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Hit the jump and check out this step-by-step guide to creating your very own homemade mortar. (Note: Do NOT do a Google Image search of "Firework Accidents." It will totally kill your buzz).

Are they more expensive than normal fireworks or more complicated? Not in a significant way. It's not much more difficult to make a happy face shell than it would be a standard peony and that ...