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The Technique Zone: Acrylic Paint Transfer. Supplies needed: Acrylic dabbers, photocopy of an image, water spritzer bottle, paintbrush, card stock, craft sheet and heat tool (optional) Take the lid off the dabbers and brush the paint onto the card stock, ensure you get a good coverage Take your photocopied image ( remember that you will get a reverse of the image, so don't use bold words), flip it over and place it in the acrylic.

The Technique Zone: Acrylic Paint Transfer

Lightly press it down making sure it's smooth and not wrinkled Leave to air dry for at least 15 minutes and then if you wish give it a blast with the heat tool Only move onto this step when you are sure your paint is completely dryTake your water filled spritzer bottle, spray the back of the paper no more than two squirts, you don't want it too wet Next start to rub the paper very gently with your finger. Top 15 Healthy, Trendy Foods for 2012. By Jessie Price, Deputy Food Editor for EatingWell Magazine and Cassidy Tawse-Garcia One telling sign that a career in food was a good fit for me was that I've always loved grocery shopping.

Top 15 Healthy, Trendy Foods for 2012

I can happily spend hours browsing the aisles just to see if I might discover something I haven't noticed before. Lucky for me, I'm the food editor of EatingWell Magazine and I get to talk with our team of cooks in the EatingWell Test Kitchen about their daily supermarket shopping trips and the new things they've noticed during their trips up and down the aisles. BubbleCrumb. What's For Dinner. Fabulous 5-Minute Fudge Wreath. Make our easy and delicious fudge wreath this season!

Fabulous 5-Minute Fudge Wreath

It's the perfect treat to give friends and family during the holidays. PREP: 5 min + chilling. Cooking With a Crock Pot - Crock Pot Ingredients. Continue. Landee See, Landee Do: Festival of Trees: Glitter Cardstock Trees. Pumpkin Pie Croissants. Recently, in my hunt for the perfect ways to use up my pumpkin, I found this amazingly simple and delicious recipe on Pressed Down, Shaken Together that uses pumpkin and crescent rolls.

Now I have to say that it’s been awhile since I’ve bought said crescent rolls (don’t know why) and since I always love to mix up what I eat I decided to give it a shot. Boy was this delicious, seriously y’all, you’ve got to try it. It’s flaky, sweet, tasty, flavorful and mmmm, just feels right with a glass of milk or some hot tea. So get your ingredients ready and LET’S BAKE! Pumpkin Pie Croissants (recipe from here) Ingredients: - 2 tubes of refrigerated crescent rolls - 1/2 block of cream cheese - 1 cup canned pumpkin - 1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice + 1 tbsp. pumpkin pie spice - 3 tbsp. sugar + 4 tbsp. sugar Directions: Jesus: From Genesis to Revelation.

Pumpkin Vegetarian Chili Recipe. 6 Common Mistakes You're Making with Roast Chicken. To many cooks, roasting a whole chicken is scary.

6 Common Mistakes You're Making with Roast Chicken

A chicken is a blank canvas, so there are many factors that impact flavor and moisture. Plus, precise cooking time is important, not to mention the many different types of bird.There's a lot of potential for failure. How do you season it? Where do you insert the thermometer? How do you get the skin (everyone's favorite part) perfectly crisp? 1. 2. 4. 6. Cookies in Chinese Food Boxes - Oprah.com#slideshow. Decorative Thanksgiving Candle Craft and Shop #GlueNGlitter — Life With Sharon. #f5692a79e1aec2. #f5692a79e1aec2. Potato Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Cream Sauce. Pioneer Woman Home & Garden. Look at this cute purse.

Pioneer Woman Home & Garden

I received it as a gift over the weekend. I love it. Cute handles… Very cute lining. But what I really love is the woven material. The contrasting stripes. Pioneer Woman Home & Garden. A sweet friend of mine sent the girls and me a box of adorably adorable owl pillows this week.

Pioneer Woman Home & Garden

She doesn’t sell them, doesn’t have an Etsy shop…she just makes them. I think they might be the sweetest things I’ve ever seen, and I think they’ll be precious in the girls’ new room. I don’t know what it is about owl pillows. Or owls in general. Pumpkin Mousse with Crunchy Gingersnaps and Maple Creme Fraiche. Candy Cane Blossoms. Too darn cute.

Candy Cane Blossoms

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method. Pulled Leftover Turkey Sandwich with Rainbow Slaw. If you’re anything like we are one of the highlights of the Holiday season (or really anytime of the year) is serving a gorgeous whole roasted turkey.

Pulled Leftover Turkey Sandwich with Rainbow Slaw

Not only are the “Ooohs” and “Ahhhs” over your succulent roast beast worthy of any family’s love, but the promise of a dinner that’s just a litle more wonderful than normal. Add a few over the top side dishes and you’ve got yourself a true feast. Unfortunately once that meal is all said and done, there’s the question of what to do with the leftover turkey. 8 Crafts Using Baby Food Jars. A couple of weeks ago I shared with you a few recipes using leftover jar baby food.

8 Crafts Using Baby Food Jars

Now that all your baby food jars are empty here are a few baby food jar crafts that look pretty neat using the empty baby food jars. Diane Morgan's Easy Homemade Treats to Give for Christmas. Papier-mache easter eggs. For Easter I made papier-mache polka dotted eggs.

papier-mache easter eggs

I created them using small water balloons and tissue paper then I filled them with candy and toys and sealed them shut. The egg can hold a surprising amount of candy and the tissue paper seems delicate making for a delightfully heavy and yet fragile object, much like real egg. Also like a real egg you have to break the shell to get at what’s inside. I like things you have to destroy to open. You’ll need: Sweet and sour drinks. Healthy Eating Plate. The Healthy Eating Plate, created by nutrition experts at Harvard School of Public Health and editors at Harvard Health Publications, was designed to address deficiencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s MyPlate. The Healthy Eating Plate provides detailed guidance, in a simple format, to help people make the best eating choices. EGO Tea Company. Chocolate bars by Chocomize – Create your own personalized chocolate from over 100 ingredients.

Stash Tea Company Official Site. Wine Types Chart. Watercolored vases. My latest DIY for Project Wedding is bright and cheerful, a nice break from the bleak winter weather this last week. Making your own watercolored vases is an affordable option for a spring wedding or party. To make them, you can use any type of plain glass (thrifted or saved from recent packaging will save you money). Combine paint with water and swirl the vase around in the mixture, it creates a very pretty looking watercolor effect. Find the exact instructions and measurements here. Guest blogger - Sasha from The Guilded Bee: Here's another DIY project from our sweet friend, Sasha - from the The Gilded Bee.

Be sure to check out her awesome shop full of handmade packaging lovelies. Thanks for being here with us Sasha! 353486_460s_v2.jpg (funny,sites,humor,internet,web) picture on VisualizeUs. Nutella Mug Cake. Bring Your Child's Favorite Characters to Life with These Disney-Themed Lunches Healthy Mickey-Shaped PB&J Muffins: A Breakfast the Whole Family with Love A Yummy Instant Pot Chicken and Rice Recipe Even the Pickiest Eaters Will Love.

Sponsored: Cook with Chef Boyardee® Capn Wacky's Lists. Questions I Have For People Who Have Their Life Figured Out. Books: Get Healthy - Culture. Throw a Holiday Party. Homemade Treats That Make Great Gifts. Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes from Celebrity Chefs. How to Make the Healthiest Choices at Thanksgiving. The Top 20 Things Oprah Knows for Sure.

11 creepy cocktails to help you celebrate Halloween. Top 10 classics – vote for the most beautiful book. German Advertising. How to turn water into marbles. Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep. Mind = Blown. Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ... Lead Paint Comics - Vitamin L. If You Love, Love Openly. Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress plain. Several monks secretly fell in love with her. One of them wrote her a love letter, insisting upon a private meeting.

Eshun did not reply. Writing Tips from C. S. Lewis - Till He Comes. Creative Writing For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Thirty Question Character Survey. 136 Creepy Wikipedia Articles. The 10 Types of Writers' Block (and How to Overcome Them) 29 ways to stay creative by Huub Koch (therealhuubkoch. If-I-Could-Write-Words.

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Humor. Household. The Phobia List. Unexplained Mysteries of Feral Children. “Monkey boys,” “wolf girls,” “gazelle boys,” and even an “ostrich boy;” they are all part of the lore of the feral children. Also known as “wild children,” these are children who have grown up with little or no human contact, and they are therefore unaware of human social behavior or language. Some are thought to have been raised by animals, some have reportedly fended for themselves in the wild, and others have grown up in the forced isolation. A feral child (also, colloquially, wild child) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very early age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language, in some cases this abandonment was due to the parents' rejection of a child's severe intellectual or physical impairment.

Feral children may have experienced severe pain before being abandoned or running away. 1. In the late summer of 1751 Peter went missing from Broadway Farm and could not be traced. 2. Spirit Vaults : Meditation - Essay. It seems everyone is interested in meditation...talking about the wonderful benefits, recommending classes and discussing the different ways to "do it".

Ethical Halloween Candy That Doesn't Suck - Food. Child Slaves Made Your Halloween Candy. Stop Buying It. - Food. All you need to know about Visual Thinking. Protect Your Heart: An Age-By-Age Guide - iVillage#389305. Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. Heart-Healthy 1,800-calorie Diet Plan.

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