Feathers
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Peanut Brittle Hearts for Valentine’s Day
I’ve been meaning to share this peanut brittle recipe forever, because it’s one of the easiest candies you can make, and everyone seems to love it. I’ve also been meaning to post a Valentine’s Day recipe … and don’t you just love when you can do two things at once? This recipe takes little time and few ingredients. What’s not to love about that? [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:10] If you’ve never bought raw Spanish peanuts before, here’s what they look like. It’s important that they be raw, because you’re going to cook them in the brittle mixture, and if you start with roasted peanuts, they’ll taste burnt.Here’s what the brittle looks like when…
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How to Make a Rainbow Rice Bin
When my daughter, Tera, was a little girl, she had a boatload of Barbies in her castle-themed bedroom, and a pink Barbie jeep. She also had several big, expensive porcelain dolls — all gifts from her grandmother. She had a growing collection of Build-A-Bears, including a cat, a poodle and a bunny. She had real live goats, sheep, pigs, ducks, chickens, dogs and cats outside … along with 12 1/2 acres of trees for climbing and fort-building. She had her own glue gun, and a teetering, six-drawer craft-caddy, full of feathers, googly eyes, colored macaroni, pipe-cleaners and sequins — all hers for the gluing. But if you ask her…
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Photographs & Memories : A Toddler Gift
From the time Gage began to speak, he loved to stand in front of our refrigerator and try out his new skills. “Mama! Da!” he would say, pointing to the pictures I’d hung there. But he wasn’t content with just showing off his verbiage. He wanted to touch the pictures. “Ownie!” he’d demand. We still aren’t sure where that word came from, but we knew what it meant: “Give it to me now, and no one gets hurt.” The thing is, I wanted those pictures of his mama and da to remain intact — unwrinkled, unrumpled, untorn. So I’d try to distract him as we walked past the fridge. “Look, Gage! A…
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Home For the Holidays
I was given the opportunity this month to write the feature article for Journal magazine’s December issue. If you’re looking for ideas on how to cozy-up your home this month, here’s the link to my article, Home For the Holidays. And yes, that’s my grandson, Gage, putting an ornament on a Christmas tree. Our tree wasn’t yet up, so we went out to Wight’s Nursery in Lynnwood (one of our favorite December visits) and “borrowed” one of their trees for this shot. My daughter-in-law, Brittney, took the pictures for this article. Thanks, Britt! 🙂
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Those Licorice Caramels
I’m about to divulge my secret recipe … the one that has men fighting over the gallon-sized baggie holding these little treasures, and women hinting that they could eat another, and children sneaking their hands up over the counter and grabbing another gooey handful. Yes. It’s my licorice caramel recipe. I’ve had it forever. I started making it about three minutes after I found it. For the life of me, I can’t remember where I got it, and I’m sorry for that. I would love to give credit where credit is due, but I just don’t know where I got the recipe. Now, people have asked me for this recipe,…
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Nuts
I'll try to make it up to the woman. I will. I'll choose her check-out line, every time, no matter the wait. I'll be pleasant. I'll show her Jesus. But right now, I have to side with the brother.
