2 new awards

I've rec'd 2 more awards, and there no hard and fast rules about these.
One I do think I'll pass along to a few people...Perhaps one of these people can figure out how to put the name on the particular picture of the award, as it comes with the name as a label.


I rec'd both of these awards from JINGLE

ok first is ...                      "The Elegant Butterfly award"

this is the one I want to share with several people, which I will edit in later (since it is 4:30 am, and I need to try and sleep (LOL)  

(anyone who I send this to, if you can do digital work and add the words elegant butterfly award to the image in some pretty way, I'D SOOO appreciate it)






the other is ...

now I have only done one or 2 short little poems so far on this blog, and there are a couple of reasons for that.  One I do not have a water mark, which is part of reason 2...afraid someone will still it. I am a published poet, and have been writing poetry since I was in middle school. (My mom says I wrote some in elementary school also...she'd know)

I am working on one coming up for YULE, but mostly my writing efforts these days are taking notes in my new self learning  alone my spiritual path, and a Novel I'm starting.

So This award is going to be added to my side bar, now. The "Elegant Butterfly Award" I will add when someone makes a it better. 

I thank you JINGLE and if you'd like me to send it back to you when it has writing on it let me know.

30 days of truth...day 6

Today is day 6...SOMETHING I HOPE TO NEVER HAVE TO DO

this one is the most simple one for me.

1.  I hope to never have to bury one of my own children, or my brother's or sister's children, or their children

2. I hope I never have to be worrying and wondering where I'm going to live.

3. I hope I never have to worry where my next meal is coming from .

4. I hope I am never put in the situation where I have to tell my nieces the truth about my sister and our mother.

5. I hope that I never have to be so tough on my son that he ends up homeless or in jail. (he just refuses to grow up, and his ADHD and ODD wear people out)

Happy Thanksgiving from me to all of you!

Please click here to enjoy a token gift from me to you:
The Thanksgiving Feast - animated Flash ecard by Jacquie Lawson

something to make you smile:

Check these TG facts out:

also hooking up with Jenny at her place

HUGE 1-1-5 blog candy LAST weekly update

I want to remind you all to READ THE RULES to enter, so, so many of you are not following the instructions correctly, and I would really HATE to see your name not be in the final draw.


You can see the last 15 items, as well as re-read the instructions Here.

MOSTLY, I want to stress that you must be a follower and that you must tell me about a favorite past post of mine, past as in PREVIOUS to the blog candy post.  As the blog candy post was on 10/20, and it says the word past that would mean before 10/20.

So please for your own interest, make sure you are following the instructions.  There will be no more updates, and sign-ups and comments will be accepted until 11/30.

remember 100 items go to one person (only in North America), then there will be 3 others winning 5 items each. (internationals ok)

GOOD LUCK!!

Tuesday--favor to ask: this past week, including today

This past week has been rough on my husband Ron, can you all please keep him in your thoughts and prayers etc.


Last week, his best friend Leon's wife died.  We went to the service and repast yesterday. Today Ron had his second cataract removed, he's doing good, but the next month will tell if his vision will improve any with new lenses. (He has diabetic retinopathy)


I would so appreciate it.

30 days of truth...day 5

Today is day 5 in my 30 days of truth...which means I need to talk about: something I hope to do in my life.

I am going to do this in list form, 5.5 years ago, this list was sooo much different.

1. I hope to drop 100+ pounds.

2. I hope to have the Honor of being a Grandmother bestowed upon me

3. I hope Ron and I both live long enough to get out of this house, and start fresh somewhere else.**

4.  If the above doesn't happen, **I hope at least one of our children moves home, married or not and helps with this 14 room house, and lives in harmony with us.

5. If #3 does happen, I hope my Mom is still alive so she can go with us.

6. I hope to establish a nice ETSY shop, and have it be successful

7. I hope to publish at least one novel

8. I hope to have less pain

9. I hope my new decision on spirituality will lead to more harmony and understanding in my life

10.  I hope ALL of my family members that are estranged from other family members or the whole family, drop their grudges, show forgiveness, realize love is what matters and rebuild the family.

11. I hope to have a new friend or 2 in my real life.

12. I hope I grow in my creative talents, and my spirituality.

Harry Potter 5 days of WITCH crafts--still catching up

http://demilunes.blogspot.com/2010/11/wednesday-accessories-for-hip-wizzard_17.html

You saw my accessory the other day (portable swamp), and an edible (Hagrid's Hot & Yummy ButterBeer)...I've edited the recipe slightly--there was a typo.


I am not making a creature
so instead here are 2 more edibles
both recipes from "The Leaky Cauldron"

DRAGON EGGS

by Chelikins

Preparation Time

30 minutes

Ingredients

hard boiled eggs
food coloring

Instructions

You can color hardboiled eggs and say they are Dragon Eggs! If you crack the shells a bit before coloring, you will end up with colored crack lines on the hard boiled egg for an even stranger look.

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(Note: I used fresh eggs--only a week old or less from the chickens...and if you have ever had fresh eggs, you know when you hard boil them, a lot of the time you can not peel them, without losing part of the egg.  if you didn't know that , now you do...did you also know the eggs in the super market can be up to 6 months old?  that is because eggs have a longish shelf life.  You can keep eggs un-refrigerated for about 30 days. ADDITIONALLY, I made Purple food color by mixing red and blue)

SQUID SHOOTERS

submitted by Chelikins

Preparation Time

75 minutes

Servings

3 – 4

Ingredients

3/4 cup boiling water
1 (3 ounces) package jello berry blue gelatin
1/2 cup cold water
Ice cubes
Gummy worms (candy usually sold in bulk or bags)

Instructions

Stir boiling water into gelatin in a medium bowl at least 2 minutes until completely dissolved. Mix cold water and ice to make 1 1/4 cups.
Add to gelatin, stirring until slightly thickened.
Remove any remaining ice.
Can refrigerate if it still seems thin to thicken slightly.
Pour gelatin into clear plastic cups.
Suspend gummy fish in gelatin.
Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm.

Source

Recipezaar.com

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(note...I wanted sugar free jello, since the gummy worms are NOT sugar free...hubby is a diabetic, so I had to go for LIME jello, they do not make berry blue in sugar free. Also, no kidlets in the house, so I wasn't going to buy an entire package of clear plastic cups, so they are bigger servings in my Pyrex dishes. (we are also using cool whip on ours ))

Tomorrow I will have my only wearable (very simple), 

my craft (very simple) 

and one last edible!!

Scrappy Sunday

I know it has been a while since I have done a "Scrappy Sunday", My apologies.

Here we have 2 more 2 page Layouts from Ron and my trip to WV and NC last November.

These will be right behind the pages I showed last from Tamarack, WV. We were leaving WV and heading to NC to see our son Tom (now living back home) and his GF Mary. They are broken up now, and I have a feeling our son is not giving us the entire picture. We had grown to like Mary very much, and were starting to consider her like our DIL. they were together  3.5 years.

Anyway, after leaving Tamarack (which we actually went into by accident) we then got off the next exit which was our goal, to go to "Cracker Barrel" for lunch. We had never been to one before. We were both pleasantly surprised. :)

I have to do some journaling yet, on the tag on the lower right corner of page 2, and I may add some more embellishments not sure yet.

The items on the wall over our table. The waiter was kind enough to take our picture.

We were at the CB in Beckley, WV.

I cut the picture of the brass logo, off one of their rocker tags. They were very nice about giving me "paper items" that I could use for my scrapbook. They even gave us of one the menus, which are only paper anyway.

 This layout shows the 2 different Christmas tree displays they had up. It is hard to see in the picture but the checkered-ish part of the paper has gray in it, so I matched that gray up to ink for the stamping of the letters, and to the card stock I used to mat the photos. There is a small tag on the first page for a bit more journaling.

I plan on using the same rust colored gel pen, from the previous L/O to fill in between the gray on the lettering. I'd like to find some appropriate embellishments. I really do not want to use anything for Christmas, as it wasn't Christmas.  So, I am at a bit of an artistic block for the time being.

Page 2 I built a pocket for the map and info of all the Cracker Barrels across the US.

and there is another surprise on this page :)

Pocket

AHA!! a swiveling picture, that has another picture under it. The picture under it is a little shaky, and it is a picture of some stuff that is hanging off the ceiling.  I LOVE to do a little creative space-making ideas in my scrapbooking.

What do you think?

Friday---dear so and so...late

 I haven't done this in a while but this week, soooo warrants it!

http://3bedroombungalow.blogspot.com/2010/11/dear-so-and-sothis-ones-for-lala.html


Dear son Thomas,
your "temporary room"  (due to fire)  is looking worse than OSCAR MADISON'S room ON a GOOD DAY!! Please, please and Please....CLEAN IT UP!

Thanks. Love, Mom


Dear husband Ron,
PLEASE start keeping a tool "journal" and mark in it when used last and where you put it. I am soooo tired of hearing you cuss and carry on over not being able to find your tools, and then you go buy new ones. NATURALLY once you do that the other shows up.
Thanks.
Love, Susan

Dear oldest daughter April,

I am sorry I wasn't there with you for your surgery, but I am respecting your wishes, AND I have told you time and again I am tired of being abused by you.  I am VERY glad that this doctor seems to know what she is doing and was able to straighten the eye, again. Let's hope it never turns again.  I am sorry to hear that the surgery was a little worse due to the doctor finding almost double the amount of scar tissue she expected to find. I hope the pain is over soon, and that you'll better about yourself, and you'll believe it was worth the pain and suffering and time away from college etc.
I love you and always will,
Mom

Dear youngest daughter Amanda,
IT WAS WONDERFUL to have you home for a short visit. However I really didn't appreciate that you allowed others to cut into our time, and you changing our plans.  Please work all plans out in advance  for the next visit.
Love you,
Mom

DEAR "shop-rite" cashier,
Thanks for totally Fing forgetting to put 2 bags in my scooter cart, and making me have to come bak for them!!
~disgruntled, disabled shopper

Dear Assinine Self-absorbed Bimbo on the cell phone at the end of the grocery check out,
you were one check diagonally from the door and had your cart out in the exit isle instead of next to the check out area. You did not leave enough room for a disabled person in a scooter cart to make the correct approach as to be able to fit out of the door, causing me to slam my "Non-replaced" knee right into the corner edge of the heavy metal door frame, others noticed and one man asked to help, and I said LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU TO HEAR..."no sir, thank you anyway, it is not me or the cart, it is the fact that that woman has her cart in the wrong spot, which does not allow for the scooter carts to make the wide swing needed to go out the door."   I KNOW you heard me, because your cashier heard me, but did you move your cart back?  NO, even after I tried backing up again, and bumped into it, you still did not move it, and I headed out the door and slammed my knee again, but pushed through it.  It is now 4 days Post "crash" and "I am still paying for it, you stupid Fing bleached blonde bimbo! Try putting the damn cell phone up your butt and see if you can bag your groceries better that way!"

~Just another human being trying to make my way through a store
 
PS...can't anyone do anything anymore without the phone attached to their heads? JEEZ, how did we ever survive without them?


Dear Sister and your 2 daughters (my nieces),
 I heard about "the conversation" you all had last weekend at my expense.  How dare you? in front of strangers that do not know me? in front of Mom, you may not love her, but I do, and she loves me....don't you as a mother yourself KNOW that when a parent hears something negative about their child it hurts them?  Talk about being self-absorbed!  well, you know about Kharma....

Susan


Dear Electrician, thanks for still holding us up. It is NOW November. The fire was June 6, we spoke with you around June 25th, you have kept putting this job to the back of your list, you said it wouldn't take long, so why are you still jerking our chain??? we can't even get the window in until you do this.  I think perhaps we'll take our business elsewhere, sad considering you have been our electrician for 25 years, and you were the person who actually wired that room, when the addition was put on.
again....kharma!

The Guzy Family

Harry Potter 5 days of WITCH crafts

http://demilunes.blogspot.com/2010/11/5-days-of-harry-potter-witchcrafts.html
I am jumping in on this late.

today I have one YUMMY edible, and my accessory


 Here are some pictures first of my yummy edible:

 Hot and Yummy ButterBeer

I have tweaked an original recipe from "The Leaky Cauldron" on the web

(I'll probably add mine to their list)

Hagrid's Hot & Yummy ButterBeer

Ingredients: Milk, vanilla extract, original Ovaltine malt, Werthers Soft Cre'me Caramels

Directions:   heat a mug of Milk in the microwave, I have a 1000 watt Micro with a revolving plate, and 2 minutes was good!! then add 1-2 heaping tbsp. of Ovaltine malt (not chocolate malt), 

1-3 DROPS of Vanilla Extract, stirring well. 

Then cut up 2 Werther's caramels (I did four slices, then cut them in half) add one caramel (cut-up) at a time, stirring all the while.  ENJOY!! 

Ok My accessory is a PORTABLE SWAMP,  

I downloaded the box image from "The Leaky Cauldron"

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/features/crafts/othercrafts/portableswamp 

Then I went and purchased some goodies to put inside from A C Moore

except for the rocks :D

"Weasley's Wizard Weezes patented" Portable swamp (American version, though it has Rainforest frogs, LOL)

I'll be back tomorrow with another edible treat or 2