As Easter draws closer and all the pastel candy starts crowding the supermarket and drugstore shelves, consider buying some Peeps for a Peep Roast. They are marshmallows. With sugar on top! When you roast them, the sugar caramelizes. I might have to try this. A Gluten-Free Guide has instructions. But as you might guess, there’s […]
April is Grilled Cheese Month, a holiday I’m more than happy to observe. Check out this gallery, the Grilled Cheese Academy, of delicious-looking recipes compiled by the Wisconsin Cheese Board (now there’s a fun job!). Be careful, your mouth is about ready to start watering.
“Some people have too much time on their hands!” That’s a frequent, snarky comment we get after we post a project with an intense level of dedication to something as seemingly frivolous as Lego spaceships, highly detailed gaming minis and terrain, dioramas, dollhouses, or in this case, desktop Muppet theaters. But those who say such […]
Has anyone else noticed an upward trend in diminutive cardboard dwellings, or is it just me?
We’re all in awe over here at these incredible textile renditions of great works of art. From The Scream to Hokusai’s Wave, Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to Warhol’s Marilyn images, the forty crafters and artists of a British group calling themselves The Materialistics have created an impressive gallery of textile work. They have […]
I can’t tell you how much it warms my editor’s heart to see readers trying their hands at the projects we publish and reporting the results back to us. Charlotte DeKoning saw our recent Math Monday column on making mathematical constructions with office supplies and decided to accept the challenge of building a snub dodecahedron […]
Trikes, too! No quads in here, though. That’s something we shall have to remedy, in future.
