The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Summer is the time to chomp into a big, juicy, pink watermelon with friends and family. Spoofee has got a handy guide to picking a good one: • Tap the watermelon with your knuckles and listen for a hollow sound • There should be little color contrast between the green stripes • The end should […]
Look at these adorable baseball cupcakes Su-Yin made and shows you the process from her sketchbook to finished pieces. Link.
Jason Mecier is a San Francisco-based mosaic artist best known for his astounding and kitschy portraits of celebrities fashioned from foodstuff like beans, cereal, and macaroni. His Olsen Twins portrait is made from various candies such as peppermint sticks and (I think) Chiclets and jellybeans. The Carol Channing portrait above was fashioned from yarn and […]
Garth at Extreme Craft points us today to these two pancakes modeled after Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton made by artist Kathy King. Link. For more pancake art like Dai Harkuki’s pancake dog above, you can check out the pancake art Flickr group. Link.
Ellia of Green Bean Baby was inspired by us and decided to create a very useful grocery list that you can take with you each time you go to the store. Download it and print it before you’re off to do your groceries. Link.
Kombucha Madness By Arwen O’Reilly Brew your tea with fermented zing. A special project from CRAFT 02 (subscription information). Kombucha is on its way to being the new “it” drink. This fermented tea is so popular that several brands are available at upscale grocery stores, and its Wikipedia entry has tripled in length since I […]
Here’s a fun idea for your next cocktail party or knitting group meet up, add fun photos to the bottom of a wine glass. No one will ever mix up their glass. If the idea of a fun face starting back at you is too creepy to imagine, you could even use landscape or close […]
