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How-To: Cranberry Cookies

Christy at Instructables has a recipe for these delightful cranberry cookies, which appear to be perfect in every way: Cranberry cookies make great Christmas cookies, but are also a great way to use up leftover fresh cranberries after the holidays. These are my favorite cranberry nut swirl cookies – they’re well worth freezing cranberries so […]

Valentine Gingerbread House

Kristy of Craftastica makes a great point in her post about this fun Valentine gingerbread house she made with her children. This year the girls and I decided to make gingerbread houses. Well, the holidays can sort of sneak up on a person, so we didn’t make them until after Christmas. That got me thinking, […]

SurfaceScapes 2.0 demo

Wolfgang Baur, former editor of the immortal D&D magazine DRAGON and current publisher of a new, independent D&D magazine Kobold Quarterly had a chance to play around with the second edition of MS Surface-based SurfaceScapes D&D game. There are a lot of cool developments, like being able to load your character sheet onto a smartphone […]

Handmade Valentine’s Day Cards

Handmade Valentine’s Day Cards

It’s not to late to make your own Valentine’s cards! Here’s some inspiration from fellow CRAFT readers with Vday cards made with lots of love. Tamara of Art, Adventures and a Toddler shows you how to make this felt monster Valentine. Stitchcraft has a tutorial for a Valentine’s Day card with attached tissue cozy that’s […]