1. The Stomach, RIP Pterodactyl Pants is always so creative… a plush stomach?
2. Chair pad Love how the chair pad matches the cute sewing machine cover!
3. Dia de muertos brooch from Penny Dog Accessories (Want to try resin? Her tutorial on Resin is HERE!)
4. Silk Tie Easter Eggs from Tresijas [Related: How to make Silk Tie Eggs |  Tresijas has been featured on Dabbled:  How-To Make a Bracelet from an old record Tutorial]

(More links below the photo mosaic)

5. Feed the Dog– Cute robots!
6. Easter Round Ripple – Love the colors!
7. Attic24’s jar cover – Great re-use idea.
8. Cute owl from an old tank top and here is the Tutorial on D is for Delicate
9. Mini-Angler Felted Plush 1, – TOTALLY AWESOME! “He’s 100% dyed, needle-felted wool, with acrylic airbrushed shadows. He also has a working LED light in his “fishing-lure” with a battery pack hidden inside his mouth, and painted polymer clay teeth!” from Felted Chicken (Airbrushing Felt Tutorial is here)
10. Stash Buster Farmer Tote Love the size of this thing, the tutorial is here on Some Art Talk.  (Colleen has been featured on Dabbled: Cute Re-made Girls Jeans Tutorial)
11. Sheep Tote Bag cute!  Tutorial is here.
12. Rose Umbrella Fancy up an umbrella by adding roses!  Tutorial is here

Thanks to all of you for sharing!

Here are some to get your inspiration going!*

Green Crafting Flickr Roundup (links are below the big pic)

1. piglinks, 2. Ad Bracelet, 3. Recycled Tunic, 4. RCA Record Comb, 5. a batch of studs – copyright amalia versaci 2009, 6. Madonna Wine tote, 7. Olive and Teal Sundress, 8. recycled plastic earrings, 9. around the world in 80 stamps upcycled vintage bag

*I’m recycling these pics from 2009!  See how I can blog Green!? And here are some additional green crafting ideas recycled from the past!

A plethora of Geeky Cakes!

My own robot cake from a few years back, and a roundup of other robot cake ideas!

Last year’s Dragon Cake!

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!

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!

Here’s a collection of cool and interesting costumes for your inspiration possibilities…    From a plastic army man to Cruella DeVille, from Astro-boy to a narwhal… Some of these are movie inspired, like Dr. Octopus, Shawn of the Dead, Nightmare before Christimas, and Death Becomes Her.  And some are everyday items, like sushi, or a computer, or even pair of tennis shoes!

View the Gallery on Flickr

Other Costume Inspiration from Dabbled’s Past:

• Halloween Costumes 2008 Party
• Halloween Couples Costume Ideas

Need more ideas? I’ll be posting cute costume ideas at Dabbled’s Facebook Page. Become a fan and add your own pics or links!

As an aside…

“Why so late getting this post up today, Dot?”, you might ask?  Well, I was finishing up a couple of Dabbled|Studios projects…   Here’s a writeup on the latest website, and this one includes custom illustration!  I’ll post the other, another custom illo, later…

Finally, I just had to share… I read this story to my 4 year old tonight and he was giggling his butt off… So highly recommend!

Make Slime! The Photo Tutorial.

Click through to see all the flickr pics.

1. Slime ingredients, 2. Stir the Borax and water to dissolve, 3. Pouring glue, 4. Water + glue + paint for color, 5. Pour the Borax solution into the glue mixture, 6. Stir, watch it clump up, 7. Pour off the excess water and check out your slime!, 8. Initial slime, 9. Ball it, 10. Squeeze it, 11. Ewwww…, 12. Punch it

See the full tutorial and directions here..

Enjoy the gooey fun!

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)

1. Twinkie Chan Travel Case- I really like Soule’s work, check it all out at the link,
2. Crayons and Robots, what’s not to like?,
3. Loving all these stamps by Tresijas,
4. Cutest lil hamster pic by Nate … awwww…,
5. Omnomicon is cooking yummy cake! (www.omnomicon.com/ice-cream-cake ),
6. The always creative laserbread brings us a sign of the housing market times,
7. Go congratulate Creative Kismet on her Martha Stewart appearance! Love the eyeball shirt,
8. I so COVET Craftypod’s Yudu,
9. Love Jason Limon’s work–this is one of his Fragments pieces,
10. Interesting art by Allison Sommers,
11. The best Swine Flu pic ever :),
12. Summer Felt Food from Missie Zee

My favorite flickr toy – Mosaic Maker. I use it to make the mosaics I post here. (Like this or this)

Some other fun stuff from Big Huge Labs: Make your own magazine cover… You’d buy this wouldn’t you? (Click to see larger)

Here’s something else fun, a slideshow made from some of the pictures loaded to the Dabbled flickr pool by our MSCEApril participants!
(Slideshow Maker)

Another neat slideshow from Slideoo.com:

You can also mock your friends by featuring them in their own feature film poster, like this funny one I made.

Check out all the cool toys at Big Huge Labs, like Make your Own Trading Cards, Photo cubes, Motivational Posters, Wallpaper, and More!

An interesting search tool is FlickrStorm.

And, Flickriver is a neat way to look at pictures in flickr. And it created this cool badge from the pictures in the Dabbled Pool:

Spell with Flickr creates cool words from flickr images, like this.

Want a Blast from the Past? Try Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule… it emails you your most interesting photos from a year ago.

Want more Flickr tools and toys? Check this site out for a way comprehensive listing.. .Also this one..

Link:

• Dabbled Flickr Group – If you’re on flickr, join the group and post your artsy/craftsy/foodsy photos there… who knows, you might be featured on Dabbled one day!