These personalized accessories contain a serving size dose of your favorite instant coffee or drink mix. They are perfect for a busy office setting, or after a workout in the gym. When you use your "joe on the go bracelet" having a hot cup of joe, or an ice cold flavored water, is just an arms length away!
NOTE: You may be thinking, "why not just use your pockets?" Well simply because in a lot of business attire and exercise wear there are NO pockets. :) Plus it's just fun!
NOTE: You may be thinking, "why not just use your pockets?" Well simply because in a lot of business attire and exercise wear there are NO pockets. :) Plus it's just fun!
Step 1: MATERIALS
You'll need very few things for this project:
~ Your favorite coffee/drink mix
~ 1 condiment bottle
~ 1 dowel rod 3/16"
~ Airline Tubing
Optional: Decorations to disguise your tubing. (ribbon & embellishments)
TOOLS
hot glue for decorations
bolt cutters (to cut dowel)
~ Your favorite coffee/drink mix
~ 1 condiment bottle
~ 1 dowel rod 3/16"
~ Airline Tubing
Optional: Decorations to disguise your tubing. (ribbon & embellishments)
TOOLS
hot glue for decorations
bolt cutters (to cut dowel)
Step 2: CONSTRUCTION
1. Cut a length of tubing long enough to go around your wrist. (This will hold about 1 serving) If you want to really "load up" you can cut a length long enough to wrap around the wrist a few times, or make a necklace version.
2. Cut about a 1 inch piece of the dowel rod to be the "cork" on the bracelet.
3. OPTIONAL: Decorate it by hot glue a strip of ribbon down the length of the tubing, rolling it up, and gluing it closed. Then you can add your embellishments as you wish.
NOTE: The following steps are down without decorations so you can see things clearly.
4. Push your "cork" piece into one end of the tubing about half way.
5. Fill your condiment bottle up with your mix. It should be fairly fine.(The coffee crystals may need to be ground a little more)
6. Holding your tube in one hand and the bottle in the other slowly fill your bracelet. Try to leave about 1/2" clearance from the top.
7. Once your bracelet is full, put it around your wrist and slide the open end of the tubing over the other half of the "cork"
NOW YOUR OFF AND RUNNING!
2. Cut about a 1 inch piece of the dowel rod to be the "cork" on the bracelet.
3. OPTIONAL: Decorate it by hot glue a strip of ribbon down the length of the tubing, rolling it up, and gluing it closed. Then you can add your embellishments as you wish.
NOTE: The following steps are down without decorations so you can see things clearly.
4. Push your "cork" piece into one end of the tubing about half way.
5. Fill your condiment bottle up with your mix. It should be fairly fine.(The coffee crystals may need to be ground a little more)
6. Holding your tube in one hand and the bottle in the other slowly fill your bracelet. Try to leave about 1/2" clearance from the top.
7. Once your bracelet is full, put it around your wrist and slide the open end of the tubing over the other half of the "cork"
NOW YOUR OFF AND RUNNING!
Step 3: TO USE
~ To use your "joe on the go bracelet" simply pop one of the ends of the "cork" and dump your coffee into a mug of hot water, or your drink mix into an ice cold bottle of water. (which ever you've prepared for) When dumping the mix it is best to keep the tube straight & to pour at some distance above the cup to prevent any condensation at the end of the tube. You can roll the tube a little between your fingers if you feel it is sticking a bit.
~ Snap your now empty bracelet back onto your wrist and drink up!
NOTE: To clean it at home just remove the plug and rinse water through it until the water runs clear. Set it out to dry before next use.
~ Snap your now empty bracelet back onto your wrist and drink up!
NOTE: To clean it at home just remove the plug and rinse water through it until the water runs clear. Set it out to dry before next use.
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But the idea is wonderful!!! For things other than coffee, anyway. Unless... What about real grounds from real coffee (read: Something that you grind from beans in your very own kitchen and doesn't make a "psh" sound when you open the container.) and figure out a way to work a wire mesh filter system into the bracelet design, or build a mesh filter to cap onto the end of the tube so you can use it like a straw and drink real coffee without picking grounds out of your teeth?
hmmm.... *starts looking for the tubing in the craft room*
http://www.instructables.com/id/Portable-Coffee-Filtering-Straw-for-outdoors-or-co/
I think this is what you had in mind.
*random man rushes in, leans to my ear*
*whisper whisper whisper*
oh... a joke. yeah. um.... I was joking as well. heh... yes.
*makes awkward eye contact for several seconds, then suddenly books it out of the room*
...now do you have any tips to get coffee out of a laptop keyboard?
Obtain one Folgers Coffee crystal, 50 lbs, compressed into a 3 inch spike, from Starbucks' main office, or the Colombian embassy. Using a 20 lb sledge hammer, whack this up your nose. If you can't stand the pain, you're no caffeine addict. You disgust me. Take your decaf and get out.
Senario....you are in meeting, all are boring but not you.....you ask the secretary to bring a coffee cup...and infront of the suprised eyes of your colleques you empty the tube to the cup.....BUT....its cold. Then take of the new OS running the bracelet and is combatible with USB3 and you plug the heater usb tray......under the cup......wait for a while and that's it!!!!! Nobody else has this one and all in the enteprise company you work (1500 personel) ask you to make one for them.....Excellent.....you go to deposit patente but now the problems starting...is the nylon tube safe under FD & Acts determinations and limitations?
Is the time you hold the coffee expired? of corse but u dont have any rules for that....is the electronics (like USB my scenario remember?) compatble to the goverment rules for safety FCC rules.........
I really enjoy this scenario.....So never show this to any who will wants some drops of your coffee........bb
If you happen to be in or near one, you can get 1" dowel pegs in most hardware stores (ready cut, for joining wooden furniture) or scrabble around the bottom of flat-pack furniture depots' bargain bins, or the local scrap yard for broken TV cabinets etc - (cheap fibreboard type) and rescue the dowel pegs. Take pliers to grip them - its like pulling teeth!
PS I'm in England so maybe you don't have the same thing, sorry if I've led anyone on a wild goose chase!