Shutterfly Christmas Card

Clicking here will take you to the Shutterfly website but not to my card specifically. I will post another link to my personal share site with Shutterfly so you can view some of my pictures.

Faith Hope Family Religious Christmas Card

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Loving Fall Decor!

I do not celebrate Halloween but Fall is my favorite season. It can be hard to decorate for Fall without getting jack-o-lanterns and other spooky stuff in the mix. This craft idea was SOOOO cute, it literally took me 10 minutes from start to finish and most of that was collecting the stuff I have laying around.

If anyone wants to do this and does not have branches, I'll be happy to share from my abundance.

The Sinamay Ribbon is my touch to the project, please go to Kaysi's Blog to see the tutorial on how to make them and see them with raffia ribbon!

Thanks for checking in with me. Enjoy!!

Store on Etsy.com

If you like cool, cute, awesome handmade stuff and you have never checked out www.Etsy.com, you should! There are so many wonderfully talented artists there selling their work. I am happy to be sharing webspace with people who get joy from sharing their artistic viewpoint with the world.

If you look over there ----> you will see that I have a little pocket store where you can browse the things I have most recently listed. Please enjoy the shopping and let me know what you think. You can leave a comment here or e-mail me or comment on the store site. My store website is: http://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolOZ

Come back here and to my etsy store soon and often!

Blog Candy

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Posole

Posole is Mexican Stew. You can make it vegetarian/vegan or with meat. It works either way REALLY well. I am going to list all the ingredients for meat and include the vegetarian options in parentheses.

1 Can 15 oz Crushed tomatoes
1 can chopped tomatoes with green chilis, hot or mild
1 QT chicken stock (vegetable stock)
1 can black beans, rinsed
1 can garbanzo beans, rinsed
1 can golden hominy, drained
1 small chopped onion
2 cloves garlic
1 lb sausage, browned or any leftover meat (just leave out meat, beans are a GREAT protein source)
1 tsp. chili power
2 tsp. cumin

You just dump it all in a stock pot or crock pot. 2 hours simmering in stock pot. In crockpot, 8 hours low/4 hours high You can even brown the sausage and add it at the end.

Serve over any carbs, rice, diced and roasted potatoes, quinoa, couscous, orzo or any other noodles.

Blog candy to check out

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This was editted on June 7, 2010.
:)

Altering clothes is fun and profitable

The profitable part is not from selling them, but it profits me by making old items new again which thrills my girls and saves cash because I can buy at thrift shops and goodwill/Salvation Army and still have "cool" clothes. Also, I can adjust the clothes to my taste for length and appearances. (ie. no prostitute style clothes for my little girls). Here are 2 pictures of the front and back of a skirt I made from a pair of adjustable-waist denim capris. My daughter loves them and it is COOL in my opinion.