gift guides!

• soapbox girls buyers guide
• at keri smith
• at superhero designs
• bust store
• the perpetual i buy diy
• another girl at play gift guide

There is cool stuff going on over at Susan Stars: she has a new craft column at a Nervy Girl, loads of new stuff (all handmade) for sale, she'll be at Riches At Rimsky's art sale in Portland on Dec. 6th and 7th, and she has some new projects up on her how to page!

In the grocery store the other day I found a make your own chocolate Santa kit - it was just a plastic snap together ornament (like the ones I used to make the bath bombs, but Santa shaped) and some chocolate chips. You melt the chips in the microwave, pour them into the mold, close the mold, and turn is so that the inside is covered. Let it cool sitting on one side for a while, then turn it over, then pop it into the fridge for an hour and it's done. Pretty easy looking -- the best part was that the company name was apparently "Choco Treat".