tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84301538510045223372024-03-18T20:04:20.761-07:00cypress spacecypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-34542455369000398352014-03-06T10:40:00.001-08:002014-03-06T10:40:48.352-08:00cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-44597860137217684412011-06-14T23:51:00.000-07:002011-09-16T09:13:39.803-07:00Home!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went straight from the hospital to the backyard! <br />
And we added a pink "faux-hawk" to celebrate Toucie's growing hair.<br />
I guess this is the expression that people with mohawks are supposed to wear.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sprinkler + trampoline = big fun</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...um yeah...she's feeling better...i told her her face might "stick" this way!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">our team works hard to help her feel better as quickly as possible</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">we try to make Toucie's room as lovely, comforting, & warm <br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec8Il94qUFQ&feature=related">Cu Dubh</a>!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sorry, dude. she just can't help loving you</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mado in a sidewalk art competition</td></tr>
</tbody></table>cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-42972036158299597312011-05-10T19:10:00.000-07:002011-09-06T22:00:57.392-07:00The cicadas are here!!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">they look so exotic...like jewels</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and there are gazillions of them everywhere...singing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used to find and play with the left-behind shells when I was a kid.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made this for a child's birthday, <br />
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</tbody></table>cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-34757483474170672972011-05-03T20:04:00.000-07:002011-09-06T21:00:42.395-07:00More May Day preparationsOur May Day feast featured this beautiful loaf of bread, shaped into a braided ring, and made into a cucumber and cream cheese sandwich.<br />
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This was a last minute idea, so we used our bread machine to help expedite matters. We mixed up a batch of dinner roll dough using white whole wheat flour and a recipe that came with our machine.<br />
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Easy, festive and just right!cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-27799696965885389502011-05-03T19:04:00.000-07:002011-09-06T21:28:04.158-07:00May Day Crafting: Rose-Scented Oil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyHTlepYLIqAf6FImjWql44L6ZpsYQFPEbSNn0qcoQhfmJn9D9_HYoczGE0crcu_4rU7CcU1-OFjtR_xP2FCJtC0mkCLM0MXSiHTjgGuhVavTWu3fkQrMfvuBsfI9zjlaJGczTKhQfCrj/s1600/roseoil2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyHTlepYLIqAf6FImjWql44L6ZpsYQFPEbSNn0qcoQhfmJn9D9_HYoczGE0crcu_4rU7CcU1-OFjtR_xP2FCJtC0mkCLM0MXSiHTjgGuhVavTWu3fkQrMfvuBsfI9zjlaJGczTKhQfCrj/s400/roseoil2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Most often we mix up a big batch of <a href="http://bobbinsandbrambles.blogspot.com/2010/05/better-late-than-nevera-may-day-craft.html">lavender bath salts</a> to celebrate May Day/Beltane...this year we thought we'd try something new.<br />
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There are so many fragrant and colorful roses blooming around us right now...how could we capture a little bit of their perfume and beauty to keep?<br />
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Toucie worked for two days to gather enough rose petals to fill a quart jar.<br />
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Then we added enough mineral oil to cover the petals and let them steep for 24 hours.<br />
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The last step is to strain the petals out, pressing all the oil out of them and pour the fresh rose-scented oil into a sterilized jar. (To achieve a really strongly scented oil, you can repeat the process several times, pouring your strained, scented oil over fresh petals each time.)<br />
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Its lovely to dab a little bit of springtime onto the temples and wrists at bedtime...ahhhh :)cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-15498533132530337662011-05-02T17:18:00.000-07:002011-09-06T19:42:04.577-07:00May Day at the Strawberry Farm! (and Toucie has a party)We wanted to celebrate Toucie's birthday with a strawberry-picking party, but they weren't quite ripe yet on her birthday, so we decided to wait a few days and have a super-grand MayDay/birthday celebration at the strawberry farm!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">an old fashioned grain mill for cracking corn....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...to feed to the pretty chickens!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">daddy making sure there are plenty of berries to bring home</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Toucie and Mado going back for more</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our party favors were these 2 qt baskets of berries</td></tr>
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Happy Birthday Toucie!! Happy May Day, too!</td></tr>
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We're ready to sneak these over to our neighbors' homes as soon as dusk falls!<br />
Happy May Day!cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-28617766770939574472011-04-29T18:57:00.000-07:002012-05-02T20:15:51.722-07:00May Faire at the Waldorf School<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We gathered rhodos, peonies and vinca to share at this year's May Faire.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We used some of our flowers to make garlands to wear.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toucie welcomes the May Queen with a bouquet from home.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think these are the children from grade 2..they sang so sweetly :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3rd graders dancing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4th graders...what a web they've woven!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this sword dance that the 6th graders traditionally do.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raising the "jester" aloft on their wooden swords!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morris dancers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toucie finally has a dance around the Maypole</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love this festival...it is one of our favorite family traditions</td></tr>
</tbody></table>cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-85109813404112333702011-04-25T19:37:00.000-07:002011-09-06T17:45:21.096-07:00Easter!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"easter bonnet"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daddy likes to do these bright dyed eggs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mama and Toucie tried some eggs dyed with onion skins</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We threw some yarn in to make the most of the leftover dye</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hmmmm...why not?!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onion skin dye...the darker yarn was soaked longer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oooh! pretty variegation from the commercial egg dyes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naya and Sodie too worn out from college life to hunt eggs</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bunny bread :)</td></tr>
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Pancakes and bacon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A stop by the pet store for a special birthday gift!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yummy chocolate cake recipe <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/black-magic-cake/detail.aspx">here</a>.</td></tr>
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I'm glad you are here.</td></tr>
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Stay tuned for a special birthday celebration at the local strawberry farm :)cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-31905945471312845052011-03-27T18:59:00.001-07:002011-07-29T21:28:08.840-07:00Introducing Beeswax Modeling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lzD6vvwxJQ6v9x1FOP-wHXsdePhjfGwAfJFbhGUAKd404dhuUgCfO7M_Vp-xwh0tTl90Zzua9fNX1IzCNZQDgPcg5lLL4vQvb-cmTstU1zhn1GnM_-9W4Q8wMSF3T-7Ld7j3PeVCpe1N/s1600/beeswax1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lzD6vvwxJQ6v9x1FOP-wHXsdePhjfGwAfJFbhGUAKd404dhuUgCfO7M_Vp-xwh0tTl90Zzua9fNX1IzCNZQDgPcg5lLL4vQvb-cmTstU1zhn1GnM_-9W4Q8wMSF3T-7Ld7j3PeVCpe1N/s400/beeswax1.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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</span></div>We spread a blanket under the lilacs where the bees were working, had a pretty tray of apple slices and crackers and a tiny bowl of fragrant honey to dip them in, and a brand new package of golden Stockmar beeswax at hand. Toucie began dipping into the honey and apples as I began the story.<br />
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Even the Queen, in her royal chambers at the center of the city, stays busy with her special work of tucking new eggs each into their own cozy cradle. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This tiny city is a beehive and the folk that live and work there are, of course, the bees!<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In the Spring and Summer and Autumn, when flowers are blooming, I’m sure that you’ve seen the bee-folk humming merrily as they move all about over the land visiting blossoms. Look, here is one now…watch her as she forages, sipping a little nectar here and a little nectar there. Sometimes as she flies she gathers yellow flower dust into her little leg-baskets as she goes. But today she is gathering nectar. She visits hundreds of flowers! She is collecting nectar to bring home to the hive-city, sometimes sipping a little for herself. Now both her tummy and her nectar bag are quite full of nectar and she is flying home with her heavy load. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In the city, there are many sisters waiting to help her. She gives them the nectar from her bag and they take it away to make it into golden honey. (This will be the food that all the bee folk will need in the cold months when there are no flowers blooming on the land.) Sometimes our little bee brings her nectar to her sisters and then flies right off again to collect more, but today her tummy is so full that she must rest. She climbs to the ceiling of the hive where some of the other full bee-folk are already gathered. She tucks up her wings and smooths her pretty yellow-and-brown jacket and takes a nice, long nap. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />While she is resting something wonderful happens….for when she wakes up and stretches and straightens her little jacket, she finds that all eight of her jacket pockets are full of wax! She takes it out of her pockets and presses it, and pulls it, and pushes it, and kneads it until it is smooth and soft, fragrant and golden. This beeswax is precious and important…it is what the bee-folk use to build their entire city! Beeswax forms the perfect walls of all the snug little houses, all the little honey pots and their lids, all the little cradles for the growing baby bee-folk…what a wonderful thing our bee has done! She takes her bit of beeswax and puts it together with the wax that her sisters have made, then off into the blue sky she buzzes, in search of more blossoms.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The bee-folk work so very hard that they often make more honey and more beeswax than they need for their city. Sometimes there is a gentle and careful person, a “beekeeper” who cares for and protects bees in their hive-city and is able to share in their honey and beeswax. So, somewhere there is a city of beefolk and a careful beekeeper who together made it so that we could have this treasure.</em></span><br />
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The next day the sun peeked out again and we were able to enjoy the beautiful blossoms of the season.<br />
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Welcome Spring!<br />
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Folks around here have started mowing their lawns again...but not us. Look at this tapestry of "weeds"! So much more beautiful than "lawn"!<br />
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We collected some of those sweet violets to decorate our traditional Equinox Cake...you can see last year's version <a href="http://bobbinsandbrambles.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-spring-equinox.html">here</a>.<br />
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New babies to celebrate the season with :)<br />
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Ahhhh...the lilacs...now we <i>know</i> it's spring!<br />
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To mark this beautiful spring day, we gathered with friends and took a hike into the nearby woods to picnic near the river.<br />
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Raw Veggies and Hummus<br />
Fresh Fruit, bread and raw Goat Cheese)<br />
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But perhaps the most wonderful part of the day was that we found the woods overrun with ephemeral wildflowers!!<br />
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The twins are home for Spring Break (!!!), so we started our St. Patty's Day with Irish Breakfast tea and a scone bake-off (between Sodie and I).<br />
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We both used <a href="http://bobbinsandbrambles.blogspot.com/2010/10/october-bakingcreme-scones.html">this recipe</a>...delish!<br />
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Back at home we had some fresh green pesto over pasta for lunch (look at our billy goat trying to get some attention!)<br />
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Later, Toucie found this inside, so there must have been a Leprechaun passing by who needed a nice napping place to visit as he was travelling through these parts.<br />
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Oh - I might ought to have warned you to avert your eyes if you are sensitive to the sight of MASSIVE amounts of green food coloring. This is cake batter. I don't know what else to say about that, except that, yes, I am guilty.<br />
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The rest of our day somehow escaped my camera...there was music and dancing and <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6653493181107020217">this horrible song from the 80's</a> (but I have to educate my teenagers...I take that duty very seriously), as well as the books, the Bairin Breac, and our traditional Corned Beef and Colcanon dinner which you can see in <a href="http://bobbinsandbrambles.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Patrick%27s%20Day">last year's posts here</a>.<br />
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Happy St. Pat's!cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-39816254511891561122011-03-16T15:46:00.000-07:002011-07-29T12:11:08.572-07:00Great Green Garbanzos!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPfsffk2Ds8Sqe7D0SqX6_U6gyarIEkdEoYlEXqgziTrzcR1aVA6fHLQGNroFPKQsBbq1X9Eclry6Buc2rzTa1Z8nRkr3dn3gSqOHW78m_axttY7tg6Akxnxg5Db52hYUYVJrf906Q5w0/s1600/garbanzo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGPfsffk2Ds8Sqe7D0SqX6_U6gyarIEkdEoYlEXqgziTrzcR1aVA6fHLQGNroFPKQsBbq1X9Eclry6Buc2rzTa1Z8nRkr3dn3gSqOHW78m_axttY7tg6Akxnxg5Db52hYUYVJrf906Q5w0/s400/garbanzo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Look at <a href="http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/category/indian-vegetables/hara-chanagreen-chickpeas/">these</a> drool-worthy recipes....or <a href="http://www.clearwatercountry.us/#!recipe-2">these</a><br />
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Now we've got to get some more so we can try some of the other yummy looking recipes!cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8430153851004522337.post-89009463879505756922011-03-05T17:34:00.001-08:002011-07-29T19:53:16.329-07:00An interesting sort of canvas for a new kind of art....<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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We had lots of these pretty decorations hanging. They are just made from strips of cardstock...you can see how they are made by noticing the staples in the photo. We made a few to mail to Naya and Sodie at college. They fit just right into a box with these little gifties:<br />
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Toucie wrapped up the day with a candle-lit rose petal bath.<br />
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Happy Valentine's Day to you all :)cypresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12596022666694305654noreply@blogger.com1