It’s a day before the wedding. My soon-to-be sister-in-law is desparate: she’s baking our wedding cake, and she doesn’t have a pastry bag! What to do?
The secret? Ziploc bags. Fill with frosting, cut off the tip, et voila! Ze cake est fabulous.
So what does this mean for you? Simple. You can turn the dust from your Random Orbital Sander of Eternal Happiness into instant liquid wood. Just empty the catch-bag into a ziploc for later. When you have a gap to fill, just add about 3 parts Titebond (or other caesin glue) to one part sawdust and mix it all up in the bag. Then cut off the tip and work your Instant Liquid Wood into whatever gap you find. Fill the gap high, since it shrinks when it dries, and sand it down when it’s all the same homogenous color. It even takes stain like the surrounding wood.
The best part is that the glue in the tip of the bag will harden, sealing it up for convenient reuse later. Keep some for a rainy day! You’ll thank me for it.

(Yes, that cake (click “ze cake est fabulous” to see) was really frosted with a ziploc bag. My sister-in-law Jamie is amazing.)
(I realize that the phrase “Instant Liquid Wood” will put this site on the Cybernanny Filter List.)

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