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Today's find is fellow EtsyBlogger candycrack. I love the cute charms she uses in making each piece. They have a very vintage feel.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Question: Do you believe in true love? What about love at first sight?
Answer: How can I answer this without being unromantic? Don't get me wrong. I consider myself a real daydreamer. I like writing stories but they are mostly about love being lost.
I think if your lucky you will find love at first sight but it takes time to get to know someone and fall in love with them. I don't think it happens instantly. I don't even write it in my stories.
I think you have to work on true love because I believe true love is being committed to that person, trusting them and consider their failures, your failures and their successes, your success. Anyway, you get what I mean. What do you think?
Write to you guys later!
What's New? Wednesday's will be a new feature on my blog where I present sellers on Etsy who have had less than 10 sales.
Today I found a new shop that features beautiful chainmaille jewelry. If you don't know what chainmaille is, check this lovely piece out:
Sterling silver byzantine bracelet with turquoise - $98.00
Clubs -N- Roses - $30.00I have no particular plans in terms of celebrating St. Partrick's Day but I like join in the Etsy community and post something green!
I found this shop when I was searching on Etsy for shops that haven't had 10 sales yet. The result? Purifiedart's very unique and beautiful shop.
Silver ring with 20mm Green Aventurine Cabochon - $60Q: What was your favorite movie when you were a kid? Is it still your favorite now that you're older?
A: The Little Mermaid. I think we saw it at the movie theaters and then when it went on VHS, I remember begging my mom to buy it. I love it so much, I watched it all the time and I still do.
As always, if you want to answer the Question of the Day at your own blog, feel free! Let me now so I can read your answer! Write to you guys later!
Q: If you could jump in a time machine and travel back to any point in history, where would you go?
A: Without a doubt, 17th century. Some of my favorite artists were active at that time like Johannes Vermeer...
Diego Velasquez...
Including famous classical musicians like Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and Pachelbel. Also, for your information, it was when ice cream was invented! I love me some ice cream!
If you want to answer the Question of the Day at your own blog, feel free. Let me know so I can read you answer! Anyway, write to you guys soon!
Did you know March is National Craft Month? To tell you the truth, I didn't either, I'm ashamed to say. Until I read about this month's topic for the blog carnival, I didn't know.
The fact that National Craft Month exists is very important to me because, for one, I am a crafter. I think it is important to me and to a lot of people that it is recognized and other people who don't craft, realize that just cause we do it for fun doesn't mean it doesn't take a lot of work, because it does.
I'm glad there is a National Craft Month because people will get to see what beautiful items and crafts are out there. We should all go out and buy, buy, buy!
As always, thanks for reading and write to you guys soon!
Woo hoo! That's right, I have made it to 100 posts! And, guess what, I have a special for you! As a thank you for reading my blog, from now until March 31, 2009, you get $1.00 off on anything in my shop! Since my earrings are reduced in price this is a great deal! On top of that, free shipping! Just mention this blog post and take advantage of this! Click the image below to be taken to my shop:
As always, thanks for reading and write to you guys soon!
Today I'm going to share with you a very yummy and a very easy recipe, Napoleon. I made this yesterday and took some pictures. At the end, I have a link for a pdf version if you want to print it out.
Ingredients:
6 squares of puff pastry
1 cup white, granulated sugar
1 cup milk
1 large egg
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 stick butter or margarine
Enough powdered sugar for dusting, about 1/2 cup
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut room temperature puff pastry squares into fours and place on parchment paper on a sheet pan. Bake until they puff and are golden brown. Once they are done, take out and cool completely.
2. For the filling, put all ingredients in a pan on low heat, stirring frequently. Cook until the filling has thickened. Let cool. It will thicken more when it’s cooled completely.
3. Take a cooled square of puff pastry and halve it with a sharp knife. Don’t worry if you don’t cut some perfectly or if some break, keep them. Do this for all of them.
4. Now start filling it with the cooled filling. You have a choice of making it two layered or three layered (pictured above). If you make it three layers, you will have 12 napoleons, more if you do only two layers.
5. If you don’t have extra filling or puff pasty left, skip this step. If you do, read on. After filling it all, if you have a few extra puffs, crush them with your hands to make it like confetti. If you have left over filling, spread a little bit on top of the napoleon and sprinkle the crushed puffs on top.
6. Dust napoleons with powdered sugar right before serving. Can be refrigerated if you want to make it in advance.
Enjoy! If you have any questions, let me know! Click here to download pdf version. Write to you later!
Quite a few things have been going on besides the fact that I get to be the Featured EtsyBlogger. For one, I got featured in a treasury! It's been a very long while since I've been in one. Thank you, bcDesign for including me! If you would like to give it some love, click the picture below.
Also, I sign up for Twitter so if you have Twitter, please follow me and I will definitely follow you! Just click the birdie or you click the feed on the left sidebar. Thanks!
Thanks for reading and Write to you guys later! :D
Here in L.A., the seasons are kind of a mish mash of sorts. Most of the time it's pretty sunny but we do have the occasional rain, which surprises some people. I for one love rain! If we had a definite spring time in L.A., it would be my favorite season because of the rain.
I don't have anything specific planned for the spring but I do hope to get more things in my Etsy shop so be on the look out! :D Write to you guys later!
I'll give you one hint. Her name starts with an N.... yes, that's right, me!! I can't believe it! I'm so excited. This means that for a whole month I will be featured on Street Teams blogs. How great is that?
I smiled when I read this one...
Q:If you could ask your pet any question (and they could answer you), what would it be?
A: I would ask him why he bites people when he's been with us for almost two years. I know he has a very energetic personality and since he's small, he tends to think he's the king of the castle, but I really wish he would stop. That's Micky:
Well, at least for another 4 years.
I'm not that political. I didn't even go vote for him but I'm glad he won. I hope that he runs for governor next. I've been seriously seeing a lot cops on the streets and that's definitely a good thing. He is a very good mayor in my opinion!
Q: You're packing your bag for that other desert island—the one with no electricity—what 5 books do you take with you?
A: 1)Gone With The Wind, 2) Harry Potter, 3) Anything by Jane Austen, 4) Anything by Virginia Woolf, 5) Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales.
(Post 93, woo hoo!)
I got this question from another website and decided to answer it here.
Q: You're packing your bag for that magical desert island that happens to have electricity, a TV, and a DVD player—what five DVDs do you take with you?
A: 1) Mama Mia, 2) Cinderella, 3) Harry Potter, 4) Gilmore Girls, 5) When Harry Met Sally
(92 posts, almost there!)
Wow. I can't believe I'm almost to 100 posts. That's great!
Anyway, how is everyone? I'm doing okay. Getting along. Applying to jobs. Thinking a lot. I was especially thinking about drawing and painting. Lately I've been thinking about taking a painting class. I'm not that great a painter and I still want to paint even though I haven't done it in a while. I think it is something I see myself doing until I'm too old to hold a paintbrush. I still think I have a lot to learn about drawing and painting and art in general. So maybe during the summer I will take an art class.
I've also been writing. As in creative stories. That is also something I want to pursue and can't see my self not doing it. It would be great if someone day I could manage to write a novel but I'm not there yet. I need a lot of time and practice. I read a lot, which helps a lot.
Right now I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula.
It's very good and unlike what I thought it would be. I'm not done with it yet. I'll admit I got into it because of Twilight. But I like the idea of traditional vampires as Bram has in this novel better than the sparkly kind. I guess I'm just a traditionalist. Write to you guys soon...
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