Boo ya! A bad moon is rising over the Cottage as we start our new Bad Bats Halloween series! Let’s kick-off the festivities with a delicious and spooky Oreo milkshake we created for Kara’s Party Ideas! Kara has one of the most inspiring blogs we know featuring beautiful parties, decorating tips and tasty recipes! Spooky Oreo …
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Let’s celebrate the harvest season with these lovely harvest fruit tarts! We made a buttery, crumbly tart shell and filled it with apples, pears, plums and grapes. Of course, you can change and vary the fruits to your taste. We then brushed the tartlets with a generous amount of apricot jam. What tartlet tins (pans) …
Let’s continue our series of opulent paper decorations with beautiful honeycomb pom poms! Just like regular pom poms, they’re made and you can cut them into many different shapes. The technique for creating honeycomb pom poms is a bit more advanced but we created a nifty template to make crafting them easier, you can download …
We’ll craft giant paper dahlias in the second part of our Darling Dahlia series! We made ours in various shades of red in honor of autumn, but you can make them in any color you like! The flowers look beautiful as a door wreath or as a dramatic wall decoration. The technique is very simple, …
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower” Algerian-French author and philosopher Albert Camus lets the character Jan utter this line in his play The Misunderstanding (1942). To share this quote with a friend, click the image and select a social media channel. You can also download a printable version and hang …
This week’s motivational quote was penned by Rabindranath Tagore, who was a Bengali writer, artist and Nobel Prize winner. “A butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.” To share this quote with a friend, click the image and select a social media channel. You can also download a printable version and hang …
Let’scraft a DIY gift bag, perfect for packaging a present in style. Gift bags can be easily made ahead and are a pretty, last-minute gift wrapping solution. Stuffed with treats and tissue paper, a gift bag is great for many occasions and a sweet way to say “Happy Birthday” or “Thank you”. We’ll be using …
Learn how to make Dulce de Leche! The name of this treat is Spanish and means “sweet made of milk” or “milk sweet”. It’s a rich, amber-colored caramel spread that tastes delicious on its own, with ice cream or as a cupcake filling and also makes a great hostess gift or party favor. You can …
“Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.” These words remind us that sometimes little things can make all the difference. We might be chasing after “big dreams”, like hoping for a promotion or dreaming of a new house. And while having a clear goal …
Do you love homemade lemon curd? We do! Lemon curd is a rich and deliciously tart spread made of fresh lemon juice and zest, sugar, butter, and eggs. We enjoy it on warm toast or use it to fill cakes, cupcakes, and tartlets. Poured into small jars, it also makes a pretty gift – you …