Sorry to be so quiet this week, I’ve been doing a lot of website coding (for clients, not Dabbled — as you can see I’ve kinda stalled on the new site design project — that will hopefully resume next week).   Shameless plug:  I do web design for small businesses and blog businesses — Email me if you need a website (here’s one I just finished)!

So, to tide you over, here are a few good links!

• Love this latest piece by Chris Leavens – his vector work is amazing!
• Love these wallstickers featured at Swissmiss
• Dudecraft points us to a really cool kid with a cool…

I’m coming down off the baking high from yesterday. Not only do we have the dragon cake (above) but a bunch of cupcakes too, because I tend to go overboard. So, along with the cakes, we have Dragon Wings for fun and favors, and the dragon invitation. I’m not sure that I’m doing any other dragon themed stuff, but I do have to run to Trader Joes today to pick up stuff for food. And plan the rest of the food.

Related:

• Finished Dragon Cake…
• Cake Baking Day!
• Dragon Wings…

But I did want to thank all of you guys who entered the giveaway we…

From kids party ideas to tutorials, here’s what’s been happening at Dabbled this week…

Oh, and Don’t forget.. you can follow Dabbled on Facebook, Friend Dot on Flickr, or Friend Dot on Twitter… if you’re into those things! (PS, if you do (particularly on twitter) do leave me a comment here or email so I know who you are!)

• How to Throw a Robot Spaceman Party!
  A spiffy cool idea for your next kids party… All things Robot-Spaceman! Cakes, favors, invitations (free for download) and more!
• Cool Dabbled Craft/Food Roundup Some cool stuff you might have missed… check out these neat ideas: Pinatas, bracelets, cuban…

Click through to see it bigger, but those are my almost 4 yr old’s legs, arms, hands, and feet (even the bottoms) covered in “dabbled.org”. I was mailing out the first of my Pay It Forward gifts, and a contest prize, and I had left the self inking stamp out on the table. 15 minutes of unattended child left me with this lovely result. I find him in his closet (where he usually goes when he’s doing something he’s not supposed to) and I ask him what he’s doing. He says “I stabbed myself.” I’m like “What??? Are you hurt?”…

Glad you all enjoyed the Sweater Monster Puppets monday! If you make them, I’d love to see what you come up with..

Art Prints:
Oh, and if you were ever thinking of ordering a print of any of my artwork, now is the time.. Through May 4, Imagekind is offering Free Shipping, which really makes for a great deal. The code is MDay09. And if you see anything at nancydorsner.com that isn’t at Imagekind, just let me know, and I’ll upload it for you so you can order it. Some of the recent robot series isn’t up there yet. (dorsner.imagekind.com)

MIA?
And yeah, I had stuff…

You have until tomorrow to vote for your favorites for the Anti-Valentines People’s Choice Award — spread the word and go vote for up to 3 favorites. It’s pretty close between several top choices!

I’m taking the day off today mostly recovering from a fun weekend (totally recommend a visit to the Terrapin brewery — the Sunray Wheat was my favorite!), but here are a few cool random links for you!

Bacon Stuffed Waffles
How to Make a Guitar Hero Scarf
About Digital Comics – really neat ideas
Pro Darwin Merchandise
Funky Layered Jello
Cassette Tape Lamps (via)
Funnest 18 seconds of video
Bleach Stencil Placemat
Guacamole Han Solo and Jar Jar Salad
Eaten…

I love the Craftzine blog – (yeah, you may have seen Dabbled there a few times). You may have heard by now that Craft magazine is ditching their print version and going to all online. Sad in a way (because I love the physical lovelies on paper) but they are going to be expanding their online content and that looks to be really cool.
So I’m sure they will continue to provide tons of inspiration to us indie crafters out there!

So if you never subscribed — I adore the mag, but I’m guilty as charged, though I subscribed Handy Hubby to (the…

I’m making more lemon projects. Currently working on Limoncello, and when it’s done I’ll do a writeup on it. Also working on candied lemon slices (this recipe)– I started a few days ago, and it takes 2 weeks, so I’ll have an update on that in a few weeks!

Previous Lemon Projects : Candied Lemon Peel, How to Make a Lemon Pie

Also, I’ve been meaning to post some of these guys… little Champagne Cork robots (to go with your champagne chairs!) Just be creative… cut and bend the wire from the top of the champagne cork holder into arms, legs, eyes,…

Cool Link Dump:
*Fabulous Snow Globe Cupcake How-to at Bakerella
*Roundup of cool city scapes made from objects at Neatorama
*The Tin Man! I want a playground like this!
*Here’s a time sucking flash game I also found on Neatorama: Factory Balls
*Save Handmade! This is serious – go see what you can do and spread the word.
*Love these Young Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks via the always interesting Superpunch F is for Freeze Ray!
*Shameless Promotion: If you missed it, check out the Roundup 2008 projects and art at Dabbled!

By the way – My Cafe Chairs from Champagne Cork Wire has made it’s way around the web (I noticed…

Don’t Miss: Dabbled’s 2008 Cool Projects (and Art) Roundup

Help! I’m trying to figure out where my Instructable for the Cafe Chairs was linked. If you’re here from the instructable via another link on the web, please leave a comment as to how you found it to help my curiousity! And Welcome!

Hope you all survived New Years Eve and had a wonderful first day of the year…
We had a much fun on both!


A couple of other things –

A cute little robot to go with your Champagne Chairs!
We made several versions, I’ll post the others later.

Hey, I won! I’m so excited…