This is day two of my I Heart NY posting, and I promise to return to food tomorrow. Included here are some pictures from the glam media Fashion Week event at the Library Hotel in New York City that I attended yesterday for Craft Gossip. The final photo is of a plaque embedded in the sidewalk in front of the … Read More ...
I Heart NY
Bravo to glam media! Glam media, whose portal to the world can be found at glam.com, the fabulous fashion, beauty, home and living site, was my kind host for the day. In honor of Fashion Week, they welcomed us bloggers to the Writer’s Den suite in the grand Library Hotel (which, my other host–in the form of providing … Read More ...
Dress Up Your Dinner Glasses
These gorgeous wine glasses are brought to you by one of my favorite sites, the hostess with the mostess blog. Find the link on the hostess blog here. The design, made with rub-on transfers, is also removeable, so you can switch the designs depending on your party theme. Oh so clever. The product used by the hostess blog … Read More ...
Pig Themed Party Food – Piggy Bites
Even though this post is a year old, the minute I saw these piggy bread bites, I had to post. I just think they are so adorable. Visit “Cafe Chocolada” for the recipe and instructions. The blogger adapted the recipe from “oblakica” (in Croatian), who in turn got the recipe from a Dr. Oetker cookbook. I can’t get over … Read More ...
Clever Tool for Brownies
Wilton.com has a ridiculous number of fun decorating products and an entire section filled with hundreds of ideas for brownies, cakes, cupcakes, candy and more for every holiday and event you can think of. This clever tool, the Push N Pop Brownie and Treat cutter easily creates shapes from brownies with its built in plunger. Visit their brownie shop for … Read More ...
Free Download for Candy Boxes
A hearty (groan, bad pun) thank you to the blogger at “Mushy” for giving us these free, downloadable patterns to create candy boxes. She provides photographs of each step, too, making this an easy project and super cute Valentine’s gift.… Read More ...
Book Review – Vegan Cupcakes
Check out Vegan CupCake Recipes, a recipe-sharing site with tons of, what else, vegan cupcake recipes, as well as how-to videos, tips, articles and a shop.
I began this vegan cupcake search thanks to Cupcakes Take the Cake for linking us to these purpley vegan cupcakes, from Eurovision Nicola. Find the recipe here (link provided by the … Read More ...
Make Your Own Bread Bowl
I’ve always put bread bowls in the category of “cool concept, but probably too difficult to make my own.” Seems I was wrong. The lovely, info filled site “Apple Pie, Patis, and Pate” (pretend the accents are in place, as how to do this eludes me), gives us a simple-seeming recipe and how-to. The site’s subtitle, “On … Read More ...
Hip Chocolate Sculptures
A huge kudos goes to the blog, “If It’s Hip, It’s Here,” for compiling these works by amazing chocolate sculptors. (Shoes by Gerard Petzl…His site is also endlessly fascinating.) See penguins, cities, saints and more. Whole dissertations can be written on the intersection of art, decadence and consumption, I believe, and viewing such work confirms my … Read More ...
Children’s Books for Foodies
As a foodie with aspirations to write children’s books, the blog entry at “Dog Hill Kitchen” of course caught my eye. The blogger has compiled a list of kid’s books with food, such as classics like “Green Eggs and Ham
” to more modern tales like “The Story of Cherry the Pig
.” the illustration below, from … Read More ...
Organize Your Kitchen with Free Downloadable Labels
Thanks to the kindness of the blog Poppytalk, you can download these free labels for your kitchen ware. While you’re visiting Poppytalk, find lots of links and inspiration on this Canadian design blog. It’s a wonderful resource for decorating, crafts, art and more. Plus, they support and promote new talent…always appreciated. 
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Going Somewhere? Check out Foodtourist.com…
Foodtourist.com, “dedicated to food lovers throughout the world,” is an incredible resource for the foodie traveller. Find restaurants, cooking schools and programs, the best wines, gourmet-friendly hotels, markets, produce, books and more in tons of cities worldwide. They are based in Australia and France, so reviews are more heavily focused in these areas, but the rest of the world … Read More ...
Easy DIY Nutter Butter Snowmen
These cute snowmen are made from Nutter Butters
, a clever idea from My Pretty Purse (inspired by the Nutter Butter ghosts made by the 3Bs…Baseball, Baking & Books). Find the instructions here. Anyone who has been reading this column for awhile knows why I like these snowmen so much. I posted a while back on the glory … Read More ...
Tea and Chocolate…
Find the recipe for these hand molded lavendar and earl grey chocolates at Food Rockz, an info-filled foodie blog (which I’m glad to have found, because, like the writer, I, too, am DC based and use ellipses liberally… I like commas, too…). He’s also kind enough to provide the link to an instructional on molding chocolates. And any fellow … Read More ...
Never Lose Your Coffee Again
Visit the lovely, crafty, design blog Hope Studios to make these coffee mug charms. You know anything made from Shrinky Dinks must be horribly clever. She offers step by step instructions and photographs. (You might also want to visit the artist’s etsy shop here and examples of her work here.)… Read More ...