make - decorate cupcakes Seseme Street style

I don't always bake, actually, I almost never bake, but when I do, I decorate what I bake.  I'm not a baker, so I'm not ashamed to say that I used chocolate Betty Crocker cake mix and vanilla frosting to make these lovelies. If you're fancy, you can be more creative with awesome batter and frosting recipes.

For my bloody Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster cupcakes I used: coloured frosting, I flavored the green frosting with matcha and the brown frosting with cacao (so that's a bit fancy), I used food colouring to dye the frosting.  For the eyes, I used yogurt covered peanuts and painted pupils with melted chocolate using a toothpick. I had to sacrifice some cupcakes to create height by building on top of my cupcakes and then roughly frosting the outer layer. I used a spoon and toothpicks to apply my frosting. I inserted half of the bottom part of a my sacrificed cupcake into Oscar's mouth and a whole mini chocolate cookie into the Cookie Monsters mouth.  I diluted some red frosting with water and dripped it over Oscar's mouth, cuz it's almost Halloween and blood is gory and people like that! So that's that! Adults and kids loved them, yey!

make - really easy wire sculpture

Decorate with this little wire sculpture.

you will need:

• craft wire (aluminum craft wire)
• pliers (optional)

simply bend the wire into your desired shape, you can use pliers to create sharper angles and bends or simply bend with your hands.

make - easy nook wall installation

My husband and I just moved into a new rental unit and I have been busy decorating since day 1 of our move.  Our bedroom had a weird nook wall, perfect for a queen size bed without the frame. To cast interest to this wall, I had originally wanted to apply a funky wallcovering to this area, however since the unit is a rental, our landlord would most likely not be thrilled if he found out he would have to remove my funky wallcovering when renting out the unit to a new tenant. I didn't want to paint either, so I decided to apply a black vinyl tape to the wall. The tape is easy to install and easy to remove.  It's not super sticky and won't ruin the wall if you want to peel the tape off later.

 For this project you will need:

• wall ( preferably with angles) 
• black electric tape
• scissors

Don't worry about marking the walls, just go with the flow. Start with opening the tape and applying it to the wall, try to make the tape stick to the wall in a straight line. Play with the angles of the walls. You can continue the tape along the walls or cut with scissors if you want to change the angle. Have fun!