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I’ve been in the workshop a lot in the last week while making Christmas gifts, and I got to thinking (which can be a dangerous thing for me!). One of my favourites is a body mousse I found on the Dish forum, one of the first recipes I tried! It has six ingredients – water,...
To celebrate the coming holiday season, I have decreed December shall be the month of tutorials, recipes, and gift ideas. So I pose this question to you – what interests you? What do you want to make? Do you have a new oil or exotic ingredient you’d like to use or do you want to...
All this reading about things that might irritate, hurt, maim, or kill you, I’m feeling like I need a break from the maligned ingredients series. I need something wonderfully uplifting, so for me that means Christmas! And I realize this is early, but nothing annoys me more than to see holiday related tutorials showing up...
I wish you a very merry Christmas Day filled with pies, chocolate, laughter, presents, and much merriment! As you can see, my beautiful furbaby Blondie enjoys her presents as much as we do!...
I’m not the best at card making, but I’m certainly enjoying learning how to do it! I’ve come up with a very basic pattern I can follow and make some very basic cards. I’m making 6 x 4 cards so I can include pictures in it easily, but you can use 5.5 by 4 1/4...