It’s a Bandana Bib, Baby! I think a Baby Bandana Bib is just about the cutest thing a little boy can wear. And I think it is the only item of baby boy clothing that kicks any frilly dress’ ass! They are also incredibly simple to make. Anyone that can use a pair of scissors […]
Ben 10 Cake – Two-tier Tutorial
This is a step-by-step tutorial for making a 2-tier Ben 10 Cake with Fondant/Gum Paste Ben 10 and Royal Icing Details.
How to Make Elmo Cookies
Today I will be showing you how to make Elmo Cookies with Royal Icing. These cookies are fairly simple and totally delicious!
Crochet Ice-Cream Cone/Cupcake Bag Pattern
2 Free Patterns: A crochet ice-cream cone purse and a crochet cupcake purse. These patterns are really simple and quick to work up.
Soy Wax versus Paraffin Wax – DIY Paper Drinking Straws
So a while ago I made my own paper drinking straws. I promised to find out if soy wax would work as a substitute for the paraffin wax used to seal these beauties. And did it work? The short answer is: no! The long answer is: no, it did not!! But as I have gone […]
Choux Pastry with Creme Patissiere
The boys have the “bug that’s going around” (isn’t there always something going around??), so I have dug through my posts to find something I could quickly share with you. I came across this post I did a while ago about choux pastry with creme patissiere. Seeing as it was already written I thought I […]
Hard Boiled Crochet Egg Pattern
Everyone likes their eggs done a different way. My favourite way is hard-boiled with a huge dollop of Basil Hollandaise. To that end, I have made a simple little pattern for a hard-boiled crochet egg. A Hard-Boiled Crochet Egg? Why not! I needed a little project after all the maths of the Crochet Dinosaur Puzzle […]
How to Make a Fondant Ben 10
How to Make a Fondant Ben 10 I know he doesn’t resemble Ben 10 in facial features (Ben 10 has a pointy chin and a pointy nose, not a flat, fat nose and hardly any chin!), but he was a last minute decision, so I had to make do with what I had. How could […]
Sweet-covered All-in-One Rainbow Cake
This cake is not for the feint-hearted! It is psychedelic on the inside and choc-full of sweets on the outside. There are two ways to make a Rainbow Cake. The first is to layer the colours in the same pan. This gives you a mind-blowing array of colours. Unfortunately you can never tell exactly how this […]
Make Your Own: Waterproof Labels
Waterproof Labels A few weeks ago I shared a recipe for making your own bath paints. And now I am sharing the how-to for the labels I used. I know there is no need to label your kids’ bath paints as it will be quite obvious which colour is which. At least it will be […]
