March 10

Child’s Play Chucky Cake

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Today has been a pretty horrifying day. To start, I had to be at work at four am (horrors and terrors you could only dream of), then, after work (and a nap) a friend and I went “urban exploring” in an incredibly creepy mostly abandoned ghost town very near to “Devil’s Crater”, so when this little gem showed up in my inbox this afternoon, I knew what I had to do.

R0ckwithme posted this delectable and terrifying Child’s Play Chucky Cake she made for her beau’s twelve year old son on craftster. Immediately, visions of slumber parties of yester-year, hiding under sleeping bags and convincing myself that every doll, teddy bear, or vaguely humanoid toy I owned was definitely Chucky, and was definitely going to kill me.

I can honestly say that until today, no cake so well-decorated has ever intimidated me, but this one…well…takes the cake.

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February 21

Gryffindor Bed Canopy


Ofenjen at sewhooked had a predicament. Her daughter needed a Harry Potter inspired bedroom, and in order to have that, she needed a four poster bed with the school colors draped luxuriously around. Her daughter’s bedroom posed two small problems. There was a ceiling fan in it, and it was too small for a four poster bed anyway. Ofenjen did what any self respecting crafter would do…

She created her own version of a Gryffindor Bed Canopy using lightweight (and inexpensive) PVC pipe that she could affix to her daughter’s wall. Beautiful!

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February 12

Jar Jar Binks Salad

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A few years ago, I attended a school designed to teach cooking & presentation, and my favorite part of the course was the garnish. We had instructors that could make a watermelon look like a bouquet of roses straight from the garden. So, naturally, when I saw this Jar Jar Binks carved from a jimaca root, I was excited.

Ken posted this amazingly detailed Jar Jar Binks Salad on Cooksden, lamenting that if he had carved any other character from Star Wars, he wouldn’t have wanted to cut into it with a knife. There is a detailed how-to in the article, and no worries, you won’t have to go buy a million different kinds of knives to pull this one off yourself.

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