Posts under ‘Tutorials’

I’ve made a foray into amigurumi recently. I have an idea for a huge project for after I finish working on The Gearheart, but I’ve gotta design some amigurumi for it. It’s a lot harder than it looks! I have made a head (whoopty doo, it’s just a ball) and I’ve been [...]

This is the first of three favor tutorials. I’ll have the others up as soon as I can find the pictures…. I think they may be on the laptop which Alex ran off with today.
First off, I got the idea for this from a tutorial I stumbled across at a craft blog called [...]

For those of you bakers out there that know the wonders of Fondant, this tutorial probably isn’t anything new. But for the rest of us, this is how I made the Guitar Hero Cupcakes! Impress your friends!
First off, here is a list of things you will need:

1. Cupcakes! Flavor of your [...]

We have this HUGE storage cabinet in our office that has always been an eyesore. It dominates the room with all of it’s scratches, smudges, and poor construction. If our teeny, tiny apartment didn’t make the extra storage it provides a necessity, I would have tossed this monster long ago. But since [...]

Remember how last week I said I failed miserably at all things baking? Well, this week, I made those vengeful Sugar Gods my bitches:

Behold! Magic the Gathering cookies! I made 25 cookies, 5 of each land. It took two days to complete them. Here’s a little tutorial:
First make sugar cookies. [...]

Anyone that cross stitches, knows about those little plastic-ey wrappers that come wrapped around the threads. One is useful, it has the color information. The other is just to keep the threads together. During the last weeks, I’ve accumulated quite a few of these little doohickies and decided I should do something [...]

So say you want to take a picture of something you have made and put it on the internet. Perhaps you’re selling something, or just showing off what you can do. No matter what you’re taking a picture of, you want it to look nice because a good picture makes your “product” look [...]