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Christmas Tree Cupcake Toppers

By Lorraine

 
Make holiday dessert look fun and festive with easy-to-make chocolate Christmas tree toppers. Just pipe melted chocolate onto pretzel sticks. Quick and easy recipe how-to.Aren’t these the cutest, most festive cupcakes ever! Christmas tree cupcake toppers were inspired by a pinterest find from Just a Taste. They are super easy to make and a fun project to do with kids too.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Cakes & Cupcakes, Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Christmas, Crafts

How-to Faux Fur Pom Pom on Knitted Toque

By Lorraine

 
 Make your own faux fur pom poms for hats and crafts easily and inexpensively. Check out this tutorial, How-to Faux Fur Pom Pom on Knitted Toque with link to easy knitted hat pattern.

I wanted to make my granddaughter a basic knit hat in white and trim it with a faux fur pom pom. I asked a friend and talented crocheter about a place to purchase pom poms. She gave me a suggestion and told me they aren’t hard to make.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Crafts, Knitting Tagged With: Crafts, Keri, Knitting, pattern, tutorial

Knitted Alpaca Cowl

By Lorraine

Here is a very basic and quick-to-make cowl that is stylish and warm. It is made from alpaca yarn but can be made from your favorite yarn. Warm and stylish!
Here is a very basic and quick-to-make cowl that is stylish and warm. It is made from alpaca yarn I purchased during a visit to Jersey Shore Alpacas in Cape May, New Jersey.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Crafts, Knitting Tagged With: Crafts, John, Knitting, Lorrie

Watermelon Inspiration

By Lorraine

Rounded up a collection of fun watermelon ideas for some summertime inspiration!

1 Watermelon cupcakes from The First Year Something Sweet 
2 Crochet Watermelon Coasters from Repeat Crafter Me
3 Grilled Watermelon Feta and Basil Salad from Recipe Runner
4 Strawberry Kiwi Pizza (doesn’t contain watermelon at all but looks pretty like a cut watermelon slice) from Hungry Happenings
5 Sweet Watermelon Bunting from The Little Bee
6 Watermelon Flower Pots from Darby Smart 
7 Watermelon Fruit Bowl from Kraft
8 Watermelon Turtle from Deviant Art  

Filed Under: Desserts, Recipes, Sweet Treats Tagged With: Crafts

Easter Crochet

By Lorraine

 Sweet crochet Easter eggs are easy to make and lovely holiday decorations. Collection of FREE patterns, some vintage, to fill a basket with keepsakes to enjoy for generations. Tutorials include a chocolate diorama egg, an egg that opens for filling and then tied closed. Sharing with you a few easy but sweet Easter crochet projects. I first started crocheting these Easter eggs with my mom w.a.y back in 1978. We had recently moved hundreds of miles from home, experiencing one of the snowiest years ever and learned we were expecting our first baby. My mom flew out to visit and to pass the time stuck inside, we crocheted. I have a large basket full of eggs from our time together and continued to make more through the years. These eggs will always remain special to me.

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Filed Under: Crafts, Crochet Tagged With: Crafts, Crochet, Easter

Gingerbread Cookie Parting Treats

By Lorraine

Give your holiday visitors gingerbread cookie parting treats as a thoughtful gesture. Let them snip from a decorative swag, hung by the door, a wrapped gingerbread cookie as they depart.
Giving your holiday visitors a sweet parting gift is a thoughtful gesture. Here is a way to send them home with a little something extra that is both tasty and decorative! Gingerbread cookie parting treats is an adorable project that your guests both young and old can snip off and take along as they depart.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Holidays, Recipes Tagged With: Christmas, Cookies, Crafts, gifts, holiday

Christmas Crochet Stocking

By Lorraine

Sweet pattern for 1st Christmas crochet baby stocking www.lorrainedhebler.com
My friend’s daughter is expecting twins and wants to wait until the birth to learn the gender of her babies. So, I tried to be creative in choosing a gift for her baby shower, crocheting complimentary colored stockings for the babies 1st Christmas using an easy crochet stocking pattern.Continue Reading

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Crochet Gift Tags Ties and Bows

By Lorraine

Embellish gift packages with quick and easy crochet gift tags, ties & bows. Reusable and so cute. Add tiny flowers, hearts, leaves and wreaths of yarn.
A wee bit of yarn and a few minutes of crocheting can make your gifts and packages look extra special for the recipient! Crochet gift tags, ties and bows work up so quickly and the flowers and ties can be used over and over again.Continue Reading

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Crochet Humpty Dumpty Egg

By Lorraine

This happy little Crochet Humpty Dumpty Egg is made using a modified version of my Easter Egg pattern. He certainly doesn't fit in to an Easter decorating theme, but he does make a cute baby toy, baby shower decoration or gift topper.
 This happy little Crochet Humpty Dumpty Egg is made using a modified version of my Easter Egg pattern. He certainly doesn’t fit in to an Easter decorating theme, but he does make a cute baby toy, baby shower decoration or gift topper.

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Filed Under: Crafts, Crochet Tagged With: Crafts, Crochet, Easter

Crochet Covers for Jars and Cans

By Lorraine

 
Recycle, Reuse and repurpose empty jars and cans with crochet cozies. Make an attractive vanity or desk set using your yarn stash. Easy how-to pattern to organize in an attractive way! Great gift-giving idea too!Sweetly Organized. Corral cosmetics, art or craft supplies by crocheting cozy can covers to make work space both attractive and convenient. Several containers, in various sizes, gathered together on a wooden tray is a useful and pretty gift-giving idea!Continue Reading

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Basket of Bean Bags

By Lorraine

Two grandchildren are celebrating birthdays.  Chloe, a leapling, just turned 3 and her brother, Caleb will be 7 in a few days. A basket of bean bags for Chloe and a toy combining two of Caleb’s favorite things should bring smiles.Continue Reading

Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: birthday, Chloe, Crafts, gifts, Grandchildren

Paint by Numbers

By Lorraine

Paint-by-number kits… do you remember them? Have you completed one?
This Playful Kittens piece was painted by my mom in 1954 and truly a piece of Americana.
 

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Filed Under: Crafts, Vintage Tagged With: Childhood Memories, Crafts, Home and Garden, Mommy, Sisters

Crochet Beverage Cup Jackets

By Lorraine

Crochet Beverage Cup Jackets are both adorable and useful for protecting your hands from containers filled with hot beverages. Easy pattern and variations.Crochet Beverage Cup Jackets are both adorable and useful for protecting your hands from containers filled with hot beverages. A friend of my daughter asked me to make some for her and wanted them longer than she was able to find, covering most of the cup.Continue Reading

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Making Modeling Playdough

By Lorraine

theeMaking playdough with or for your children is fun with this easy recipe. Colorful, soft and just right for non-technical creative play. When we all moved into our new homes on our street, way back in the mid-1980’s, a neighbor was selling Discovery Toys. She gave out a wonderful recipe for Making Modeling Playdough at home. I have made it countless times because it is easy and because it is the softest and fun-to-play-with play dough. 

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Filed Under: Crafts, More Crafts, Recipes Tagged With: Cambrie, Chloe, Crafts, Grandchildren

Crochet Lego Blocks Scarf

By Lorraine

Easy pattern for a Crochet Lego Blocks Scarf for the hipster or kid on your gift-giving list. Colorful popcorn stitch creates Lego looking blocks.
The fun and interest in building and creating with LEGO’s can follow a kid right into adulthood. I know a guy (not the guy in the photos) with a huge collection and though now without much time with career and other responsibilities, is still, unashamedly, an enthusiast. This crochet LEGO scarf is a gift for my daughter’s boyfriend and my son-in-law bravely modeled it for me before I gave it away.Continue Reading

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Crochet Hat for Abbey

By Lorraine

This girl wanted a new hat.
A blue and grey hat to be exact.  Something fun and warm.

I showed Abbey a few patterns to choose from and she picked this one.
 She can wear it down on her forehead just above those pretty eyes or pushed back a little.
There is even room should she have a ponytail.
Worn like this, it resembles a snood.
Great spiral pattern on the back, this Drops Design pattern is designed as a guys hat.
I followed the L/XL sized because Abbey likes her hats big. But that required me to do lots of rounds of decreases to tighten around her temples.  She tried it on as I went to be sure it fit just right.
Now this girl wants a new scarf.
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Filed Under: Crafts, Crochet Tagged With: Abbey, Crafts, Crochet

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