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Recipes

  • Pumpkin Bread
    3 C sugar 1 C oil 4 beaten eggs 1 can (lb) pumpkin 2/3 C water 3-1/3 C flour 2 t soda 2 t salt 1 t baking powder 1 t nutmeg 1 t allspice 1 t cinnamon 1/2 t cloves walnuts raisins Cream sugar & oil. Add eggs & pumpkin, mix well. Add dry ingredients alternating with water. Pour into 2 greased/floured 9x5 loaf pans. Bake 350, 1-1/2 hrs. Let stand 10 mins. remove from pans to cool.
  • Zucchini Chocolate Cake
    This is from my friend Laurie B. grease & flour 9x13 pan. Oven 350- 40-45 mins. 1 C butter 1-1/3 C sugar 2 eggs 1 t vanilla 1/2 C sour milk 1/4 C Hershey's cocoa 2-1/2 C flour 1.2 t baking powder 1 t soda 1 t salt 2 C grated zucchini walnuts Mix altogether & bake then sprinkle w/choc. chips, let melt and spread, or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
  • Chinese Chicken Salad
    2 chicken breasts,cooked and cubed 1 bag cole slaw mix 4 green onions chopped 2 T sesame seeds 1/2 C almonds Top Ramen noodles -crushed 1 small can mandarin oranges DRESSING: 2 T sugar 3 T cider vinegar 1 pkg flavor mix from Top Ramen 1/2 C olive oil Mix or shake well and sitr into other ingredients. Yum-enjoy

May 21, 2009

Oh My!!

I visited an absolutely fabulous store this week called Maxine's Floral & Gifts on Roosevelt Way NE in Seattle.  What a wonderfully talented lady, the shelves were full of some of the greatest eye candy I've seen one place.  I went back twice the same day.  This is a must see place!
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Don't miss it!

May 06, 2009

Ribbons

I have been digging through my 30 year collection of vintage & new ribbon, trims, beads & embellishments to prepare for the Idaho Falls workshop.  What fun! I haven't looked at most of these things in years.  I prepared a display board for Tonia which I need to get in the mail today so she can use it for class sign-ups.
Riboonwork 001 12 x 14 The display is about 12x14 so I could easily mail it in a flat priority mail box. It is one of those things you need to see and touch.  A photo just doesn't do Victorian ribbon-work justice. It has been great revisiting this old love of mine and preparing for the new workshop.  The 3 classes will involve dying ribbon, making flowers. leaves, stamen and beading leaves and other embellishments.

April 11, 2009

Good friend

You must visit my good friend Melissa Sabin's new blog, http://redtape.typepad.com/red-tape/, great eye candy, ideas and thoughts.

Spring again

I guess it is time to update, only been a year :).  Spring is here or at least the daffodils think so, even if it is cold and rainy.Daffodils
My flowerbeds are full of them.  Rhubarb and peonies also coming up and all the fruit trees are budding.

I am hoping to be heading to Idaho Falls, ID in May to the Stillwater Mansion Tea Room to teach a week of workshops in altered books and Victorian ribbonwork (my ultimate corsage class). My dear  friend Tonia Burgess (the proprietress of the mansion) whom I hadn't heard from in years called me out of the blue to see if I was still teaching. She had taken the ribbonwork classes from me some twenty years ago.  So very glad to hear from her.  I am so looking forward to these workshops, time away, change of scenery and a wonderful visit with my friend.Ultimate corsage


April 13, 2008

ArtFest 2008

I attended Artfest for the first time this year.  It was held at Fort Worden in Port Townsend WA.  My three workshops were:

Stephanie Rubiano - Perching Pixies G_pixie

Pamela Huntington - Just in Case Just_in_case_top_2 Just_in_case_bottom_2 Just_in_case_journal_2

(the top, the bottom and a journal inside)

Annie Lockhart - Stacked Recycle_window

Fort Worden is such a pristine pretty spot on the Puget Sound

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I was sick the entire time :(, bad cold and cough but made it to classes and really enjoyed them.   

December 29, 2007

Tanner's Birthday

My oldest grandson Tanner celebrates his 16th birthday on January 1, 2008. He is an avid 4 wheeler. He and his dad (my son) spend as much time as they can at the sand dunes.  Happy Birthday Tanner have a wonderful day!Tanner_4_wheeling 

December 22, 2007

photos from Israel

Here are some photos of the Wailing Wall, Shopping, an old gate, Judean Wilderness, Linda & I floating in the Dead Sea, sheep trails, Bedouian camps, Sea of Galilee, the new moon and the  beautiful Mediterranean Sea.

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A wonderful trip but a very long flight to get there.

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