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EZINE CONTEST
Here is this week's question:
Send in a 'Homemade Holiday Gift
Idea'.
Send in your moneysaving tips to
lata@dotcomwomen.com
with the subject 'Holiday Gift Idea' before the 30th of
October, 2004. The best 3 Gift Ideas will win 'Bread
Recipes' ebook containing delicious bread machine recipes.
CRAFTS
Halloween Sewing Ideas
You can create great decorative
Halloween items for your home in little to no time and without
spending a ghoulish amount of money. So this Halloween, why not dabble in the creative sewing arts? Here
are some great ideas to get started:
Fun fabric bags
are fast replacing plastic pumpkins and pillowcases as the
receptacle of choice for toting home lots of candy. Making your
own is incredibly easy. Fabrics like sparkle felts, ric rac trim,
variegated threads in autumn tones and a few decorative stitches
add to the festivities. The best part, this simple to make bag is
very forgiving so you don??™t have to be an expert. Plus, you can
sew in reflective tape to keep your little ghosts and goblins
safe. For detailed instructions on how to make a fabric bag, visit
www.husqvarnaviking.com
Bring the creatures of the night
into your house by suspending soft sculpture bats from fishing
line. Cut bat shapes from black felt or fleece and stitch two
pieces together, leaving a small opening on one side. Stuff with
fiberfill and sew opening closed. Decorate finished bat with
fabric paint and pens. Use a needle to thread fishing line through
the top of the bat.
Use glow-in-the dark threads to
embroider creepy spider webs on a black fabric cut to fit
your table. Or, sew a covering from glow-in-the-dark fabric for a
trick tablecloth.
For more Halloween crafts, visit
http://www.dotcomwomen.com/crafts/halloween-crafts.shtml
HALLOWEEN
RECIPES
Spider's Web Cake
(see image of this recipe at
http://www.dotcomwomen.com/food/spider-cake.shtml)
Ingredients:
cake mix
orange frosting
white frosting
plastic spider
Method:
Prepare Cake according to the directions on the packet of the
cake mix in a round pan.
Cover cake with orange frosting. Use white or chocolate frosting
to make the spider's web. The cake shown in the picture has a white
frosting web.
Choose a center point for the web. It may not necessarily be the
center of the cake.
Starting from this center point, draw lines to the edge of the
cake all the way to the sides. Join these lines with scalloped lines
and complete concentric circles all over the surface of the cake as
shown in the picture.
Decorate the cake with a plastic spider. You can even add plastic
bugs to the web.
ELKE'S WEEKLY BEAUTY TIP
A soft warm brown eye shadow applied on lips first will
darken any too light shade.
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