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Valentine Monster homemade kids cards

February 14, 2012 | Topic: craft, featured, Seasonal/Holiday, Tutorials/Tips

Happy Valentine’s Day! Normally I share Valentines Cards prior to the actual day, to help give other people ideas, but let’s say we ran a bit behind this year. No matter, sharing now, since the internet is eternal, and this may help someone out next year! So… Read on...

How to Make Roses Roundup (from all kinds of things, including Bacon!)

February 11, 2012 | Topic: craft, food, Seasonal/Holiday, Tutorials/Tips

Want to be clever and romantic for Vday? How to make all kinds of roses–out of all kinds of things– just in time for Valentine’s Day! Following are tutorials for crafty rose making, as well as some edible versions (Like these roses, from BACON?) Crafty… Read on...

Get Creative with The Lorax: The Truffula Tree-Shirt!

February 10, 2012 | Topic: craft, featured, Featured Craft, inspirations, Tutorials/Tips

I’ve always adored The Lorax, it was probably my favorite Dr. Suess book when I was little. And what really captured my imagination as a kid were those fabulous Truffula Trees, looking like cotton candy on a stick! So when I was invited to participate in the… Read on...

Fabulous Heart Middle Valentines Cupcakes

February 9, 2012 | Topic: Seasonal/Holiday, Tutorials/Tips

Check these out from @madalinaa at Duhlicious! Get the how-to: http://duhlicious.com/2012/02/i-heart-you-cupcakes

Canvas print Vday Gift Idea (and a Giveaway!)

February 8, 2012 | Topic: Reviews / Giveaways

My friend and local Atlanta photographer Sarah Howell (check out her new website at kimballbates.com!) had done some fabulous black and white photos of the Boy, and I figured that one of those would make a fun and striking canvas print. And conveniently enough, and the… Read on...

Fabulously simple Cupid’s heart appetizers!

January 21, 2012 | Topic: food, inspirations

Isn’t this a wonderful idea for Valentines day appetizers or lunchbox treats? I was searching for photos of tomatoes on a totally unrelated topic, and came across this one… which led me back to Eye Candy (which is a very clever food site I’ve linked… Read on...

How to make a Paper Rose Wreath

January 20, 2012 | Topic: craft, Seasonal/Holiday

Artist, and Dabbled favorite, Diana Evans has a great tutorial on making cute paper roses and a paper rose wreath.
Perfect for Valentines Day, no? I think individual flowers would be nice on 3-D Valentine’s Day cards, too. Go check it out! Her hand drawn tutorial is… Read on...

Crafty Cthulhu Says: “Stop SOPA”!

January 19, 2012 | Topic: Announcement, art

Sorry for the inconvenience of no Dabbled yesterday, but I feel very strongly that we need to get the word out to stop the SOPA and PIPA proposals, so we joined with many other sites to go dark to highlight the problem. More info:

Internet… Read on...

Dabbled is Dark Today

January 18, 2012 | Topic: Announcement

Dabbled, like Wikipedia, Boing Boing, and many other sites today, has gone dark from January 18, 2012 at 8:00 am until January 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm to protest SOPA/PIPA and Internet Censorship. This is important, and you need to be aware and get involved if you care about… Read on...

“Don’t Blink” Treetopper (and more awesomely geeky/crafty Dr. Who links)

January 13, 2012 | Topic: craft

Dude! Totally love this nerdy DIY Don’t Blink Angel treetopper by The Domestic Scientist! For the non-Dr. Who fans, this is the reference to the weeping angels. Although I’m not really sure Dr. Who is nerdy anymore now with the modern Doctors. Old school Dr. Who… Read on...