November 2010 – Dabbled

Sweet potato casserole… and holiday recipes

Dot — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:41:57 +0000

Hi all! Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving (for those of us in the States)… We did. And now I need a vacation from the vacation! I promised to post my sweet potato casserole recipe…um… last year (remember the Sweet Potato Tartlets?)? So here it is, up at Foodwhirl:

Sweet Potato Casserole

…perfect for any holiday meal! I don’t know if sweet potatoes are on your typical Holiday menu, but they always are on mine. This is an easy and quite tasty dish, that is very kid friendly too. My 5 year old loves it.

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We’re looking for more holiday recipes with the Christmas season now upon us, so if you have some good ones, let us know!

Mr. Freeze Costume (Halloween 2010 Video)

Dot — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:30:24 +0000

As I’ve been promising… Here is The Boy’s Mr. Freeze costume from Halloween. The video below shows the gun in action — it actually smokes and glows! (The helmet glows blue as well).

As a typical 5 year old, he loves Star Wars, Batman, and Phineas & Ferb, and he wanted to be Mr. Freeze (the Batman villain) this year. (As you may remember last year I made Perry the Platypus). Obviously this is a kid’s version of this costume, but no reason this couldn’t be adapted for an adult as well. (See more photos on Flickr)

The Mr. Freeze Costume Video at youtube.

Video also available on the Dabbled Facebook Page!

How to Make a Mr. Freeze Costume:

Since this costume is primarily made from recycled materials and thriftstore finds, it may be hard to replicate exactly, but here’s an idea of what we did:

The Husband spent a ton of time on this one… the gun is a modded Hulk watergun, painted with plastic paint. Tubing brings dry ice smoke from the bottles in the backpack. The ‘boots’ are made from sleeves of a puffy jacket–spraypainted silver. An old kids backpack was also spraypainted silver to hold the water bottles. Water bottles were recycled Simply Orange bottles. The overall silver outfit was a lucky thriftstore find — it was a Power Rangers costume and we blacked out the Power Rangers logo with fabric paint. The Helmet was a tough one – a friend (Thanks, Anne!) finally found a plastic container for us from some toys that was big enough. Pipe insulation pads the bottom. LEDs on the gun and helmet complete the look!

If anyone is interested, I can get The Handy Husband to write up more about how to make the gun and helmet… and I can also write up more of a tutorial on the rest.

Song credit: Mr Freeze, K’s Choice

This guy as Mr. Freeze, from Dragon-con this year, was the inspiration for The Boy’s choice of costumes

Skull Cake with Worms and more for Halloween Next year

Dot — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:34:40 +0000

I promise, you’ll have the pics of Mr. Freeze (The Boy’s Halloween Costume) this week! And maybe even some how-to info..
To tide you over, here’s a another few ideas to remember for Halloween next year, that I hadn’t gotten around to posting yet:

Skull Cake with Worms by Made By Nicole
ewwww!

Via Superpunch here
How to Make a Project Thing in a Jar

Spider Cupcakes from JustJenn … also, the cutest little kissable pumpkin cupcakes, too!

A Fail Whale Hat (in case Twitter’s still around next year, hehe) (Follow me on Twitter : @dotatdabbled!

Homemade Star Wars Costumes

Dot — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:00:30 +0000

I saw this at Dollar Store Crafts, and had to share : 9 Handmade Star Wars Costumes

Here’s one — too cute and funny. There are a bunch more, from Yoda to Jedi to Clone Troopers to Leia… Go see ’em all!

Heather Says:
“Star Wars fans make costumes all year-round for various events, so it’s no surprise that there are a lot of costumes from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away represented at Halloween. I found some handmade Star Wars Halloween costumes that I absolutely loved this week, so I’m writing a post this week highlighting some of the best. Check out my previous posts in the series: 25 Best Geeky Handmade Costumes, 9 Kids’ Food Costumes, 7 Handmade Lego Minifig Costumes, 6 Adorable Pixar Costumes.”

Halloween treat: Bloody Baklava

Dot — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:08:58 +0000

I know it’s late for halloween, but I’m filing this away for next year!

Dabbled friend Tissuepapers writes: “This year I really wanted to create something really gruesome to serve at a friends Halloween party. I came up with this recipe that was inspired by my childhood arch enemy Freddy Krueger. He was the terror in my dreams when I was younger, chasing after me with those razor sharp claws.

I took a spin on the basic recipe for baklava. It reminded me of skin with its many layers of phyllo dough. Once baked it has the crispy look of baked skin!!”

Go read the whole thing, and get the recipe!