This is what happens when you let frosted, sprinkled cupcakes sit in your car in Nashville heat for 3 hours:
See how nicely the frosting melted and dripped off the cupcakes, leaving the sprinkles behind?
Also good to know: re-frosting melted-frosting cupcakes yields still-tasty cupcakes.
This should be interesting. Our church is putting on You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown next month. I volunteered to help with sewing and general crafting, and now I have been declared the costume designer. Having never costume designed in my life, this ought to be an adventure. Fortunately there are only 6 cast members (one of whom is my husband), and only one costume per character. My research to this point mostly involves looking at Snoopy costumes (I think I’m going to skip the large Snoopy head).
Since I have less than 4 weeks til the show, I think Charlie Brown & friends are going to take up most of my crafting time. My current plan is to buy t-shirts for the guys and add the stripes, and make simple dresses for the girls, which theoretically will be a manageable amount of work. Theoretically.
Hopefully I will be back soon with some in-progress pictures!
Totally brilliant “Dunk Mug.” Unfortunately, the only website where I can find it has it listed as unavailable. =( Any potters out there want to make one for me?
For quite a while in my elementary and middle school years, I was really into counted cross-stitch. It had been years since I last worked on a cross-stitch project, but a year or so ago I had the urge to try it again. The next time I went to my parents’ house, I picked up my bag of embroidery floss, needles, pattern books, and Aida cloth – a woven cloth designed for cross-stitch.
one of my favorite parts: all the pretty colors of floss
All of my earlier projects I stitched on Aida cloth. It produces very neat stitches, but is kind of useless unless you put it in a frame and hang it on the wall. I wanted to make something that could actually be used and enjoyed around my house. Looking through a cross-stitch pattern book, I read about waste canvas – a grid of threads held together with water-soluble glue. Probably most serious cross-stitchers know about this, but somehow this had totally passed me by! After loosely stitching the waste canvas onto any fabric you want, you can use the grid to place your stitches. Once complete, you dampen the entire design, and use tweezers to pull the grid threads out.
My first waste-canvas-enabled project: veggie napkins!
