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Start your work week off right by whipping up a batch of vegan mini donuts for the week! Recipe and step-by-step photos at VeganYumYum.com.

Just when you thought Cake Pops were the most adorable dessert on a stick. Here come ice cream pops! Learn to make them via scoochmaro on Instructables.

Camilla from the Family Chic blog was looking at Ikea's cupcake liners recently and they reminded her of pretty little lampshades so she made strung lights out of them for her garden! Check out her blog entry for the step by step instructions. (Discovered via DollarStoreCrafts)

P.S. If you're wondering if these would be a fire hazard since the liners are paper, Camilla points out that since they're safe for the oven, there's probably not a fire risk.

P.P.S. These would be an awesome and unique decoration for a baby or wedding shower! Especially if you're serving cupcakes!

Damn. Just when I finished painting the hallway and making a new fabric wall hanging for my stairway, I was feeling all caught up on DIY projects. And now I see this new idea!

It was made out of a 3' Ikea Billy shelf unit. The genius behind this idea is Andrew at IkeaHackers and you can find the step-by-step instructions here. 

Holy bejeebus that's a tiny origami star! Instructables user laminterious shows you how to make this itty bitty creation.

The talented Mena Trott from SewWeekly.com has shared a step-by-step tutorial for making a display for your brooches which you can hang on your wall. You basically just staple some fabric to a wooden frame. And if you have embroidery chops, you can embroider it like she did. 

I love the idea because it's instant wall art and it helps remind you of the brooches you own so you remember to wear them! You could even hang earrings and other jewelry on this kind of display (with u-shaped jewelry pins to help out).

Learn to make teeny tiny boxes out of post-it notes. Kinda makes you actually excited to go to the office tomorrow morning, eh? By Instructables user luckymonkeygarage.

The food blog eyecandy.nanakaze.net shares this adorable idea for serving up hard boiled eggs complete with step-by-step instructions! (Discovered via EpiCute)

Oh, come on now. This handmade Care Bear costume by Instructables user schoochmaroo is cute but the photo is painfully cute.

Think this takes some complicated sewing skills to create? Well maybe not. The first line of instructions is: "Find a bear that is approximately the size of your baby. Gut it."

Bento bento bento. It's everywhere! But what if you want to progress from ogling over their cuteness to making them yourself? Here's a brand new book called Yum Yum Bento Box which is written in English and published by the fabulous publisher Quirk Books.