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Holiday Craft: Salt Dough Gift Tags
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
Holiday Craft: Candied Ginger
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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Tagged baby ginger, candy, craft, david lebovitz, ginger, local, young ginger
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