Us SRL crew are big MAKE fans; this should come as no surprise since we’re all the kind of technopervs that have to lubricate, poke, prod and open up everything we get our hands on. We’re also all pretty pervy, and we talk about sex (and relationships) just as much as we talk about the machines we work on. I think hardcore sex nerds are much the same (geeking out on sex and fetishizing tech: at SFSI drinkfests we chat about playing with hot gadgets as much as cocksucking and fisting).
Maybe I’m in the minority of people who read the MAKE blog and get hot under the ruffle-butt panties. I’m just saying that us sex-positive, orgasm-seeking makers have been busy getting off better by modding our toys and our sex lives for a while now. We should have our own magazine or something. Take for instance the wonderful books Tricks: To Please a Woman, Tricks: To Please a Man and the much-celebrated Kinky Crafts. The Fetish Information Exchange has a great page on DIY Kinky Crafts, including a bubblewrap dildo and a golfball gag. The Frugal Domme has site design that I wish she’d spent more money on, but has quite a page of resource links to tutorials on BDSM toys you can find in most kitchens and toys you can find in hotel rooms.
But not every MAKE: dirty project is going to be explicitly about making teledildonic sex toys and hardware hacking vibrators to get more mileage out of your wetware. My favorite new DIY-naughty ideas have been running along the lines of things like Sexy Little Knits, which I found on Rachel’s blog (and even though I don’t knit, it’s dirtyfun to imagine wearing a pair of fuzzy pink knit keyhole panties for a crafty lover). Recently I modded my ruffle-butt panties to make my bootyshake more tasty-looking. And a while back I ripped up a tattered store display copy of The Complete Reprint of John Willie’s Bizarre Magazine that was in crap shape but I’d gotten out of the free bin at Good Vibes — and I took an ugly wooden IKEA office supply drawer set and made it tres sexy. I’ve been wanting to share it with you for a while, and the finished result is in photos after the jump.
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For this project I dug into my painting supplies and used Liquitex Acrylic Gloss Medium and Varnish; I slathered it on with a brush where I wanted the image to stick, then did a thick coat on top. It’s nice because it can be moved around before it dries, is water-soluble and doesn’t have nasty fumes. The drying process is a little freaky because the medium makes the paper wrinkle before it dries but it always flattens out and gets nice and glossy.
I never get to see the back:
I really enjoyed putting the images together, as much as breaking them apart on the drawers. I also added little round mirrors, for no reason at all. Looking at these pictures, i see it’s time for a retouch with the varnish.
