home made chocolate bars

Put whatever you are doing down.. and run to the nearest grocery store!! (okay, perhaps your car is faster) I found recipes for Chocolate bars!! Ahhhh!

Snickers Bars

Snickers Bar recipe can be found here.

Kit Kat Bars

Get the Kit Kat tutorial from Grandma's Desserts here. If your thing is Twix check out this site. Oh, you're a 3 Musketeers junky? I guess this is more your speed. Now I gotta go. Got some shopping to do if I want to win Mommy of the Year tomorrow.

how I spent the last ten minutes

Well if you thought I was weird before, I'm about to up it a notch. I just watched a video of someone wrapping presents for the last 10 minutes and enjoyed it so much I needed to blog about it right away.

Today is Earth Day and as a result many online businesses are giving discounts today. I thought I'd take a gander at some and what passed before my eyes was truly creative and mesmerizing. Jenn Playford of Furochic takes gift wrap and makes it green by offering cloth gift wrap and wonderfully creative tutorials on how to wrap. Pretty neat huh? Happy Earth Day!

fusing plastic bags

I think I might be the last to know, but I'll post this anyway since I love the idea for so many reasons.

Etsy Lab Archive: Fusing Plastic Bags Article gives you a complete tutorial in how to repurpose those nasty plastic bags from the drug store etc. Once you've fused together 7 layers or so you can actually sew with them and make all sorts of wonderful waterproof things. I'm already planning a bag like this for myself.

spring planting

I live near a dump. A smelly, unsightly dump. It's not a big draw to the neighbourhood and probably does keep some away, but the smell doesn't reach our house and I only notice it when I'm getting off the highway at our exit.

If their can be a good thing about living next to a dump it is this. I'm keenly aware of what we put out at the curb every week.

If I can recycle, reuse or reduce I do and if I can find beautiful crafts that have been re purposed it makes my day. Here's just one example of re purposing at it's craftiest. At Shrimp Salad Circus

easter cupcakes

Yay bunnies! Hippity hop to Bakerella for the how to!

the happy baker

After drooling all over the laptop looking at Erin's creations I just have to try making these cookies myself. Made from Cadbury's mini eggs these Easter cookies are what I want in my basket.

Please visit Toronto's The Happy Baker Blog for more drooling.

dog toy!

I don't have a dog.

I doubt that I ever will, but if I ever have a dog, I will buy them this toy.. infact I'll buy several for all their doggie friends too.

Go here now.

painting ceramics

I had a date with my daughter a few weeks ago. We went to the Ceramics studio and painted mugs. She made this one for Daddy. What a great activity to do with kids! You can have a great afternoon out, create one of a kind artwork or a present and have it be something functional!

In Ottawa check out Gotta Paint. Shops like this often do birthday parties and other functions on the premise too!