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Posted By thecook on January 31st, 2012

Cocktail printables

Spoon Wreath-plastic spoons and a glue gun

Easy double layer flowers using old paper

Bird templates

Button pens-glue gun, layered buttons on Pick n Pay pens

Old pieces of material cut into circles and glue-gunned or sewed onto clips

white paper, flea market wire words, buttons and string

4 hearts with a brad= a flower

paper bag stars-5 bags, double sided tape a punch and string. Template on Hostess Blog

4 felt circles folded into quarters, sewn together=flower

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PEG it with love

Posted By The Man on November 15th, 2011

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Gold dusted Chuckles

Posted By The Man on November 9th, 2011

THIS CHRISTMAS, add a festive gold sparkle to your table.

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Christmas printables

Posted By The Man on November 9th, 2011

http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/archives.cfm/category/do-it-yourself/page/1

http://papercrave.com/paper-crave-printable-hol

Bird shapes

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Christmas inspiration, gifts and styling

Posted By The Man on November 7th, 2011

I came up with this idea for Christmas 2010 and it’s one of my favourite festive crafts:

Take skewers and paint them with craft paint (buy little containers for R5 from the Crafters market).

Google various Christmas shapes and clipart and print them out onto some coloured and white scrap paper or cardboard.

Alternatively source stars and shapes from scrap shops.

Cut out the shapes and using a glue gun or glue stick adhere them to the skewers.

They can be used for strawberries (to dip into little pails of chocolates), cheese or just for general décor. Also pop marshmallows or mini donuts onto the skewers for the kids to dip into chocolate and serve them something fun instead of traditional un-friendly Christmas fare, like mince pies and Christmas cake or pudding.

Clever ways to give your gifts a festive sparkle: Add scrap rub-ons and stickers or alternatively glue gun Woolworth’s chocolate balls onto the gift or bag in the shape of a tree.

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Festive downloads: beautiful bunting, magical matches and clever cocktail tags.

Posted By The Man on November 7th, 2011

To print the MATCHES and COCKTAIL topper craft go to

http://www.creaturecomfortsblog.com/home/2009/7/2/freebie-4th-of-july-printable-from-twig-thistle.html

The glass bottles are from Consol glass, the reindeer chalk board labels and paper straws are from In Good Company.

Beautiful Bunting

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Edible Christmas trees: Mini Doughnut Tower and Candy Cane tree

Posted By The Man on November 7th, 2011

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Christmas Crackers

Posted By The Man on October 26th, 2011

I just LOVE these fun candy-striped lollies from Woolworths. They are available in packs of four, for R9.95.

I made some homemade, simple, vintage style crackers for my current Christmas course and these bright lollies make perfect cracker fill-ins and treats.

If you are making your own crackers and would like something more elegant to pop in, then check out the LOVE erasers from www.ingoodcompany.co.za for around R60.

Cracker poppers can be found at Wespack and craft shops and the cracker can be made simply with a good old fashioned toilet roll and tissue paper! Add vintage stamps (from your local scrap shop) and gorgeous red and white string (Mr String) from In Good Company.

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Early Christmas shopping

Posted By The Man on July 30th, 2011

Ridiculous as this may sound; my next course is going to be CHRISTMAS!

Here is a preview of the gifts already on sale @ the COOK shop, just in case you would like to start your Christmas shopping early!

From designer dog bowls and the funkiest pet accessories to cheeseboards paired with cheese knives and beautiful dish towels and large chalkboard frames there is something for every COOK fanatic!

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I heart these new LOVE NOTES

Posted By The Man on June 2nd, 2011

LOVE LOVE LOVE the new heart shaped pastel wafers from Nicoletta.

Their delicate little pink hearts were used on my chocolate icing for the cupcake course and the white ones were so delicate and light, they sat obediently perched on top of the lightest fluffiest whipped meringue icing-anything else would have weighed down the meringue or fallen off.

These large ones come with an edible food colour Koki (in pink of course) so you can write little love notes for lunch boxes, cupcakes and cakes, or pop them in whipped cream on a pavlova!

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