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The Easiest Petit Fours Recipe
Petit fours are tiny, iced layer cakes. Often served as part of an assorted pastry tray, these elegant treats are usually made with layers of génoise cake, jam, and French buttercream frosting. This simplified recipe features shortcuts that let you focus on the fun part—decorating.
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How to Decorate Petit Fours
Make your petit fours extra special with these ideas for decorating these miniature filled and iced cakes. From a simple drizzle of melted chocolate to sugar glass and edible lace, these decorations will delight your guests at dessert time.
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Fresh Raspberry Ginger Scones Recipe
An easy, delicious recipe for homemade scones bursting with fresh raspberries and bits of crystallized ginger. Also includes a recipe for homemade clotted cream to serve with the scones.
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Chocolate-Covered Strawberries With an Elegant Drizzle Decoration
This recipe for fresh strawberries dipped in, and then drizzled with, melted chocolate makes a light, refreshing, and decadent dessert that's also low in calories. These berries are easy and quick to prepare and also make a beautiful garnish to any plate or tray of sweets.
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How to Chill, Uncork, and Pour Champagne Like a Wine Expert
Learn how to choose the best champagne glass, chill your bubbly properly, open the sparkling wine safely and confidently, and pour this classic beverage with minimal foaming for maximum effervescence.
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Tea Sandwiches (Finger Sandwiches): Delicious Recipes for Special Occasions
Use these recipes for traditional or more contemporary sandwich flavor combinations to give an afternoon tea or special occasion luncheon a delicious flair.
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How to Make Vintage-Style Jewelry
A collection of vintage-inspired jewelry making techniques including collage or assemblage jewelry, working with brass filigree, cagework or tapestry beading, memory wire bracelets, and patina.
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Peachy BBQ-Style Sloppy Joes
Sloppy Joes sandwich recipe with sweet peaches, peach nectar, ketchup, molasses and peach jam plus smoky BBQ flavors from ketchup, mustard, vinegar, chili powder, smoked paprika and liquid smoke.
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Healthier Candied Pecans or Walnuts Recipe
A healthier recipe for candied walnuts or pecans, toasted with unrefined coconut sugar and coconut oil. Delicious flavor, crunch, protein and heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids for salads or snacks.
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How to Make a Convertible Beaded Mask or Eyeglass Holder and Necklace
Learn how to make a beautiful beaded necklace that can also be used as an eyeglass or a mask holder. This jewelry tutorial has detailed step-by-step instructions with close-up photos to ensure successful results.
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Romantic Beaded Heart Earrings Jewelry Tutorial
Learn to make earrings featuring heart-shaped beads with this easy, step-by-step tutorial. This romantic jewelry would make a beautiful handmade gift for Valentine's Day or an anniversary or birthday.
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The Best Ways to Organize and Store Beads and Jewelry Supplies
Storing beads and jewelry findings is a challenge for everyone who makes beaded jewelry. Here are a variety of recommended bead storage solutions and cases for storing jewelry findings successfully.
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Healthy Vegan Triple-Coconut Lime Blueberry Muffins With Streusel Topping
A delicious, vegan blueberry muffin recipe bursting with coconut, fresh lime, and juicy blueberries. These healthy muffins use mostly unprocessed and use mostly unrefined ingredients.
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Best Recipe for Italian Ribbon Cookies (aka Neapolitan Slices)
This recipe for irresistible Italian ribbon cookies, also known as Neapolitan slices, Venetians, or rainbow cookies, uses tinted almond cake layers joined with raspberry jam and topped with chocolate.
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Strawberry Raisin Walnut Rugelach Cookie Recipe
My grandmother's authentic Old World recipe for rugelach cookies. Cream cheese dough filled with jam, raisins, nuts, and brown sugar are perfect for holiday baking—or for any time of year.
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How to Make Silver Charms From Metal Clay for Personalized Handcrafted Jewelry Gifts
A detailed review of Sue Heaser's book, "How to Make Silver Charms From Metal Clay". Learn easy techniques to make pure silver charms in nearly any style or theme you want, to wear yourself or give as unique, personal gifts that reflect your recipients' hobbies or interests.
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"This Is Spinal Tap" Is The Funniest Movie Ever Made
A review of "This Is Spinal Tap", a mockumentary / rockumentary starring Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer that follows an over-the-hill heavy metal rock band on tour.
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11 of the Best Scary Halloween Dessert Recipes
Halloween party dessert recipes include fun and frightening roach-infested popcorn, gory cake ball brains, chocolate cookie dough rats, zombie and spider cupcakes, cute werewolf snack cakes, and more.
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Lisa Barth's "Designing From the Stone": The Best Book on Bezel Setting Gemstones in Metal Clay
A detailed review of Lisa Barth's deservedly popular book in which she teaches her techniques for designing exquisite fine silver metal clay bezel settings inspired by the gemstones themselves.
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The Best Chunky Gazpacho Soup Recipe
This recipe for chunky gazpacho soup gets its bright flavors from fresh tomatoes, crisp bell peppers, cucumbers, and sweet onions, with ideal seasonings of fresh cilantro and/or basil.
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10 Chocolate Dessert Recipes to Delight Your Sweet Tooth
10 luscious dessert recipes including Gordon Ramsay's lava cake, Maida Heatter's Queen Mother's Cake, pain au chocolat, dark chocolate fondue with honey and cognac, truffle brownies and more.
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Polymer Clay Fantasy Flower Brooch/Pin, Earrings or Ring Tutorial
A step-by-step tutorial for making colorful polymer clay fantasy flower jewelry. Wear these bright spring or summer blooms all year long or give them as inexpensive handmade gifts for women or girls.
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How to Serve an Elegant Afternoon Tea
Learn British afternoon tea customs, traditions and history plus party planning tips including setting the mood, invitations, menu and recipe suggestions and beautiful tablescapes.
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10 Terrific Travel Gifts for Road Warriors
A guide to the top 10 travel gifts to help business travelers be more productive, comfortable, relaxed, and refreshed during work trips—at prices to suit every wallet.
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Pumpkin Whoopie Pies Recipe From the Owner of Wicked Whoopies
A delicious recipe for pumpkin whoopie pies from Amy Bouchard, creator of the famous Wicked Whoopies treats from the Isamax bakery in Maine.
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How to Choose the Best Whoopie Pie Baking Pans (Plus Bonus Recipes)
In this article, I demonstrate why actual whoopie-pie-baking pans are way better than using cookie sheets. Includes recipes for making delicious chocolate, chocolate mint, and pumpkin whoopies.
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Stop-Motion Clay Animation: A History and How It Works
A look into the history of clay animation as well as insight into how it works.
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How to Make Polymer Clay Mokume Gane Cabochons for Jewelry
A polymer clay mokume gane tutorial with step-by-step instructions for making a mokume veneer sheet that can be used to cover polymer clay beads or other forms and how to create mokume gane cabochons.
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10 Savvy Travel Tips to Make Your Next Beach Vacation Perfect
Here are my top ten travel tips to make your beach vacation fun, relaxing, safe, and enjoyable.
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How to Embellish and Paint Leather Shoes
Learn how to custom paint leather shoes, boots or sandals successfully with acrylic paint and then how to trim and embellish them with rhinestones, faux gems, sequins and other fashion accents
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Metal Clay and Jewelry Making Articles and Tutorials by Margaret Schindel
Metal clay articles and step-by-step polymer clay and beaded jewelry tutorials by designer Margaret Schindel. Learn jewelry making techniques easily with detailed instructions and close-up photos.
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Dark Chocolate Fondue With Honey and Cognac Recipe
A quick, easy recipe for a luscious dark-chocolate fondue enhanced with honey and cognac brandy that's perfect for Valentine's Day or a romantic, sophisticated dessert any day of the year.
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10 Tips for a Romantic Bath Experience for Valentine's Day (or Any Day!)
Create a luxurious spa-like candlelight bubble bath experience to relax, unwind, indulge yourself and perhaps set a romantic mood for your partner. Follow these 10 steps to a perfect soak in the tub.
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How to Make Metal Clay Oil Paste
How to make silver, bronze or copper clay oil paste using plant-based essential oil or Sherri Haab Pastemaker and how to use it for strong joins in metal clay. Includes full lavender paste recipe.
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How to Rehydrate or Reconstitute Dry Metal Clay
Learn the best way to rehydrate / reconstitute partly dry or fully dried metal clay with water to bring it back to a moist, pliable consistency.
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How to Dry Metal Clay
Metal clay must be dry before firing to avoid steam that can distort or mar the sintered metal. Learn several methods for drying metal clay on open-cell foam, nonstick sheet, or a hotplate or cup warmer, in a food dehydrator, or with a handheld hairdryer and a DIY cardboard drying box.
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The Best Metal Clay Storage Options and Containers
Tips for keeping metal clay moist during work sessions and for short-term and long-term storage.
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The Best Sources for Vintage Beads, Findings, and Jewelry Components
Recommended sources for where to purchase the best vintage beads and jewelry supplies, by a designer who has shopped for and used them in one-of-a-kind pieces for nearly 30 years.
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Joni Mitchell Is a Woman of Heart and Mind
A retrospective of Joni Mitchell's career and a tribute to this remarkable artist's music, poetry, art and activism with insights into the personal relationships that informed her songs and singing.
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BRONZclay Tools and Supplies for Making Bronze Jewelry
Learn about the tools and supplies needed to fire BRONZclay metal clay successfully and what to look for when deciding which ones to get. Most also are needed to fire other bronze clay formulas.
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BRONZclay Bronze Metal Clay Jewelry Techniques
A comprehensive guide to working with Metal Adventures' original BRONZclay brand bronze metal clay. Includes techniques and tips for working with this clay, firing schedules, troubleshooting and more.
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Bronze Clay for Jewelry Making and Sculpture
An introduction to bronze clay, differences in firing schedules and methods compared to silver metal clay, and an overview of major bronze metal clay brands, formulas and jewelry making techniques.
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Metal Clay Product Reviews
Unbiased reviews of metal clay related products including the Ultra-Lite Beehive Kiln and custom name/logo stamps by Metal Clay Artist Magazine's senior editor and technical editor Margaret Schindel.
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Metal Clay Weaving Tutorial
Learn how to weave flexible metal clay sheet or paper to make woven metal jewelry. This illustrated step-by-step weaving tutorial demonstrates a simple method with helpful illustrations.
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How to Texture Metal Clay
Learn how to texture metal clay with carving, tear-away textures, photopolymer plates, household items, leaves, food, purchased and homemade mats, molds and tools in this comprehensive guide.
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The Ultimate Guide to Setting Gemstones in Metal Clay
A comprehensive guide on gemstone setting techniques in metal clay before and after firing. Learn which stones are safe to fire in place and how to set them in fresh, dried or fired metal clay.
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Metal Clay Silver and Gold Brands and Formulas
Learn about gold and silver metal clay formulas from Art Clay and PMC brands plus Aura 22 and AGS (Accent Gold for Silver and the key characteristics and best uses of each formula from those brands.
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Forms of Metal Clay: Lump, Powder, Slip, Syringe, and Paper Type Clay
An overview of the five forms of commercial metal clay products - lump clay, metal clay powder, slip or paste, syringe, and metal clay paper - and the characteristics and uses of each form.
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Metal Clay Materials, Tools, Supplies and Equipment
A detailed list of basic, nice-to-have and specialty materials, tools, supplies and equipment for working with metal clay. Learn how to build a metal clay toolkit or see what's missing from your kit.
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Precious Metal Clay (PMC) and Art Clay Silver and Gold
An introduction to silver and gold precious metal clay and a guide to recommended metal clay artists, teachers, organizations and projects suitable for metal clay beginners. Education and inspiration.