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Zombie Head Cheese
I made you something for Halloween. You can serve it a party. Or maybe make it as a snack for your viewing party of The Walking Dead. These are both made of soft cheese spread on a plastic skull....
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Zombie Head Cheese, the outtakes
These are photos of the test Zombie Head Cheese we created, thus the poor lighting and the two kinds of cheese. But I wanted to show you the idea for a tongue that I decided to skip. I carved the...
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Eyeball Tableware | CraftGossip.com. The Sexy Zombie Vampire Halloween Makeup Tutorial | The Hairpin. Martha Stewart’s Haunted House! – The Crafts Dept. Love. Spooky & Playful: The Best Halloween...
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Thanksgiving wishes
I’m away all week visiting family back in the good old Midwest so I won’t have any Thanksgiving updates unless I manage to find some wi-fi. So, I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and I...
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German Pyramid Cake – The Crafts Dept. Eeek, I want one. Peppermint Rice Krispies Treats · Edible Crafts. I love the candy cane hook so they can hang on the mug, so clever! Christmas Tree Meringue...
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amazing Gingerbread Brownstone from Kitchen Table Scraps
Have you seen this amazing Gingerbread Brownstone made by Kitchen Table Scraps? Even better, she shows how to make it including shaping the rounded front windows, adding all the detail and lighting it...
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How to: Make Modern Perforated Christmas Trees » Curbly | DIY Design Community. These look like the porcelain ones from West Elm, nice job. 12 Days of Christmas Gifts | Mighty Girl. Love! MinuteFrame:...
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3D Christmas Tree Gingerbread Cookies
I made 3D Christmas Tree Gingerbread Cookies for Christmas. They slot together and don’t require icing to hold them up. Below I explain how to 3Dize your own cookie cutters and I also provide...
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3D Christmas Tree Gingerbread Cookies – the outtakes
Earlier I posted about how to turn a tree shaped cookie cutter into one that is interlocking and standing (shown above). I wrote about the way to interlock three cookies but I wanted to say that I...
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How To Make Scratch-Off Polaroids (V-Day Idea!) – Hello Brig. Simple and very very good idea. (I’m thinking naughty photos would work well here, aren’t you? C’mon, you know you are.) Mini Crepe Paper...
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Valentine’s Day Surprise Cracker
My love of traditional English Christmas Crackers (the paper sort, not the edible sort) has been well documented. Since it takes two people to open one they seem like a good choice as a way to...
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Homemade Candy Necklaces – Bakingdom. Wow! Via Recipe Girl on Twitter. 1st Annual Valentine’s Day Tea Party at Sweet Anthem, an indie perfume shop here in Seattle. Sip tea and sniff perfumes? Sounds...
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Help me think of miniaturized versions of Irish food! | Ask MetaFilter. For a Leprechaun themed St. Patrick’s Day party. Hungry Happenings: Pot of Gold Caramel Apples. Wow! Via Edible Crafts. Reware...
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Easter eggs and Easter, uh, carrots
A bunch of fabulous Easter stuff pulled from my Pinterest holiday board. Neon eggs are all over (don’t forget that neon food coloring can be found in grocery stores) and these from Oh Joy are...
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Happy 4th of July!
This, my friends, is a 3-foot long package of spaghetti. Because when I find something like that in a store I don’t leave it there. Our day will be spent with family and friends who are visiting and...
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Hungry Happenings: Skull and Crossbones Mozzarella Cheese Shapes for your Halloween party. – How to melt and shape cheese using silicone molds.. A R D O R: DIY MINI SURPRISE BALL PUMPKIN. Via Say Yes...
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Trick-Or-Treat Cookies for Halloween
These Trick-or-Treat cookies have a surprise inside. Each cookie either holds a treat, like mini chocolate candies, or a trick, here they are small sugar ants. Which will you get? You’ll have to break...
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DIY Spider Placecards | The Sweetest Occasion. Mighty Thirst, Halloween: Killer Bloody Mary | Mighty Girl. Adore the garnish. 10 Caramel Apples You Should Consider Making | Hitting Refresh with Laura...
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Halloween Gingerbread Tree
Remember last year when I made a 3D Gingerbread Christmas Tree out of interlocking cookies so that the tree stands on it’s own? I had so much fun making it that I decided to do something for Halloween...
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Melting Wicked Witch Cookies at Juniper Moon Fiber Farm. Spider Pinata DIY at Oh Happy Day. That is one meaty looking spider. Easy Last-Minute Costume Ideas For Adults | Celebrations with Design Mom....
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Thanksgiving Ideas – 101 Cookbooks. So many great ones here. 11 Turkey-Shaped Foods That Aren’t Turkey at Buzzfeed. I’m fascinated and grossed out. See also: the turkey shaped jello mold contest....
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Urban Craft Uprising
Urban Craft Uprising, the winter edition, is coming up very soon here in Seattle! It’s December 1st and 2nd, 11am to 5pm at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. As usual there are free craft demos and...
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15 Easy Christmas Decorations | RealSimple.com. I like this one, a string of twinkle lights wrapped around a styrafoam ball. So simple. Eye Candy: 20 DIY Ideas for Happy Holiday Party Decor » Curbly |...
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Seeking your favorite cookie swap recipes
I was going to show you my updated pattern for the 3D Christmas Tree Cookies today but yesterday morning my dishwasher decided it didn’t want to do it’s job anymore and I decided I was going to ignore...
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3D Christmas Tree Gingerbread Cookies, an update
In my 3D Christmas Tree Gingerbread Cookies post last year I explained how to create your own version from an existing cookie cutter and I also offered a ready to go printable version that you could...
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A Hip Handmade Holiday (and a giveaway!)
My friends Freshly Picked and The Alison Show got together as The Craft Pack and made a book full of delightful and easy (really, seriously) DIY holiday gifts. The book is called A Hip Handmade...
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Gingerbread Block Project | Kitchen Table Scraps. Remember the fabulous gingerbread brownstone? This year Renee is organizing a gingerbread block project, to be displayed and benefiting City Harvest....
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The Stocking Series, Part 5: The Legend of the Christmas Stocking | Threaded. The history of the Christmas stocking from the Smithsonian How To: Broken Glass Ornaments Into New Ornaments – Grathio...
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Ten Clever DIY Ideas for Valentine’s Day
I adore clever things for Valentine’s Day and I’ve collected a few of my favorites. These are all things that give my brain a little spark. Go see them all in my post over at Babble! Pictured above is...
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Nerd Valentine: Top 10 Valentines for Geeks | Mighty Girl. Bake The Book: Bouchon Bakery Marshmallow Eggs | Serious Eats: Sweets. swissmiss | Heartshaped Straws. These are cute, and I really want...
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Valentine’s Day Treasure Hunt, Three Ideas
Scott and I have a tradition of creating treasure hunts for each other. He started it! When we were first dating I came back to my apartment one day after a business trip (or long day at work? or maybe...
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A Dozen Fabulous Easter Egg Ideas
I’m a bit in love with all the possibilities that surround Easter Eggs, here are a dozen of my favorite Easter egg crafts and ideas. (Over at Babble.)
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Eggs! – The Crafts Dept. Sources for quail and duck eggs for Easter. DIY Sprinkle Easter Eggs | Studio DIY. Very cute. Modern Parents Messy Kids: Creative Play Easter Basket Idea: Water Bead Eggs. I...
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Star shaped foods for the Fourth
We aren’t doing anything special for this July 4th, unless you count sitting on our deck reveling in the sunshine. Ahhhh. But I do want to point towards my post from earlier this year talking about...
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Hell Yeah Bonfire In A Corn Maze
The sky even put on it’s best spooky display for us that evening. Remember back when we managed to sidestep the issue of a tiny house keeping us from holding a dinner party by renting the back room of...
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Seattle’s Gingerbread Village
Each year here in Seattle chefs from the Sheraton hotel pair with architects from various firms to create a Gingerbread Village display that is truly stunning. The village is free to view and...
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Illusion Christmas Tree
Our Christmas tree this year is an illusion. Well, sort of. It’s created from twinkle lights reflected in a large mirror. The tree is meant to be mostly viewed at night when it is lit up. After all...
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defective yeti — The 2013 Good Gift Games Guide. Savory treats for a holiday cookie plate | Ask MetaFilter “The answer to this is almost always cheese straws.” Eleven x Seven: Core77′s Ultimate Gift...
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Merry Christmas everyone! I’m going to take the next week off and I’ll be back after the new year. I hope your holidays are warm and full of cheer and all that stuff. How To Build An Indestructible...
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last minute Valentine’s Day
I’m not very focused on Valentine’s Day this year, we usually cook a fancy meal and stay in but this year we’re feeling a bit of cabin fever so we’re headed out to see the Lego movie and get cocktails...
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Giant Kinder Surprise Eggs
My Easter treat for this year is a couple of giant Kinder Surprise eggs. Look at how big they are! It’s shown here with a regular sized Kinder Surprise Egg for scale and a Mini Kinder Egg which I...
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Easter Egg Food Color Palette
If you need to do some last moment Easter Egg dying these instructions will help you create simple, vibrant eggs using supplies from the grocery store. A few years back I spent some time using good...
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Holiday Mug Kit collaboration with Brit+Co
I’m so utterly thrilled to announce this collaboration with Brit+Co to create a DIY kit for my tiny gingerbread houses that sit on the edge of a mug! The kit includes two cookie cutters that are 3D...
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Tiny Gingerbread House decorations
Here are the decorations I’ve collected to decorate the tiny gingerbread houses that decorate mugs which I’ll be making this year. The houses are so small that decorations to be sprinkled on are all...
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I love gift guides but, honestly, I find myself using them most often for the sources they draw from so please allow me to just go ahead and tell you about the spots I’m using for ideas this year:...
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Winter Punch Recipe – 101 Cookbooks. Citrus, fresh ginger, gin and rosemary. Yum. How candy canes are made by hand. at Kottke. Gluing a gingersnap cottage (like a nerd), at Instructables. Directions on...
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Easter Egg Dyeing Food Color Palette
Remember last year when I went a little manic over dyeing eggs in an effort to get juuust the right colors? Yeah, me to. All the instructions and tips are over here.
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Halloween things to make, listen to, play and decorate your nails with
Here are the things that have caught my eye this Halloween: FOOD Eyeball on a brownie created by Christine McConnell. She’s made a candy eye look so much more threatening than simple sugar. Also take a...
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Coffin Surprise Cookies
A few years ago I made Trick Or Treat Cookies for Halloween and back then I noted that I’d love to do an all-coffin version. And look! It only took me three years! I decided to imprint the tops with...
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chocolate peanut and pretzel brittle | smitten kitchen. What’s the Right Way To Make A Hot Toddy? | Mental Floss. Cocktail Party Gingerbread Folk | Sprinkle Bakes. They include little foil wrapped...
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