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Pecan pie with whiskey cream sauce is really easy to make and uses delicious ingredients like Karo dark syrup. Make pecan pie with whiskey cream sauce with help from a culinary professional in this free video clip.
The secret to making great potato frittatas rests within how many servings you've chosen to prepare. Make potato frittatas with help from a culinary professional in this free video clip.
"Just Married" decorations made with cans have been a staple of many a wedding celebration for decades. Make "Just Married" decorations with cans with help from an experienced crafts expert in this free video clip.
Making rock and roll decorations are quick, inexpensive and really creative. Make rock and roll decorations with help from an experienced craft expert in this free video clip.
Cornbread stuffing is a really great dish to serve when Thanksgiving rolls around. Learn about a great cornbread stuffing recipe with help from a European-trained Executive Chef who has more than 25 years of experience in this free video clip.
Oyster stuffing can make the perfect addition to any Thanksgiving menu. Learn about oyster stuffing recipes for Thanksgiving with help from a European-trained Executive Chef who has more than 25 years of experience in this free video clip.
Masks for kids are by far some of the most fun projects to decorate for a few key reasons. Decorate masks for kids with help from a longtime crafts expert in this free video clip.
When making a Peruvian potato appetizer, you're always going to want to make sure that you have a few key ingredients at the ready. Make Peruvian potato appetizers with help from a culinary professional in this free video clip.
Not all pumpkin pie recipes include a lot of dairy, or any dairy at all. Get a non-dairy pumpkin pie recipe with help from the owner of a raw foods restaurant in this free video clip.
Turkey pom pom crafts aren't just for cheer leading anymore. Make turkey pom pom crafts with help from a crafts expert if fifteen years in this free video clip.
Tootsie Pop turkey crafts are a great, delicious way to show off your creativity. Make Tootsie Pop turkey crafts with help from a crafts expert with fifteen years of experience in this free video clip.
Not all beaded napkin rings are necessarily going to be difficult to make. Learn about easy-to-make, beaded napkin rings that you can make right at home with help from a crafts expert with over fifteen years of experience in this free video clip.
One of the most delicious ways to start your day is with a nice potato omelet. Make a potato omelet with help from a former successful international model turned celebrity chef and award-winning author in this free video clip.
When making potato strings, you're always going to want to keep a few key culinary tips in mind. Make potato strings with help from a food host and private chef in this free video clip.
The secret to making great potato halves rests within a few key areas of the preparation process. Make potato halves with help from a food host and private chef in this free video clip.
At Thanksgiving, you should be thankful for good food and good company without having to stress out about your turkey or how to decorate your centerpiece. eHow spoke to four experts in their respective fields to harvest the best advice on crafts, decor, special treats and food all designed to make your guests grateful to be at your table.
A simple Thanksgiving centerpiece can really put that perfect finishing touch on your holiday decorations. Make a simple Thanksgiving centerpiece with help from a floral design industry professional in this free video clip.
Vegan pumpkin pie brownies are a delicious snack for the fall time of year. Make vegan pumpkin pie brownies with help from a private cook and founder of an underground kitchen in this free video clip.
A coat rack provides a place to hang coats, jackets, sweaters, hats and scarves, and is a functional way to reduce clutter in the home. Coat racks come in two basic designs: free-standing and wall-mounted racks. However, purchasing a coat rack that is both functional and decorative is an expensive endeavor. At a fraction of the cost, you can make your own customized coat rack with an artistic flare.
Bring the feel of the ocean to your home by creating homemade buoys intended for decoration. A buoy is a piece of wood or other material that floats and enables those in ships and boats to receive alerts about shallow water, dangerous conditions and other navigational hazards. The different colors signal different types of hazards. Buoys often have numbers attached to identify geographical locations and aid in navigation. Making your own buoys is fairly simple; it's a crafting project that will bring out your artistic side.
Log siding gives you the look of a full log home with the advantages of a conventional construction. Log siding features partial logs in sheets attached to the outside of your home like any other siding. Chinks between the logs add to the authentic look, but the corners of your home provide the finishing touch. Depending on the corner style you choose, your log-sided home will look like a full-log home to most observers.
If you're hosting a Balinese-inspired party, or if your home has an exotic, Balinese flair, make your own decorations to accent the look. Use dried palm leaves, which you can find at craft stores, to make one-of-a-kind floral arrangements. You can display the arrangement in the middle of a birthday or holiday table as a centerpiece, or show it off on a living room coffee table. Incorporate other lush, tropical foliage into the arrangement for an authentic Balinese look.
Homemade decorative suspenders mimic a traditional elastic pair, but are made out of fabric. Boys might wear them as part of a costume or to add color to a plain outfit, while also keeping their pants from falling down. Making your own pair is economical and allows you to create a customized version that is decorative and functional. The supplies needed are available at fabric and craft stores.
Decorating your pencil sharpener is a fun way to give it your personal style and touch. It is also a great way to prevent your pencil sharpener from being mistaken as belonging to someone else. Once you give it a one-of-a-kind look, you'll always be able to tell which pencil sharpener is yours, if it is misplaced.
I attempted my first Thanksgiving dinner in a cramped, drafty flat on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. It was not my finest culinary moment. Key ingredients were impossible to find or astronomically expensive at the corner grocer – a snag I only discovered on Thanksgiving morning. Back in the kitchen, the turkey pan didn’t fit in the Lilliputian oven, my mother’s pillowy dinner rolls came out hard as hockey pucks, and my only American guest showed up an hour late, with a pan of burned sweet potatoes and a Japanese roommate bearing hand-rolled sushi. No one said anything when we finally sat…
Getting potatoes soft takes time and patience, but with the right supplies, you can soften them overnight. Ultimately, the more you heat the potatoes, the softer they will get. But if you are cooking them overnight, prolonged high heat would ruin your potatoes. Whether you're making mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, potatoes julienne or another dish, softening the potatoes in advance will reduce your total preparation time.
Many parents worry about putting favorite decorative items out when their children are young, but having kids in your home doesn't mean that you can't decorate with style. There are a number of convenient ways to maintain your style while remaining realistic about the habits of kids and preserving your favorite fragile items.
Adding a little texture to your walls or ceilings can add interest and style to your room’s décor. Not only do textures lend rich detail to make your walls pop, but they also hide imperfections in the surface of problem walls. You don’t need to hire a professional contractor to bring a textured look into your home. Most textured finishes are easily achieved as long as you know the right products and techniques to implement.
The brightly colored peacock feathers containing the blue "eye" are produced only by the male member of the peafowl family, the peacock. These birds shed their feathers just after the breeding season ends. Peacock feathers contain hues of golds, greens and blues that all shine brilliantly when exposed to light. These feathers can be incorporated into the theme of a wedding, birthday, anniversary or other special event. Make party favors for your guests by attaching peacock feathers to the ends of ball point pens.
A cohesive and immersive wildlife theme in your home can turn into a topic of discussion for friends, family and other visitors. To accomplish this, you must use rustic materials and wildlife-themed objects throughout your home. Standard appliances can even be turned into rustic centerpieces with some artwork and a little effort. It's best that these decorations blend in instead of standing out.
Traditional Hawaiian tiki totem poles are carved from wood in the same manner as those of the Northwest Native Americans. Featuring the symbolic imagery of the tiki gods from Polynesia, they are hand carved wooden poles that are painted in bright, vivid colors. Totem decorations are ideal for a Hawaiian theme party and will help to set the scene. Make small totem poles as decorations for the table or tiki bar.
Baby showers are easy in the spring. The pastels of spring decor and baby animals from Easter decor are perfect for shower decor. Finding decorations during the rest of the year is more challenging. Whatever time of year, you can make adorable napkin rings that will add a whimsical touch to your party table. If you need a sturdy ring to hold a napkin wrapped around silverware, make yarn wrapped rings. Felt rings are nice for a buffet, while ribbon rings are pretty when the napkin is placed in the center of the plate.
Give your home rustic appeal by installing decorative rafters. Whether your home is modern or colonial, you can transform the interior into a rustic space with decorative rafters on the ceiling. Instead of purchasing decorative rafters, save money and put your stamp on your home design by creating the rafters yourself. With a little time and some basic supplies, you can create rafters that look as if they have been part of your home for ages.
Decorative stars are perfect for Christmas, birthday parties or any other celebration. The basis of this star is elegant yet simple. It makes an eye-catching centerpiece on its own or in a group, made from plain paper or adorned with sparkles and other embellishments.
Decorated potting containers make a perfect gift for Mother's Day or a grandparent's birthday. This practical gift becomes a keepsake when a child is the one decorating the pot. Potting containers come in many sizes and materials. For long-lasting and durable containers, using the traditional terra-cotta pot is recommended. Whether you're working with preschoolers or middle school students, the project is almost identical, with the only difference being the more advanced fine motor skills of the older children.
Mini bagels are the perfect size for a child's small tummy. Handy for snacks or a meal, the bagels can be decorated and covered with many different ingredients to make them taste different every time. Get the children to help make the decorated creations; they tend to eat more if they help prepare the food. Set out the mini bagels after school or when their friends come over to play.
Setting the table doesn't have to take all afternoon. Learn about quick table settings for Thanksgiving with help from an accomplished author and magazine editor in this free video clip.
You can make napkin rings using a few basic tools that you probably already own. Learn about do it yourself napkin rings with help from an accomplished author and magazine editor in this free video clip.
Baby showers lend themselves wonderfully to the popular retro decorating theme. In addition to using colors and patterns from the 1950s and '60s, you can include all kinds of baby items that immediately remind people of that era, including simple cloth diapers and pins, clotheslines and old-fashioned baby buggies. Retro baby showers can be lots of fun for the mom-to-be and her peers, but they can be especially nostalgic for older family members and friends who remember the familiar themes and colors. Include retro-themed napkin rings in your decorating plan for a cute finishing touch.
In "RuneScape," one of the extra features that comes with membership is a mini-game called Castle Wars, where two opposing teams battle each other in a capture-the-flag-style game. The winning team receives special items called tickets. If a player is wearing decorative armour during the game, he gets a damage bonus. While players cannot craft decorative armour themselves, they can give their tickets to someone who will make the decorative armour for them.
Coral is a naturally occurring marine organism that, once no longer living, often washes up on beaches. Coral comes in vibrant colors, many intricate shapes and can be hard and durable. If you live near the shore, chances are you have amassed a collection of beautiful coral pieces. Instead of keeping these objects boxed up, turn them into decorations to beautify your home. Coral decorations on your window sill allow you to display coral of all sizes in a prominent location in your home. These decorations do not take up valuable storage space or cause clutter.
Create your own decorative pavers for a garden pathway or accents using recycled materials from your kitchen as molds. Large coffee cans, pizza boxes and plastic milk jugs are all usable as molds for decorative pavers. With the right type of concrete and a few embellishments, you can make personalized pavers to accent any outdoor space.
Napkin rings are an accessory in which you insert a folded or rolled napkin for a proper table setting. Typically used for more formal occasions, napkin rings brighten or add a festive element to your table decor year round. Making your own helps save money and enables you to customize the napkin rings to fit your taste and style.
Heart shapes are especially noticeable craft elements around Valentine's Day, but a decorated heart cutout can also be given as a simple card for a loved one on any occasion. Kids can use any of a wide variety of methods to decorate the heart cutouts, depending on their ages, available materials and the time available. One simple and relatively fast way for kids of most ages to decorate a heart is to make a tissue paper collage on it.
Fall harvest and holidays bring pumpkin pie to the table to tempt young taste buds. When your kids are too young to help with the actual pie in the kitchen, provide a pumpkin pie craft to make them feel a part of the preparations. Older kids can make miniature edible pumpkin pie treats and make a pumpkin pie candle craft to decorate the table.
There is a multitude of ways to embellish a plain and ordinary chalkboard, whether it is hung in the classroom, the playroom or the kitchen at home. Turn the functional writing tool into a decorative centerpiece for any room with a border of flowers, handprints, pictures or even photos. Each of the borders are simple to make and require very basic craft tools, easily found around the home or at local craft stores.
Whether you are planning a celebration for a wedding ceremony, baby baptism, graduation or other kind of ceremony, consider making your own handmade decorations for the occasion. You do not necessarily have to be crafty for simple creations. Some decorations can be used in other functional ways after the special event as well, so keep that in mind when choosing decorations. Decorations may also double as party favors you give to guests for keepsakes.
Homemade vine leaf decorations add interest to toga, Italian or jungle-themed parties, or use them as additional adornments at Thanksgiving and Halloween festivities. Wrap homemade vine leaf strings around ornamentation to effectively fill empty spaces. Alternatively, wind them around stair posts or hang them across walls and along mantelpieces. Making these useful, reusable vine leaf decorations will take less than an hour using materials that likely will cost less than $10.
For many people, decorations on the door during the holiday season evoke a homey, welcoming feeling. In autumn, images of turkeys and pumpkins are as abundant as food on the Thanksgiving table, but they're not the only symbols of the season. You can use a variety of natural and manufactured items to create a door display that captures the spirit of the harvest season and says "welcome" to friends and family.
Binder clips are handy for holding note cards, stationary, photos and paperwork. Though clips come in a variety of sizes and colors, they tend to have a monochrome, austere appearance. You can dress up binder clips for with colorful paper, stickers and ribbon to hold cards for special occasions such as weddings and Valentines Day.
