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Get clean and refreshed with watermelon soap.
Check out the how-to from Candletech.
Here's an awesome new concept - hot chocolate on a stick!
Check out the recipe from Giver's Log.
Turn your unwanted tank tops in to handy little tote bags.
Check out the how-to from CraftyNest.
Filled with embroidery and cross-stitch basics, A Rainbow Of Stitches offers exactly that, with over 1000 different motifs and 80 projects ideas.
The books starts by teaching you all the techniques you need to execute the perfect cross-stitch and embroidery stitches. Once you've mastered the basics, choose from one of the thousand plus designs and get to work on a project. Embroider Pretty In Pink Slippers, stitch Fresh Green Throw Pillows, Dutch Blue Napkins, red Sweetheart Pillowcases and simple white Embellished Bottle Vases.
Organised by colour of the rainbow, create a gorgeous selection of stitched accessories for your home and wardrobe.
You can pick up a copy of the book now from Random House.
Feeling worse for wear this holiday season? Make yourself a never-fail hangover-relief shake to kick the morning blues.
Check out the recipe on Times Online.
Here is our pick of some of the best projects on CO+K last week:
Sew a Kate Spade owl purse, make homemade stickers, sew a Mexican flower hairpiece and sequin bow, make a hidden message locket, learn how to solder, bake apple pumpkin pecan bread and twelfth night pie, paint a headphones t-shirt, sew a sack person and fishbowl plushie, draw an awesome doodle, create memory art out of a wine label and corks and make a bangle bracelet out of packaging, paint your face with rainbow doodles, sip on a spritzer mocktail and spiced apple juice, decorate pretty gift boxes and frames, alter the neckline of a t-shirt, sew a bow tie ring, cook fried rice, make a cute & easy necklace hanger, sew a mini pokeball and use gift wrapping alternatives.
These cupcake bath bombs look delicious, I bet they smell it too!
Check out the how-to from Little Birdie Secrets.
These tin cans look amazing are are made from recycled drinks cans.
Here is our (very late) pick of some of the best projects on CO+K last week:
Revamp a lace top in to a vest, make a tuxedo necklace and a pegboard 3D glasses necklace, construct a DIY cake stand, sew an underbust corset, sew a squirrel brooch and miniature felted wool wreath, sip on cranberry vodka, crochet a flower earwarmer or knit a camera case, make recycled gift bags and recycled tealight candle holders in to star decorations, decorate a box to look like a cupcake, turn a pets portrait in to a Christmas stocking, make your own sushi boards, make light up wine bottles and a lighted potpourri jar, sew a Santa hat with bow and antique lace bow headband, embellish an OMG tee and sew a gathered dress, sew a rosette and make a flower shaped felt necklace.
What an amazing costume. This girl painted lots of tiny dots on herself, turning her in to a real life comic book girl.
Check out more photos at Strawberry Anarchy.