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Got the Holiday Blues, Try this idea to get things accomplished!

At 11:00 this morning, I wrote out a list and put the timer on my phone for 20 minutes and see how much I can accomplish before it goes off. 

So far
Eaten breakfast
Took shower
Dressed
Mopped the kitchen floor
Wiped down a kitchen cupboad thats been bugging me
Loaded the dishwasher
Made pumkin bread
Wrote some letters
Took out some trash
Made a Christmas Card
Blogged

I have accomplished a lot for not wanting to do anything today.  It's 1:49

Try this at home or at work.  Get organized.

Christmas time baking extravaganza!!

Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies: 

Ingredients:
1 Cup butter (room Temp) or nuke 15 sec
1 1/2 Cup Sugar, 1 tsp (cap full) Vanilla, 3 eggs, 3 3/4 Cup Flour, Pinch of Salt, 2 tsp Baking powder, 
3/4 tsp baking soda, (Colored Sprinkles and Christmas Music playing in the background). (Drink a Fruit smoothy while baking to get your sweet on.)

Instructions:
In large bowl, beat together butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, and eggs, until light and fluffy. Beat in flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder until well blended. Divide dough into equal portions and wrap in Wax paper and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Roll out and cut cookies. spread out on a greased cookie sheet. Add sprinkles before baking and after cook frosting and add sprinkles. let sit over night with frosting on it in a tupperware and they are heavenly tasty!

Baking time: 350 degrees or (175c) Greased Cookie sheet, Bake 7-9 minutes.

While I'm waiting for the dough to firm up in the refrigerator, Im going to make my pumpkin bread, and other cookies recipes.

Enjoy!

I'll share cookies pictures afterward.  This recipe is from an old Betty Crocker cookbook.

Cards and paper craft from the archive!!

Here are some cute card ideas and other paper crafty ideas.

 Sharing from my archive of card stuff.

 Cool envelope idea.

We broke even at the craft fair. Yea!!

Here are some of the items I was selling.

Craft Fair!! Craft Fair!!! Craft Fair!! Here in Tacoma

TACID

Annual Craft Fair

Tomorrow, Saturday!

October 29, 2016

Where:  on 19th between Mildred & Pearl

next to TCC

Lots of fun gifts for Christmas Stockings!!

Open 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

I'll be there as a Vendor  Hope to see you there!!

August September - Where does the time go....

My silly cat

My grand-daughter

September Puyallup Fair

 September Puyallup Fair

August visiting family in Spokane, taking in some Ocean scene's

Joseph, Lucas and Trinity

Art for July

I've been doing a lot of art stuff lately and posting a lot of my new kitty.  I had to let my doggie go over the rainbow so I have a few art things of here as well.

 pocket letters

 i found some great magazines for collaging

 These are some great watercolor paintings I tried.

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Oh my April is the last time I've posted.  Lots of things have been happening on my new Journey.
I was able to get more hours on my job to help with the house payment.  I got a new kitten whom, I named Groucho Marx!  Here's a cute little picture of him.

He was born April 21, 2016 so he's already 3 mo old.  He will not enjoy the life of Tom Cat after age 6 mo.  But that's the life of Cat's in Tacoma.

I've been doing a Lot of art on the weekends and that's been fun. 

And I've been spending time with my Grand-baby.  You'll have to check my instragram for the photos of my Grand-baby She is adorable.

I just signed up for free layout class with Becky Fleck

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I posted on April Fool's Day - No Joke.

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Pocket letters The new Art!

I've always loved snowmen. And when it snows here in Washington, I am first to run outside and build one. So this is the theme I have chosen for this pocket letter.

I never sent this pocket letter to anyone, because everyone is ready for spring.  :D

Ok, Looks like I have been away from my blog far too long.  I have been trying to straiten up my household, spring clean so-to-speak...  and downsizing.  I have relocated my beloved family refurbished and repaired piano to a good friend of mine's home.  No names mentioned on behalf of confidentiality of my friend.  She is definitely making good use of my piano and it is most happy at its new home.

Here are some pictures of it being repaired.  As you can see, there are six keys that needed to be repaired and 3 ivories that needed replacing.  The Piano is 130 years old.  It has its own tone but still works well.

The First Repair man I called said it would be $250., plus the cost of labor and parts.  So I called another place.

 The second Piano Repair place I called said at first that it was too old disassemble it and trash it.  Imagine my disappointment....But then he changed his turn and quoted me $270.00 + and parts and labor.

They say third time is a charm.  So I called Massy Piano Repair of Puyallup (253) 848-0734.  I spoke with Neil, owner, operator.  I explained the situation to him ... and the first words out of his mouth were, "each replacement of the keys would be about $5 or $6 dollars."  I thought I like the sound of that.  His quoted price was $130 and that included tuning.  I was astonished!! 

And when he came to repair it we looked up the name of the piano and found out that it was 130 years old.  $1 per year.  What a price.  I enjoyed talking with him, and watching him as he repaired each key and replaced the ivories (now plastic).

He said Piano's should be tuned once a year and I asked him if he tuned my sister's, he said he wasn't sure.  But a few weeks later while visiting my sister, I told her about repairing the piano.  She said she was the one who broke it.  She got mad at my brother for yelling at her when she was playing it and slammed her fist onto the keys.  But she got a call from Mr Massy to get her piano tuned.  

My friend didn't pick up the piano for several weeks so I was able to take advantage of playing it and making up silly songs, because I only took one year of piano lessons and they said I was't learning the notes.  I got bored with their teaching and went onto something more fun.

All repaired with new keys and everything.  Get your piano's tuned at Massy Piano Repair of Puyallup (253) 848-0734.

And if you want or need a piano, a lot of people are just giving them away.  Check out craigslist, today I saw two piano's, and 2 organs and a keyboard and they are free.

My friend needed a mover so I called around for that and found The Piano Organ and Moving Company at 253-752-0316, and I spoke with Mike.  He was really neat and said he generally has a lot of referrals through Massy.  So I was confident in this company and my friend ended up using them to move the piano.  And she was pleased as well.

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