You may recall that Challenge #8 was organizing your paper cosmetics. I have a rather large collection although I am pretty sure there are lots of you with even more. But mine ARE organized. So I am more than ready for Challenge #9 . . . Inspiration for scrapbook pages is everywhere. But what is the best way to organize it so that it's actually USEFUL? First consider cutting up your magazines and idea books, and only saving the ideas that you really plan to use. Magazines and idea books that just sit on your shelves aren't really useful. It can take hours to go through your books to find the one layout you remember. Having your ideas in a condensed form, arranged in a way that makes sense to you is much more effective. If you are able to cut up your magazines, here are some ideas for arranging them: theme (holidays, birthday, babies, pets, travel etc) number of photos used in the layout journaling ideas colo...
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Put 1 cup uncooked rice, 2 cups cold water, and 1 tsp salt into a 2 quart saucepan and bring to a vigorous boil. Turn the heat as low as possible. Cover the saucepan with a lid. Do not remove lid or stir rice while it is cooking. Leave saucepan over this low heat for 14 minutes. Turn heat off. The rice is now ready to use. However, leave the cover on the saucepan to keep the rice warm if you are not ready to use it immediately. Makes 3 heaping cups.
I have not yet finished Challenge #7. There . . . I said it out loud . . . LOL. I promise to post photos of my finished Challenge #7 as soon as it is done. I would love it if you would share your organization photos with us either here in the comments section or in our Facebook group. Challenge #8 It is time to organize our "paper cosmetics": paints, inks, embossing powders, mists, and other products that add a little something special to our pages. SORT: first go through each of these items and make sure your colours haven't expired. Are ink pads still juicy? Are lids still intact? Do paints still mix together when shaken? Are your chalks still intact enough to use? Sort all of your paper cosmetics into TOSS, KEEP, SELL, DONATE PURGE: Throw out the toss items. Bag up and assign a price and your initials to the SELL pile, and put them immediately in your garage sale box. Arrange for pick-up or drop...
1/2 lb spaghetti, broken in 2" pieces 2 cups coarsely diced cooked turkey 4 tbsp butter or margarine 1/2 lb mushrooms, sliced 3 tbsp flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/8 tsp white pepper 2 cups chicken bouillon or stock 1 cup evaporated milk 1/2 cup breadcrumbs 2 tbsp melted butter or margarine Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and combine with diced turkey. Melt 4 tbsp butter in saucepan and pan-fry mushrooms for 5 minutes. Push to one side and blend flour and seasonings in drippings. Add stock slowly and cook over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Stir in evaporated milk. In a greased baking dish, arrange alternate layers of turkey mixture and sauce. Combine fine breadcrumbs with melted butter and sprinkle over spaghetti and turkey. Bake in a very hot oven 450F until brown and bubbling, 20-25 minutes. Serves 6.
I am making plans to do some serious travelling this year around Canada . . . especially looking forward to our driving tour from SW Ontario to the East Coast. So I have lots of planning to do. Have you been to Eastern Canada? I'd love suggestions for what time of year is best to go as well as favourite restaurants and things to see and do. Hal and I are really interested in historical sites, art and craft galleries, really different restaurants, theatre and culture, letterboxing, and just anything odd. So I've found this list of 60 must-see places in Canada and a list of 50 places in Eastern Canada to see before you die. Niagara Falls Who hasn't been to Niagara Falls at least once? I've lost count of how many times I've been there with family, on a school trip, or with Hal. There is always something new to see. I'm not a huge fan of Clifton Hill but the parks and nature and, of course, the falls are so beautiful. ...
I would like a survey of the type of people who rate IMDB's top movies because I certainly don't understand how Inception (2010) could be #2. I watched Inception. While I enjoyed the acting and the special effects, the story itself was unnecessarily complex and odd. My son must have thought that my cool reception to this movie was because I didn't understand it so he tried to explain it . . . LOL. I got it, I just wasn't crazy about it. Having said all that, I would watch it again if I had to . . . it just wouldn't be my first choice. It seems the Academy agreed with me . . . Academy Awards, USA 2011 Won Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography Wally Pfister Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Lora Hirschberg Gary Rizzo Ed Novick Best Achievement in Sound Editing Richard King Best Achievement in Visual Effects Chris Corbould Andrew Lockley Pete Bebb Paul J. Franklin Nominated Oscar Best Motion Picture of...
Some of these Canadian delights are well-known, others not so much. Some of these foods originated in Canada and some were brought to here and became part of Canada's culture. My challenge will be to try as many of these foods and beverages as possible in 2019. Acadian Meat Pie Akutaq (Eskimo Ice Cream) Alberta Beef Alberta Steak All Dressed Chips Arctic Char Arctic Prawn Baked Beans Bannock BC Smoked Salmon Beaver Tails Boston Pizza Bridge Mixture Bumbleberry Pie Butter Tarts Caesar Cocktail California Roll Canada Dry Ginger Ale Canadian Club Caribou Caribou Stew Chalet Sauce Cherry Blossom Clearly Canadian Cloudberry Cod Au Gratin Cod Tongue & Scrunchion Coffee Crisp Craft Beer Cretons Crush Cream Soda Dill Pickle Dill Pickle Chips Donair Double Double Duck Poutine Fiddlehead Figgy Duff Fish and Brewis Flapper Pie Flipper Pie Game Jerky (Moose, Deer, Elk) Game Meat Giant Jos Louis Cake Gibelotte Ginger B...
So how did you make out with Challenge #6? I'm not a huge fibre user on my pages so I was pretty sure this was an easy challenge for me. It was fun re-discovering just how much pretty ribbon, floss and washi tape I actually have. Are you ready for Challenge #7 ? Embellishments are some of the easiest things to buy. Everything looks so good, and you really believe you NEED everything! Embellishments are also one of the supplies most affected by trends. Careful consideration is really needed here. It's also important to find a system that will help you store all of your embellishments in a way that won't overwhelm you, yet also is visible enough that you don't forget to USE them. Let's S.P.A.C.E. them. SORT : As always, bring all of your embellishments together. Touch every piece that you have and ruthlessly sort through them, deciding what to KEEP, TOSS, SELL, DONATE. PURGE : Immediately throw out the TOSS pile. Bag up and assign a price and your initials to ...
Are you ready for Challenge #6? I'm not but I hope to be by the end of the week. I've bought my supplies to finish the fifth challenge. Challenge 6 ~ Ribbons and fibres There is no "right" way to store your ribbons and fibre. The most important factor is that the system works for YOU. First, let's make some S.P.A.C.E. SORT: Gather together all of your ribbons and fiber, and sort them into piles: KEEP, TOSS, SELL, DONATE. PURGE : Throw out the TOSS pile. Immediately make arrangements for pick-up or drop-off of the DONATE pile. Bag up, and assign a price and your initials to the SELL pile, and immediately put these in your garage sale box. ASSIGN: Sort your KEEP pile into types/colours of fibre and ribbon. If your ribbons are in a big wrinkled mess, take time now to give everything a pressing (careful with the heat, some synthetics may melt!). CONTAINERIZE: Consider the space that you have, and the way ...
I tend to scrapbook in chronological order and with these layouts I have finally finished scrapbooking all my 2015 photos and made a start on January 2016. Lesson learned : If you are far behind on scrapbooking at least make sure you make lots of notes. I actually had a photo that wasn't great but at the time of printing I had some important reason for choosing it . . . but for the life of me I can't figure out what the heck it was! Make lots of notes!!!!!