Thanksgiving is over

Now that Thanksgiving is over and I must get back to the everyday things. I have a lot to keep me busy. First I must finish some clay projects I have on my table. There are earrings and pins and ornaments. Oh my! Not to mention letters to write and cards to send. My list seems to get bigger each day instead of smaller.
I hope each of you had a great Holiday, and are now back to normal. Well as normal as one can get this time of year. I still have Christmas shopping to do. This year most of my gifts will be handmade but there are a few that I must buy for. Don't know when I will get that done. Today would have been a good day as the stores are having such good sales. But I must do as my checkbook dictates and wait until I have the money. Story of my life it seems. Never in the right place at the right time. If I see a sale I usually don't have the money and when I have the money I can't find any sales. I have a friend who is the best at finding bargains and I have joked with her often that I will just give her my money and list and have her do the work for me. Wouldn't that be grand! No running around , just make my list and wrap things up when they come in...
How do you handle your Christmas shopping. Do you shop online? I try to buy locally as my town is in such need right now.
Well ya'll have a great day.

The this and that week

I have done everything from work on here to bake cookies and peanut butter bread this week. There was a doctors appointment and grocery shopping. I got a pretty good deal on a turkey. so now if we decide to stay here at home we will have one. We have been invited to a couple places but we never know how we are going to feel or now the weather is going to be so I like to make sure all the bases are covered.
I have added a few new pics to my flickr. I made some awesome Guernsey cow earrings for a friend of mine who raises them.I had seen her at fair week and she made the comment that no one ever made Guernsey cow jewelry. So I thought I would give it a try. I think they turned out pretty darn good.
Then I have made some Christmas earrings, I love to wear holiday earrings so I just had to make me some different ones and while I was at it I thought why not make a few more to put on Etsy. I got them put on there the night before last.
I have some Christmas ornaments that I will be adding this afternoon or maybe in the morning. I am running out of the time that I give myself on here so it may well be in the morning. I have been trying to limit myself on here so I can get other things done. I have this habit of getting carried away when I am online. I start out checking out one thing and then that lead me to some where else. Before I now it I have spend half the day on here and my DH will come in and say "dinner is ready, honey". And I think OMG I should have been doing something else, like making dinner or something. Thanks God my DH loves and understands me.
This morning I decided I better do a few things before I get in here. So I made beef broth (to freeze) out of some bones we got with the cow I spoke about earlier, then I made some peanut butter bread. YUMMMMMMMM. Turned out really good. I guess you can tell we like peanut butter. Hehehe. If anyone wants the recipe for the bread you can either leave a comment here or look at Paula Deans website. That is where I got it from.
Well have a lot more to do. Have to skip over to my other blog and put a post on there. So if I don't talk to you before..Have a great week-end.

First Snow of the season

Well, I woke up this morning to snow on the ground and still coming down. Now even though I was born and raised here in Michigan, I really don't care much for snow anymore. I used to love it but as the years go by that love afair is ending. Now the only thing that is nice about snow is that it is real pretty when I am in the house where it is warm and cozy. It is so pretty looking at it in the trees. And the first snow is still special. We don't have much but it is covering the ground and we are to get a little more as the day goes on. So even though I don't really care for it I did thank God for it and is beauty.
I don't think I have mentioned that I have a cute little inside dog that is my little sweetie. I don't think he likes this new change in the weather either as all he wants to do is sit on my lap. Now that would not be so bad but he is a very nosey little thing and has he have his nose in to everything. Have you ever tried to type with a dogs nose on the keyboard. Well it is a challenge. LOL But I wouldn't give him up for the world. He makes me laugh and gives me puppy hugs and kisses all the time. Who could get upset at that?
I am tring to make some Christmas earrings and some cow earrings this morning. Have some ideas runnning around in my head that I have to let out. Hopefully I willl have some posted in my flickr album and in my Etsy shop by tonight or tomorrow.

The other day I send a recipe for Peanut butter oatmeal cookie, did anyone out there make any? How did you like them? Mine are all gone and now I will have to make more. The only problem with that is that it is just my DH and me and we shouldn't be eating that many cookies. Darn!!!!

Check out my other blog I have a few website that you might be interested in looking at.

Have a great day!!!

Peanut butter,oatmeal,choc chip cookies

Isn't it funny where our minds can lead us? While thinking about one thing all of a sudden something else comes to mind. This morning I was looking thru my emails and checking out Christie Friesen's web site, which BTW is a great site with lots of info and eye candy,I got to thinking about peanut butter,oatmeal,choc chip cookies. It got so bad that I had to stop what I was doing and go bake some. Then of course I had to eat a few with my DH. They were great by the way. So good in face that I thought I would put the recipe here so you can make your own.
So here it is.

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1 cup choc chips
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl, cream together shortening, margarine, brown sugar, white sugar, and peanut butter until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in the oats snd choc chips until just combined. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until just light brown. Don't over-bake. Cool and eat.

Now is says you are to get 48 cookies and I never did like those little teaspoon size cookies so I got 30 man size out of my batch. Any way you do them I hope you enjoy.

After having eat my full and storing the rest I decided I better get busy with my Christmas earrings. But first I wanted to write and tell you my recipe. Now I will get in there and finish up with my earrings. They have the cutest little Santa hats and mittens. I will have them in my Etsy store shortly so please go have a look.
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A busy time

This is such a busy time for all of us. Getting ready for the holidays, deer hunting and that last minute canning or freezing. I have been busy with all of that. Last week-end my DH helped a friend butcher a cow. Yes a cow. He was a small one compared to some but it was quite and adventure. We hadn't done that in years, since we lived on a farm, and even then we had someone else come and kill it and dress it out. But they did the whole thing themselves and I must say they did a pretty good job. Considering they didn't have the tools of the trade so to speak. This friend shared some of the meat with us in payment for the work my DH did so we were real busy cutting and wrapping getting it ready for the freezer this week-end. I would guess that we ended up with about 75 lbs of really good beef. We ground our own burger and I can't wait to have one for dinner soon. There is nothing like growing your own and dong all that is needed to get it to the table. You have the feeling of accomplisment that nothing else can compare to.
With all of that out of the way now it is time to get back to doing more Christmas presents, working on this blog and my other one on wordpress. I have a few things that I want to get done, like a lot of baking, and it seems like there just isn't enough time in the day. I have a few of the things in my flickr ablum and hope to add more in the next few days. I also have an Etsy store that I am hoping to add more to shortly.
Also I am hoping to add a few tutes and things to this site but no promises as to how soon that will be. Please put me on your new follow this blog list and I will add you to mine.
Everyone have a good day. See ya soon.

Hello

Hi, I'm glad you came. Some of you might have visited my other site on wordpress. While I like wordpress I thought that I would get better exposure using blogger. There are a lot of my friends on here and you can do so much more. When I started wordpress I had never had a blog before and wasn't sure what I was doing or what I wanted so I decided to try wordpress as it seemed the easiest to learn. I still think it is the best when you are just starting out it gives you the chance to try a few things and kind of ' get your feet wet' so to spell. But after you have blogged for a while and you want to add different things to your site this is the place to be.

Enough said about that. My name is Linda and a love polymer clay. I also knit and crochet alot. I have done and still do other crafts but those are my favs. This site is going to have my thought on all sorts of things, it will mostly be on polymer clay, but I love to talk about all kinds of things. So please come back often and let me know how you feel about my new adventure. I can use all the help I can get. I will not be closing down my wordpress blog but I doubt that I will be doing as much with it as this one will probably be all I can handle. Those of you who have been to my other blog that I am not an organized person so I usually run out of week before I run out of things I want to do.
I love to talk about my family and the way I had wordpress set up it didn't seem right to do that so that is why the name Lindas this n that. I have a great family so you will be hearing some about them. I have one daughter and 2 sons, I also have 2 step sons. My daughter has 2 sons, my oldest son has 1 daughter and 2 sons, and my youngest son has 1 of each. My oldest step son has 2 sons and a granddaughter, and the youngest has 2 sons ,1 daughter and 7 step children. So you see I have a nice size family. And I am sure you will be hearing more about them as time goes by.
I will have pictures of my polymer clay creations and hopefully some tutes. Although I am not good at doing tutes I will try my hand at, at least one. Also my knitting and crocheting. I will have some directions for some things that I like to make.
So please get a cup of coffee or if you prefer tea and sit with me for a while. I hope you enjoy your visit.