More from I Troll Martha Stewart So You Don't Have To -- I'm putting this here for my own reference closer to the holidays: sugar cube house.

Homemade modeling clay from I Troll Martha Stewart So You Don't Have To. My mother used to make something like this but simply used flower, salt and water, which would dry out quickly.

Plans for this week include homemade macaroni and cheese and those malt-ball ice cream bombes from the current Martha magazine. I loooove them because they qualify nicely as Food That Looks Like Other Food. I'll take pics of the ice cream if it turns out!

update: I added some photos and some recent notes to the lip balm and bath bombs pages

If you are going to buy me a present please buy me this egg cracker, thank you.

Mmmmm. Pink grapefruit gelatin.

nice corsets - via epitomegirl warning: inappropriate-for-work image on very first page and pretty much throughout

I have seen these a few other places message in a bottle

I Troll Martha Stewart So You Don't Have To: how to make crystallized pansies mini cobblers poached egg over grits

What I am thinking about: using liquid starch as a temporary window treatment to frost our upper kitchen window so we can get light into the room but not feel like the neighbors above are watching. I can find a lot of projects involving liquid starch and tissue paper to form images or a stained glass effect, but in this case I would prefer a thin coat of white (it's a fairly dark kitchen). But I want to make sure I can get it off very easily when we move out. I cannot find any instructions on how to clean off when you're done. Soapy water? Where do I get liquid starch? If you have any advice, lemme know, thanks!

I would actually like to smell this guy.

I am a sucker for novelty jewelry: Wordstretch rubber bracelets now with write-on kits Glogear !as seen on the necks of celebrities! Kryptolight

what I love today in the category of Food That Looks Like Other Food and I Troll MarthaStewart.com So You Don't Have To watermellon shaped ice cream bombe in the catgory of Childhood Regression make-your-own candy jewelry kit and stick-on belly button jewels in the category of Ewwwwwwwwwwww hand and brain gelatin molds in the category of Neat-o interlocking bone skeleton candies

I know it's been around forever but just this last Christmas I saw the recipe-in-a-jar gift thing (I know, where have I been?). I love this thing!! You can find a lot of recipes on this page. I saw an Irish soda bread recipe in a pint bottle for St. Patrick's Day.

Rebecca points us to these delicious sites from her domestic page: Gothic Martha Stewart and Gothic Gardening