Monthly Archives: June 2009

Fun ideas with Shrink Plastic (shrinky-dinks)

June 30, 2009 | Topic: craft, shrinky dinks

If you’ve been reading Dabbled a while, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of shrink plastic. With 4th of July around the corner, I was reminiscing over our brunch which turned into a shrinky-dink making party last year! Now you know I prefer to make shrinkies using #6 plastic… Read on...

Cool Comments feature – Check out the custom Dabbled gravatar!

June 30, 2009 | Topic: website design

Part of the fun of moving to wordpress is playing with all the new features. I promise I’ll be back to posting my regular crafty-arty-foody stuff, but I’ll also be posting about some of the cool features I’m implementing on the new Dabbled site (as part of the move from… Read on...

Testing out the new Dabbled..

June 29, 2009 | Topic: Announcement, website design

Just trying to figure out what might be still broken! Do let me know if you see any broken links. I know old links that went to search functionality are still broken. And do let me know if this is showing up in your feed. I’m particularly concerned about Blogger… Read on...

If you can read this… You’re at the NEW Dabbled Site!

June 29, 2009 | Topic: Announcement, Uncategorized

It really is a leap of faith to move your website! It’s not finished yet, but I set up this page (which looks pretty much like the old Dabbled site) to tide you over until I get all the spiffy new stuff up. Let me know if you see any… Read on...

Inspiration sunday… from the Dabbled flickr pool

June 28, 2009 | Topic: inspirations

Here are some love inspirations from the Dabbled flickr group. If you’re on flickr, be sure to add your artsy-craftsy-foodsy goodness to the pool. PS: Nope, haven’t moved yet. Had a little glitch on friday and a busy weekend. So I’ll try again on monday. Read on...

one of those random posts..

June 26, 2009 | Topic: Uncategorized

So, today I took the dog to the groomer, and cleaned out my closet (no, I haven’t finished yet). And didn’t really touch the computer until now. So a triumph to not being a slave to technology, but no real progress to report on anything you guys might care about.… Read on...

Dabbled Food and Drink: Recipes, Ideas, and How-To's

June 24, 2009 | Topic: foodtop

Dabbled is always experimenting in the kitchen… Check out some past food & drink recipes! You’ll find cookies, cakes, drinks, candies, and meals, just browse around!
Much is documented as Photo-recipes, too!. Also, Dot is a part of Foodwhirl – the blog… Read on...

A preview of the new Dabbled header I'm working on

June 23, 2009 | Topic: art, website design

As part of moving Dabbled, I designed a new header for the site.
What do you think?
Click through to see it full size. You’ll notice my 3 favorite things to draw are in appearance here: Robots, Cephalopods, and Monsters!

Illustration Friday – "Drifting"

June 19, 2009 | Topic: art, Illustration Friday

“Calgon, Take Me Away…!”
I just finished this up, and I thought it was a perfect fit for “Drifting”…
drift : 1. To be carried along by currents of air or water.
OK, I guess it would have to be a big bathtub to drift, but the feeling is there!… Read on...

How to Make the Dragon Cake! (the much anticipated tutorial)

June 18, 2009 | Topic: Featured Recipes, food, my food, recent

The Dragon Cake I made for my 4 year old’s birthday was so popular, that I decided I’d better do a tutorial. Note, I am not a professional baker, and i’m sure there are things I’ve gotten ‘wrong’.. but… Read on...