To those celebrating today, I wish you a very merry holiday!

We have several talented guest posters contributing this week, so don’t miss the guest posts! Chica and Jo’s yummy marshmallow pops would be a fun project to do with the kids home this week… and stay tuned… Hint: the next two are felt related tutorials, but very different!

If you missed any holiday posts, you can check out the Dabbled holiday roundup here.
And see all holiday 08 posts here.

And don’t throw away that turkey carcass! Remember to Make your own stock and freeze it!!!

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Preview: Coming in January, the Return of the Black Heart Anti-Valentines Day Contest… Start your planning now!

The votes are in, and although I loved all our entrants, here are our top two vote getters in the Dabbled Upcycled Holiday Challenge.
1 – From She’s Crafty (shop here)
This cozy sweater bag… it even has pockets! What a great gift!
2 – From Chica & Jo: Make your Own Snowglobes! Such a fun little project with tons of possibilities! And a tutorial to make them yourself!
Since you can only win with one entry, third goes to Laurienrick’s adorable Corduroy Trees.

Congrats to the winners… !

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Some of the cool holiday stuff and link post we’ve posted thus far… in case ya missed it!

1. How to Make your own Shrinky Santa Ornament – Download the Santa, too! HERE PS I added a colored santa you can print and shrink too..
2. Lemon Chess Pie – Make it and Decorate with a winter snowflake theme HERE
3. Voting Still Open in the Dabbled Upcycled Craft Contest… Vote here, or just check out the cool stuff!
4. How to Make Homemade Eggnog. Try it! HERE
5. Make a Freeze Homemade Chicken (or turkey) Stock (something to do after you eat that roasted turkey!)-…

CONTEST OVER: WINNERS HERE!

The Holiday Contest entries are closed, and we have 10 lovely entries, consolidated here. Check ‘em out! I’ll pick a winner, and we’ll also have a people’s choice award, so vote for your favorites below.. (Grab a nifty robot santa contest button below, too!)

You can see more views of the entries in the Dabbled Flickr Pool, and be sure to click through the links below for more information about the item creation, and for tutorials on some.

1. Mini Snow Globes (more, and tutorial, here),
2. Christmas Trees for a Mantle,
3. Purse from Sweaters,
4. Snowmen: Tink and…

VOTING BEGINS: 12:00 noon Wednesday 12/10/2008 (NOW!)
VOTING ENDS: 12/14/2008
Get out the vote for yours or your favorites! Link back to here or use the button below.

VOTING OVER: WINNERS HERE!

1 Building a snowman from Brian H
2 Animated e-card from art by andy
3 3D Sleigh from cheeky magpie
4 Santa on a scooter from christine grove
5 Hip for the Holidays from Peter Breese
6 Keep Me Warm in the Snow from Carolineickle
7 Santa and the Yeti from Bella Sinclair
8 Snowman Family from Diana Evans
9 I Don’t Do Jingles from Mocando
10 Red Balloons and Green from Bill Nagel
11 Goose and Girl from Mamaliga
12 Santa and Dogs from Amy Cartwright

Hurry! Get Your Entry In

1 Building a snowman from Brian H
2 Animated e-card from art by andy
3 3D Sleigh from cheeky magpie
4 Santa on a scooter from christine grove
5 Hip for the Holidays from Peter Breese
6 Keep Me Warm in the Snow from Carolineickle
7 Santa and the Yeti from Bella Sinclair
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Chicken broth or stock* is a required ingredient in many of our holiday staples. Have you ever made your own? The other day I roasted a chicken, and once I had cut all the meat off the bones, I decided to make stock from the remainder. It saves money by getting value out of something you’d just through away, and has a richer taste and texture than the canned broth from the grocery store–plus it’s healthy! If you don’t usually roast chicken, this is a great thing to do with the leftover bones from your typical grocery store rotisserie chicken.…

Wanna Enter? See the Rules here, and get those photos on Flickr! You have one more week!
In case you missed it, we also have the Quickie Holiday Card graphic contest — go enter!.

laurienrick enters several cool items! You can also find her etsy shop on the Shopping Links page!
Rows 1&2:
-a retro plaid crossover bag: “It began as a vintage wool dress that was all sewn together except for the hems around the skirt and sleeves – very Mary Tyler Moore. I appliqued some little flowers cut from a wool skirt over a few little moth bites, and it’s lined with…

Oatmeal Cookies are the best comfort food cookie. And they are so versatile! The handy hubby got the urge to make oatmeal cookies the other day, so I handed him my favorite recipe, and grabbed the camera. He doesn’t like chocolate (I KNOW! CRAZY!) so he made these with raisins (so traditional!), but I love to make these with chocolate chips and pecans instead. OK, so there’s nothing really particularly Christmas-y about these, but don’t they just scream HOME? (Want more Xmas-y? Check out these Christmas Tree Cookies from earlier this week)

Instructions and Recipe below the pics:

Ingredients:
2 Sticks butter, softened.
1 c…

It’s Thanksgiving for those of us in the US, I wish everyone has a safe and happy Turkey Day. This lovely Bacon Wrapped Turducken
<– is one of the many cool things at Superpunch’s Thanksgiving Round-up. Neat stuff – check it out!

So, taking a quick moment today to you guys how thankful I am for all of you, the Dabblers out there… I wouldn’t write this stuff if I didn’t have you to read it!
THANKS!