[9 Jun 2010 | 8 Comments | 2,141 views]
Some photos from The Boy’s birthday party

I’ll have more later, including a how-to on the Perry the Platypus Cake, and the Clone Trooper Cupcakes, but here’s some pic’s from the Phineas & Ferb meet the Clone Wars 5th Birthday Party. It was quite a success!

(See all Phineas & Ferb Meet the Clone Wars Party Posts!)

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[9 Jun 2010 | No Comment | 438 views]
Tomorrow, I promise!

I have pics from the party this weekend, and of the Perry Cake and the Clone Trooper Cupcakes… but between the weekend running over til monday with houseguests in town, and a client meeting tomorrow I had to prep for, I am behind!  I’ll get ‘em up tomorrow.  Maybe not the full tutorial on the cake, but at least a few pics!

While you’re waiting, I did post one of my mom’s classic cake recipes on Foodwhirl. And one of our new contributors gives us a great how-to on Tamales (go say hi, she’s new!).

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[3 Jun 2010 | 5 Comments | 659 views]

How cool is this! Talk of Tomatoes shows off how she made homemade ‘pop-tart’ look-alikes! What a fun and clever idea. And so much better for you than the store bought ones, I’m sure (at least you should be able to pronounce all the ingredients!)

Janelle Says:
“I made pop-tarts today.” That wasn’t a sentence I thought I would say. I made pop-tarts from scratch!

The crust was super easy to make, the longest stretch of ‘work’ was the rolling, measuring and cutting into proper rectangles. But then, the filling was super easy: I just used nutella, jam and a quick cinnamon blend.…

[2 Jun 2010 | 5 Comments | 539 views]
Party Planning is in the Works!

Posting may be light this week because I’m getting things ready for The Boy’s 5th birthday party this weekend–but I’ll be sharing a bunch of the stuff we do for it here, so stay tuned!  As mentioned before, it’s a Phineas and Ferb meet Clone Wars party (Invitation here!). 

So what’s in the works?  Cake wise we’ll be having a Perry cake, and also clone trooper cupcakes (assuming they work out like I plan!).  It’s at brunch time (to try to beat out some of the heat of early june) so I’m planning on brunch food & drinks– for both…

[30 May 2010 | No Comment | 374 views]
Umm… It’s Memorial Day weekend and I’m a slacker..

so… check out the latest at Foodwhirl…!

Yummy stuff!

Including Ramp Pesto,  Raspberry Kulfi, Salmon in Parchment, Cool as a Cucumber cocktail, No-cook Strawberry Jam, Rainbow Bubbles (from Sister Diane’s Mom!), Poured Sugar Icing… and more!

Go See our new recipes and spotlights!!

yeah.
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you should really check it out.

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[30 May 2010 | 3 Comments | 563 views]

Someone asked me the other day if Dabbled had a Facebook page.. And I realized that I’ve probably been slack about mentioning it… So, I’m mentioning it!

If you’re on Facebook, I’d totally love it if you’d go Like our Facebook Page! I’m planning on using it more in the future, but right now I post cool crafty links there, plus it gets the Dabbled RSS feed so you can see links to the most recent Dabbled posts there too. I’m planning on doing some contests and other fun stuff there too! So go share your love for Dabbled there!

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[28 May 2010 | 2 Comments | 1,478 views]
How to make a (paper) graduation cap!

Want a cute graduation mortar board cheap and easy for grad parties or kid fun?  Here ya go!

The Boy graduated from Pre-K the other day, and they made these cute graduation caps for them.  So I reverse engineered it (and improved upon it) to make it into a tutorial for you guys!

These mortar board caps are made from poster board and foam core… easy and fun to celebrate a graduation milestone.

Needed:

  • Black foam core board – about 12 in square.
  • Black poster board (cut to 22 in wide x 6 in tall)
  • Gold fringe and gold floss (60 inches)
  • 1 gold colored brad
  • Staples &…