Ellen from Happy Wanderer!!
Please click on the above WINNER! ‘bubble’ to visit her site, and congratulate her.
You only have today and tomorrow to post a comment and get your name entered into the drawing for this lovely tea/coffee pot.
Hello Lovelies. I’m giving away this delicious looking strawberry metal teapot. It is for decorative purposes only. I will be drawing from the names of people who have left me a comment in the month of July. Any comment past or present until 07/31. The drawing will be held the first week of August. You may go back and comment on any posting to qualify.
Good luck to all!
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It’s a name this photo contest. Must have at least ten unique entries. Continental U.S. only. Winner will receive a selection of loose teas.
Contest ends tonight at 9:00p.m. Central Mountain time.
See the time ticker at the top of my website?(the one on the right, the other one is for Tasmania, I’ll explain later) When that says 9 p.m., the contest is over.
Thanks! Have fun!
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Contest ends tonight at 9 p.m. there must be at least 10 unique entries, continental U.S. people only. Winner will receive a selection of tea!
Garden Goose is having a b log give away for Valentine’s Day. For more details, head on over. LINK
All Thing Bright and Beautiful!
I had a contest this week during my cook book expose’. Who ever left a comment on any of last week’s posts, had their name put into a drawing and ATBB won! Woohoo!
Her prize?
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Her choice!
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But it sure is handy in the kitchen/dining room.This is not a cook book and in some ways, it’s a bit better. The Perfect Setting, Peri Wolfman and Charles Gold, is filled with ideas on how to dress a table. Yeah baby! I have been getting more into presentation following exposure to Asian movies about cooking; Dae Jung Geum, and reading Asian cook books; Harumi’s Japanese Cooking.I don’t just want to make tasty food, I want to create a beautiful experience. Do you feel sometimes as I do, that your day can get caught up in rushing around so much so, that every beautiful moment is snatched up and stolen away by the urgent? Well, make a cuppa and put your feet up and learn a little about how to make eating more than a few gulps before you go on to the next task. Let’s make it a beautiful moment in the day.
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Doesn’t the cover look like it has something good to offer inside?
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This book teaches you the names of different utensils and how they are used.
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I have cutlery very similar to this. I don’t care for it, it is too manly for me. It is Tech Hubby’s from before we were married
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Also featured are different types of linens and full examples of place settings in different styles and colors. There are many photos of teapots inside a country kitchen, outside, ready for a breakfast of croissants and tea under the shade of a tree.
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Look, even a paper Alice and her friends are enjoying the perfect setting for an enjoyable meal.
From a simple soup, to a rustic loaf of bread, from appetizers to fancy parties, this book can tell you how to make it look fabulous.
So, after many weeks of being unable to come to home group, our friends made it tonight. Woohoo! I kind of feel sorry for Mr. Music, the husband of my friend, The intercessor, because he is the only extrovert in the room. The three of us are happy to sit there and listen to him which is good for him. He’s one of the few men I know who actually has 20,000 words to use everyday. Really, I’m not kidding. He’s not as bad as the visitor we had in November who, I-kid-you-not, talked for oh between 12-16 hours straight one day. I finally just got up and went to bed and left my husband to deal with him. I couldn’t take it anymore. I wanted to jam knitting needles into my ears.
I won’t lie to you. It has been extremely difficult for me to open up my house to others but, it has also been rewarding. Today was the easiest home group day I’ve had since Tech Hubby and I began last year in September. Yes, it’s taken that long for me to relax and we, so far, are only hosting one other couple besides us, and they are our friends. We love them dearly and I’m thankful God has given us just them for now so I can acclimate.
The only down side to the night was how gassy I got after dinner. You know how on t.v. when an actress gets pregnant but they’ll hide her tummy with a pillow if they don’t write the pregnancy in to the story? Well, the pillow-in-front-of-the-tummy trick works well for hiding the fact that while you’re sitting on the sofa reading the bible and talking with your friends about God, your pants are undone so that the incredibly painful bloating won’t press against your jeans and cut you in half.
Tomorrow, I continue cook book week.
There might be a give away on Friday if you leave a comment on any post -for this week only.
Okay here we go. My first photo naming contest.
This is a photo of Girl Rocket. Yeah, but I’m not the one who named her. My nephew did, she’s his dog. When Rocket was a wobbly puppy falling down every 3rd step, C.A.N. saw her potential and new some day she would run fast, hence, the name Rocket but then realizing she is a girl and Rocket was a bit manly sounding, he added Girl to it and now she is Girl Rocket at the vet, and Brat Face to us. Really. I’ve never met a more bossy dog. Rocket, loves her squeaky toy. She will go insane trying to get it back if you take it, and, as you can see in this picture, she loves to make it squeak, inside her mouth (it amplifies the sound-trust me). Squea-SQUEA-squea-squeak.
So, give this photo a name and win the prize. An Aurora personal size teapot with filter and a baggie of chai tea. Yes, a baggie. I have a huge container of chai tea which will be the source of your baggie of tea.
One entry per person and please, titles only, not long captions. Thanks!
CONTEST ENDS TONIGHT AT 9:00 PM MOUNTAIN TIME
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