2 Calzombie

***Tutorial looks familiar? A few of my favorite tutorials has made the move from Happy Find and is now residing here. Enjoy!***

Are you ready for a treat?

How about a calzone cal-zombie to sink your teeth into? Oh my tummy is rumblin' just thinking about it!

So don your aprons my little pets and let's get cooking...

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SUPPLIES:

-pizza crust dough

-shredded cheese

-pizza sauce

-pepperoni

-green & black olives

-diced red onions (optional)

-diced green bell peppers (optional)

-any other fillings you fancy

-egg white (from 1 egg)

-cardboard cut-out of zombie head (not shown)

-flour

-rolling pin

-knife

-cookie sheet

-PAM spray

-basting brush

-empty stomachs

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Set oven to 400 degrees.

Okie-dokie, so start by tracing out a zombie head on a piece of cardboard and cut out. Set aside.

Rollout pizza dough, nice and thin... the thinner-the better!

Then take your template and start carving out zombie heads with your knife.

Spray your cookie sheet with PAM and place a zombie head in sheet.

Now pile on the goodies! Don't be afraid... 

PILE.IT.ON!!! You wanna stuff this baby!

Take another zombie head cut out and place on top. With your index finger, gently push down along the edge to bind the dough pieces together.

Then take your basting brush, dip it into the egg whites and "wash" the top of the calzone cal-zombie.

With the pepperonis and olives (or any other veggies you'd like), start making the face. The spookier-the better! Once you are happy with your zombie, using your knife, make two slits for the nose (this will help ventilate the inside).

Now before you bake them, make sure to spear the eyes in place with toothpicks. If you don't, your zombies will come out blind. The pepperoni and olives has a tendency of popping off during baking.

Place in oven and bake for 14 minutes (time may vary) or until face is a nice light golden brown.

WARNING: Cheese may ooze out of Zombie's noses giving them a snotty appearence and this snot, you'll want to eat!

Remove from the oven, let it cool for a couple of minutes and DIG IN!!!

Mmmm...mmm...mmm...

Who knew zombies could taste sooo good?

Bon apetit!

2 Christmas Card Alternative

Tutorial looks familiar? A few of my favorite tutorials has made the move from Happy Find and is now residing here. Enjoy!
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 Back in December 2009, I wanted to send something other than a card. I saw these beautiful poem spools from Felt at Home and fell in love. I wanted to make something that is a fusion of a card and ornament and came up with this.

Here's a fun little twist to give to friends and love ones this holiday!

Supplies:

-small wooden spools

-round wooden balls or finials

-extra small screw eyes

-ribbons & lace

-a message printed on paper

-hot glue

-sewing machine

-needle

-scissors

-thread

-acrylic paints & paintbrushes

-varnish for acrylic paints

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Take your finial or round ball and paint a skin tone all over.

 

  

Once the paint dries, using a pencil and very lightly, draw the face.

 

 Using a very fine paintbrush, paint the face.

 

   Oh hello, little lady!

 

Paint the hair.

 

 

 Wait for the paint to completely dry. 

 

 Grab a screw eye... 

 

Slowly and firmly twist the screw eye to the top of the head.

 

 Top and center.

 

You can use the handle of a paintbrush to twist the screw.

 

 Once screwed in, it should look like this.

 

Take you varnish and do a light layer all over the head. Let it dry.

 

 When the varnish is dry, it will give a nice sheen to your doll head.

 

Grab your spool and glue gun...

 

 and put a thin strip of glue around the top of the spool. This will bind the head and the spool together.

 

It should look like this.

My dear... you'll catch a cold! let's dress you up!

 

To make a collar or scarf for her...

take a piece of lace or any other trim you fancy and cut 2 1/2" in length.

 

 Glue the lace along the neckline (where the spool and the head meets) all the way around.

 

 To make the "skirt", your ribbon should fit the spool accordingly. So if your spool is 1/2" in height, than your ribbon should be 1/2" in height as well. So in this case, I am using a 1/2" ribbon.

Cut 6 1/2" of the ribbon (again, the length depends on the size of your spool). This will give enough length to wrap around the spool and for a message.

 

        Fold in 1/4" at one end of the ribbon and glue. Set aside. 

 

On a 1/3" x 4" strip of paper, either type or handwrite your message. Make sure to leave space all along the edge for you to sew the paper onto the ribbon.

***You could use scrapbook paper instead of ribbon with your message printed on it. This eliminates a step, but I like to torture myself and add extra steps.***

 

Take your message and place it on the backside of the ribbon, butt against the fold.

Set your sewing machine to the smallest straight stitch and sew along the edge of the paper.

 

It should look like this.

 

 Now you will need to adhere the ribbon to the spool. With the raw edge of the ribbon, glue the ribbon to the backside of the spool. Continue to glue the ribbon to the spool until you reach the message. The message should be on the inside of the ribbon (or backside if you will) and wrap clockwise.

Set aside.

 

 Cut 12" of thin ribbon. This will keep your message from unraveling.

 

Hand stitch the thin ribbon to the end of the "message" ribbon.

 

Take an extra piece of thin ribbon and glue it to the inside edge of the message ribbon. This will give a finished look and hide the stitch. I didn't do a good job hiding it. Sorry! 

 

Continue to wrap and glue the ribbon all the way around. Cut the end.

 

It should look like this. The backside...

 

the frontside.

 

Cut 6" of thin ribbon, loop it through the hook and knot it.

Wrap your message around the spool and with the thin ribbon, wrap and tie shut...

TA-DAH!!!!

 

A pretty-pretty ornament to adorn the tree!

   

  

       

0 Repurpose, reuse...T-shirt bags

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Got old t-shirts? Here's a simple and easy way to re-use whatcha got! I found this idea from a Disney family magazine...

supplies:

-an old t-shirt

-extra wide double fold bias tape 

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Now you can either hand stitch this together or you can use the sewing machine. I used my handy-dandy sewing machine... my personal weapon of choice!

Grab your t-shirt (wrinkles and all).

Lay your shirt out nice and flat. Cut one sleeve off. Make you sure you cut a wide enough hole.

Fold your shirt over in half like so. You are going to use the side you cut as a template to cut the other sleeve. 

Lay your shirt open. Your cuts should look like this.

Now cut a wider opening at the neckline of your shirt.

*Optional*

You can cut the bottom of the shirt, depending on how long you want your bag to be. 

Flip your shirt inside out and sew shut the bottom of your shirt. I double stitched the bottom for added security.

Flip your shirt right side out.

Grab your bias tape and begin to wrap the tape around the sleeves and neckline. The bias tape will help hold the shape of your shirt.

To finish off the end of the bias tape, leave an inch overlap...

fold in 1/2" of the bias tape in like so...

lay the folded side down on top and sew.

I sewn both edges for added security and strength to the bag.

And there you have your t-shirt bag!!! 

***Have any old Halloween t-shirts? These would make perfect trick or treat bags!***