty blender and no one gave me the answer,
but i assumed it would be more than the few hours that most people suggested
so i was like "okay i'll just put it away for like a day, maybe three days?"
and then i left it there for three weeks
i would not recommend that
next, you need the tools, and this is where things get pretty annoying
you need a... myrtle and deckle?
its *MOULD and deckle*
and that thing isn't the easiest to diy if you don't already have like stuff lying
around the house. you need frames... okay i can find that. the problem is the net;
you need a net to go on top of the frames. most people are just like yeah just use some... like
you know.... window nets and i'm like i don't... who has that lying around????
and looking it up on amazon you have to buy like a whole yard of it, it's like a whole roll,
and i only need like a square this big. anyways i was pretty worried, but the universe came through
hello friends here i am looking real snazzy for you guys
after procrastinating on this project for like almost a month it's time
and i have to start with making the myrtle and buckle
turtle and chuckle
whatever um for this you need
two frames which i bought from dollarama, they're two dollars each *hohohoho*
that wasn't the issue that i was worried about, what i was worried about was the net because you
also need some sort of net. thankfully when i went to dollarama i randomly stumbled upon this like
produce bag it's like this really kind of plasticky mesh sort of material um and i
think it should do the trick the only thing i'm worried about is if it's gonna like...
like you see one side has a seam and the other one doesn't so i'm worried if i cut
it it's all just gonna unravel, but we'll find out. i haven't watched any tutorials
on how to do this properly and i'm planning on sticking it on with like old school staples so
if this doesn't work i'm gonna cry... you're gonna see me cry on camera.
with all of the materials acquired this next step took me like 20 minutes
because you don't just build the thing in a diy project
you also have to build the tools that build the thing
it's like diy inception
first things first:
I'm the realest 😎
we're going to cut this beesh up
same thing with the other one
i have to remove *ouchy* all of the stuff from the back
this and the glass... it's kind of cool i have like glass for a later project or something
okay so literally one down already that was kind of fun and then number two
all right number two
what we're left with is these two beeshes
yeah you can see i already tried putting in the staples into this so
i'll leave that to be like the one that goes on top like this
now i just gotta get this down on top of this
no, on top of this
and then staple it in ze back, ze here, okay
one side should be plenty
again i'm just really worried that if i got into it it's just gonna all 👹 unravel 👹
it's gonna 👹unravel 👹
if it doesn't work i'll cry and you guys will still get a show
please please please why don't i just do like a little corner
it's not unraveling i guess i just you need to still be really gentle with it though
very nice very nice
so the thing about this is it needs to be *tight*
okay so this step here was actually quite tricky um there was no method to my madness though i was
just trying to get as many staples on there as i could and then i found that working from the
opposite side was better at making sure that it was tight i didn't actually know
if it was gonna end up okay but it did so i guess this is an okay way to go about it lol
it's done wow i'm so proud of myself look it's not too bad um but i'm gonna go look
for some duct tape to see if maybe i could like tape the sides because i'm kind of
worried that it's going to like fall apart, some extra strength wouldn't be terrible
i didn't end up having duct tape so i use painters tape
do not use painters tape
now just building the badurtle and sheckle
took me out but i couldn't stop there so i grabbed all my gear and i set up outside
and i put a little bed sheet over the table and that was it
no it wasn't
i wish that was it, it was only just beginning
for the project you actually need a good amount of water
so i grabbed the biggest plastic tub that i could find in the house that was free
and i filled it up with some water and then i remembered that i needed some pulp for the
water because you put the pulp in the water and that's how this whole thing works you know
now i mentioned this earlier and in my vlog but the whole thing i left it out for like three
weeks to soak and it evaporated some really nasty stuff out of it i can't quite explain what it was
it was like little white particles that were quite chalky
and the whole thing smelled like egg. you know when you like boil some eggs
and then you leave them out? and the whole room just smells a little funky
smelled a little like doo doo
like spicy toots
oh god i'm forgetting to blink
but uh since those were the consequences of my own actions i chose to ignore them and persevere
now if one was smart one would measure the ratio of water to pulp but one is not smart
or patient or likes to read instructions and so i just just vibes no thoughts filled it up with who
knows how much, put some pulp in, hoped it would work, because you need a certain consistency in
order to get a thick enough paper right if there was too much water in the tub i wouldn't have had
extra pulp to put in there because i had a certain set amount of pulp you get it you understand
thankfully the paper gods had mercy on me that day and so it worked out... magically
once you feel in your heart
that the consistency of the pulp water is ready you can just take your little diy trinket
and dunk it in there
like it's your day job
and then you remove the empty frame from the top and what should be there is a perfectly shaped
rectangular piece of wet paper that smells like eggs
and next you just slap it on the table
oh my gosh
there's an air bubble
since the paper gods were apparently happy that day
my first few turned out pretty good but then the general manager showed up to ruin everyone's day
oh no guess who showed up oh no oh no i have a bad feeling no
hi lovely um let's not climb on the table okay?
okay no don't don't step on it baby
eww it's dirty
jooni!!
baby
i can't believe you've done this
bosses, am i right?
the lifting process turned out to be the most difficult part i was kind of lifting
it up slowly and there would be air pockets and little ruffles on the side it was driving me crazy
and only when i was like 80% through the whole thing did i realize that you just...
plop it
speed of light type of sheet
you know, BAM.
Pap PAP
and it just works so much better you gotta be speedy about it you know *zoom zoom*
from then on it actually looked pretty good, there was like a very smooth finish.
still air bubbles but like at least not you know the fraying on the sides and i didn't actually
end up ruining any more of them after that because before that there were a few accidents
ew what is that
as if i was on payroll i worked my little heart out
and i had like the whole table filled with the paper i made so many sheets but i didn't count
them but there was a lot and it was a workout it was a workout because you gotta sponge that sheet
you know, sponge it and you gotta... on the side
and you're standing the whole time and you're like...
my back hurt my, azz hurt,
my co0chie hurt
i'm just kidding
my co0chie was fine
it was also really cold out that day not that cold but like it was like 14 degrees (CELSIUS) out it
would have been fine if the water wasn't ice cold and i wasn't actively losing daylight
i was kind of like in a race with myself trying to get the goods produced you know
since i had already kind of done all the hard parts i was still having fun though
but my day was not over yet because i didn't think far ahead and it was getting dark and i
couldn't move this stuff inside the house because the whole area just gets so wet
i just left them outside overnight hoping things would turn out okay hoping they
would dry even though it got down to like five degrees overnight yeah so
then what next morning i woke up to find jooni performing quality assurance on all the pages
jooni get off get off get off get up no do not put your butt
and they still weren't dry... they were not dry though so i had to leave them there for quite a
while longer i waited as much as i could um and then when the sun was going down again
i took them all upstairs they were kind of like half wet but they looked pretty good
and i decided to just press them i have like this thing of marble
and hope for the best. that was the wrong choice though because they're still wet and
i put something on top of them so they just stayed wet for days but if there is one thing that i am
is i am a stubborn beesh so i was like okay i'm not gonna give up it's you who's
gonna have to get moldy first but they didn't and they look so good now hold on
look i made like over 20 sheets some of them are a little too thin
giving toilet paper vibes you know
but they're so pretty some of them still have little tiny things like little pieces of paper
that didn't get blended some of them are on the thicker side i can't tell actually because some of
them are stuck together some of them are a little more wrinkly than others i don't know how well
they do with like writing on them so maybe i'll do a quick little test and get right back to you
all right my very quick test is concluded markers and pens did okay these are water-based markers
i didn't even try the alcohol ones because i knew that would be a disaster definitely bleed through
in the back from them but that's okay then we got watercolors which i knew would do poorly
but it's pretty bad it definitely turns into like a toilet paper sort of vibe. Gouache did a little
bit better which of course it would but it still bled through like way too much to comfortably use
and then i also tried pencils and the paper is just a tad bit too thick and soft to like
fully be able to use them but you can still like if you were determined you could use
whatever you wanted on this paper still is pretty i'm so proud of myself look i made
this i'll use i'll be sure to use this in like a scrapbook but yeah i'm really curious to see
how they would do with like ink, i did put an order for drawing ink so that is on its way ;)
overall i don't regret trying it oh look the one with jooni stepping on
they dried like that i'm gonna make sure to save this one forever it's so cute
where was I?
newfound respect for the paper making process way more appreciation now anytime i like touch
paper or use a sketchbook i'm like oh back in the day this would have been a beesh to make
also new fun respect for people who like sell homemade paper on etsy,
it's just a lot of work guys, a lot of work
i don't know what i'll use these for maybe i'll try making my own sketchbook maybe i'll just
experiment to see if i can like make my own little homemade print it's so pretty i hope
you guys enjoyed the video i suffered a lot for it lots of sweat lots of editing lots of footage
lots of camera batteries dying so i appreciate it if you watched and made it all the way here
give this video a like if you want to feed the algorithm goals and i'll see you guys next week