New look

Made a new template for my blog here, just because I could.

Seeking waffle tips

Waffle

I tried out Alton Brown's waffle recipe and it worked out pretty great. Fluffy and delicious waffles. Of course, you can see that my waffle is a little deformed. I've never managed to quite get the hang of getting my waffles to fill out perfectly. Maybe it would be easier if my iron were round, but it's square, so does anyone have any tips?

Easy gift tags from toilet paper roll

The holidays being a busy time and having over-extended myself in trying to create too many hand-made gifts, I had to come up with a way of making some fancy looking tags requiring minimal work.

I happened to have several empty toilet paper rolls laying around (I knew they'd come in handy some time) which were begging for a use.

The process for making these is simple enough:

1. Flatten your toilet paper roll.
2. Cut 4 strips from the tube; I made mine 1 cm wide.
3. Dab some glue in the middle of one of the strips on each side of it. Fit the strip inside of another one to make a cross and squeeze the strips together so the glue will hold them.
4. Now glue the crosses inside each other to make an 8 pointed star.
5. Once the glue is dry, "fluff" it out so it's not so flat.
   
6. Attach to your gift with a piece of string, yarn, or ribbon.