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Christmas Tutorials!

December 7, 2009 | Also posted in Topic: craft, Tutorials/Tips

Today I’m over at Dollar Store Crafts — Go check out my tutorial for making a cute, easy and cheap Stocking Ornament / Gift Card Holder! And, in case you missed it, while I was off in London last week, we had 3 lovely tutorials last week by three lovely guest posters!

Tutorial – Make Resin Star Christmas Tree Ornaments From Kerry at www.pennydog.com A great project if you’ve been wanting to try crafting with resin!

Tutorial: Make Quick Mittens

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The Hotdog Creature experiments

November 11, 2009 | Also posted in Topic: food, Halloween, Tutorials/Tips

For Halloween this year, I tried a new idea, that I had gotten from the most excellent blog, Filth Wizardry. She did this as a fun project with the kids, and I thought it looked like a lovely and disgusting item for the Halloween buffet, especially for the kiddos. Now those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember this for the Dot Cooks “Live Tweet”, where I documented all my Halloween food prep (if not, you can see the summary here!). So why am I showing you this now, since Halloween is a whole… Read on...

Dabbled Halloween 09 Begins!

September 30, 2009 | Also posted in Topic: craft, food

See All Halloween Posts Halloween is the favorite holiday around here, so stay tuned for lots of fabulous halloween food, costumes, ideas and so much more. I’m trying to decide if we’re doing a contest this year–it was great last year. You guys up for it!? Here at Dabbled we’ll have lots of new (and old) stuff, but here are a few other sources you should check out! To start you off, check out some of these great compilation posts at Superpunch:

And here’s a roundup of tips… Read on...

Lemon Week Wrapup

September 5, 2009 | Also posted in Topic: food

Thanks to all who participated in Lemon Week! In case you missed anything, here’s links to it all:

Have a fabulous Labor Day Weekend!

Aug 31 starts Lemon Week!

August 28, 2009 | Also posted in Topic: food

Lemon Week is Here! Read all posts All next week, Yummy and fun things to do with one of my favorite citrus fruits! From candied lemons to limoncello… stay tuned for some good eats, and more… Do you have a favorite recipe.. or something even more interesting that you like to do with lemons? Blog about it next week and send me the link, and I’ll feature it! Or just email me your tips & recipes at DOT [at] DABBLED [dot] ORG. Spread the word! See all LEMON WEEK posts

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

June 18, 2009 | Also posted in Topic: Featured Recipes, food, my food

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 that’s one reason i did this tutorial to show that you don’t have to be a professional to attempt something cool! PS: You guys better appreciate this! I actually didn’t do the best job of documenting my process while making the Dragon Cake, so I took some of… Read on...