Celebrate Bastille Day with an Eiffel Tower cookie sundae, a la Gusteau of the Disney flick, Ratatouille
. To find the original recipe, click HERE, click on “downloads” and search for the little white, lidded jar on the left … Read More...
Archives for July 2010
Bastille Day Food Roundup
Find a collection of menus and tons of recipes from sauces and appetizers through dessert HERE at La Belle Cuisine.
Find breakfast, lunch, dinner and bread ideas HERE at AllRecipes.
And find a collection of French desserts HERE … Read More...
New: Teresa Collins Stamp Maker
Teresa Collins has just introduced her new stamp maker machine. You can use it to create customised stamp designs in just five minutes! Click here for more information
More about swaps
I linked to Swap-Bot and the Flickr swap page and this site, Swapdex is another great swap resource. She lists all the swaps she finds so you don’t have to go searching for them!
Swapdex links you to many indie … Read More...
Tutorial: Child’s Artwork Portfolio
Repurpose a large brown paper bag into a portfolio for your child’s artwork. Click here to go to tutorial
Inspiration du Jour – Summer Day
Get even more inspiration from her gallery and blog
DIY: Rose & Mimosa Solid Perfume
The Natural Beauty Workshop shares instructions for creating Rose & Mimosa Solid Perfume that make wonderful gifts or special treats for yourself!
Book Review – MESS
ISBN 9780399536007 RRP $13.95
I was lucky enough to receive a Galley Proof for Keri’s new book MESS. My 2 year old grabbed the book and asked if she could draw in it. I had … Read More...
Review: Wienerdog Tricks downloadable patterns
I’ve recently had the pleasure of receiving review copies of a handful of patterns from Wienerdog Tricks. Her pattern line includes the Cash Money Wallet, the Genuine Article Bag, the Good Writer Bag, and the Gorgeous Nerd Bag. I love … Read More...
ISGB.org – Time for The Gathering Again
It’s that time of year…The Gathering of The International Society of Bead Makers. This year it will be in Rochester, NY on July 29 through August 1. If you haven’t gone to a Gathering and you’re a bead … Read More...
Tutorial: Calla lily embellished tank
Amy from Positively Splendid shares a tutorial showing how to make fabric calla lillies to embellish a tank. Of course, if you’re indecisive like me and wonder if you’d always want your tank embellished with fabric flowers, you’ll be happy … Read More...
Tutorial: Stylish short-sleeved t-shirt from a plain long-sleeved tee
Ashley from Make It and Love It shows how you can transform a plain long-sleeved tee into a more stylish shorter-sleeved version with snap-up sleeves and a little pocket. Go to the tutorial.
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Decorate-my-home-part-18-flower-wall.hanging, by Ashley
Ashley of” Make it Love it” is sharing her house décor redo and making everything herself. She has all the projects under parts such as (part 1 etc.). The one that caught my attention is her flower wall hanging… Read More...
Technique: Painting with Embossing Powders
Visit the Stampendous blog for instructions on how to achieve these gorgeous results on your stamped card by “painting with powder” using embossing powders.
-Heather
Water Rocket
Summertime is a great time to utilize the outdoors to help teach your children. Almost Unschoolers helps her children make a water rocket and they end up with great results…oh yeah, they also learned about Newton’s Law of Motion as … Read More...
Tutorial: Framing fiber art
Susan Brubaker Knapp of Blue Moon River shows us a different but effective way to frame fiber art by stitch-mounting it to a mat. I’ve got to try this! See the tute.
Free redwork pattern from DMC
Well, this is embarrassing. I always assumed that the expression “turkey red” had something to do with the wattle on that famous American bird. But DMCThread’s Blog points out that “Redwork, also called Turkey Red, originated in … Read More...
Hip Hip Hooray! A new site for kids’ parties. And Cupcake Accessories.
I’m completely agog (is that the right word? eager? excited?) about this new website, Hip Hip Hooray, featuring ideas for kids’ parties. The site is from Suann Song (of here), with familiar names as contributing editors, Amy Atlas, Jordan … Read More...
Tea Cookies
I love love love this idea from Frost Me!: Cookies shaped like tea bags, dipped in chocolate and strung with tags. Find the idea, along with a roundup of other tea-themed party ideas, HERE.
[tags]tea bags, cookies, tea … Read More...
Inspiration: Judy’s Fabrications
These fairy slippers by Judy of Judy’s Fabrications make my heart flutter. So many gorgeous techniques and colors applied to such a tiny canvas! And fairy slippers aren’t all she makes. See more on Judy’s blog.