My kids love it when I get funky with their food. They are huge fans when I make “squidapusses” (hot dog cut to look like a octopus) and when I saw this over at Plum Pudding, I’m sure I’ll be making this over the weekend.
Sure it looks funny but that’s half the idea!
Like making “squidapusses” the creativity occurs before the hot dog is cooked.
Head over to Plum Pudding to see how it’s done.
This was just too funny to not post.
Here’s another use for leftover Easter candy.
Enjoy
With Easter right around the corner and now that the birthdays are over (for now), I thought it would be good to post a quick and easy crafts for Easter. I found two great ones over at Can’t Stop Making Things.
First one up is “Bunny Tails“ My kiddies love marshmallows and this is a cute one. If you are having many little folk over for Easter, this would be a cute one to put at their place settings. Chances are they will not last though the meal but its still very cute. Even the kids can help make these up.
Now, the next one is also cute and easy for the kiddies to also help make up. Re-labeling a box of tick tac’s as Easter Egg Seeds would be great if there are some older kiddies attending or for the kids to make for the adults. This would even make a cute little teacher’s gift. If you felt really crafty and had some of those food safe markers, you could even decorate them a bit to make them a bit more colorful or mix in some other flavors.
Hope you have fun with these two Easter crafts!
Can’t Stop Making Things – Bunny Tails and Easter Egg Seeds
Not everyone has a roomba but my wonderful parents gifted me with one a bit ago. The idea was to motivate the kiddies to clean their rooms so the robot thingy could vacuum but once the initial “cool” factor disappeared the roomba’s appeal diminished. Now I might have just found a way to make the roomba cool again!
Mamaqila.com has a fantastic wool felted roomba cozy that is the best I’ve ever seen!
They even have a video at Mamaqila.com that shows it in motion.
Is that just the most brilliant thing ever? The kids loved it and asked if I could make one right away. I wish I knew how to felt wool to do this but alas, there is only so many hours in the day. A case of too many crafts and too little time. Maybe someday I’ll learn how to felt but for now I’m still trying to learn how to crochet and do tatting.
I wish was more information about the artist on the site behind this creation so I could give them the due credit but this is really a great creation.
i-Toad – Mamaqila.com
My mom saw this site featured on this morning’s Today Show.
Basically, its a site that is all videos of cute things falling asleep. My three year old thought it was histeryical and tried to wake up the puppies and kitties that he saw.
Some of the videos are very basic and taken on cell phones but others have some graphics and music.
If you need a quick smile and a warm fuzzy this is the site to go to.
Forget New York and their Waterford Crystal Ball for ringing in the New Year. I’ve found something better!
Bethlehem, PA lowers a giant Peep to start the New Year! I just adore Peeps of any shape but there is something about the classic Peep shape that is so cool. (And I love it when a box magically appears on my desk at work too. Thanks Dad!) Making it out there next year might just be in my plans.
This site is supposed to be about “good” stuff so don’t let the name of this site throw you off. Fail Blog has some of the funniest “oopses” I have seen, both in video and photos.
It is updated several times a day and I get an update emailed to me every morning, when I’m usually in need of a good laugh to get me going. On thieir site there are filters to keep things G-Rated (or safe for work) or just videos.
Part of my kitchen storage is dedicated to my baking supplies. Making cakes, the bigger the better, is something I love to do. I love looking at other people’s work as well. I watch the Food Network’s shows on the cake competitions and have found some great baking sites on the Internet.
I found this site a few weeks ago. I can’t even really remember how I found it but I have become a disciple of the site ever since.
Every day we are treated with some of the worst decorated cakes ever. The witty commentary with each picture makes it even better. Jen, the woman behind the blog, offers daily posts with cakes that you’re glad that you didn’t buy.
The cakes featured, with VERY few exceptions, are all professionally made. They range from the grocery story or Cosco kinds of cakes all the way up to professional bakery cakes. One some of the truly “wrecktastic” one, she tries to get as much story behind it or even a photo of the “inspiration” cake.
Since finding the site, I have looked at the cakes in the case at grocery stores and bakery windows much differently now, hoping to find one worth trying to take a picture of without getting caught by store security (or worse, the cake decorator who made the offending cake). The funny thing is, I have seen some of the cakes that have shown up at Cake Wrecks at my grocery store and had to laugh that I either found the same cake or that someone back at the home office thought these would be big sellers. I can’t wait to have my first Wreck sighting!
These are the cutest cupcakes that I have seen in a long while. I found them via Craft magazine’s site and can’t wait to do this for the kids’ school parties. (We’re lucky that they still allow holiday parties at their schools.)
Cherrapeno created these cupcakes that I can’t wait to try out. I’m not sure if its the cute factor or the idea of melted snowmen make me think of Calvin and Hobbs and all their crazy snowmen they would make that makes me want to make a batch of them.
After looking at her directions on how to create the snowmen, I would think they are pretty easy as they are just a few balls of rolled icing (fondant) and poured icing. The recipe for the cake part also sounds yummy but might get lost on the pre-school group (and probably the 3rd graders too).
It seems like if you are a fan of Star Trek, you’re either a TOS (The Original Series) or a TNG (The Next Generation) fan. Sure there are fans of the other spin off shows but those are the main two.
I like all the Star Trek shows and movies but TNG is my personal favorite. I wanted to live on the Enterprise. I don’t know if it was the holodeck or the replicators or what, but life on the Enterprise was never boring and it would have been so cool to be there.
So in honor of my favorite Star Trek series and my favorite captain, I offer this amazing video. Enjoy!
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