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| Crafty Chica Challenge: Create a Day of the Dead Shrine CRAFT and iLoveToCreate.com have teamed up to present to you the Crafty Chica Challenge: Create a Day of the Dead Shrine! Day of the Dead (or Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a holiday celebrated in Mexico as well as by many in the United States on November 2nd. Day of the Dead is a holiday to remember loved ones who have passed, and includes many characteristic decorations such as skeleton figurines, candy skulls, marigolds and much more. For this challenge, we ask you to create your own Day of the Dead Shrine and share it with us. This Crafty Chica Challenge will run for 4 weeks, and the Prize winners will be announced on Monday, November 2nd. Deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. PDT October 28, 2009. Due to the personal nature of these Day of the Dead Shrines, the winner will be selected via drawing. There will be one (1) grandprize winner, and three (3) runners-up. The Grand Prize is a Crafty Chica gift basket, an advanced copy of the Crafty Chica's first novel "Waking Up in the Land of Glitter" and a $100 gift certificate to shop at the Crafty Chica's store, ChicanoPopArt.com The Runner-up Prize is a Crafty Chica gift basket as well as a $25 gift certificate to the MakerShed.To enter this Crafty Chica Challenge, please submit photos of your shrine to the Crafty Chica Challenge Flickr group. Enter in a 250 word or less description of what your shrine represents and what materials were used in its creation.Visit the Crafty Chica Challenge contest page for all rules and regulations.Tomorrow I'll post up some inspirational shrines to get your creative juices going!Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
How-To: Polymer Clay Candy Corn Earrings In theme with the soap cupcakes I posted earlier this morning, here's another tasty-looking craft project. These polymer clay candy corn earrings from the Polymer Clay Cookbook look like a good beginner project, and one that could be translated in to a handful of other halloween uses. Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream Homemade Pumpkin Pie Ice CreamBy Jennifer Perkins and Chris BoehkEvery fall my husband Chris whips up a batch of his world famous pumpkin pie ice cream! This year we served it at a Halloween party and are planning to take it to a Thanksgiving potluck! Since this is his special fall creation, I let him write up the instructions and I took the pictures!Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Trains, crafts at Monmouth Museum (The Hub) MIDDLETOWN — The Monmouth Museum's annual holiday exhibition explores a culinary theme this year with trees and trimmings decorated by local garden clubs and the Friends of the Museum. The museum's annual Holiday Exhibit will run through Jan. 3. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Museums family day will teach needlepoint crafts (The Press-Enterprise) San Bernardino County Museum is inviting families to slow down, relax and try out a needlepoint activity at the museum's Family Fun Day, Saturdayfrom 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Create your own design or use one of ours to create your own needlepoint ornament or bookmark. All activities are free with paid museum admission. us.rd.yahoo.com |