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Chonky Boys: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches that Scream Summer!

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Featuring my thick and nuggy Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookies, these ice cream sandwiches are the stuff that summer dreams are made of.  If you've ever had the Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich at Disneyland , you are going to LOVE these!  These big and bold chocolate chip cookies are based on a recipe from my culinary school studies at Auguste Escoffier, but with a few modifications to give them that Jennuine touch.  They make the perfectas book for a fat slice of real vanilla bean ice cream.  And those mini chips?  You just gotta have that extra cronch! Thank goodness this recipe only makes 8 sandwiches, otherwise I would be eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner.  This way, my big family can help save me from my inner child diet-saboteur.   Print With Image Without Image Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Yield: 8 Author: Jenn Erickson Loaded with chocolate chips and buttery, brown-sugary vanilla flavor, these mall-sized cookies form a perfect partnership with a

How to Make Lavender Egg-Shaped Soaps
By Reurposing Plastic Easter Eggs

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Chances are, if you celebrated Easter this past week, you probably have a dozen or more of those colorful plastic eggs lying around.  So, what to do with those empty plastic shells once the last jellybean has jumped and the last peep has popped into your mouth? Last April I came up with this simple little tutorial for making lovely egg-shaped soaps with the help of plastic Easter eggs.  Even the packaging is made from upcycled materials. I shared the tutorial in a guest post at My Repurposed Life .  Today, I'm sharing it here on Rook No. 17!  How to Make   Egg Shaped Soaps from Plastic Easter Eggs   Materials Pour & Mold Soap (2 pounds will yield 1 dozen egg soaps) Essential Oil for scent -- optional Cardboard Egg Carton Acrylic craft paint & paint brush Small funnel* (typically available at craft stores) Drill with a 7/32 bit and a 11/32 bit Piece of scrap wood Plastic Easter Eggs Gorilla Tape & scissors Bamboo skewer

How to Make an Old World Easter Basket
(On a Bargain Store Budget) #KmartEaster

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Holidays like Easter are what nostalgists like me live for!  For this vintage-junkie, Easter evokes memories of time-worn wicker baskets, fluffy chenille chicks, handmade chocolate bunnies, and the rocky road eggs that my mom had personalized with our names by a local sweet shoppe.  There was a look and a quality to those understated yet artful treats that can be hard to find in today's mass-produced, bright and shiny, commercial world. Recently, I had the opportunity to shop for an Easter basket on a budget through a Collective Bias campaign on behalf of Kmart stores.  I knew that this project would be a terrific creative challenge to put my flair for the "vintage" to the test.  Following you'll find some easy and inexpensive tricks and tips for putting together an Easter basket that looks like it came right out of the Easter Bunny's workshop or an expensive boutique, but at a price that is as easy to swallow as a jellybean!

Monkeying Around with Fabric Scraps~
DIY Fabric Scrap Monkey Cards

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For a card swap hosted by Making Memories With Your Kids , my daughter and I were inspired to monkey around with scraps and bits we could rummage from the craft room.  The result was this merry band of cheeky fellows. It was more fun than, well, a barrel of monkeys!   The craft was inspired by a project from one of my favorite paper crafting books, 365 Things to do with Paper and Cardboard from Usborne/Scholastic.  This book has so many wildly creative, cute and easy crafts to do with your kids! We gathered up some fabric and felt scraps, paper scraps, card stock and glue.  I made a pattern for the monkey pieces (which I'm sharing below) and got right down to business.... monkey business that is! Here's how to make your own... Fabric Scrap Monkey Cards Materials Pattern (Printable PDF HERE ) Fabric Scraps Felt scraps for the monkey body, eyes, mouth and hat Decorative paper (scrapbook, book pages, newspaper) Blan

Six Creative Twists on Easter Egg Decorating ~
A Little Birdie Told Me...No. 66

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A hard boiled egg is elevated to an edible artform when pressed in a Japanese egg mold while still warm. -------------------------------------- Welcome to  "A Little Birdie Told Me..." Tuesday No. 66! If you're here to share a craft, recipe or project post, you'll find the linky and the specifics on how to  join the party after the features below. -------------------------------------- I can't help it.  I have spring decorating and eggs on the brain.  This week, my girls and I made some simple silhouette Easter eggs using tissue paper and Mod Podge. Today I'm featuring some freshly hatched egg decorating ideas using all types of different materials: --------------------------------- Butterfly Eggs from Creative Passage   Base: Plastic, Resin or Blown Eggs Decorated with:  Dictionary Pages & Mod Podge Paper Punched Eggs from Alderberry Hill   Base: Styrofo