Some fun from around the web..

• Go Canada! I love this little drawing from Diana Evans on the Olympic Games.
• I’m really enjoying the color series prints from Little Brown Pen… The Yellow one is so bright!
• The Domestic Scientist has scoured etsy and FOUND DINOSAURS!

Chicken Chili Update:

Here is a fun little idea I came up with last year, a cute valentines (or anytime) gift for a little girl. A stacked felt heart or flower pin.

This was inspired by the fact that kids grow out of clothes so fast, and while I was going to make a shirt or dress with a heart applique, instead I decided to make this pin (and a few others) so they could be used for a longer time. This looks adorable pinned on a dress or jacket, and would even work pinned to a hair elastic for a cute hair accessory.

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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!

Hi! I’m Heather from Dollar Store Crafts, a daily blog devoted to making cool crafts with dollar store stuff. I’m so excited to be swapping holiday posts with Dot!

Do you love felted sweaters as much as I do? Felted (or technically, “fulled”) sweaters are made from animal hair-based yarn (like wool, alpaca or cashmere), and washed in hot water and dried in the dryer until they shrink up and the fibers are fused together (kind of like dreadlocks on a micro scale). Once a wool sweater is felted, the fabric can be cut and it won’t fray. It’s an amazing…

About Dot and Dabbled

Dabbled is a place for creativity and experimentation. The tagline “Experiments in Art, Craft & Food” says it all. You’ll find artwork, craft projects & designs, tips & tutorials–both original, and links to other great stuff from the vast internets. We try it all on Dabbled!

Dabbled is the brainchild of Dot, my alter-ego who obsessively creates. She’s a starter of many projects, and finisher of maybe one or two when she feels like it. She loves to design craft projects that can be done with a minimal investment and minimal skill. Probably because she’s notoriously cheap, she…

(Last Week: A Random Look in Pictures. Today: Crafts & Jewelry. Tomorrow: Artists.)
The long awaited recap is here! We have a lovely time at Inman Park Fest here in Atlanta every year, and every year there are some wonderful artists and crafters that I discover. This year we were there especially early, so I got a chance to wander around and take some pics before it got too busy, and chat with a few people too! I couldn’t write up everyone, so here are a few that I especially wanted to highlight.

So, for your enjoyment and inspiration, here we go!…

Dot’s behind on everything this week, so today you’re treated to a re-run of a recent project you might have missed. If you didn’t miss it, just revel in the cuteness again!

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Here is a fun and creative project to do, either for your kids or with your kids… Silly monster puppets made out of old sweaters. Alternate option, you can stuff and sew up the bottom of these for fun monster pillows!

This tutorial is less ’step by step’ than my usual ones, since…

My friend Holly and I had craft night the other night, and this time the assignment was puppets! I brought a stash of sweaters and other goodies I had over, and we set to creating. No pattern, no plans, these are a great way to have fun and get creative. And when we were done, the boys had some fun monster puppets to play with.

This would be a great project to do with friends for your own craft night, or to make with kids.

This tutorial is less ’step by step’ than…

Earth Day is April 20, and besides celebrating by going to the Sweetwater 420 Festival which I’ll be doing this weekend in Atlanta, I figured we should also get some green crafting in. So here’s a few links for you to get you started…

• Somehow I had missed this cool Crafting Green contest from Dabbled buds, Chica & Jo! I’m going to enter… and so should you. Hurry, you just have til April 20!!
• Some good ideas on what to do with easter trash at Crafting in a Green World..
• Love these bunnies from old sweaters at Polywog’s Cakewalk
• Recycle Junk Mail into beads (via Whipup)
• Great…

We’re at the halfway mark, so hopefully you are chugging along with your projects! Remember, it’s not about the output, so much as spurring your creative juices. And hey, if this challenge seemed too hard at the beginning of the month, jump in now with just 2 weeks to go (don’t worry, we won’t judge!), and it’s twice as easy! I’ll admit, I’ve missed a couple of days, but all in all, it’s been a great challenge thus far.

So here’s a few of my MSCEApril’s, that I hadn’t shared here:

Tuesday 4/14: Making/freezing homemade chicken broth. I love freezing broth this way –…