Wilton Cupcake Fun Book
May 31, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
What makes Wilton cupcakes more fun? It?s our exciting products, which make baking, decorating and serving one-of-a-kind cupcakes a pleasure! In this section, you?ll find just about everything you need to create the terrific designs featured in this book.
Go to www.cupcakefun.com to view additional cupcake ideas, recipes and decorating techniques!
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars WOW
given as a Christmas gift and was big success. So many fun projects, glad I ordered the feet with the book.
5 Stars we love this cupcake book
My husband and I love this cupcake book so much that we have bought it numerous time to give to our grown up children so that they can have the fun of making spectacularly whimsical cupcakes for their friends and children. The recipes for muffins and cakes are great. Every year wilton updates the creative aspects of a cake form and this one is just spectacular. The designs are doable by those with almost no coordination or cake decorating experience. The key is always to make your own frosting so it is thick enought to hold shapes, or add a LOT of powdered sugar to commercial frostings to thicken them. Anyway, there are literally 150 full color cupcakes. There are your hilarious farm animals, awesome swimmers for whom the cupcakes are inflatable innertubes, wedding cupcakes, floral, clowns, fruits, bunnies, seasonal and more. You will need to get some tips you may not normally have, but the ones you need are in the directions. I highly recommend the 24 cupcake stand Wilton makes for displaying your cupcakes. I use a 3 tiered dessert rack that is also a carousel that spins because I already have it for cakes. But there are some beautiful cupcakes that look awesome displayed on the top of any stemed goblet that has been turned upside down so the base become a litte table for the cupcake. The angel, penguin, and Christmas themes are just adorable, but there are sophisticate cupcakes too. If you buy the silicon cupcake holders you will be thrilled. Thoughful almost effortless fun for a loved ones special occassion.
4 Stars Typical Wilton adverbook
I was a little disappointed in this book when I first got it. Since all you see on the cover is some “clown” cupcakes using the silly-feet baking cups (which I also purchased) I was expecting more uses of the silly-feet (I counted five), but it really covers whimsical cupcakes of all sorts, many of which would be suitable to make with children (easy to make).
It’s really just an idea book and a catalog of Wilton products and what you can do with them. There is a helpful section called “The Perfect Cupcakes; How to bake, ice and decorate”, and there are about six pages of recipes. Most cupcake instructions are from 1/8 to 1/2 page long, right next to a big, clear picture.
After getting over the “it wasn’t what I expected” part of receiving this book, and seeing that my boyfriend seems rather enthusiastic about making really whimsical cupcakes and loves the silly-feet, I like this book more and more. Just don’t expect anything sophisticated looking in it OR that many silly-feet ideas. If you are familiar with the typical adverbook that Wilton puts out, you shouldn’t find any surprises here, and some of the recipes, which are a blend of from-a-mix and from-scratch, for the most part look very tempting.
There are six pages of really cute Halloween cupcakes, including a vampire in a coffin, and some skeletons/ghosts/tombstones.
Review Of Smart Shopper Electronic Grocery List Maker
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13 Classic Horizons West Old Time Radio Broadcasts on DVD over 6 Hours 38 Minutes running time
May 30, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
13 Classic Horizons West Old Time Radio Broadcasts on DVD over 6 Hours 38 Minutes running time
This unique old time radio DVD collectible features 13 digitized reels of classic Horizons West radio broadcasts and over 6 Hours 38 Minutes of total running time on 1 DVD. Take a journey back through radio broadcasting history with this large audio library of OTR memorabilia. The golden age of old time radio has been rescued, digitized, and packaged into a gift set that any classic radio lover can appreciate. The DVD opens and plays in a computer DVD drive and the collector can listen to the audio on a MP3 player, DVD/MP3-compatible car stereo, computer, MP3-compatible DVD player, or just compile favorites onto CD for greater user flexibility.
The DIY Bride 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One of a Kind Wedding
May 30, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
The DIY Bride 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One of a Kind Wedding
“DIY Bride is a classy, sassy, oh-so-fun crafty approach to livening up your big wedding day. Khris Cochran serves up a delectable tray of clever ideas that are frosted with style and originality and proves that having a luxurious, signature wedding doesn’t mean you have to empty your bank account. Just your glue gun!” Kathy Cano-Murillo, CraftyChica.com
Khris Cochran’s The DIY Bride: 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One-of-a-Kind Wedding provides inspiration and projects for save-the-date cards, invitations, jewelry and accessories, ceremony decorations, programs, favors and more. Cochran, who founded the website DIYBride.com, also provides a cost comparison to show how much a similar item would cost if purchased in a store, allowing busy couples to decide whether it would be better to buy or make certain projects. A hair ornament for a flower girl, for example, costs about $5 to make but would cost about $40 to buy. The DIY Bride provides clear instructions and suggests whether a project could be completed by the couple themselves, with the help of the wedding party or with members of the family, offering clever ideas and the potential for fun invitation-building parties with friends. –Bookpage
Khris Cochran, founder of DIYBride.com, helps send do-it-yourselfers down the aisle on the cheap with her new, illustrated book “The DIY Bride: 40 Fun Projects for Your Ultimate One-of-a-Kind Wedding” (Taunton, $19.95). The book offers step-by-step, budget-saving craft ideas for those planning to wed. –Dayton Daily News (Ohio)
This book is for the bride who loves arts and crafts. It tosses out cookie-cutter wedding standards and gives creative instruction for making invitations, accessories, favors, programs and decor that will leave a personal stamp on your wedding. –The Birmingham News (AL)
The moment after a woman says yes to the BIG question, she is deluged by even more questions — and all of them have to do with the wedding. Khris Cochran, founder of www.DIYbride.com and author of “The DIY Bride,” has plenty of answers to brides’ questions, especially brides who want a wedding that isn’t like everyone else’s, and one that doesn’t cost a fortune. “The DIY Bride” is replete with cost comparison information; for example, custom-printed wedding invitations may cost as much as $2.50 each. Do-it-yourself invitations can cost as little as 35 cents. Directions for projects are detailed and well-illustrated. Tips and hints are sprinkled liberally throughout the book. An index and resource guide add to the user-friendliness of the book. –Bangor Daily News (Maine)
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Crafty Goodness
I purchased this book along with “DIY Wedding.” What polar opposites they are. While I didn’t expect them to be the same, DIY books often repeat the same things over and over. Not the case here, I love this book. I just completed my ’shaker’ save the date cards. What a fun project to do! My mom, my fiance and myself tinkered around with them and had a lot of fun. I’m planning on doing the fabric envelope invitations in a month or so. I was a bit scared to even start this book after reading “DIY Wedding” (see my review for that book….), but this was a wonderful suprise and I reccomend this book to any crafty bride-to-be OR anyone who likes to make their own favors!
2 Stars Not a good book for anyone with crafting experience.
This book was written by someone new to the crafting world. If you are looking for projects that are for a higher skill level this is not the book for you. I am not a professional by any means, but I was very disappointed in this book. There were no projects that really stood out to me, or would challange me. If you’re not a crafter then this book would give you some good ideas. I did like the price comparisons in the book, but that was about it.
2 Stars A disappointment…
I was hoping for the holy grail book on how to use my crafty side to save money on my wedding. Most of the crafts were pretty hokey and I would never want them at my wedding. Secondly, the ideas were more finishing touches rather than essential pieces. I have found much better books than this if you want to “DIY”.
3 Stars very detail-oriented
This book does have a very detailed, excellent series of DIY projects, which would be perfect for a more energetic bride than me. Since becoming engaged, it seems like everything I run across makes me want to elope. However, this book is engagingly written and a good match for women who enjoy putting hours into dainty save the dates or original wedding favors. I think that kind of effort is commendable, I just can’t bring myself to really put forth the effort on any of the projects.
5 Stars Best DIY wedding book! (so far)
By the time we get married, my fiance and I will have been engaged for 3 years (longer than we’ve been dating)! We pushed the date back in order to save money to pay for this party. Had this book been available earlier, I would have gotten married sooner with all the money I would have saved! I’ve purchased other DIY wedding craft books, but this is by far the best! The projects are fun and hip unlike some other books that have projects that look like they are straight out of the 80’s. Some of the best features of this book are (1) the resource guide in the back–it lists many different websites and stores where the materials can be purchased, (2) the money-saving clues for each project (it lists what the item would cost if you purchased it from a vendor as opposed to DIY–I love knowing that I’m saving money!), (3)skill level and time/manpower needed (it lists whether you can complete the project by yourself or if you should enlist the help of family members, maids, or fiance), (4) the step-by-step instructions with visual aides for those of us that need visual cues, and (5) the timeline in the front of the book lists when you should purchase materials needed by and what projects should be completed first. I definitely would recommend this book as I already plan to do several of the projects! GREAT BUY!
Adapt and Transformation
May 30, 2009 by Fun Crafts · Leave a Comment
