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Recipe for pureed white bean dip with rosemary oil from the book The 150 Healthiest Slow Cooker Recipes on Earth

Tasty Friday is brought to you today by the book The 150 Healthiest Slow Cooker Recipes on Earth which features a yummy recipe for pureed white bean dip with rosemary oil along with how to make your own rosemary oil infusion.

Click on this page from The 150 Healthiest Slow Cooker Recipes on Earth to enlarge and get the full recipe for pureed white bean dip with rosemary oil and all its nutritional info!

More about the Fair Winds Press book:

The 150 Healthiest Slow Cooker Recipes on Earth:

The Surprising Unbiased Truth About How to Make Nutritious and Delicious Meals that are Ready When You Are

by

Jonny Bowden

and

Jeannette Bessinger

Discover how to make mouth-watering, super-healthy, and super-convenient slow-cooked meals! Nationally-known nutritionist Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., and chef Jeannette Bessinger, C.H.H.C., take slow cooking to a whole new level with these easy, nutritious, and deliciously satisfying recipes!

The “clean foods team” of Dr. Jonny and Chef Jeannette use wholesome ingredients, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, grass-fed beef, wild-caught fish, and pasture-raised poultry in their recipes. Losing none of the convenience, they skip the high-sodium canned food “products” used in many slow cooker recipes and bring you dishes with both traditional and ethnic flair. Try the Real Deal Beef Stew with Orange and Clove, the Quick Sesame Teriyaki Low-Carb Lettuce Wraps, the Hot and Hearty Red, White, and Blue Crab Dip, or the Gingered Honey Pears with Cinnamon Sticks. Bon appetit!

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., www.jonnybowden.com, a board-certified nutritionist, is a nationally known expert on nutrition, weight loss, and health.

Jeannette Bessinger, C.H.H.C., the Clean Food Coach, www.thecleanfoodcoach.com, is an award-winning nutrition educator and personal whole foods chef.

   

How to make a Steampunk style cuff inspired by the book Steampunk Style Jewelry

You know when you buy bits of this and that and you don't know what you're going to make with it but you know you just have to have it? Such is the case with this cool little vintage style gun embossed metal finding. So off to the book Steampunk Style Jewelry for some inspiration because I just wanted to wear it somehow!

I loved the combo of the hardware and lace in the Minerva's cuff project by Annie Singer featured in Steampunk Style Jewelry.

I wasn't using the same elements at all but the inspiration was there.

Making these types of recycled leather cuffs is really easy!

The first thing I needed to do was bend the flat metal finding into a curve. I went out to the tool box and had a look around. I picked up my rubber mallet and used the handle of my 3 pound sledge hammer as a mandrill. I simply kept hammering it a bit then trying it on my wrist till it fit.

Then I cut a piece of scrap leather to fit on my wrist with the width of the Velcro as the amount of the overlap.

I wanted to incorporate another detail, so off to the trim stash! I found this part-lace, part-hook trim that I thought looked pretty cool. I stitched all the trim and Velcro on using the sewing machine with a leather needle. Then I hand-stitched the metal finding on.

The last bit I added was the two studs. One of the prongs of the stud went through the hole of the metal finding and the other three just went through the leather cuff. This hid the hand stitches.

Well there you have it. Whether you are into just being inspired by a book or full-on tutorials, you get both in this CPi book:

Steampunk Style Jewelry
Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings
By
Jean Campbell

This how-to jewelry-making book features the work of an array of invited jewelry designers influenced by the growing Steampunk trend. In Steampunk Style Jewelry, the projects focus on "no fire" techniques—like simple stringing, wirework, hammering, stamping, gluing, stitching, and off-loom beadwork—so that even a beginner can create pieces in the style. Each project provides a complete materials and tools list, step-by-step instructions, and clear illustrations.

Jean Campbell was the founding editor of Interweave’s Beadwork magazine and has written and edited more than 40 books. She has appeared on the DIY Jewelry Making show, The Shay Pendray Show, and PBS' Beads, Baubles, and Jewels. She also teaches beading workshops throughout the United States. Swarovski has named Jean as one of their Certified Brand Ambassadors for the line of crystal beads and stones for beadworkers and crafters.

   

How to make a Pop Art collage from the book Art Lab for Kids

Pop Art is one of my favorite styles of art, so when I spotted this Pop Art collage technique featured in the book Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages, I just had to share the Easter Egg Pop Art it inspired me to make!

Click on these pages from Art Lab for Kids to enlarge and read the full tutorial on how to make collage Pop Art.

And here is what I was inspired to make:

It was so fun and easy to make this whole bunch of collaged eggs.

I keep scrapbook paper catalogs because the pages contain images of the scrapbook paper but on a very small scale which makes them great for projects like this.

I went to town punching out egg shapes using a McGill egg paper punch.

Then I cut them up to make patterns and glued the sections back together.

Then I punched out egg shapes from recycled magnetic business cards I have saved.

Then I glued the paper egg collages to the magnetic egg shapes.

I suppose this is a double Pop Art collage because I must admit I spent quite a bit of time arranging the eggs on the side of the fridge.

The best part is I can keep rearranging them not only in the egg shape but other shapes!

If this collage technique sounds fun and you want 51 more awesome art ideas, check out:

Art Lab for Kids:

52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages

by

Susan Schwake

Photographer:

Rainer Schwake

A refreshing source of ideas for creating fine art with children, Art Lab for Kids encourages the artist’s own voice, marks, and style. This fun and creative book features 52 fine art projects set into weekly lessons, beginning with drawing, moving through painting and printmaking, and then building to paper collage and mixed media.

Susan Schwake is an art instructor in her own art school, where she has created her own curriculum and offers workshops and retreats most every day of the year with her adjunct teaching staff of three. She lives in Rochester, NH. Visit her online at www.susanschwake.com and www.artstreamstudios.com.

Rainer Schwake is a versatile and talented media designer holding a masters degree in graphic design. His photography has been used in hundreds of business- and arts-related design works for print and websites. He is co-owner of artstream studios and lives with his wife, Susan, in Rochester, NH.

   

How to embroider multicolored yarn "x" shapes on a knitted scarf from the book Knitting Scarves from Around the World

Today I have a fun little detail from the book Knitting Scarves from Around the World: Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques to share with you. Check out how to stitch a multicolored "x" on a knit scarf. I bet this technique would work great to dress up just about anything you can stitch on!

Click on this page from Knitting Scarves from Around the World to enlarge and read the full tutorial on how to stitch a multi strand "x" on a knitted scarf.

 More about the book:

Knitting Scarves from Around the World:

Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques

By

Kari Cornell

Photographers:

Sue Flanders

Janine Kosel

Here are 40 patterns for scarves from around the globe—including stylish traditional projects from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the British Isles, the Americas, and Asia. Pattern introductions provide a background of knitting techniques from that part of the world, including schematics and charts.

Kari Cornell is a book editor by day and an avid knitter by night. She is the editor of several collections of knitting stories and patterns, including For the Love of Knitting, Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales, Retro Knits, and Modern Knits, Vintage Style. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

Photographers Sue Flanders and Janine Kosel are authors of the book Norwegian Handknits.

 

Crafty links and news to kick off the week

First up I want to congratulate the two winners of the Westcott cutting tools and Craftside book giveaway:

Marylinn K. of the blog at http://www.marylinnmlkelly.blogspot.com won a whole big bunch of purple Westcott cutting tools and a copy of Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu: Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish.

and

Brenda F. is the Westcott winner of a whole big bunch of pink cutting tools and a copy of Mixed Media Workshop: A multifaceted approach to creating unique works of art-step by step.

Happy cutting and crafting ladies!

Next up: Do you like to combine travel and crafting? Why not do it with a Crafty Chica 8-day Artful Journaling Tour through England!

And finally, check out these fun ideas:

The Card Album Blog
Learn how to make a "Keep Calm and Cut On" recycled art card.

RockPaperInk.com
Fumi Watanabe is inspired by her messy desk.

About Family Crafts
Play along with the new Make-It-Over craft challenge. This challenge is all about making crafts using Easter Peeps candy.

Aileen's Musings
Aileen offers you a re-post of a fun magnetic Easter or Mother's Day project!

Carmi's Art/Life World
Carmi makes some pop up cards using some beloved vintage imagery!

Crafty Princess Diaries
Tammy shows off a new work in progress, a beautiful ripple shawl using self-striping yarn.

Eileen - The Artful Crafter
One of The Artful Crafter's readers has developed a new, improved recipe for homemade polymer clay. Be sure to check out Eva’s recipe, as well as the darling "gingerbread" house she made with it.

Mixed Media Artist
What's a girl to do when she can't draw but she wants to include a drawing in her quilt?