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Easter wrapup, and Share your easter eggs!

Easter wrapup, and Share your easter eggs!

Hope everyone had a fun easter… Did anyone try any of the easter egg dyeing techniques from last week, or do anything else cool with your eggs? If so, leave a comment with a link, or add your egg pics to the Dabbled flickr pool.

Other cool stuff that is Easter/spring related, to tuck away for next year..

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Easter Eggs: 12 Interesting ways to color/paint/dye them!

Easter Eggs: 12 Interesting ways to color/paint/dye them!

Another Flickr Roundup for you, this time it’s Ways to Dye Your Easter Eggs… come on, you weren’t going to just go use a kit, were you? From cabbage to duct tape, we have lots of cool ideas for making your eggs memorable. Some complicated, some easy and kid-friendly!

See under the pictures for links to the original pics, and more “how to” info.

1. Kymberlee della Luce shows us the results of dying with tissue paper. Lovely! Click thru for instructions
2. From Rick Unger, Easter Egg Dyed With Onion Skins (instructions linked)
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April Fools Food!

April Fools Food!

Nothing is what it seems, go click the links below the pics to find out what they really are. I totally love the faux “Eggs on Toast” – Eggs on Sunday has the instructions on making them.

Hope you enjoy these cute april fool’s food ideas I culled from my own stash, and from around flickr!

Nothing is what it seems…
Top: Sushi? – I made this last year for an April Fool party, and again at halloween (instructions)
Middle: A cupcake?
Eggs and Toast?
Bottom: Veggies and Fish Sticks?
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup?

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Sweet Treats too cool to eat…a photo roundup

Sweet Treats too cool to eat...a photo roundup

Here ya go, another roundup of cool pictures from flickr.com! The theme this time is Sweet Treats, Too Cool to Eat, and here are a few really fun yummy items… some professionally done, some do-able by us amateurs, but all inspiring.

1. Lego Cake, 2. This is a steak cake!!!!, 3. Bikini Beach Bear Cupcakes, 4. Frankenstein’s monster heads, 5. Sushi Cake II, 6. Chicken Cupcakes, 7. Reuben-sandwich-cake-1, 8. spaghetti cupcakes, 9. HamburgerCupcakes

Do you have a cool sweet treat you’ve created that fits the theme? Leave a… Read on…

Faux Foods — Yummies made of crochet, clay, felt, knit, etc

Faux Foods -- Yummies made of crochet, clay, felt, knit, etc

For your Linky Goodness today, I present a lovely collection of faux foods that I’d been saving up on Flickr. Click the links at the bottom to view the original photos by the talented people who made these!

1. Felt food breakfast, 2. Banana Cream Pie Soap, 3. cookie bracelet, 4. Sardines, 5. One down. . . , 6. Chocolate Eclair Earrings, 7. cherry tomato, spinach & goats cheese with herbs amd cracked black pepper tart, 8. Cupcake Pincushions, 9. Miniature Food Orange Charlotte, 10. Pita Sandwich, 11. Read on…

More Cephalopod Crafts – Octopus Wine Cover, and Crafty Cthulhu Roundup

More Cephalopod Crafts - Octopus Wine Cover, and Crafty Cthulhu Roundup

My friends Dennis and Grieg (Grieg is a very talented photographer) are apparently also a very talented crafty dudes! Love this little cephalopod wine bottle cover… isn’t he just too cute!? Even though cephalopod week is officially over, I had to do just one more to share this.

And since we’re tacking on another day to Cephalopod Week, I realized I’d been amiss in not linking to the king of all things tentacled, Cthulhu! As you can see from the pics below, crafty Cthulhus (both cute and scary) abound!


1. bibby, 2. NiferRead on…

Tuesday Linkday (and new version of IF)

Tuesday Linkday (and new version of IF)

Flickr Finds: Upcycled cool craft ideas

Food:
Brownie Points does it again.. More Citrus inspiration: I’m going to have to try this recipe for the best candied orange slices in the world. (But probably with Lemon – Like my Candied Lemon Peel from last week!)… Read on…

Bunches of Christmas Ornaments, many with Tutorials

Bunches of Christmas Ornaments, many with Tutorials

Make something cool for the xmas tree! Below are several cute ornament tutorials I found on flickr, then under that are more ornament links… And please feel free to add your own links in the comments!

Edit: Check out this new Shrinky Santa Ornament Tutorial!

Click through to the picture for a link to the tutorial: 1. Scrap Fabric Ornament, 2. felt ornament dove, 3. Heart and Star Ornaments – free tutorial!, 4. stocking ornament tutorial 021.JPG, 5. more snow folk ornaments, 6. snowman ornament guts with instructions!, 7. hang himRead on…