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Easter Ornament

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Materials:

  • Creatology™ Chenille Stem
  • Foam Stickers – Shapes of Choice
  • Craft Smart® Paint Brush
  • Wooden Egg
  • FolkArt® Acrylic Paint – Titanium White
  • Aleene’s “Tacky” Glue®
  • Disposable Plate for Paint Palette
  • Recycled Newspaper (to protect work surface)
Instructions:
  1. Cover the work surface with newspaper.  Paint the egg with Titanium White. Let dry.
  2. Fold a chenille stem in half to find the center. Add a drop of glue to the center of the chenille stem and press onto the bottom center of the egg. Tightly stretch both sides of the stem around the egg and twist at the top. Repeat this step with another chenille stem on the opposite side of the first stem.
  3. Twist both chenille stems at the top of the egg to form hanger.
  4. Embellish each section of the egg with foam stickers as desired.

Easter Chenille Bunnies and Chick

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Materials:

  • Ruler
  • Plastic Easter Egg
  • Creatology™ Chenille Stem
  • Creatology™ Pom Poms
  • Craft Smart® All Purpose Glue
  • Scissors
Instructions:
  1. For Chick:
  2. Wrap yellow chenille stems around plastic egg. Use craft glue to secure periodically while covering plastic egg. Cover completely.
  3. Cut three ¾” pieces of yellow chenille stems. Glue to top of egg to create hair as shown.
  4. Form three loops with a yellow chenille stem to form wings. Create two and glue into place.
  5. Glue two black mini pom poms to face.
  6. Form beak with orange chenille stem and glue into place.
  7. Form legs and feet with orange chenille stems and glue as shown.
  8. For Bunnies:
  9. Wrap white or tan chenille stems around plastic egg. Use craft glue to secure periodically while covering plastic egg. Cover completely.
  10. Form white or tan chenille stems into loops to create bunny ears. Loop pink chenille stem and glue to the inside of the ears.  Glue two ears onto bunny.
  11. Cut three 2″ pieces from a black chenille stem.  Glue onto face for whiskers. Glue pink pom pom in center as shown for nose.
  12. Form feet with white or tan chenille stems and glue as shown.
  13. Loosely coil a white chenille stem to the back to form tail. Glue into place.

Candied Orange Peels

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For candied orange peel, you need to save the zest (just the orange part). Use a very sharp knife to scrape or cut away the white pith. Slice the peels into strips and cook them in simple syrup (1 part water and 1 part sugar). Cook on a low simmer until the strips start to look translucent. Remove, roll in sugar, and place them on a plate to dry. Now you can use them in all kinds of baked goods. Chop them up to add to recipes, or use them to decorate the tops.

Cure For That Leftover Smell In Your Microwave

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Remove food odors from your microwave without the use of toxic, expensive cleaning products. The next time you’re eating oranges, save a couple of peels and pop them straight into your microwave oven. Microwave the peels for about one minute, and the smell of leftover stew, onion soup, spaghetti sauce or whatever it was that stunk up your microwave will have disappeared.

Easy Home Made Ketchup

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EASY HOMEMADE KETCHUP:

I ran out of my stockpiled ketchup, so I finally tried a homemade ketchup recipe. It was quick, easy and delish!

6 ounces can tomato paste
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt

Combine ingredients in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes. Cover pan with lid until cool. Place in recycled ketchup bottle and chill.