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Recipe for Neapolitan cake from the book Enjoy Life's Cupcakes and Sweet Treats for Everyone!

Today's Tasty Friday recipe for Neapolitan cake from the book Enjoy Life's Cupcakes and Sweet Treats for Everyone! 150 Delicious Treats That Are Safe for Most Anyone with Food Allergies, Intolerances,and Sensitivities sounds out of this world yummy!

Click on this page from the cookbook Enjoy Life's Cupcakes and Sweet Treats for Everyone! to enlarge and read the full recipe for Neapolitan cake that just about everyone will love!

More about the Fair Winds Press book:

Enjoy Life's Cupcakes and Sweet Treats for Everyone! 150 Delicious Treats That Are Safe for Most Anyone with Food Allergies, Intolerances,and Sensitivities

by Betsy Laakso

It is not always easy to find ways to satisfy your sweet tooth if you have food intolerances, allergies and sensitivities. Enjoy Life's Cupcakes and Sweet Treats for Everyone! will make the challenge much easier by offering delicious and easy-to-make recipes for allergy-free cupcakes, brownies and bars and other delectables. The recipes take the guesswork out of determining which recipes are safe—and which are a risk. You’ll be able to make cupcake treats such as Peachy Keen Vanilla Bean Cupcake, Expressively Espresso Chocolate Cupcake, Ravin’ Raspberry Cupcake, Chocolate-Chocolate Chip, Vanilla-Filled Chocolate Cupcake with Ganache Frosting, as well as delicious muffins such as Blueberry Crunch and Luscious Lemon.  There are also recipes for breads and cakes such as “Fudgy” Chocolate Chip and Classic Black Forest. And if you like pies and tartlets, there are fabulous recipes for Pumpkin Tartlets and Chocolate Raspberry Tarts as well as the Classic Apple Streusel Pie.

 

How to draw 6 different facial expressions from the book Cartooning: 100 Cartoon Faces & Expressions

For all of you on the doodling, drawing and sketching bandwagon here are 6 expressions from the book Cartooning: 100 Cartoon Faces & Expressions How to Draw and Paint to give a try. You can try lonely, obnoxious, indifferent, flirty, ravenous, steely expressions with exagerated features. How fun!

 More about the Walter Foster book:

Cartooning: 100 Cartoon Faces & Expressions: How to Draw and Paint

by Joe Oesterle

Cartooning: 100 Cartoon Faces & Expressions covers the fundamentals of creating cartoon heads and faces. This 32-page book includes instruction on selecting face shape, rendering features, exaggerating, and modifying features to suggest mood and personality. The title also features a wide range of step-by-step cartoon heads so beginners can practice a variety of expressions before applying them to their own characters. Additionally, readers will benefit from inspiring tips on the animation process and information on using computer programs to enhance or color the characters.

Among his many impressive professional achievements Joe is especially proud of the fact that a humorous animated short he wrote, directed, and voiced has been on display at the Smithsonian Institution since 2001. Learn more at www.JoeArtistWriter.com.

    

Coiled I-cord purse handle from the book Colorwork for Adventurous Knitters

Today, I have a fun I-cord purse handle detail from the book  Colorwork for Adventurous Knitters:
Master the Art of Knitting Stripes, Slipstitch, Intarsia, and Stranded Colorwork through Step-by-Step Instruction and Easy Projects to share with you.

Whether you are knitting your purse from scratch, or you want to dress up or change out a purse handle this coiled up I-cord detail is so cute and fun. 

More about the CPi book:

 Colorwork for Adventurous Knitters: Master the Art of Knitting Stripes, Slipstitch, Intarsia, and Stranded Colorwork through Step-by-Step Instruction and Easy Projects

by Lori Ihnen

This step-by-step technique reference introduces and thoroughly explores several styles of knitting that involve color/yarn changes to create intricate patterns and designs. With  Colorwork for Adventurous Knitters, you'll delve into exciting methods including striping, slipstitch, mosaic, stranded, and intarsia knitting and duplicate stitch and embroidery embellishment. While colorwork is commonly found in knitting projects, each colorwork knitting method requires skills that are difficult for someone to simply grasp on their own without careful guidance, which is just what this volume provides. Each section includes easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions, teaching all that is necessary to master the required knitting skills. Charts, diagrams, and graphs are also provided, and swatch exercises in each section give the reader a chance to try the skills. Sections end with three to five small projects. This volume is an inspiring addition to any knitter’s library.

Lori Ihnen is a professional fashion designer of both hand-knit and sewn clothes, with a degree in clothing design from the University of Minnesota. She specializes in designing intricate stranded designs, often inspired by nature, and her hand-work is so intricate and precise that it is often mistaken for machine-produced knitting. Her designs have also been published in other books, including Top Notch Knits and Bags, a Knitters Dozen, A Garden Stroll: Knits Inspired by Nature, and the video Fair Isle without Fear. She also designs for magazines, including Vogue Knitting, Family Circle Easy Knits, and Knitter’s Magazine. She was commissioned by the Minnesota Historical Society Museum to design a cardigan sweater for their permanent collection, Minnesota Female Fiber Artist. She lives in Mounds View, Minnesota.

    

4 types of starter solar panels from the book DIY Solar Projects How to Put the Sun to Work in Your Home

Getting solar panels is definitely on my to-do list, so I will be reading DIY Solar Projects: How to Put the Sun to Work in Your Home from cover to cover. These first 4 examples are completely do-able.

More about the CPi book:

DIY Solar Projects: How to Put the Sun to Work in Your Home

by Eric Smith

Advances in solar technology have made many DIY-friendly products available to consumers, several of which will be hitting the market for the first time in 2011. These include solar water heaters, solar battery charging stations, solar powered lights, photovoltaic shingles that provide supplementary electricity, solar heat pumps, and solar panel kits that generate primary home electrical service. Among the step-by-step projects is a solar water heating system you can build and install yourself for under $1000; simple thermosyphon solar heat collectors for barns and outbuildings; or "heat grabbers" that you can fabricate for $50 in materials and position below a south-facing window to provide auxiliary winter heat.

Eric Smith has worked for many years as a carpenter, DIY coach, and Home Improvement editor. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

    

All about Lucky Star Camp

Lucky Star Art Camp

Lucky Star is a four night, five day women’s art and whole living retreat set in the hill country of Texas. Women will travel from all over the country to take in the beauty of their surroundings, take classes, make new friends, listen and share, eat good food, laugh ’til they cry, sing around the camp fire, gaze at the stars, and just be in the moment.

Who is it for?

Don’t let the name mislead you.  You do not have to be an “artist” by the standard definition to come to Lucky Star. We believe there is “art” in the every day details of life and therefore we celebrate the everyday “artists” who can be found in the kitchen making a lovely meal for their family, in the garden planting a row of peas, in the wee hours of the night sewing a Halloween costume, or in a gray on gray cubicle using a rainbow of colorful file folders and sticky notes to do anything to brighten the day. Just the act of braiding your hair can be deemed a work of “art” by our definition. Creative people can’t help but be creative.  You know who you are.  Lucky Star is a candy store for the creative soul. Lucky Star is for YOU!

What is there to do?

mixed media painting :: art journaling :: jewelry making :: dream mapping

lettering :: apothecary :: crochet :: photography

stamp making :: creative writing :: sewing :: canning and preserving

yoga :: intuitive spirit work :: embroidery :: quilting

cheese-making :: organic gardening :: how to raise backyard chickens and goats

horseback riding :: canoeing :: archery :: massage :: kayaking :: tennis

* * * You can find the class schedule with complete listing of classes being offered here.

When?

October 9-13, 2013

Check-in at 2 p.m. on Wednesday 

Check-out by noon on Sunday

:: See Event Schedule here ::

Registration closes September 30th!

Pop on over to the Lucky Star site for all the details!

 And in other news:

 I want to congratulate Nancy W. Of Tualatin, OR as she the winner of The Complete Photo Guide to Beading and a Prima Beads Kumihimo weaving kit.

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