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Holiday Craft: Salt Dough Gift Tags

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Have you heard of the site Pinterest?  It’s basically Google Images but with an easy repinning function turning it into a social media tool.  I had downloaded it onto my phone and didn’t pay any attention to it until recently.  Now I look at it for an hour a day and have about 40 craft projects lined up for myself – it’s DIY porn, 24×7. I love gorgeously-wrapped presents with handmade fabric bows, simple kraft paper, and custom tags.  You can imagine now … Continue reading

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Holiday Craft: Candied Ginger

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Ginger is a very polarizing root.  Having grown up with it in almost every dish (ginger is to Asians as garlic is to Italians), I like a pronounced ginger flavor in both cooking and baking.  But my husband and probably most other people from his western European family?  Blechhh.  I never really understood why they all love hot peppers so much but couldn’t stand the spicy bite of ginger root. Enter young, or baby, ginger.  Young ginger is picked in … Continue reading

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