Check out 2 Stews for how-tos on playing with your cookies HERE, with these spiral, bulls eye and dominos cookies. I don’t think I’d get very far playing dominos. I’m sure I’d nibble away my best pieces.

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Find a roundup celebrating cookie alphabets, including a video link to the Cookie Monster classic, “C is for Cookie,” (and that’s good enough for me), and a recipe for maple sugar cookies HERE at Junior Society.

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Learn to make gold leaf chocolates and fruits HERE at Cathie Filian.

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Betty Crocker’s site is chock full of ideas and how-tos for birthday cakes, like this robot or this purse.

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Find the how-tos on making these Totoro Rice Krispie treats HERE at Tiny Urban Kitchen. (And see the whole, clever meal from which these Japanese anime characters are only a part HERE.)

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Find an impossibly big round up of great ideas for peanut butter and jelly HERE at craft jr, including dips, desserts, crepes and more. I think my favorite is this peanut butter and jelly cake.

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Need some bento box inspiration? Wendolonia delivers just that. Just scroll through the collection of “The Week in Bentos” and you’ll find all kinds of fun, healthy, clever, cute, beautifully photographed ideas for packing lunch. And find bento goods in the…

The Halloween stuff keeps rolling in online, and I can’t resist bombarding you with tricky finds. Expect many more to come, as people are awfully crafty this time o’ year. From Martha: candy pumpkin faces that double as candy jar lids. From…

Pasta necklaces will be ever so much lovelier in rainbow colors, I think, with this idea I found on Ohdeedoh. Find the step-by-steps HERE at Simply Radiant.

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Perhaps I’m being slightly premature, but Better Homes and Gardens has a great slideshow of  easy-to-make Halloween cupcakes HERE. May be a good one to bookmark for next month. My favorites: the witch legs and the skelli.

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Learn to make these cute peanut butter and jelly flowers HERE at Family Fun.

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Learn how to make your own gummi candy HERE at She Knows. Once I get my kitchen back (sigh) this is one I’ll definitely try.

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