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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Summer Cucumber Salad</span></div>
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This recipe has been around my family since I was a teenager. I have no idea where it came from, I just know that when summer rolls around it is on my table! It's the perfect combination of sweet and tangy, and did I mention is ridiculously easy to make? You MUST try this recipe, you'll be hooked.<br />
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1 cucumber sliced thin</div>
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1 cup sugar</div>
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1 teaspoon salt</div>
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1 teaspoon celery seed</div>
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1 teaspoon dill weed</div>
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It's simple, slice the cucumber thin. Mix the sugar, vinegar, salt, celery seed, and dill weed in a bowl. Add in the cucumber and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or over night.</div>
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Could it be easier?! Grab it out of the fridge and enjoy!</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I LOVE this project. It is so fast, easy, and has a big pay off. I made my dart board to use in conjunction with my <a href="http://withallthingsfabulous.blogspot.com/p/crafting.html">punch board</a> but this is a game that can stand on its own. You don't even need prizes! What kid doesn't want to through sharp objects at something to try and make a balloon pop? I mean, I wanna make one just for me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">-<b>Board</b> to staple on. Below is a pic of the sticker on the board I used. My hubby got it at Home Depot for pretty cheap. It's a 2 foot by 4 foot composite board that was 1/8 inch thick. Cheap and light weight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">-<b>Balloons</b>. I blew up 30 balloons, but I could have really pushed it and gotten 10 more on the board if I wanted.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">-<b>Staple gun and short staples</b>. All people must have a hand operated staple gun. This is what mine looks like...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I played a game where the kids had to throw darts until they popped a balloon to get the number inside. So, I started by writing 1-30 on small pieces of paper.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Then I folded them small and stuck them in the balloon. My original plan was to fill the balloons with small toys, but my husband pointed out how completely difficult that would be, and after putting numbers on papers into balloons and then blowing the balloon up, I see what he means. Numbers on paper...easy, anything bigger...not easy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Then blow up and tie. My 11-year-old daughter loved helping with this part.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Looks like we're ready to staple.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Lay your board flat and start at one corner. Use a short staple in your gun and staple the knot of the balloon to the board. I did not try to make the balloons perfectly lined up, it seemed like a lot of effort for a look that wouldn't be noticed. I just eyeballed it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">And, there you have it! In the game I did, the kids took the number they got out of the balloon and had to punch that number on a punch board to get their prize (click<a href="http://withallthingsfabulous.blogspot.com/p/crafting.html"> here</a> to see punch board tutorial or click the Crafting button at the top of the page). It would also be fun to put clues in the balloons for a treasure hunt, or clues about what a big prize is. Numbers can also designate order for hitting a piñata or first choice in picking a prize. Be creative, but most importantly, HAVE FUN!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ok everyone, I know the last days of July are sliding past us, but summer isn’t over yet. There is still plenty of time for fun outside with family and friends. So I challenge you to have one more big party before school gets back in, and I have to games to make your party a hit.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every year Amy M and her family have a 24th of July party. What is the 24th of July, you ask? It’s Pioneer day in Utah, the day this state was founded. Another excuse to eat, celebrate and set off fireworks. She has a great view of the professional kind from her yard so she has the party, and then everyone gets to watch the fireworks at the end. It’s super fun. But what's a party without food...</span><br />
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Check out the cute signage Amy made...everything was labeled. Drinks (to include specifying who can drink what...very important for under 21-ers), cupcakes, deserts...everything! She just googled "4th of July printables" and then photo shopped them.<br />
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Not to mention the sugar rimmed, chevron striped straws and mason jars for the drinks. See them on the left?<br />
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The blue jug is full of home made root beer and how about the added detail of home popped popcorn in pre-made bags for watching the fireworks. Adorable and delicious!<br />
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But I ask you, what's a party without games? Every year Amy and her very cool husband, Kelly, set up an enormous slip-n-slide on the enormous hill beside their house. All it is is a long sheet of plastic you buy at Home Depot, a sprinkler at the top, a few well placed tent stakes and dish soap. You heard me, dish soap. The kids played on this for hours. The plastic sheeting is about $20 but they rinse it off every year, fold it up and its good to go for the next year to come. Classic.<br />
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Bounce house? Um, yes.<br />
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This game was a blast, and the kids "ate it up". All you need are some paper plates, bubble gum, and a whole lot of whipped cream. Every kid gets a plate. Put an unwrapped piece of bubble gum on it and then cover that puppy as high as it will go with whipped cream. Now they have to find the gum, with no hands! Yes, we did prizes, the winner got a 4 pack of bubble gum, of course!<br />
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Here's an idea to keep kids busy...buy a pack of water balloons with the nozzle that you hook up to the facet in the backyard and let the kids go crazy. The kids all took turns working to fill up balloons for an epic battle for later in the night. I bought special grenade water balloons for a classic balloon toss. Everyone gets a partner and stands across from their partner and take turns tossing the balloon back and forth taking a step back every time they pass. You play until only one team has a balloon left. Easy, fun, classic.<br />
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The last game we played was my favorite to make and the play. It was balloon darts and punch board. Wanna learn to make your very own balloon dart board, click here. How about the punch board, click<a href="http://withallthingsfabulous.blogspot.com/p/crafting.html"> here</a>.<br />
I loved these two games because it took a little longer, and everyone got a prize. <br />
Each balloon had a number in it....<br />
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The kids threw darts until they popped a balloon and got their number...<br />
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The numbers coordinated with numbers on these punch boards...<br />
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They punch their number and get the prize inside.<br />
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Finally, at the end of the night everyone got glow sticks and they took their water balloon arsenal and had their epic water balloon battle in the dark.<br />
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A big thanks to Amy M and her husband Kelly for yet another fantastic 24th!<br />
<3, Sharla<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is one of the best games I have ever made. I have used the punch board in primary (put scripture quotes in some holes, songs in others and stories in others), for class parties, and for summer parties. Really, this thing could be used for kids and adults for a million different ideas. I made two and used them both every time, the tutorial is for one board so double it up if you want two.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-1 piece corrugated poster board (you know, the kind with the foam core, its with regular poster board, I’ve also seen this done with plywood)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-15 paper lunch sacks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">1.</span> Prepare the poster board. I was able to get 5 holes across and 3 holes down for a total of 15 holes. I did not grab a compass and protractor to accomplish this, I just found a bowl that was a good size and eyeballed it. I traced the bowl on the board with a pencil for all of the circles and adjusted if one was too close or too far and, voila! You're ready to cut.</div>
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I admit, cutting is the hardest and most time consuming part of this project. You need your scissors to be good and sharp, and get to work. It's going to be messy work. Yes, the edges of the holes are going to be jaggedy, but its ok! You can either go back and use a file to smooth them out or just leave them be. I found that once the board is put together it wasn't noticeable. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2.</span> Now you've got holes, yay! Time to make the "chambers" so you can put stuff in the holes. I created this using paper lunch sacks. A full lunch sack is too long to use and unnecessary, so I cut about 6 inches off of the top. It's best to make sure to measure the same for every bag so you have a nice uniform project at the end.</div>
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Now we need to prepare the bags to be attached to the board. Cut a 1 inch slit at the four corners of the bag so the end result looks like this:</div>
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See how the flaps are folded out? Make a crease at to fold the flaps out, and place the bag mouth down over the top of your first hole. My holes were slightly larger than the paper bag, no big deal. I stretched the bag a little so the hole was completely covered. I have repaired my boards many times and found the this part is best done using good old fashioned tape. Tape each flap to the board. Move onto the next hole and do the same. If your taped flaps overlap, no big deal! This is the back of the board, no one will see it. :)</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">3. </span> Closing the holes is last and most fun. Now pick your board up and take a look at the front...</div>
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Mine has a lot of color on the front because I have used this so many times, but you get the idea. Small holes in the bags or gaps where you couldn't stretch the bag to are no big deal, you are ready to fill and close. What are you going to put in there? Like I said, I have actually used this as a teaching tool many times but today was a party so in go treats and small prizes.</div>
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Now we need to close them up. Tissue paper is the best for this. It is opaque so you can't see in and light weight so it's easy to break and easy to glue! </div>
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Grab the same bowl or object you used to cut the holes, this is going to be our template for making the circles to glue on. I fold my tissue paper into thirds so I'm cutting 3 circles at a time and lay the bowl on top. I trace a circle around the bowl with a generous 1 inch boarder (that's for gluing). Don't stress getting the circle perfect. Just as long as you have an edge to glue down, it's not going to matter if it was a perfect circle.</div>
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This next part is fun, easy and quick. Lay the board down flat on it's back and lay a line of Elmer's Glue all the way around the edge of the hole.</div>
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Once you've done them all you are good to go. Some ways that I have determined which holes to punch are to number them, or use certain colors of tissue to signify what's inside (red holes have candy, green holes have toys, or pink holes have a song to sing, blue holes have a scripture to read, ect). GET READY TO PARTY!</div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: Kokonor; font-size: 15px;">For those of you who may not know, my twin sister wrote a guest blog post for me about her experience qualifying for the Boston Marathon. When I posted her story I had no idea that what started out as an inspiring story about </span><span style="color: #232323; font-family: Kokonor;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">perseverance would end as her being a part of national history. Click <a href="http://withallthingsfabulous.blogspot.com/p/guest-blogger.html">here</a> or click the Guest Blogger link at the top of the page to read her follow up story, the day she ran </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Fireworks, friends, face paint, balloons...my family LOVES to celebrate the 4th. We have some generous friends who have invited us to their “3rd” of July party the past couple of years and it is cray-cray. Seriously, they have a bounce house, live music, catering, drinks, and a raffle. At the end of the night we watch the professional fireworks show from their front yard. It is amazing and a new treasure in our lives. So, how do you go to such an amazing party and not do something to show how much you appreciated their hospitality? Well, I just can’t help myself...I must sew!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve seen blankets like this and I thought it would be a perfect gift, a patriotic colored picnic blanket to watch fireworks on. And don’t worry, it’s beyond easy. I whipped this puppy out in a grand total of about 5 hours. Here we go...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-6 red handkerchiefs *I looked high and low for the best deal and and found that Reams carries the best variety with the best price. Other wise any craft store also carries them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-Batting (my handkerchiefs were about 22” square so I made sure my batting was at lease 66”x88”, but you may need to adjust your measurements for your size handkerchiefs)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">-Denim for back and ties (your backing needs to be 4” wider than the front of the blanket all the way around)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">First you are going to sew your handkerchiefs together 3 in a row alternating colors. You will end up with 4 strips. Be careful to match the colors so they alternate not only across but also down.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now you are ready to sew the sides. Trim the batting to match the front of the blanket. Trim the backing to two inches wider than the front of the blanket. The way to finish this blanket is to work one side at a time. Fold the backing in 1” and again 1” so the backing overlaps the front of the blanket. Use a zigzag stitch and sew one side all the way from top to bottom. Next sew the opposite side in the same manner. Now finish the last two sides folding the same way. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You can totally stop here and be happy with your results, but why not add straps for easy transport? I created mine by using excess backing. I cut them about 4” wide and long enough to tie around the rolled up blanket. I created mine the same way you make your own bias tape. </span>I ironed the strip in half, opened it and folded each side into the middle crease and ironed them again. Last I folded it in half again and pressed. I simply folded in the end to avoid frays and do a straight stitch all the way down. You only need two strips.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Next fold your blanket up the way you like (I folded it long ways 1/3 in and then 1/3 again and then rolled it up). Find the middle of each strap and pin the straps to the back of the blanket at the top of the strip, making sure to pin the strap right in the middle. To secure it just do a quick zigzag stitch across each strap. I tried to line the zigzag stitch up with the one that was already there from finishing the edges, and you are FINISHED! <3, Sharla</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Last year every time I turned around there were pendant banners hanging from everywhere. I was ravenous with desire to have one. So, I closed my eyes and took a leap and made it up as I went along...I think it turned out pretty ok...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I admit it, I love it!</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This was such a fun, quick, easy project and I bought enough materials to make 6, so a lot of my friends ended up with one.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Just spreading the love on “love day”.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~1 piece card stock</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~1/4 yard of 3 corresponding fabrics for fronts</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~3/4 yard fabric for backing</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~1/4 yard solid fabric for ties</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~3/4 yard batting</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~Adhesive alphabet stencil OR freezer paper and die cut machine (like a Cricut)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~Fabric paint</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~Sponge brush</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">~Jewels (optional)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First make your triangle patter piece. Don’t try to make it perfect, if it’s a little lopsided it makes it more charming. If you have a die cut machine you can use that, otherwise make your own. My measurements were ....</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now that you have a pattern we are ready to cut. Now, let me make note, I bought 3 fat quarters for the front fabric and was able to cut 6 triangles from each fat quarter. So, a little bit of fabric goes a long way on this project. The quickest way to cut is to make the sandwich of fabric, pin it, cut it and then it’s ready to sew. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Start by putting your back fabric down right side down. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While keeping the pieces together unpin the triangle and put the pin back in to keep it all together. Cut two triangles from each front fabric so you end up with 6 total triangles.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now let’s put them together. Zig zag stitch all the way around each triangle on a 1” seam allowance. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s time to stencil the letters on. It is important that you use a stencil that adheres to your fabric, otherwise your paint will bleed and it won’t look as nice. I’ve made this banner twice and the first time I bought an alphabet stencil that was self adhesive, like a sticker. That’s the easy way. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The cheaper way (which is how I made my second round) was to cut my stencil out of freezer paper using my Cricut machine. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Freezer paper is fun because you can iron it onto fabric and it sticks tight but pulls off clean when you’re done. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Which ever way you do it put your stencil on your triangles (make sure you like the order of the fabric before you paint) and grab your fabric paint. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I do recommend using actual fabric paint, it’s less head ache and looks nice. My little bottle was less than $2 at Jo Ann. Paint your letters on and let it dry.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">While you’re waiting for the paint to dry make the strips that will tie the banner together. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cut 10 strips 1”x 6”(short)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pull your stencils off your dried triangles.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Grab your 10 strips of 1”x 6” strips (from here out I will call these the short strips), we will sew all of these first.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The best way to visualize this is to lay out each letter of your banner in the order it will hang. The short strips will be sewn to the left side of the “B”, the right side of the “B”, the left side of the “e”, the right side of the “M”, the left side of the “i”, the right side of the “i”, the left side of the “n”, the right side of the “n”, the left side of the “e” and the right side of the “e”. Sew them onto the back of the triangle using a zig zag stitch following the line you have already created when you sewed the triangles together.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Next sew the medium strips to the right side of the first “e” and the left side of the “M”. This longer strip will give a bigger space to make the two words distinct.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now use fabric glue or super glue to accent your letters with your jewels. So cute!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s the last step, tying the whole thing together. Simply knot each word together, adjusting spacing between each letter. Make sure to use the extra space between "Be" and "Mine".</span></div>
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Trimmed each strip at an angle to give a bow feel.<br />
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Take your two long strips and make a big loop on one end and knot it, this is for hanging. Then tie the long strips to the left side of the “B” and the right side of the “e”,<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I truly believe that all things that are creative come from a collaborative effort. Whether you saw something that inspired you to create something original, took an idea and made it your own, or actually had help from creative friends, everyone who creates can thank those around them for inspiring....</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">That is how these quilts came to be.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have a friend who came to me with the idea of making a group quilt. She asked 9 friends of hers to participate. Each person was to sew 20 12x12 inch squares (two fabrics per square in a diagonal) and the theme was “I spy” in summer colors for kids. </span><br />
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These were my fabrics, so cute, right?!<br />
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TO MAKE YOUR SQUARES:<br />
Buy 1 1/4 yards for two fabrics. Cut each fabric into 6"x6" squares. You need 40 from each fabric.<br />
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Start by sewing two squares together side by side. Press the seam open (now, I hate to iron, but it is a "must" when making a blanket). And then do it again.<br />
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Now take your two strips of two squares and sew them together, making sure the patterns are alternating. Press all of your seams open...<br />
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and BOOM, you have a 12"x12" (roughly) quilting square. Don't worry if your square is not the exact right dimensions. It will all work out when you put it together.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After we made our 20 identical squares we kept two of our own, and then swapped the rest for the two the other 9 people made. It was a fun idea, and I was intrigued by the unknown. So, I roped in Cassie (good friend to All Things Fab and great seamstress) and we went for it. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The day we divided up our squares was, well, disappointing. Even though we had the same theme, the squares were just too different to put together into a quilt that looked purposeful and nice. That is until Cassie had the brilliant idea of instead of keeping the quilt in traditional block formation, cutting the squares into strips, adding our own scrap pieces from our left over fabric stash and making a quilt with long 12” wide strips using the squares and scrap fabric we had that looked good together. Check hers out...</span><br />
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K, I know it's not finished, but you get the idea. TO-DIE-FOR!<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> On top of that, she had white sheets that she never uses (so they were in new condition) and cut them up for her white fabric instead of going and buying it new. Did I mention Cassie is quite thrifty? It’s one of the many things I like about her. She did buy a little extra fabric to finish her edges, but that was also a bargain buy. Her’s turned out AMAZING, ADORABLE, GENIUS, and INEXPENSIVE! I was in like Flynn.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You need fabric (duh), how much? It depends on what size of quilt you want to end up with. Cassie made a full and I did a queen. <a href="http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingtwo.html">Start Quilting 2</a> is a great website to help you calculate how big a quilt you need for each size. Stick with 12” wide strips, unless you’re making a king or cal-king. For those sizes I’d jump to 24” wide. For a crib quilt I’d make the strips 6” wide.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As far as choosing your fabric, go with about 3 or 4 colors that look good together and then you can choose fabric that varies in shade. Cassie stuck with her main colors as green and pink to match her daughter’s room. She accomplished this by using bigger blocks of fabric with those colors and filling in the rest. She even used the same fabric in the quilt that she had in other parts of the room. Super matchy and fabulous. My main colors were green, pink, blue, and purple. My quilt was a little more busy but I tried to tie it together by making the purple frames around the strips. I think it worked, how ‘bout you?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You actually have some room to play when you start cutting. </span>If you like the look of the blocks cut up, choose some fabric that coordinates and sew them together into a square and then cut them into 3 pieces (like I did with the monkeys and rainbow chevron).<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Any time you make a quilt, ALWAYS IRON YOUR SEAMS DOWN! It gives you better measurements while you’re working and looks nicer. When I started cutting the fabric I did not measure at all. This part is not perfect, that’s the beauty of it. If you cut some on an angle, even more charming! But don't cut on too steep of an angle, it's a headache later. If you don’t want to put the extra work into cutting up the 12x12” squares, just do pieces that are one material, that’s great, you just want them to be the same width. For twin, full and queen sizes make 4 strips. For crib quilts, 3 strips and for king and cal-king do 5 strips. The length depends on your size. I made mine as long as I could until the fabric I was using ran out. I knew I could always add length and width to the quilt with my white fabric if need be. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once you have the patterned fabric cut start sewing together your strips until they are the length you want. I laid my strips out to make sure I divided the fabric out well and that they looked good. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This part is pretty straight forward, sew each strip together and press the seam until you have a complete row.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once your strips are done you can move onto the white fabric or you can frame them like I did. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To frame them, cut strips of a solid color into 2” wide strips. I pinned my purple strips to the pattern strips and measured the space in between to make sure it was even all the way down. Because I cut some of my fabric on a diagonal I had to do some adjusting at this point to make sure the strips were straight. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After the long solid color strips were on I needed to trim the top and bottom to be straight and then added the solid colored strips on top and bottom to complete the frame. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now, it’s time to measure. Lay out your strips and measure how much blanket you’ve created. You need to calculate how much white you will need to make the blanket wide enough and long enough to cover your bed. Cassie and I both did white strips in between the patterned and then framed the whole blanket in white and then added a colored boarder. The extra white you see on the most outer edge of my blanket is the fabric from the back of the quilt, which is a result of the way I finish my quilts. It is my opinion that it’s better for a quilt to be too big than too small. Always go over your measurements if in doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once you know how much more blanket you need divide the width according to how many strips of white you want. In my case, I divided the width I still needed by 5, I needed a white strip in between each patterned strip plus a white strip on the outside of the edge strips. Then I cut them. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Next, I sewed each long strip together side by side. The patter for me went; white, pattern, white, pattern, white, patter, white, pattern, white.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now to finish off the length. I measured how much more blanket I needed to make it long enough for the bed and divided that number by 2, one strip at the top and one at the bottom. I cut them and sewed them accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">HOLY COW! You’re almost there. The last thing was for the colored boarder. Mine was 2” wide, so I just cut my solid colored fabric into 2” strips and measured it against the blanket, sewing each strip end to end to get the right length per side. I sewed them on one side at a time, and voila! The front is complete!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s math time again. You need enough fabric to finish the back of the blanket. I love to finish my quilts with flannel. It’s so cozy, warm, soft, and you can usually find it on a deal. I buy enough back fabric to be the same size as the quilt, plus 6” on each side. When I got home, I cut the flannel... WRONG! I washed it in hot water and dried it on hot. Flannel shrinks and must be pre-shrunk. After I washed it I cut it according to the length of my blanket and sewed the pieces together to make it wide enough. You are now ready to quilt it!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Decide which side you want the strings to show up on. I like mine on the back so they don’t take away from the patterned fabric. Which ever side you DON’T want the stings on put down first, right side down. Next lay out your batting. Then lay the fabric you want the strings to show up on right side up. Now, pin the crap out of that jazz. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s a fast, easy way to mark where to tie your knots when you are tying a quilt. I use mine every time. Here's what it looks like...</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My daughter, Olivia, was nice enough to hide behind it while I look a pic. Basically it's a high quality piece of material with holes in it that you mark in. Mine is a crib size with 3 inch spacing between the holes. I use it on everything because you just pick it up and move it when you need to mark more area.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once you’ve pinned and marked, you ready to tie it. I love tying quilts, I don’t know why, but it’s my favorite part. Start the knot by going down through the fabric. Come back up about 2-3 mm away from where you went down. Now, tie the string the same way to start out tying your shoe laces. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is not tricky! Just tie your string like a shoe lace and then do it again but if you went up the first time, the second time go down. Still confused? Don't stress, just tie a tight knot and you'll be fine.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Don’t cut your string, just move onto the next dot and repeat the process until you’ve done them all. Once every dot has been tied, cut the string in the center and the quilt is tied!</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I hate, hate, hate trying to sew binding onto a quilt, but I love the look of a frame around the front. Remember when I told you to leave 6” of back fabric all the way around? Now I want you to trim the batting to match the edges of the front of the quilt. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Start at the top and go all the way to the bottom and back stitch. Now for the next side, same thing, including rolling over the corners so they end up looking like this...</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">All right, all you "new year resolution"-ers out there, this post has, literally, been 3 years in the making. This time of year brings a strong desire to look back on the past year and take stock of what we have accomplished and look forward to what we would like to do in the coming months. Too frequently our look back makes us want to crawl back into bed with a whipping stick to make ourselves pay in silence for all that we promised ourselves we would do, but didn't. And the look forward fuels a nation wide workout frenzy born straight from guilt and self loathing. BOO TO ALL OF THAT! All a new year means is a fresh start. No guilt, no shame. The post you are about to read is not meant to do anything except MOTIVATE YOU! It doesn't have to motivate you to run or bike or even work out. It is meant to motivate you to step out of your comfort zone, experience something new and difficult and when its done, look at yourself in the mirror and know that YOU will not hold YOU back.</span></div>
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In that spirit I am pleased to introduce our next guest blogger, my twin (yes identical), Sharma Phillips (she's beautiful, isn't she). She graciously agreed to share her experience of accomplishing a long time goal of qualifying for the Boston Marathon. I want to give a special thanks to her for taking the time to share her story with us. She is one amazing lady, and I know you will be inspired by her story just like I was. Click <a href="http://withallthingsfabulous.blogspot.com/p/guest-blogger.html"><span style="color: #2600ac; letter-spacing: 0px;">here</span></a> to read her story or click on "Guest Blogger" at the top of the blog.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Amy A, Amy M, and I are so excited for Christmas! So, we vow to get as many Christmas posts on the blog as we can. I’ve already got a start for us with the 12 Days of Christmas Advent Candles (under <a href="http://withallthingsfabulous.blogspot.com/p/crafting.html">Crafting</a>), now we need some FOOD! I’m going to start us off with a little something we lovingly refer to as Bugle Brittle. It’s basically Bugle chips covered in a sugary, buttery coating, and I’ve never met a person who didn’t LOVE it. Special thanks to my sis-in-law, Julie, who got me addicted to this junk and was willing to share the recipe with all of you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Empty your chips into a large bowl and lay out foil for letting the chips cool on when it’s done. You want to have all of this ready to go because you’re basically making a candy coating and every second counts when you are dealing with the temperature of sugar.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So, you don’t have a candy thermometer? I have made this recipe without one. The trick is to check the mixture’s texture every once in a while by using the cold water test. Keep a clean small glass of cool water by you. Take a drop of mixture and drop it into the glass. While it's in the water use your fingers to form it into a ball. Pull the ball out, it should be like caramel, holds its shape but is soft and pliable. It takes around 10 minutes to get it to the right temp, so set a timer for 5 minutes and start checking every minute after that.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As soon as you’ve reached hard ball stage pour the mixture over the bugles and stir to coat. Dump the coated bugles onto the foil and use your spoon to separate it out. You don't want it to cool in big clumps of bugles, it's hard to eat and hard to break apart.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The next step is the most important...take the Bugle Brittle, put it in your mouth, and enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am so excited about this post. This is a project I came up with at the tail end of the Christmas season last year and I have been waiting all of this time to give it a try. My kids love to count down the days until Christmas (really, I am just as bad) so the more ways to count down, the better. I learned the technique for this project from a friend who was a Close To my Heart consultant (hi, Doree) and I have always wanted to do it more because, seriously, it is so cool! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">First you need to prepare the numbers for the candle. Cut your tissue paper down to the same size a regular piece of paper. On a computer create a line of numbers with 1 at the top and 12 at the bottom going down the page, like this...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Print your line of numbers on the tissue paper. This can be tricky, what I ended up doing was taping my tissue paper to a piece of card stock and then printing it because my printer kept eating the tissue paper even if it was taped to a regular paper. After it’s printed cut it down as close to the numbers as you can get.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now grab your candle and place the number strip going down it the way you like and hold it in place with your thumb. Grab you hair dryer or heat tool and, starting at number 1, hold the heat a few inches away from the candle and blow it back and forth over the the tissue paper. What is going to happen is the wax behind the paper is going to melt and little and when it does it will fuse with the tissue paper and the paper will become translucent (see in the picture how right around the 6 it's not melted). Once it’s translucent you’ve got it on so you can move down the candle until the whole piece of paper is secured. Be careful not to heat one place too much, you don't want the wax to drip. Remember, less is more, so don't go holding the heat right up against the candle right when you start. You only need to melt it a little for this to work.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now that you’ve got your candle, its fun to do a little some thing every night you light it. We put together three list ideas for the 12 days and printed them on cute card stock to keep with the candle. Yes, my neighbors will all be getting one of these...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1 The Partridge in a Pear Tree=Jesus Christ, the Son of God</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2 Turtle Doves=The Old and New Testaments</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3 French Hens=Faith, Hope, and Charity</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4 Calling Birds=The Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5 Golden Rings=The First Five Books of the Old Testament which gives the history of man’s fall from grace.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6 Geese A-Laying=The Six Days of Creation</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7 Swans A-Swimming=The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8 Maids A-Milking=The Eight Beatitudes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">9 Ladies Dancing=The Nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">10 Lords A-Leaping=The Ten Commandments</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">11 Pipers Piping=The Eleven Faithful Apostles</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">12 Drummers Drumming=The Twelve Points of Doctrine in the Apostle’s Creed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">*In the song “true love” refers to God, the “me” who receives the presents refers to every baptized person.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">1. Say “Merry Christmas” to every single person you meet.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2. Leave rolled up dollars with a note in the $1 section of a store.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">3. Go to a busy place and hold the door open for 15 minutes for people.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">4.Buy 3 helium balloons and hand them out to kids in a store.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">5. Write a message of gratitude to someone who has touched your life.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">6.Go threw a drive threw and pay for the car behind you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">7. Take treats to your local fire department or police station.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">8. Leave kid made book marks at the local library.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">9.Tape candy canes to ATMs around town.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">10. Leave change taped to a vending machine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">11.Be an EXTRA polite driver/friend/family member/employee.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">12. Decorate a neighbor’s door with paper snow flakes and side walk with chalk.</span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Psalm 27:1</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">How is the Lord my light?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>John 13:34-35</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do I keep all of the commandments?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Isaiah 41:10</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">From whom do I get my strength?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Matthew 5:16</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">How can I let my light shine today?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Isaiah 1:18</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do I understand what Christ did for me?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>John 14:16-17, 26</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">How can the Holy Spirit help me become more like Christ</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>John 15:13-14</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do I have a true understanding of the sacrifice my Savior made for me?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Luke 22:42, 23:46</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Wherein lies the power of Christ?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Timothy 4:12</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do I cleave unto the truth & do I teach those around me to stand for righteousness?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>John 14:27</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do I search of inner peace and happiness?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Matthew 6:19-21</b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">What are my values, my core beliefs and priorities?</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px;"><b>Luke 2:1-20</b>What can I do to remember Christ every day?</li>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Have you noticed how everywhere you look in the home decor world burlap is draped on, sewn into, or glued over one thing or another?</span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">And why not?!</span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s cheap, cute and a great blank canvas for some serious creativity.</span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Well, friend of the blog, Cassie, had a great idea of covering pillar candles with burlap as a Thanksgiving table decoration and Amy M and I decided to take the challenge.</span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">Um, yes, this is happening, and here’s how to do it...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">First thing you need to do is get your burlap ready.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Amy and I</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">just laid our candle right on the burlap and eyeballed how much to cut in order to cover the candle.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You’re basically cutting a wide strip that is tall enough to go to the top of the candle and long enough to roll up around the candle.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Don’t worry about being too precise, after the burlap is on, it’s easy to trim off extra.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now, roll the burlap around the candle and use rubber bands or sting or twine to wrap around it so you don’t have to hold it on while you heat the candle.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Remember how I said you need a hair dryer for this craft? Here’s where it comes in handy.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Use your heat tool (which every it may be) and carefully heat the candle with the burlap on it.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As you heat small portions press the burlap into the candle and hold it there for a few seconds to allow the wax to cool and grab the burlap.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Be careful not to hold the heat in one place too long, it will melt the wax too much and burn your finger when you press it (ouch!).</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s better to use long strokes to heat the wax.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Go all around the candle heating and pressing until you have attached most of the burlap.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s not going to be a perfect snug fit (unless you are a perfectionist, in which case you have my sincere condolences) but it should hold the burlap well enough that you don’t need the rubber band to keep it on.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Decorate it!</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Amy M and I love to do fall crafts so we pool our resources and share silk leaves, berries and ribbon and got creative.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’ve also seen the candles where you stop at the burlap, if you’re more of a minimalist.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is the season when cool weather, warm drinks and crisp apples are all I want to think about! I love this time of year. Apples are at their ripest and cheapest, so let’s take advantage! We wanted to give apples the credit they deserve, so this post includes how to can apples to have on hand all year long and a collection of our very most favorite apple recipes.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Canning apples is the easiest thing to can and, in my opinion, tastes the best. It is simple but time consuming, which is why you should can with a friend! Amy M and I have spent many hilarious hours canning crap. Trust me, can with a friend, it's way more fun. Aside from having a blast with a friend there are many reasons to can apples. They are so healthy and you can adjust the simple syrup recipe to be low calorie, and the end result is like candy, but healthier. I purchased my apples from a local farmer that sets up a tent in the grocery store parking lot. Amy M bought hers from a farmer's market. We both bought half a bushel and it was less than $20.00 each. We both used Golden Delicious, but any variety would be great, get what you like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">First things first, get your water on the stove. Water bath canners are pretty affordable, usually around $30.00 at almost any store. Fill it up to within 6 inches from the top, put the lid on and crank the heat to high. It takes a long time to get the water boiling in a pot that big.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">*Be prepared to quadruple this recipe for canning half a bushel of apples. You can mix it all at once or do half and half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">While everything is heating up prep your apples. You have to peel them and halve them or slice them. Amy M and I have a great little device that peels/cores/slices apples all in one step. I bough mine from <a href="http://www.pamperedchef.com/ordering/prod_search.tpc">The Pampered Chef</a> and I've had it for 12 years and it is as good today as the day I got it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Amy's slicer is a little different because instead of having a clamp to attach it to the side of the counter hers has a suction cup. It works just as great and came from any kitchen supply store. Look at all those apple peels, I'm not saying the process isn't messy, I'm just saying it's worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The apple spring is what you end up with after you've run it threw the apple peeler/corer/slicer. My kids love these, although they are very skilled at not actually getting any apple in their mouths when they play with them. Cut your springs in half and, viola! Beautiful apple crescents ready for the jar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Once your apples are peeled and cut take the extra few minutes to keep them from browning by filling a large bowl with water and adding about 3 tablespoons of Fresh Fruit anti browning powder. You can find it in the canning isle of any grocery store. Just put a handful of apple slices in the treated water, let it sit for a few seconds, remove and put directly into your simple syrup, which should be boiling by now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Let your apple slices simmer in the simple syrup for about 3-5 minutes or until heated threw, turn off the heat and then using a slotted spoon pack as many apple slices into the jars as you can get. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">*You can absolutely can apples without cooking them in the simple syrup first, and that's what Amy M and I did. Just prep your apples and put them in the bath to stop browning and then put them directly into the jars. You still need to heat the simple syrup for the purpose of completely dissolving the sugar, but if you're using a sugar substitute that dissolves easily you don't even have to heat it. However, you can fit more apples in the jars if you cook them in the simple syrup first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Once all of your jars are full use a ladle and ladle the syrup into each jar to within 1/2 inch from the top of the jar. If you like to flavor the apples with a little cinnamon, simply stick 1-2 whole cinnamon sticks into the jar after it is full of apples and juice. Remove the bubbles by running a butter knife along the inside of the jar, and adjust head space again if necessary. Wipe the rim of the jar and screw on your lids finger tight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">By now your canning water should be rolling pretty furiously. Place your filled jars into the canning basket and carefully place the whole thing into the water in the canning pot making sure the jars are completely submerged but the water is not over flowing. Put the lid on and process (fancy word for let it boil) for 20 minutes for both pint and quart jars. After the time is up, remove the canning lid and wait 5 minutes and then remove the jars and allow to cool. Amy M and I forgot the 'wait 5 minute step' and ended up with jars that oozed syrup a little. After they are cool the lid should be concave. If it is not, it did not seal properly and you should eat those suckers immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Check out the creepiest and most hilarious thing, Amy M accidentally canned a bug in her apples. We didn't notice until we pulled the jar out of the canner to cool. At least it was on the edge so we could see it. We don't recommend canning bugs with your apples...silly Amy...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">First, mark your two pieces of 2x4. One will be at the top and one at the bottom. Start on one end of the board and mark every 6” on both boards. You should end up with 7 marks (a mark for each pipe, see what I did there?).</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Next lay them out and grab your PVC pipe and drill. Use one screw at the top of the board and one at the bottom per pipe. To allow maximum stability, I lined the PVC up with to top of the board. After you’ve attached each pipe to the top board finish up by screwing the bottom of the pipes to the bottom board with two screws.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Now you need to make it stand up, right? Grab your wall brackets and screw two onto the front of the jail on each side of the boards. Stand it up and screw the other two to the back of the boards.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I attached an extra screw at the top so that I could hang my goull from it. Easy, pleasey, zombies weazey. :)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Now, I’m not saying that Amy A, Amy M, and I are the best there are when it comes to Halloween decor, but we do love to decorate for this holiday. I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, that I have more decorations for Halloween than for any other holiday (sick, I know). So, we thought it might be fun to just do a post with pics of our decorations, and if you find inspiration in what we’ve done, then be our guest to recreate it. We also thought it might be fun if our followers would be interested in adding your own pics in the comment section of this post. We LOVE new ideas, and would love to see yours.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18px;">Check out the fireplace. All Halloween decor you see was $20 or less, collected over years. The Medusa pic was super cheap at a Halloween shop. The large spider webs were on sale at K-Mart last season for $2.99 each. The </span><span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: medium;">gargoyle was a Target purchase, as well as the owls and jug of floating eyeballs. The spiders are my most favorite purchase. They are big, durable and cling to the stone on the fireplace. Unfortunately, I bought them several years ago and the store that carried them never got them back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18px;">Amy, Amy and I made these last year. Easy Pinterest </span><span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: medium;">project. Three candle sticks, three jars, black spray paint, and super heavy duty glue. The bats are rubber decals I stuck on for the holiday. All of these craft supplies came from Hobby Lobby.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18px;">Anyone recognize the spell book on the table? Don't </span><span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: medium;">worry, it's just the most amazing DIY project you can find on this very blog! The spiderweb table cloth was from a party magazine, the other nick knacks are from Target. Notice the creepy spider web on the light? Everyone is selling what they call "spooky material". Just go to Home Depot and buy a packet of cheese cloth for $4 and rough it up a little. It's all the "spooky" you'll need.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18px;">This is a collection of some of my favorite decorations. The coffin fogger is a Target purchase and that's my kid's favorite, but not mine. The pic on the left of the storm trooper holding Yoda and Minnie Mouse hugging his leg is from a Halloween several years ago. It's my family decked out for Halloween night. I just had it made into an 8x10 and put it in a frame. The original idea was to replace the pic each year, but I never got that far. But it is one of my favorite things to put out. I think my next project will be printing and framing smaller pics of different Halloweens. So fun. Also, the witch at on the lamp was a dollar store purchase. Cheap touch that adds a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c80058; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 18px;">This is a fun corner. The skull fogger is from Target, the other skulls are just cheap Styrofoam from various Halloween stores and the snake is a prop from the year my husband was Voldemort. I am a firm believer in using old costumes to decorate with.</span> </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This jail front is one of my favorites. I didn't make it for Halloween, I made it as a backdrop for taking fake mug shots in front of. But when I was done taking the pics I thought, "hey, that's kinda spooky...." and this is where it ended up. I have included a tutorial on how to make your own. Just keep reading...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is a great spell book prop floating around pinterest that I fell in love with. So, during our last girl’s night I thought, </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> But when I went to the website that has the book, there was no instruction. It had a description of the book, a couple of pictures and the websites that the creator found the digital art to create the pages for the book in photo shop. So, i did the best I could, but my creation was a far cry from the beautiful picture that I was trying to copy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> i was frustrated, I wanted to find a full tutorial along with a print out that i could just click on and print. i didn’t want to spend the day trying to put together pages in photo shop. anyway, I'm lucky enough to have an incredibly artistic husband who took pity on me and agreed to help me create my pages, from scratch, hand drawn! With his help, this is what i ended up with...</span><br />
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Start by preparing the book. Remember, this is a prop, it's not meant to be picked up and handled and flipped threw. so open the book to the middle and just know, that's where it's going to stay for the rest of it's book life. :) Spray paint the outside cover and inside cover black (ironically, the book i used was actually called <u>paint it black</u>). </div>
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Next distress the edges of the book's pages using scissors, sandpaper, or what ever you want. you can use water colors, it gets the book good and wet and makes it easy to distress but then you have to wait for it to dry. after it dried i used a pencil to roll the corners. Then i ended up using the acrylic paint to finish it off. I felt like the acrylic gave a fuller color and looked prettier than the water colors.</div>
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Now, let's get the pages ready. we saved you the trouble of re-inventing the wheel. my totally muscly and artistic husband generously allowed me to create a pdf file that you can purchase in our <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Withallthingsfab?ref=seller_info">etsy</a> store for only $5.00! Click <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/153825099/harry-potter-spell-book-art-work-9x6">here</a> to purchase the 9"x6" drawings and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/153826377/harry-potter-spell-book-art-work-12x9">here</a> to purchase the 12"x9" drawings. they are an instant download that you can then print out on the paper of your choice. I recommend using something that has color to help with the aged appearance. turbo easy!<br />
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K, the rest is simple. Spray the back of the pages with the spray adhesive and place them directly onto the pages in the book. do a bit more curing of the corners. use hot glue to glue the end of the ribbon onto the back spine of the book for the book mark. stick it in a cool table easel or lay flat with creepy junk around it and you, my friend, have created an amazing addition to your Halloween decor that is a true original.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Before you start, get all of your supplies out and ready. Chocolate can be tricky, so you don’t want to heat it and then let it sit cooling while you get your things out. Lay out your parchment paper, cookies, eyes and sprinkles so it’s all at arms reach.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The rest is simple. Work in groups of 10 cookies at a time. With washed hands dip one oreo at a time completely in the chocolate. Pull out the cookie and Let the chocolate run off and give the edge of the cookie a little scrape to remove all of the excess chocolate. Lay it on the paper. If you leave an empty spot where your finger was, just get a little chocolate on your finder and tap it in the empty area in a straight up and down motion. The chocolate will cover the area and leave a pretty little design on top.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love home made jam, seriously, who doesn’t? You’d have to be insane! So, I’m lucky enough to have a sister-in-law who has much experience in jamming matters, and was kind enough to take me under her wing and show me the secrets of making and canning your very own home made jam. Much thanks to Valaura, without you, I may have had to buy sub-par jam from the store for the rest of my life.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are SO many benefits to cooking and canning your own jam. Fist off, no preservatives or weird yucky stuff. Wait, first should have been that it tastes AMAZING! No, first should be that it provides a lot of bang for your buck. Or that it’s great for long term storage (I’ve cracked open a jar of home made jam that was 3 years old and it was still fabulous). Really, you just can’t go wrong. Plus, it’s fun, and kind of fancy.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-4 pint sized mason jars and lids *when canning always use new lids to prevent bacteria from getting in your jars. You’ll also want an extra jar or container to put the left over jam in that won’t fill up a whole jar. That’s the jam you’re going to eat with a spoon while it’s still hot.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-canning utensils really help. I bought a box of canning basics from K-Mart for $10.00. It included a canning funnel, jar gripper, head space ruler, and magnetic lid picker-upper (yes, that is the technical name)</span></div>
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-4 pt. strawberries or raspberries that puree down to:<br />
-5 cups crushed strawberries or raspberries<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-4 pint sized mason jars and lids *when canning always use new lids to prevent bacteria from getting in your jars. You’ll also want an extra jar or container to put the left over jam in that won’t fill up a whole jar. That’s the jam you’re going to eat with a spoon while it’s still hot.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-canning utensils really help. I bought a box of canning basics from K-Mart for $10.00. It included a canning funnel, jar gripper, head space ruler, and magnetic lid picker-upper (yes, that is the technical name)</span></div>
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-3 pt. strawberries that puree down to:<br />
-2 1/2 cups crushed strawberries<br />
-1 1/2 pt. raspberries that puree down to:<br />
-1 1/2 cups crushed raspberries<br />
-1 pt. blackberries that puree down to:<br />
-1 cup crushed blackberries<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-3 pint sized mason jars and lids *when canning always use new lids to prevent bacteria from getting in your jars. You’ll also want an extra jar or container to put the left over jam in that won’t fill up a whole jar. That’s the jam you’re going to eat with a spoon while it’s still hot.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">-2 tablespoons lemon juice</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Here’s the deal with making cooked and canned jam. You have to get everything ready to use FIRST and then start the process. Prepare all of your fruit, pre-measure it and put it in something to store it so it’s ready when you need it. Pre-measure you sugar every time before you turn on the burner. Have everything in it’s place and ready to roll, because this is a very time sensitive project, and over cooking could be disastrous. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">FRUIT PREP:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The instructions in the box say to not puree your fruit, just to chop it very finely. So, either take hours and do it by hand or pulse it in a food processor. Yeah, I never do that. I turn the processor on and let it run until it’s liquid. It’s just the way I roll.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Prepping the berries is simple. Wash them, cut the stems off if need be and puree. Measure the puree out for the correct amount per recipe and then I pour it into gallon sized bags so when I’m ready to cook I just open and dump. I love to prep my fruit ahead of time and storing them in the gallon bags makes for easy freezing. You can store frozen puree for a few months, just make sure it’s completely defrosted when you’re ready to cook.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Prepping peaches takes a little more work, but it’s easy work. You need to scald them to get the skin off. Bring a stock pot of water to a rolling boil. Working in batches of about 4 peaches at a time, gently drop the peaches into the boiling water, set a timer for 1 minute, pull them out when the timer goes off and put them in a bowl. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Immediately use a small knife and give the skin a scrape. It should lift up. Grab it and just pull it off. Continue peeling the peach until no skin is left and then quarter it and pull the pit out. Do this with all of the peaches. It works best when the peaches are warm, hence the small batches and working fast. Once they are all peeled and quartered, puree that junk up and measure it out.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Fruit, check. Moving onto the jars. Have you noticed yet that you don’t need a canner or hot bath to can jam? It’s true, but temperature is important. Your jars need to be clean, sterilized and warm when you put your hot jam in them. The lids and rings also need to be hot. Yes, I have been known to burn a thumb or two, but that’s why I like the magnetic lid grabber. The way I do this is put your jars in the dishwasher and run a cycle. If you have a heat dry or sanitize option, use it. If you jars are already clean and you don’t want to run a whole cycle, just put it on a quick rinse or heat cycle to get them warm and keep them in there until you need them. If they cool off, do a short cycle again. The purpose of keeping the jars warm is so the hot jam doesn’t crack them when you put it in. Even if the jars are room temp, they can crack while filling them.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Keep a sauce pan on the stove while you work that is filled with water and keep your lids and rings in it. Once you get it to a boil turn it to low and let it stay hot the whole time you cook. The lids have to be hot in order to soften the plastic on them that will eventually cool and seal the jar shut. That’s why you never re-use lids. Once that plastic has melted once, it won’t guarantee a secure seal again. I don’t think the rings need to be hot, but I keep them in there anyway, just to be on the safe side.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Get everything in it’s place. Jars are warm and in the dishwasher, lids are hot on the stove, canning funnel, magnetic grabber, and head space ruler are all set where you are going to ladle the jam into the jars and sugar is measured and set by the stove. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Start with a large pot, the wider the bottom the better. With the burner off put in your puree, the butter (this keeps the mixture from bubbling or foaming which doesn’t effect the taste but takes away from presentation), the pectin, and lemon juice if you’re making peach. Turn your burner onto med/high and start stirring using a whip. DO NOT STOP STIRRING AND DO NOT WALK AWAY WHILE YOU ARE COOKING THE JAM! Yes, this takes an obnoxiously long time, but if you leave it, even for a minute or two, it will burn. Bring the mixture to a rolling boil. That means that it continues to boil even while you are stirring it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">You want to fill the jars to within 1/8 inch from the top. I fill them with a big ladle first and then go back with a cereal spoon to adjust the head space perfectly. Head space is important, it effects if the jar seals completely, so don’t estimate. If you have a little extra jam that won’t fill a jar, put it in a little container to eat right then, don’t waste it! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">When they are all full, use a wet cloth and wipe the rim of each jar. Again, any jam on the rim could keep it from sealing or create bacterial in the jam. That would be a major bummer. Once the tops are clean, place a hot lid on each and screw on a rim. screw it on until finger tight. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I loved these old school pair of colored Dickies, but they are totally out of style.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Flares just aren’t "in" right now.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But I couldn’t stand seeing some of my cute pants sit in the closet waiting for trends to come back around. So I figured out a simple, fast way to alter flared pants into skinny pants.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Seriously, if you have a sewing machine and can sew a straight line, you can alter your pants!</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is so fast and easy that I altered 5 pairs of flared pants into skinny pants in just a couple of hours one afternoon.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Let’s get started...</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Start by turning your pants inside out. Have a pair of skinny pants already? Perfect, use those as your guide for where you’re going to sew and cut your flared pants. Fold both pairs of pants in half, so both sides match perfectly, straightening the seams so they lay flat. Lay your flared pants out and then the skinny pants on top just like this...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Next use chalk or pins to mark where you are going to start sewing at the cuff and where you are going to stop sewing up the leg on your thigh. You only have to sew one side of each pant leg, so choose the side that doesn’t have a decorative seam on the outside. In my case I chose to sew the outside seam, but I’ve also done the inside seam. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you don’t have a pair of skinny pants to use as a pattern put your flared pants on inside out and mark them the old fashion way. You only have to sew one side, so choose the side that has a seam that isn’t decorative on the outside. Use pins and pin them where you want to sew, starting at the cuff and working your way up the leg until you reach the point the pants fit snug on your thigh.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ready to sew? The answer is yes! Start at the cuff and sew a straight line up the leg, gradually working your way out to the point on the leg where you’re going to stop. Do the other leg the same way. I just eyeballed it, but if you're using skinny pants as a pattern you can chalk exactly where you want to sew. As long as you start at the same point on the cuff and end on the same point up the thigh, the pants will look even on both sides. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After you’ve done the straight line, do a zigzag stitch to avoid fraying (if you have a serger that would also be perfect). Before you cut the excess fabric away try the pants on to make sure they fit the way you want. You can always pic out a seam, but cutting is permanent. :) If you’re happy with the way they fit, cut away the extra fabric and...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pre-heat oven to 450. In a medium bowl mix all dry ingredients together. Make a well in the middle of the dry mixture and pour the cream into the center. Using a wood spoon mix the dough until it starts to come together, about 30 seconds. Here’s the the most important part of making any biscuit...DO NOT OVER MIX! The less you mix the lighter and and fluffier the biscuits will turn out. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Next turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead just until it forms a loose ball, about 7-10 times. Now pat the ball into a circle about 1 inch thick. Use a pizza cutter or sharp knife and cut pizza pie style into 8 triangles. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Once the biscuits are in the oven start the gravy. Brown your sausage and remove from the pan. Drain off the fat reserving 4 tablespoons. Add the 4 tablespoons of fat (or if you prefer, butter) and heat up the pan. Add four, and a healthy dose of salt and pepper. Cook the rue for 5 minutes. Add milk and cooked sausage and stir continually over medium heat until it thickens and begins to bubble. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">*The biscuit recipe is from The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book, and I highly recommend! Great recipes with tons of picture and tips!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">*The gravy recipe is adapted from Alton Brown.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So, I have a little guy who is about as picky as they come when it comes to, well, everything, but especially food. Needless to say I am constantly looking for food that his healthy and delicious that he will go for. That is where these cookie dough ball bites come in. Every one of my kids LOVE these, but most importantly, my picky eater. They are as healthy as a snack can get and I told him that he can eat them any time he wants, breakfast, bedtime snack, whatever...and he does! So, give it a try, I know you won’t be disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Ragnar Wasatch Back 2012-The Run Fu Pandas!!</span></h2>
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<span style="color: red;">These are the ladies of our team, at the start of a most excellent adventure!</span></div>
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For me this experience started about a year ago with a call from our team captain Darcy.<br />
Darcy: "Hey Amy we are putting together a Ragnar team with couples from the neighborhood, do you and Kelly want to join?"<br />
Me: "Oh, that's funny Darcy! I don't REALLY run.. just 5k's and I have asthma so probably not.<br />
Darcy: "Just think about it, it will be fun and you have a YEAR to train!"<br />
More than anything I was amused that she would even think of me. Then I made the mistake of telling Sharla. I figured we would both laugh about it, but she said this instead. "If you have a better reason than fear for not doing it fine, but if your just scared that you CAN'T do it, well then you have to because you can't let fear keep you from doing things." Seriously <u>great </u>advice.<br />
That started both Kelly and I on a really fun road. For those that don't know Ragnar is a 195 mile relay race done with a 12 person team. You run up and down mountains all day and all night. It is pretty bad "A". The average runner does between 15-20 miles. I needed to train.<br />
During that year with Ragnar looming in front of us we trained, we trained hard. Neither Kelly or I had run much more than a 5k but in that year we ran 2 half marathons, did a triathlon, a 10k, a few cycling races, Duathalon, mud-runs and a handful of 5k's. We were Ready!!<br />
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<span style="color: red;">This is our whole team. The "Run Fu Pandas" like the movie-get it?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The team of 12 is split up into 2 vans. These vans take turns running nonstop from Logan to Park City. I was in van 2 which meant that after we all met at the starting line to see off our first runner we had some time to kill. We wouldn't run until all 6 of their runners had run their first legs. So we decorated our van and took funs pictures!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Cassie was our official window crayon artist!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Kelly showing off his mad kung fu skills!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Once we had goofed around, napped, ate, explored, etc. It was finally our turn to run!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> Here</span><span style="color: red;"> I Go!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I learned two things pretty quickly. </span></div>
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#1 it was CRAZY hot!</div>
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#2 My legs were already tired! Probably shouldn't have been walking and standing around waiting for my turn to run. It ends up with the heat index this run was over a hundred degrees. My smile wasn't so big at the end of the run. My stomach was completely covered in heat blisters! Here are some pics from the rest of the team (well most of us, don't know how I missed Ryan)</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Lisanne- This was her 3rd Ragnar!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Darcy- Our fearless leader!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Kelly at the beginning of his first leg 7.5 miles straight uphill! 100 degrees remember?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Cassie Bringing it home!</span></div>
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Cassie finished up at Snowbasin and this is where we had our van exchange. As we left, van 1 sent their runner to run down the road that leads up to the ski resort. 8 miles downhill, VERY Down hill. We went to Morgan High and cleaned up, ate some dinner. Well tried to eat, Lisanne and Darcy were so sick they couldn't eat anything! Then we curled up, literally, and tried to at least cat nap for the few minutes we had before we had to meet van 1 at the next exchange.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">This is as comfy as it got, picture the armrest digging into my back....</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Before you know it, it's time to meet the van for the exchange. We are getting pretty tired now and think we are at the right spot only to find out that we are not. The exchange is a good 20 minute drive and our runner is due in 15 minutes. This woke us up. We are getting anxious texts from the other van. "Where are you?", "Get here now!", If there is one thing you don't do at Ragnar you don't leave a runner waiting at the exchange. Finally we make it and I rush to meet our runner, 1:45 am my second leg up East Canyon starts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"> I'm so fast I'm a blur...j/k</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">My exchange to Lisanne</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The night run was my favorite, mostly because it wasn't hot. Also it was so dark I felt like I was alone out there and was singing and dancing. It was fun! Then I hit the hill, WOWSA! But this is what I had trained for. Everyone was walking up this never-ending massive hill. If I could just go a little faster than them...yep! My plan worked, more kills (passing others) on this run than my last. I was very glad when it was through though.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> With Cassie's exchange our second legs are over. We ran over 40 miles overnight and now finally get a little bit of rest. Katie and Shawn from van 1 have a cabin nearby. We hear heaven calling. We get a little lost which is hard becuse we are SO tired and feel each second before we go run again ticking by. We find the cabin, get some good food in us a shower and a real bed. It has never felt so good! Of course it goes by way to quick, just a little nap and we are headed to the exchange to run our last legs. I am still so tired but as I get ready to run, I can't help but think that this is it...I am almost done, I have almost completed MY Ragnar! </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We get to the exchange and it is HOT! People are saying 105 degrees. I am nervous... The run is flat and my easiest but the heat.... It was hot, I could feel my skin burning and my muscles aching. I could feel each and every step. "Get out of your head and into the music." I kept saying over and over, "you can do this your tough." It was so hot... Some kids would stand out in their driveway and squirt you with the hose, so sweet. I would feel better for a minute then look ahead to see if there were any more kids. Shade..., "just make it to the end of the block there is a tree." my internal monologue trying to find little goals to keep me going. There are ladies with ice cold sponges. As they drench my head I am like "Oh Yay!" Then quickly "Oh Crap!" as my eyes fill with sunblock. Just keep moving.... I am getting really tired, I want to really sleep, really eat and just be done. Then this song Lisanne suggested we download on the trip comes on. "The Fighter" by Gym Class Heroes. At that moment nothing could have been more inspirational. I see the half mile marker, "They'll say that ones a fighter, here comes a fighter!" I am crying to the song and looking for the crowd. Finally I see the shoot, I see Lisanne, I see Kelly, I am done, I made it. I start to sprint. I want to finish with all I have, and I do. Then a I bawl my eyes out and just about die from asthma and heat exhaustion. My year of prep, all the training, the early mornings, the miles, the sweat...MY Ragnar is done, I did it.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was done but the rest of my van still had to run. Hard runs, Ragnar Hill runs. I was really worried for them. It was so hot and we still had alot of running to do.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here we all are! The Run Fu Panda's!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I cannot speak enough wonderful things about each of the people in this picture. You all amaze me. Everytime I think about the whole experience I get teary eyed and just feel SO proud. We Did It!! Wanna do it again?</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tips if you’re considering running a Ragnar:</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Van #1, Van #1, Van #1, if you like to sleep ;)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Don't let fear tell you what you can and can't do.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Am I glad I did it? Absolutely! Will I do it again, ask me next year;)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Love Ya- Amy</span></div>
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