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

This is some GREAT blog candy. Check it out! I really hope I win this. It's kind of like winning the lotery but the odds are MUCH better and I LOVE what I win.

http://crystalkbk.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-blogaversary-candy.html

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.

Click here:

http://www.nbcaugusta.com/features/adoptapet/49090396.html

To see me on TV. I am on every 3 months or so with new dogs for adoption. They have archives if you want to watch more than one episode with me. I really enjoy doing these spots to highlight our dogs.

Carol O.

More Blog Candy

It's funny, some people just don't get it. If you announce the contest, you are just asking more people to enter the drawing which means that my chances to win go down for every person who enters. That is kind of funny for the person who is giving something away to require you to help lower your chances of winning. Irony, eh? Well, here is the link to some blog candy around the net, hope you enjoy the blog content but do not enter!!! haha

www.technostamper.blogspot.com
www.basementstamper.blogspot.com