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Martha vs Wise Woman

Wednesday, 19. August 2009, 23:31:39

pendants, Martha, necklace, beads i view by pat ...

Welcome! Hola! Guten Tag!
Here's my thought...

Did you ever wonder about all of the kitchen hints spewed by so called experts? I have. What do you really think of them as far as their true value is concerned? I came across this bit of information from a friend down in Tucson. Thanks, Dennis.

Who's opinion would be most helpful to you?

Martha vs Wise Woman

Martha: Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of an ice cream cone to prevent ice cream drips.

Wise Woman: Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for Pete's sake! You are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway!

Martha: To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.

Wise Woman :Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix. Keeps in the pantry for up to a year.

Martha: When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.

Wise Woman: Go to the bakery! Hell, they'll even decorate it for you!

Martha: If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the excess salt for an instant 'fix-me-up.'

Wise Woman: If you over-salt a dish while you are cooking, that's too bad. Please recite with me the real woman's motto: 'I made it, you will eat it and I don't care how bad it tastes!'

Martha: Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.

Wise Woman: Celery? Never heard of it!

Martha: Cure for headaches: take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.

Wise Woman: Take a lime, mix it with tequila, chill and drink! All your pains go away!

Martha: Don't throw out all that leftover wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.

Wise Woman: Leftover wine??????????? HELLO!!!!!!!

Jewelry pictures Copyright Beads I View by Pat 2009

Respectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat
The jewelry pictured is of bead woven designs using various stitching techniques with a theme of blue, turquoise and white colors. I design earrings as well as pendants in similar styles. The ear hooks are of sterling silver which is an attractive as well as durable metal. These and many more styles of jewelry and other handmade wearables can be found on my earring and necklace categories located at my web site store at Beads I View by Pat - online store.

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Brain exercise!!

Monday, 3. August 2009, 22:41:53

exercise, beads i view by pat, chapstick bracelets, Swarovski crystals ...

Welcome! Ole! Guten Tag!
Here's my thought...

By now you may have guessed that I love to learn. When I came across the following, thanks Zoe, how could I resist. I thought of you, right away and wanted to share it.

This is a quiz for people who know everything !!! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. No cheating! If you get the answer wrong, you'll probably remember it even longer. Use the information at a party to impress you friends with your knowledge. That could be another post. Useless Factoids... should I do that one next? In the mean time, no grades are given for your answers, although you might want to come back later and see how many of the answers you remember.
This is just for fun!

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1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward ???

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables ???

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside ???

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle ???

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them ??? (ah, come on, no looking at your keyboard)

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S'.

Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving backwards. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons ... Asparagus and Rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside ... Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle ??? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear=2 0buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw. dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh. Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S'. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Please feel free to drag your friends by to check it out and compare your results to theirs, if you want to.

Pictured are of handmade bracelets from Beads I View by Pat found in my bracelet/anklet category pages. I love to make bracelets that are lightweight and fun to wear. The first is a Swarovski crystal bracelet/anklet in deep siam red and crystal ab beads on stretch material, the next is a hex style woven stretch bracelet using faceted shiny brown/bronze beads, and lastly one of my favorite spiral rope style beaded bracelets in a beautiful capri blue color.

Respectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat - store

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Dedication, education, TIME!

Sunday, 28. June 2009, 02:26:18

reading, learning, family, bookworm ...

I've dedicated the last 3 days to further education in my choice of crafts and in beading in general. There's really so much more that I could be doing, and I want to know much more. I have been designing and creating beaded jewelry and crafted beadwork for over 8 years. I have only taken a very few hours of formal lessons here and there. I have learned mostly from books and from seeing, and listening to what people like. I guess I am a sort of interpreter. I translate or interpret what is said or how a person reacts to something that I make. I think that's why not 2 of my created items are exactly alike.
I've approached this education by reading some of the beading books which I've had around for some time but have previously used to look up one certain thing. I decided to take a more thorough approach this time. I set my sights on some of the sections in which I thought I would not be interested. So, in my pursuits, I think I've picked up at least 4 or 5 more thing to try, including a couple of new bead weaving stitches.

Beaded Ornament Ball

Now, to find time to actually do them. The family is coming into town the week after next. there's a new place that I have been considering setting up a satellite store to my existing web store, Beads I View by Pat, and they are having a grand opening sometime next week, I have to keep up with any orders that come in, including updating my store site and my books, and it's the end of the month and reporting must be do, books updated, etc. etc, etc... oh, and the house needs a really good once over (and child proofing) for the visitors. I also bought a water bed, with drawers underneath that I'm going to turn into a chest of drawers for my "beadroom". Pictures later. I want to keep up my blogging. It's fun, too!

Turquoise and Swarovski crystal necklace

Well I'd better get started.

But first, this:
An Antartian boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
The boy asked his father, "What is this, Father?" The father [never having seen an elevator] responded "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is."
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The father said to his son, "Go get your mother."

Repectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat - store

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