I don’t know about you, but when I find a good leather purse that I love, I will do anything I can to keep it looking good and help it last. After awhile, the dye will fade and so I have learned a lot about leather dyeing just so I can keep my favorite purse looking good as new. It certainly comes in handy and saves me money, which is the best part.
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012Girl Games, It’s About Time
Friday, May 11th, 2012I am so happy to say that girl games have gone a long way since my 22 year old niece was a little girl looking for girl games to play on the computer. Of course that was all most twenty years ago, but you have to understand that girls were just as active on computers back then and had only a few actually girl games for the large number of females that were looking for entertainment just as much as the guys were. I don’t know what they would have done without the few Disney games that had come out by then. I remember how much she loved playing The Lion King back then, but then I’m sure a lot of young guys were playing it back then as well.
These days there are tons of girl games available to today’s generation of young girls. One such site that has a grand selection to offer is easy girl games. Everything from kissing games, Barbie games, cooking games, make over games, to celebrity dress up games. Not only do they have games to play but they have tips and articles that are targeting the female population for them to read and use as well, so it isn’t only games that they have there, which I think is pretty darn cool.
Let’s hear it for “Girl Power” – Remember The Spice Girls?
I Found It
Monday, April 23rd, 2012I’ve heard bits and pieces of this saying for many years, but I’ve never been able to find the whole thing. My best friend sent me another cute email today and at the end of it was this saying! Finding this was the best thing to happen to me all week.
Work like you don’t need the money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
Dance like nobody’s watching.
Sing like nobody’s listening.
Live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
Don’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012I am reading a book by Sybil Leek, “Diary of a Witch” The private life of one of the world’s most famous and colorful psychics. It isn’t the type of book that I would normally read, but I needed a book to stick in my purse the other week and just grabbed one off of the book shelve as I was running out the door. But I’m glad that I picked this book because it has turned out to be a pretty interesting read that I have learned a lot from it as well. When I read this part about Ben Franklin I knew that I had
The great American statesman, scientist, inventor and philosopher, Benijamin Frankin, wrote his own epitaph at the age of twenty-two. Carl Van Doren called “the most famous of American epitaphs.” Unfortunately, it was never used on Ben Franklin’s tombstone.
THE BODY OF B. FRANKLIN,
PRINTER,
LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK,
ITS CONTENTS TORN OUT
AND
STRIPPED OF ITS LETTERING & GILDING,
LIES HERE
FOOD FOR WORMS.
BUT THE BOOK SHALL NOT BE LOST,
FOR IT WILL AS HE BELIEVED
APPEAR ONCE MORE
IN A NEW AND MORE ELEGANT EDITION
REVISED AND CORRECTED
BY THE AUTHOR.
Yummy Crab Chowder
Saturday, April 21st, 2012Crab and Corn Chowder in the Crockpot
Serves 4 -6,
Loosely based on a recipe from Family Circle Magazine
Ingredients
3-1/2 cups low-sodium, 99 percent fat-free chicken broth (2 cans 14.5 ounces each)
1/2 pound white all-purpose potatoes, peeled and diced
1 cup baby carrots, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1 medium-size vidalia onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, trimmed and diced
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
1 package frozen yellow corn
1 sweet red pepper, seeded and diced
1 can (12 ounces) evaporated skim milk
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 package (8 ounces) imitation crab meat
Preparation
1. Combine chicken broth, potatoes, carrots, onion, celery, thyme and Old Bay in a large slow cooker. Cover and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
2. In a small bowl, stir together cornstarch, salt, evaporated milk, and red pepper.
3. Stir red pepper mixture into slow cooker, replace cover and cook on either HIGH or LOW for 1 hour.
4. Stir yellow corn and crabmeat into soup and heat through, about 30 minutes.
5. Serve warm, with hot crusty bread and butter.