The Perfect gift for your Yoga Friend

Is your yoga crazy friend's birthday coming up soon? Well here is the perfect gift! A custom yoga mat from http://www.mycustomyogamat.com/!

Go through the process and choose which color you want and so forth!

But not only is can you buy yoga mats, you can buy bags that match your yoga mat, greek mats, baby mats, and dog mats.

I absolutely love this and I will be buying this in the future!

NOTE: All pictures were taken from http://www.mycustomyogamat.com/, except for the screen shot of making the yoga mat.

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Devouring Coffee Cake Cupcakes

How was your Valentine's Day? My was great and guess what I made? Cupcakes! (That was a little obvious!) Anyway I made Coffee Cake (just get your standard vanilla cupcake recipe and add 1 tbsp. instant coffee dissolved in 1 tbsp. milk), with my favorite buttercream recipe topped chocolate sprinkles.
Here are a couple of pictures I took:

So yummy! Comment below if you want to know how to make these cupcakes!

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Valentines Barrettes

This perfect idea poped into my head! Valentines hair clips! I searched and searched online and I found Purl Bee and they have a tutorial on it! Except, I did mine a little differently.
So, with Valentines just around the corner, you don't have any Valentines flair! Well, here is a Valentines Barrette  that is noticeable, but not to in-your-face. You will need:
Contrasting felt (red and pink or fuchsia and pink)
A bobby pin or barrette
Purl Bee Valentine Heart Template 

  Before we get started I'd just want to let you know that I am using red and pink felt.

  So the first thing to do is use one of your felts (I'm using red) and cut it out in the shape of the large heart on the template. You will need two of these. Afterwards, do the same with other felt (again, I'm using pink) except cut it out in the shape of the small heart and you only need one.

  With one of your large felt pieces make a slit to put in the barrette. If you are using a bobby pin like me, make one slit in the middle and then another slit far off to the other side. Sew both of the large pieces together. 

  Now take your small pink heart, place it in the middle on the side that does not have the slits in it, and sew straight down the heart. Your result should look like this:

If your looking for more heart shapes or even what the heart looks like with a barrette, please go here:

http://www.purlbee.com/valentine-heart-barrettes/

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Petit Valentines Cupcakes

  These are the perfect little cupcake hearts ever! I was making cupcakes in the kitchen one day and I decided to put frosting on my cupcakes. I whipped some yellow royal icing and it never occured to me that I used my heart silicone cupcake moulds. 

So then I filled my cupcakes with royal icing on the "heart part" and I drew a red heart on the cupcake.

Cute isn't it? I absolutely love it! I also just made the standard cupcake using the same method.

Another way you can do this is by using a bundtlette mould or a bite size standard cupcake mould!

Love it so much!

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iPhone Bookmark

Right. Let's set this straight. I've always thought about the fact that in tap you can access your favorite web page or whatever. I've never ever personally liked this trick (And yes this trick is quite old, but not a lot of people don't know how to do it, let it alone know what it is.) , but  it's worth showing. Basically all it is, is that Apple (the company. Not the fruit!) lets you select your favorite web page and turn it into a bookmark on one of your iPhone pages. Here is an example:

See that white app looking thing with a heart on it? That's what we are going for. So that's what we are going to do! Let's go straight into the tutorial!

Note: This tutorial is for iPhone users only. I think that anyone who owns the very first iPhone that ever came out up to the latest and newest iPhone can do this. Also iTouch users can do this too!

So the first thing you are going to want to do is go to the Safari app and type in the web address (URL) you want to bookmark. For this bookmark I am using my website. (http://craftyascanbe.blogspot.com).

If you want your bookmark to have a clip of the web page just move and scale. I went for the heart because that's what symbolizes Crafty As Can Be. Afterwards, tap the icon with the square and the arrow coming out of it and tap “Add to Home Screen”.

Edit the name and the the icon. To edit the icon just tap the icon and select and drag 'till you get the icon you want. Then tap “Add” (top right hand corner).

Afterwards, your bookmark should appear on your iPhone screen. Enjoy going to your favorite web page with just a tap.

Have any doubt? Email me at  craftyacb@gmail.com. 

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Snow Ice Cream

What? It's possible to get Snow Ice Cream? Yup  it is. I think this is a great recipe for anybody. I really not a big fan of vanilla ice cream, but I still like this recipe. Okay enough with the jibber jabber, let's get into the tutorial.
You will need:
US
Snow (you didn't see the what coming?)
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Metric
Snow
119 ml milk
60 g sugar
5 ml vanilla


First things to do is combine milk, sugar, and vanilla until sugar has dissolved.

Go outside and fetch your snow.

Then take snow about add about 1-4 teaspoons of vanilla.

Mix gently. You should get something like that. You can add sprinkle, marshmallows, whatever you want to it. I added chocolate syrup to get rid of that vanilla taste.

Have a great time making this!