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Baked play dough ornaments
Since the plan was to have Nico do (or at least help us with) all ornaments for this year’s Christmas tree, we had looked at modeling clay to do some of them and it worked out ok, but we found that it was very sticky and when it came down to details (such as thinner parts) it was not very easy to handle and chances were that it would have broken, so Valérie had looked … Read entire article »
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Felt pompoms Christmas trees
Here’s the final product: I was inspired by “Happy Hooligans” who made a Christmas tree ornament with crafts sticks and pompoms. I decided to go with felt instead. I found a shape of a Christmas tree I liked on google and printed out the size I needed. Hubby was patient enough to cut all the tree shapes while I worked on other crafts. Since the felt I have was soft instead of stiff, he also cut … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts
Kool-Aid colored play dough
Nico is a big fan of play dough, but it would tend to dry out after a while and you’d be somewhat limited in what it would allow you to do, Valérie wanted to do some fun Christmas ornaments and she found a post on “The Magic Onions” that gave us a great recipe to do our own play dough, that also is great for baking. Many other posts had mentioned that you had to … Read entire article »
For the firemen on Christmas eve… (mini muffins)
After reading a bunch of peoples traditions on Family Fun from Disney, my husband and I really like the “Surprise a Public Servant” one. We had been to the firehouse not long ago (Nov 6, 2011) after Nico was really into an episode of a kiddy show on firemen so it seemed like a great fit for us. So I explained to Nico that normally people get to be with their family on Christmas eve but … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home, Muffins
Hand print reindeer foam frame
Here is the final product:I saw a version of this a while back (can’t remember where, sorry) where they used a real wooden frame (Ikea or Michaels inexpensive little wooden ones) painted it and used a red pompom for the nose and they didn’t have the little Santa hat. Makes a great gift for anyone. This is my spin on it, I have to send mine to the in-laws (the rest of the family as well) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christmas, Crafts, English, Glitter, Holiday Crafts
Contact “Glittering Muffins”
If you have any feedback or comments or ideas, feel free to send me an email to valerie [at] glitteringmuffins [dot] com! You can also follow us here: (167) … Read entire article »
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Meet the family!
Photo taken on May 22, 2011. Since I’ve been told that it is not polite to blurb in public, here is our story: My name is Valerie, mother of a very, very active and energetic two-year-old named Nico, living in Quebec, Canada, also known as “La Belle Province”, and while always having been very crafty, Nico has given this a completely different spin, giving me a new perspective on things and what you can do without having … Read entire article »
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Of glitter and muffins
“Glittering Muffins” is a blog dedicated to the world of arts, crafts and food between my beautiful son Nico and myself, Valerie, stay-at-home mom and wrangler of a very, very active and energetic toddler that keeps me on my toes. My hubby Alex also joins in on the weekends, when we have bigger projects and need an extra set of hands. If you wonder about the name of the blog, do not worry, we will not show you odd clashes between the crafts and food world, but they express two of the big passions of Nico, crafts with glitter and muffins of any kind (well, technically any kind of cooking, he can whip up some amazing pretend muffins, stews and cakes or also raid our pantry and bring you every can … Read entire article »
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