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ToriSpelling.com offers behind the scenes photos and diary for TLC’s Craft Wars

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Craft Wars - Behind the scenes

Crafty TORI SPELLING takes us behind the scenes on her new TLC show, “Craft Wars” that was shown last night at 10pm/9pm Central with tons of personal photos and captions on ToriSpelling.com.  Tori takes fans through 9 episodes in personal pics of her kids, judges and on and off set antics in this picTORIal post :http://www.torispelling.com/post/pictorial-behind-the-scenes-of-craft-wars.

Stephen Brown of Glitterville fame shows the kids that there’s never too much glitter!

And,  TORI celebrates crafting in a way that only she can with judge Erica Domesek who she calls her “sister from another glue gun.”

She also shows a street vendor purchase for Dean of, um, I think it’s a butt with toilet paper stuck to it. Crafty?  Art?  What do you think? http://www.torispelling.com/post/pictorial-behind-the-scenes-of-craft-wars

Tori also offers up a new crafty contest at ToriSpelling.com: Check the site for the questions for the very first Craftista Hunt Contest!

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  1. Hi From Australia, I style dessert and candy buffets and love making and crafting! particularly love making parties pretty, just wanted to say I love your book and Stella’s party, hope to see more of your crafting on here, great photos!

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