It’s that time of year again when everyone rounds up what happened in the past twelve months and predicts what may happen in the next. Food trends are a particularly hot topic. Example:
Search Results for: Harry Potter
Tutorial: Print your own fabric to make custom patches
Chris from Pickup Some Creativity wanted to add some patches to her kids’ Harry Potter Halloween costumes. It would have been nearly impossible to find them in a store to buy, so she made her own using her inkjet printer. … Read More...
Video tutorial: Easy Halloween costumes, no pattern required
Wendi Gratz from Shiny Happy World shares a video tutorial showing how you can make a Halloween costume, no pattern or advanced sewing skills required. You can use the same process to create a variety of different costumes – a … Read More...
Inspiration: The Phantom Moon
Oh, freakin awesome! Felt applique, embroidery, Harry Potter. What could be better than this stitchy hoop by The Phantom Moon. Check out her blog.
And many thanks to The Bay of Shae for pointing out this find.
Jelly Shots! Birthdays and Hawaiian Shirts and Polyjuice Potion
How can it be that it’s been so long that I’ve reminded you to swing by the Jelly Shot Test Kitchen? A bit of their latest: Learn to make birthday jelly shots (yeah, there’s a jelly shot under there) HERE … Read More...
Chocolate Frog Box
Chica and Jo were kind enough to provide this fantastic template to make your own Chocolate Frog Boxes, a la Harry Potter. Find the template and how-tos HERE at Chica and Jo.
Are you hosting a Harry Potter party? … Read More...
Golden Snitch Cake Pops
Ah, the elusive, sly golden snitch that effectively ends any Quidditch game, in cake pop form. No, in butterbeer cake pop form. Harry Potter fans rejoice. And learn to make them HERE at Amy Bites. Also, be sure to … Read More...
Butterbeer Cookies
Butterbeer cookies with butterbeer glaze with the most perfect Harry Potter images? Brilliant, Bridget of Bake at 350, brilliant. Find the recipe HERE.
Are you hosting a Harry Potter party? Check out these DIY Harry Potter crafts on … Read More...
Twitter Giveaway for Sorcerer’s Candles
SnitchSeeker is having a worldwide competition for its Twitter followers and giving away Sorcerer’s Candles! As you can see, they’re fun candles that sort of look like bony spines.
Daniel Tyrkiel designed the candles and was inspired by the … Read More...
Shop: Pixie Dust Studio Digital Stamps
Pixie Dust Studio have fun adorable images with a bit of a Japanese anime feel, super duper cute! My personal faves are the Harry Potter stamps and of course the Twilight stamps! Click here to see all their digi … Read More...
Recipes for the Oscars
Find 18 recipes inspired by the Oscars nominees HERE at babble, like these Franco-stein stuffed peppers for James Franco, Harry Potter pasties, or Mother’s Day smoothies for The Kids are Alright. I feel like there is so much more … Read More...
Hogwarts Cake
Please, please go check out this awesome (because that’s the best word for it) Harry Potter birthday cake created by Cosmo Cookie. It’s a gingerbread Hogwarts atop a chocolate cake. There’s even a hut for Hagrid.
Are you hosting … Read More...
Homemade Butterbeer
Every time I read Harry Potter I crave a mug of butterbeer. Even if I don’t know what it is. Find a yummy-sounding seems-about-right recipe for butterbeer HERE at Bakingdom.
Are you hosting a Harry Potter party? Check out … Read More...
Crochet a Costume
I don’t ‘do’ Halloween anymore. No kids or grand kids in the target age range for the festivities. Aside from forcing myself to remain far away from any store that has candy on sale for 75-90% off in the day … Read More...
DIY: Voldemort Make-up
Halloween will be here before you know it & that means it will be a mad scrabble to come up with a cool costume! If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you should check out this very cool video from Backyard … Read More...
Listen Whilst You Craft
Thanks to Random House We have these amazing Audio listening books to review, but rather than waste too much time actually reviewing each novel I am going to review Audio Books in General.
I am sure your wondering what Audio … Read More...
Make Petits Fours
Make petits fours from pound cake with bakerella… find the post here. And I always try to post infrequently on my own stuff because it is so self-serving, but even though I just posted on my Harry Potter … Read More...
Lesson Plans 2009-07-18 21:19:58
Sorry about the delay in posts. We moved this week to a new home in a new state!! We’re still surrounded by boxes and what seems to be an eternal unpacking job, but at least we now have the internet!!
In…
Sorry about the delay in posts. We moved this week to a new home in a new state!! We’re still surrounded by boxes and what seems to be an eternal unpacking job, but at least we now have the internet!!… Read More...
OUTTA TIME? LAST MINUTE CROCHET CHRISTMAS GIFTS!!
http://www.orble.com/free-lastminute-christmas-coaster-crochet-pattern/ (There’s a free pattern for this at the linked site.) NOTE – THIS LINK DOESN’T WORK PROPERLY – BUT WILL IF YOU CUT AND PASTE IT INTO YOUR BROWSER’S ADDRESS BAR. SORRY!
Looking for more Christmas themed Crochet Patterns? … Read More...