flickr roundup – Dabbled

April Fools Food!

Dot — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:16:00 +0000

Dinner on April Fools Day (can you believe it’s almost April 1st?) calls for making something unusual, right? Maybe a bit tricksy. Here are a few ideas, both sweet and savory, with an April Fool’s Day twist.

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?

Here are a few more ideas:

(Originally published 2009, updated with more goodies 2013)

Valentine Sweet Treats Flickr Roundup

Dot — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:02:54 +0000

For your inspiration and enjoyment, here’s some lovely valentine treat ideas, collected from around Flickr! Links are below the big picture–click through for more info on the creators and/or links to how to’s.

1. valentine westie cookie – red, 2. Engagement Cupcakes, 3. pink hot chocolate, 4. Valentine Fortune Cookies, 5. Hearts and Flowers for V-Day, 6. valentines day cupcakes, 7. Valentine Cake Balls, 8. Valentine Cake, 9. Valentine’s Day Cake

Wanna share yours? Add them to the Dabbled Flickr group!

Handmade Christmas Ornament Tutorials

Dot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18:36 +0000

If you’re making Christmas ornaments, you’d better get started now! So here is the first of the 2009 collection of links to holiday ornament tutorials! (For more ideas, check out Last Year’s here).

I love this Polaroid Ornament from Katie Cupcake! And she has a detailed tutorial on making these on her blog – Go Here!

Such a clever idea, and a great way to display family photos. Plus what a perfect gift for Grandma…

Want more ideas? Here are some I collected from flickr (links below the big pic)…

1. Bolinhas de natal, 2. Bright Paper Ornaments – Tutorial, 3. Vintage Egg Ornament Tutorial, 4. Fabric Scrap Ornament Tutorial, 5. mini felt chains, 6. Paper Ornaments, 7. Earring Ornament/Packaging , 8. acorn mushrooms, 9. Quilted Ornament Tutorial

Direct links to some of the tutorials (others you may have to click through on the links to the pictures above)

Patchwork Balls – Portuguese (Translated to English here)
Acorn Mushroom
Felt Chain
Vintage Egg made with real eggs!
Quilted Ball
Fabric Scrap

Halloween Costumes, Part 2… Creative Couples Costumes

Dot — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:11:18 +0000

Welcome to yet another Halloween post! (Don’t miss any this month: Get the Feed (RSS) or Get Dabbled via Email)

Another flickr Gallery for you, this time, Couples Costumes. Some of these are quite well done… others not so much, but still a funny concept. Hope these provide some inspiration! (Previous Couples Costumes here and some more inspiration here, including Dr. Horrible costumes)

Couples Gostumes Gallery on Flickr

See them all at the flickr Gallery

Row 1
The Joker and Poison Ivy – Really well done version.
Ketchup, Mustard, and Hotdog – Too cute!
Plug N’ Socket Costume
White Wedding
Zombies
Mimes!
Row 2
Bavarian Couple
Amidala and Darth
Princess Honey and Darth Teddy – OK, not human, but I couldnt resist
Aquaman and Mermaid (Arial?) – So perfect!
Batman and Harley Quinn
Stormtroopers
Row 3
Hatter and Alice – Nice job.
Ghostly Couple
Cheerleaders
Little Red Riding Hood and Leashed Wolf – Great concept
King and Queen of Hearts
Couple of gnomes

Looking for more costumes? Check the Dabbled Facebook Page — We are posting a bunch of cool ones there, and you can add your own, too.

See All of A Dabbled Halloween!

Mmmm.. creepy Brain cupcakes (and more!)

Dot — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:57:43 +0000

Check out these fabulously creepy Brain Cupcakes by flickr user xsomnis! The brains are molded chocolate. (via Craft & Street Anatomy)

A few more creepy cupcakes for you from my flickr surfing:
1. Dexter murder cupcakes (I love that show!), 2. eyeballs cupcakes, 3. Bite Me (Vampire Cupcakes) (Oooh, I like TrueBlood too!! and I found a ‘how-to’ on this last one here)

Flickr Roundup – Get Crafty Inspirations

Dot — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:28:11 +0000

From a froggie coin purse to donut earrings complete with sprinkles, today’s we bring you some cute handmade creations… the links at the bottom of the page will take you to the pictures themselves on flickr for more info! Enjoy!

1. Picture 244, 2. Coffee Mug Necklace, 3. Más Donuts, 4. Housewife Penguin, 5. Bottle Cap Pincushion #263, 6. Green Pip!s, 7. Xbox Controller, 8. Monty + Mini 3

Go here for all the flickr roundups

Flickr Round-up: Geeky Cakes

Dot — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:11 +0000

Time yet again for another flickr Roundup.. I was thinking that it’s always fun to see interesting cake ideas for the geek in your life..and there are so many different kinds of geeks, too! Computer/iPhone geeks, gaming geeks, star wars/star trek geeks, so there is much to choose from! (Hey, we are all a LITTLE bit geeky I bet!)

So without further ado, here are some of the interesting geek/nerd cakes & cupcakes that I’ve found in my flickr travels. Hope you enjoy! Links to the original items can be found below the big pic.

Tomorrow we will be spotlighting more geeky fun!

1. Geek out to the max Cupcakes! iPhone Icons,
2. Rubic’s Cube Birthday Cake Love the idea of the m&m’s!,
3. Hans Solo encased in carbonite…very clever Star Wars cake!,
4. Motherboard cake – great computer geek idea,
5. Gamer Bride– the bride is apparently ‘playing’ her wedding cake,
6. Star Trek Wedding Cake – wow, this is an actual classy star trek cake!,
7. Tetris Cake – they have a bunch of how to make it pictures, too,
8. Geek Cake – everyone loves code on a cake, right?,
9. Death Star Cake – now THAT is a great simple idea for doing a Star Wars themed cake!

Along the geeky food line… remember Guacamole Han Solo and Jar Jar Salad?

All Flickr Roundups: HERE

Inspiration sunday… from the Dabbled flickr pool

Dot — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:18:00 +0000

Here are some love inspirations from the Dabbled flickr group. If you’re on flickr, be sure to add your artsy-craftsy-foodsy goodness to the pool.

PS: Nope, haven’t moved yet. Had a little glitch on friday and a busy weekend. So I’ll try again on monday.

1. Happiness Mandala Pendant, 2. Veggie Basket, 3. hood08, 4. Save the TA-TAs!, 5. stephen, 6. Bird prototype

Cthulhu Roundup!

Dot — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Why do we like to take scary monsters and make them cute, sexy, or just plain odd? I don’t know, but here’s a bunch of takes on L. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu.

1. My Little Cthulhu, 2. Cthulhu Cake, 3. Vegetable Cthulhu, 4. Cthulhu Time Steampunk Necklace, 5. Cthulu Charm, 6. Cthulu Jewelry Box, 7. Cthulhu calling shirt, 8. Santa Squid

Here are some cute and cuddly looking Cthulhus from a previous post..

1. bibby, 2. Nifer Fahrion / NifNaks, 3. Hello Cthulu applique, 4. cthulhu2, 5. Day 12 – Clay Cthulhu, 6. cute blue guy, 7. Cthulhu de Fimo, 8. cthulhu_cutie

And you might remember this as well.. Cthulhu serving squid, one of my ‘vintage’ ad posters… I guess I’m guilty too!

Thirsty? Tasty, unusual Spring cocktail recipes!

Dot — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Spring-y Cocktails with Recipes from Around Flickr.. Click through for ingredients and/or link to the recipe. I’m inspired, aren’t you!?

1. The Thai Boxer, 2. lemongrass cooler, 3. Watermelon and Rose Sangria, 4. Chocolate orange martini’s, 5. Bourbon Mint Tea, 6. Kermit Cocktails

I’ve got so much cool stuff to post over the next week or so… I’m trying hard not to just post it all now! My parents were cleaning up their attic, and brought me a stash of old records I had as a kid, so I’ll be sharing those. I do have a limoncello tutorial that I finally got around to writing up. And also the results of my candied lemons. What else? I have some felt that I was sent to review, so I’ll be doing a project with that. And I modded a t-shirt yesterday as my MSCEApril, so I’ll be writing up instructions on that. Plus a stash of comfort food photo recipes that have been hanging out on my harddrive, just waiting. So… Stay tuned!

And if you missed it, two new watercolors yesterday!

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