Love ya, mom!Want your mom She goes to the gym. to feel super-speech on Mother's Day? Making her a gift from the heart is a heckuva heck·uv·a adj. Slang Used as an intensive: You've done a heckuva good job. [Alteration of heck of a.] good start. She'll be mucho appreciative. So-easy Truffles 1/2 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened * 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar * 1 1/2 cups semisweet sem·i·sweet adj. Having a small amount of sweetening: semisweet chocolate. Adj. 1. semisweet - having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness bittersweet chocolate chips * 3/4 tsp. vanilla * white or dark chocolate for dipping * flaked coconut, crushed nuts or sprinkles 1. In a bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar until well blended. 2. Melt chocolate chips according to package instructions. Stir melted chocolate and vanilla into cream cheese mixture. Mix thoroughly. 4. Refrigerate re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. about one hour. Roll into 1-inch balls. 5. Melt dipping chocolate according to package instructions. Roll each ball in chocolate, then place on waxed paper-covered baking sheet to set. 6. Decorate with coconut, nuts or sprinkles, or swirl another color of chocolate over top. Store in the refrigerator. 7. Place a few in candy cups in a pretty painted and decoupaged box for Mom. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Picture This! unfinished wooden frame without glass or backing * acrylic paint * paintbrush (graphics, tool) Paintbrush - A Microsoft Windows tool for creating bitmap graphics. * hot-glue gun * white plastic needlepoint needlepoint: see lace. needlepoint Type of embroidery in which the stitches are counted and worked with a needle over the threads, or mesh, of a canvas foundation. It was known as canvas work until the early 19th century. canvas (at any craft store) * magazine cutouts * ribbon 1. Paint the frame. Let dry completely. 2. Cut canvas to fit, and place centered on back of frame. Run a strip of hot glue along the edges of the canvas. Let dry. 3. Jazz up the front of the frame with magazine cutouts or buttons or glitter--be creative! 4. Glue ends of a strip of ribbon to the back top edge of frame for a hanger. 5. Slip earrings through the holes in the canvas. Maybe you can spring for a new pair of dangles for Mom!--Karen Sessions [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Butterfly Box unfinished wooden box * acrylic paints * paintbrush * tacky glue * decals * shellac shellac, solution of lac in alcohol or acetone. In commerce the name is applied to the resinous substance (lac) itself rather than to the solution. It ranges in color from orange to light yellow depending upon the extent to which it has been purified; the darker * scrap of velvet 1. Paint a solid coat of white or pastel paint over the entire box. Let dry completely. 2. Now use your imagination--paint stripes, polka dots, flowers, butterflies or anything your little heart desires onto the box. 3. Embellish it by gluing on decals. Let dry. 4. Cover the box--decals and all!--with a coat of shellac. Let dry. 5. Cut velvet to fit, and fine the inside by pasting the velvet in with tacky glue.--Aimee Falardeau [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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