A few quick links for you, to get your day going!

Love this nautilus by The Book Collector’s Wife!  It’s on my list of cool cephalopods!

Cool chess sets at Dudecraft

5 weird things I learned at culinary school at Talk of Tomatoes

Blade Runner death scene done in Legos (Blade Runner remains one of my fave all time movies.  Right up there with The Princess Bride) (via Great White Snark)

Cute redone side table into play stove... love the creative re-use!  (Previous play stove posts here and here)

Twittered this week:

• Totally love this simple tutorial from @sisterdiane! : A super-simple way to cover a composition book
• Loving these little birdie remakes at @dollarcraft! http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2010/03/anthropologie-bird/
• Brussels…

So… I decided to make a FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster) out of a radical combination: Spaghetti and meatballs.  No, these aren’t just stacks of spaghetti, with meatballs on top, these are true meatball creatures… suitable for your own Flying Spaghetti Monster, or whatever you’d like to create!

I used a technique similar to the one I used for the Halloween Cephalopods (thanks to Filth Wizardry for the idea!).

Ingredients:

• Frozen Swedish Meatballs (I used the ones from Ikea), 2 per monster. (Defrosted)
• Thin Spaghetti, dry.
• Several tubular noodles (I had some elbows on hand, but this would probably work better with a larger…

For Halloween this year, I tried a new idea, that I had gotten from the most excellent blog, Filth Wizardry. She did this as a fun project with the kids, and I thought it looked like a lovely and disgusting item for the Halloween buffet, especially for the kiddos. Now those of you who follow me on Twitter may remember this for the Dot Cooks “Live Tweet”, where I documented all my Halloween food prep (if not, you can see the summary here!).

So why am I showing you this now, since Halloween is a whole year away?  Well, I think…

As part of moving Dabbled, I designed a new header for the site.
What do you think?
Click through to see it full size.

You’ll notice my 3 favorite things to draw are in appearance here: Robots, Cephalopods, and Monsters!

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(Today: Art. Yesterday: Crafts. Last Week: Random Fun.)

Yesterday was crafty stuff, today Part 3 is artists, and I found some with my type of subjects! Hopefully this will introduce you to some art, and give you some inspiration as well.. As usual, click through on the pics to see larger!

Another Flickr Roundup for you, this time it’s Ways to Dye Your Easter Eggs… come on, you weren’t going to just go use a kit, were you? From cabbage to duct tape, we have lots of cool ideas for making your eggs memorable. Some complicated, some easy and kid-friendly!

See under the pictures for links to the original pics, and more “how to” info.

1. Kymberlee della Luce shows us the results of dying with tissue paper. Lovely! Click thru for instructions
2. From Rick Unger, Easter Egg Dyed With Onion Skins (instructions linked)
3. Instruction on dyeing an egg using DUCT TAPE! by kateandersok
4. I’m…

Here ya go, another roundup of cool pictures from flickr.com! The theme this time is Sweet Treats, Too Cool to Eat, and here are a few really fun yummy items… some professionally done, some do-able by us amateurs, but all inspiring.

1. Lego Cake, 2. This is a steak cake!!!!, 3. Bikini Beach Bear Cupcakes, 4. Frankenstein’s monster heads, 5. Sushi Cake II, 6. Chicken Cupcakes, 7. Reuben-sandwich-cake-1, 8. spaghetti cupcakes, 9. HamburgerCupcakes

Do you have a cool sweet treat you’ve created that fits the theme? Leave a comment with a link!
If your work is featured here, be sure to grab a…

I know, I know… valentines is long over. But we have one more award to give, and here it is!

Congratulations to Jeanne at The Candy Corn Chronicles for winning the People’s Choice Award for her delightfully creepy Anti-Valentines entry: Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder.

Thanks, Jeanne, for playing, and email me at holiday -at- dabbled.org, please!

To all the finalists, your stuff was great! Be sure to grab a finalist button here (at the bottom of the Judges’ Picks post) to show off your coolness. And Jeanne, you can get your Winner button here as well!

Be on the lookout for future…

I love the Craftzine blog – (yeah, you may have seen Dabbled there a few times). You may have heard by now that Craft magazine is ditching their print version and going to all online. Sad in a way (because I love the physical lovelies on paper) but they are going to be expanding their online content and that looks to be really cool.
So I’m sure they will continue to provide tons of inspiration to us indie crafters out there!

So if you never subscribed — I adore the mag, but I’m guilty as charged, though I subscribed Handy Hubby to (the…

This was hanging out in my head based on the IF prompt “Time”. And I’m happy to say it came out pretty similar to what I envisioned. I’ve got a few more in my head to get out too, we’ll see what happens!

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Pencil, watercolor, & ink

In case you missed it:.

- Earlier today: Making a cool felt pin tutorial.. neat for valentines day!
- Last Week: Cephalopod week... Cool art and craft of the tentacled variety.
- Yummy! Make a kid friendly, easy, healthy soup! Photo-recipe here.
- Download your squid Valentine Card HERE!

Just 2 more days to get in your entry in the Anti-Valentines contest!…