Morticia Choker By Margot Potter

Description : I am sooo in love with project! The designer may have meant the Morticia Choker as a Halloween project, but if I owned it, I would wear this choker 365 days a year.

Craft Link : Morticia Choker By Margot Potter

Source : Margot Potter/The Impatient Crafter

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Bagels With Cream Cheese & Vegetables

Bagels with cream cheese are good. But, bagels with cream cheese and vegetables, are great! It’s amazing how such a small addition changes the entire taste of the sandwich.

Ingredients :

fresh bagels

good quality cream cheese

cucumber slices

tomato slices

green pepper, coarsely chopped

thin onion slices

Directions :

Spread bagel with a thick layer of cream cheese. Add vegetable. Serve immediately or the vegetables will make the bagel soggy.

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Healthy And Delicious Cream Soup

This is a recipe that allows the cook to use up whatever little bits and pieces of veggies are around the house. Out of peas? Not a problem. Too many carrots? Also, not a problem. Just go ahead and use whatever you have.

Ingredients :

1-2 cups veggies

1 quart chicken soup or equivalent amount of water and bouillon

1 tsp. onion powder

potato flakes

1 cup milk

salt and pepper

Directions :

Bring soup to a boil. Add frozen vegetables and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Using a stick blender, carefully blend. Stir in potato flakes till soup is just slightly too thick. Add one cup milk and salt and pepper to taste.

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Flower Embroidery Pattern

Each week I re-publish a work that fall under the creative commons guidelines.

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”

Image by Jane Stockton

Note: Click on image to enlarge.

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Jeans Into Shorts

Description : Make Jeans Into Shorts using appliques and fabric glue.

Craft Link : Make Jeans Into Shorts

Source : Cathie Filian

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8 Ways To Find Inspiration

The desire to be creative is something all crafters have in common.

Very few of us, even when following project instructions, follow the design exactly. We like to add our own fabrics, our own embellishments, our own little touch. Something that makes the project our own.

But what happens when inspiration just won’t come? Eight ways of “forcing” inspiration are discussed in an article at Marc Makes Art.

Here is my favorite :

Other Artists. When I feel uninspired, I go to the library and sit on the floor with art books sprawled around me. I always like to choose some favorites, and a few that are unfamiliar. I keep a notebook of ideas that sometimes includes rough sketches of an idea, but always a line or two about a project I want to start. Sometimes, it isn’t the library, but the Internet where I look at inspiring artwork. Drawn!, Flickr, DeviantArt, PhotoJojo, a random Google search, The Wooster Collective, or even a place like Bighappyfunhouse….Always explore the unknown genres of art, music, whatever when finding yourself uninspired.

Head on over to read the rest of the article for seven more inspiring ideas.

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