Ideas For Home
I covered my dining room chairs for Halloween. This project requires a sewing machine and a YUDU screen printer. I created the bats by cutting them out using my Cricut and Happy Hauntings Cartridge. Then I created them in YUDU screens and printed them with black ink onto white canvas. I then cut the canvas into a circular moon shape. For the black cover I used black broad cloth and fit it to loosely cover the chairs and then sewed them up on three sides. I then sewed the printed moon onto the black cover. I finished it off by tying a long strip of black broad cloth around the bottom of the black covering. I made four of these in a day – go for it, you can too!
Pumpkin season only comes around once a year, so you have to make as many goodies as you can out of it. Why not go over the top with decadence? This layered cake is pumpkin chocolate chip with a pumpkin, cinnamon, and cream cheese frosting. There is really nothing else to say except copy down this recipe and make it asap. It is pretty rich, though, so this is an eating event to take on with a buddy or two. For the recipe jump on over to Phoenix New Times Chow Bella Blog: Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Layer Cake .
It is beginning to look a lot like fall – can you feel it in the air? Soon enough we will be able to turn our ovens on and bake and there is nothing thriftier then making your own bread. It really is inexpensive and is not hard at all. This is a perfect Sunday afternoon project and it will yield four loaves so you will have bread for an entire week. Well that is if you don’t slather it with butter right out of the oven and eat an entire loaf on the spot. For the recipe, how to and tips jump on over to my piece at the Phoenix New Times Chow Bella: Homemade Classic French Bread.
I was so inspired after making a tee-shirt yarn wreath that I thought why not make one for Halloween?
Here’s how: I bought a wreath from at the dollar store. The first step is to cover it with black masking tape, Next wrap black cheese cloth around it, pulling at the strings, allowing them to hang off for a spooky effect. Next I made three tee-shirt yarn flowers using black tee-shirt yarn. I attached those flowers to a backing of grey felt and glued them down to the wreath. I topped the flowers by putting copper and black hot rocks on them. For the final step I took three colors of tee-shirt yarn, braided them together and made the top hanging piece for the wreath.
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It is finally fall in Arizona and so it was time to bust out a soup recipe. This week I made a Spicy Pumpkin Black Bean Soup as blogged about at Phoenix New Times Chow Bella.
For the Recipe: Pumpkin Black Bean Soup
