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Strawberry Bread

May 162013

Strawberry Bread

When I make this bread it gets really quiet around my house. That means I make it often! Quiet around this place is SACRED! Usually there is a dull roar. But a roar none-the-less. And at times it is louder around here than a rock concert. So if I make something where everyone just sits around savoring the goodness and doesn’t say a word, I am going to make it often and just enjoy the silence that comes with it.

When I bake this bread it makes 3 loaves…1 large, 2 smaller. And those 3 loaves never last more than an hour.

Seriously, it is just that good.

You have to go make it now…and when it comes out of the oven and you cut into it, just sit back and listen. Listen to the silence. I will sit here and wait for the thanks…

ingredients for strawberry bread

To make this wonderful bread you are going to need self-rising flour, sugar, ground cinnamon, eggs, oil, and strawberries.

I am using frozen strawberries but you can use fresh and it will still work just fine.

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Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl.

Mix all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl.

Then mix the two bowls together.

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Grease and Flour your pans, pour the mix in and bake.

It is that easy! Even your kids could make this…perfect for Mother’s Day!

Strawberry Bread

3 cups self-rising flour

2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

10 ounces of frozen sliced strawberries, thawed (or 1 1/2 cups fresh sliced strawberries)

Mix the flour, sugar and cinnamon together in a LARGE bowl. Then mix the eggs, oil and strawberries together in a separate bowl. Combine the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients, stirring until mixed well. Grease and flour 2 large or 3 small loaf pans. Pour batter into pans until they are half full. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

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OhMyStinkinHeck, it’s Bacon and Cheese Waffles!

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May 082013

Bacon and Cheese Waffles

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I just LOVE it! And of course when you mention bacon, you have me right where you want me! Bacon, Bacon, Bacon. And then add in waffles…OhMyStinkinHeck! I am THERE! Seriously though, these Bacon and Cheese Waffles are delicious any day of the week, but with Mother’s Day here upon us, these are perfect for the kids to serve to Mom in bed…and she is going to be VERY impressed!

ingredients for bacon and cheese waffles

Gather up the ingredients. You will need flour, milk, butter, cheese, bacon and eggs.

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Heat up the waffle iron, pour some batter on and get ready to be amazed!

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Look at those bits of bacon and cheese. Ohhhhh, I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to dig in!

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We just need to take a minute to mix up some maple butter…

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and slather it on top…and we are ready to eat!!

Bacon and Cheese Waffles

2 1/3 cups self-rising flour

1 3/4 cups milk

3 eggs

1/4 cup butter, softened

8 slices of bacon, cooked, crumbled

1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Preheat waffle iron. In a large bowl mix the milk, eggs, butter together, then add in flour, mixing well. Once mixed, stir in the bacon pieces and cheese. Pour about 1 cup of the batter onto the center of the waffle iron and bake for approx. 5-8 minutes. Serve warm with maple butter (recipe below)

Maple Butter

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup maple syrup

Beat the butter and maple syrup together until well blended.

Mom’s Day, Mariah Carey and a Giveaway

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May 132012

It’s Mother’s Day!!!

A time to celebrate that special woman that brought you into this world or the children that made you the Mom that you are.

In celebration of this special day I want to tell you about a great new CD set, a perfume and a giveaway!!!

As a Mom herself Mariah Carey knows what a special gift being a Mother is. It is a gift that last Forever. AND, She has recently released a brand new 2 CD greatest hits collection from Mariah Carey, The Essential Mariah Carey. This set is chockfull of all of her hits including 14 #1 hits!

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THE ESSENTIAL MARIAH CAREY CELEBRATES

HER FIRST DECADE ON COLUMBIA, 1990-1999

28-TRACK, 2-CD COLLECTION CONTAINS 14 #1 HOT 100 HITS,

PLUS RARE REMIXES AND SELECTED ALBUM TRACKS

“Vision Of Love,” “Love Takes Time,” “I Don’t Wanna Cry,” “I’ll Be There” (featuring Trey Lorenz), “Dreamlover,” “Hero,” “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day” (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men) “Always Be My Baby,” “Honey,” “My All,” “Heartbreaker” (featuring Jay-Z), “Thank God I Found You” (featuring Joe & 98º), and much more!

Mariah Carey’s first decade of record-setting hit singles, remixes and fan-favorite album tracks are collected on THE ESSENTIAL MARIAH CAREY. The 28 tracks on this double CD laid the foundation for five-time Grammy Award®-winner Mariah’s reign as the top-selling female recording artist in history with over 200 million albums, singles and videos sold worldwide.

THE ESSENTIAL MARIAH CAREY , which is an update of 2001’s Greatest Hits with four different tracks, will be available everywhere starting May 8^th through Columbia Records, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

“I wanted to create a collection of some of my favorite songs,” explains Mariah. “Several of them are very big hits and some are more obscure favorites of mine as well as fan faves.”

At the core of this set is the extraordinary run of early RIAA gold, platinum and multi-platinum Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit singles that kept her phenomenal vocal artistry at the forefront of pop music consciousness for that first decade. Fourteen of those chart-toppers are included here:

1990: “Vision Of Love,” “Love Takes Time”
1991: “I Don’t Wanna Cry,” “Emotions” (included here in its 12-Inch Club Mix)
1992: “I’ll Be There” (featuring Trey Lorenz)
1993: “Dreamlover,” “Hero”
1995: “Fantasy,” “One Sweet Day” (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men)
1996: “Always Be My Baby”
1997: “Honey”
1998: “My All”
1999: “Heartbreaker” (featuring Jay-Z); “Thank God I Found You” (featuring Joe & 98º)

Mariah Carey completists will appreciate that this ESSENTIAL contains four tracks newly chosen by Mariah herself for the occasion:

“Vanishing,” Mariah’s debut as a producer, from her self-titled debut album of 1990
“Close My Eyes,” a confessional track from the Butterfly album, evoking her new freedom as a single woman in 1997;
“The Roof (Mobb Deep Extended Version),” also from Butterfly, Mariah’s first track with the songwriting-production duo Poke & Tone, aka the Trackmasters (Jean Claude Oliver and Samuel Barnes);
“Bliss,” from her next album, 1998’s Rainbow, one of six tracks on that album that were co-written and co-produced by Mariah with the Flyte Tyme Productions team of Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Big Jim Wright.

In addition, Mariah has included two rare alternate remixes on this ESSENTIAL collection, both on disc one. “Emotions (12-inch Club Mix),” from 1991, the title track of Mariah’s second studio album, is a remix of her record-setting fifth consecutive #1 hit single. “Anytime You Need A Friend (C + C Club Remix),” from her third studio album, 1993’s Music Box, was remixed by her friends Robert Clivillés and David Cole of fellow Columbia Records group C + C Music Factory, who played such a crucial role as writers and producers on Mariah’s early studio albums.

Mariah Carey’s Cinderella storybook signing to Columbia Records in 1990 is entwined with the magic of that decade. At the very outset, she accomplished what no other pop artist had done in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, sending her first five consecutive singles to the #1 spot. Indeed, eight of her first ten singles hit the #1 spot between 1990 and 1993, and the decade would see Mariah place 15 hits at the top of the Hot 100 through 1999.

In 2005, Mariah earned her 17^th #1 career single (“Don’t Forget About Us”), tying one of the most enduring chart records in Hot 100 history, Elvis Presley’s 17 #1’s. Three years later, Mariah surpassed Elvis with her 18^th #1 Hot 100 hit (“Touch My Body”). Mariah is currently positioned as the only active recording artist in the 54 years of the Hot 100 (which began in 1958) with the potential to surpass the Beatles’ all-time high of 20 #1 hits.

THE ESSENTIAL MARIAH CAREY

(Columbia 88691 96808 2)

Disc One – Selections: 1. Vision Of Love • 2. Love Takes Time • 3. Vanishing • 4. I Don’t Wanna Cry • 5. Emotions (12-inch Mix) • 6. Can’t Let Go • 7. Make It Happen • 8. I’ll Be There (featuring Trey Lorenz) • 9. Dreamlover • 10. Hero • 11. Without You • 12. Anytime You Need A Friend (C + C Club Remix) • 13. Endless Love (duet with Luther Vandross) • 14. Fantasy.

Disc Two – Selections: 1. One Sweet Day (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men) • 2. Always Be My Baby • 3. Underneath The Stars • 4. Honey • 5. Butterfly • 6. My All • 7. Close My Eyes • 8. The Roof (Mobb Deep Extended Version) • 9. When You Believe (from The Prince Of Egypt) (Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston) • 10. I Still Believe • 11. Heartbreaker (featuring Jay-Z) • 12. Bliss • 13. Thank God I Found You (featuring Joe & 98 Degrees) • 14. Can’t Take That Away (Mariah’s Theme).

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To celebrate this release we are offering a prize pack of this new album + an autographed CD booklet and a bottle of Mariah’s Forever fragrance. Just in time for Mother’s Day!

TO ENTER: Simply leave a comment on this post stating who your favorite Mom is. Is it your Mother? Grandmother? Your best friends Mom? Or Yourself? All entries must be received by May 15th at 11:59 PM EST. All entries must have a valid US mailing address. Winner will be selected randomly and will have 3 days to respond to the verification e-mail or another winner will be chosen.

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Whisper Wing Studio (GIVEAWAY)

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Apr 152009

THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED!!!

Hi, my name is Julie Crudo-Stroud and I live in Senoia, GA with my husband, Paul and 14-year old Yellow Lab, Amos. I am a jewelry artist. I love working with metals and gemstones. I specialize in one-of-a-kind or few-of-a-kind and custom-made handcrafted jewelry.

My love of jewelry goes way back to my childhood. I came from a from a family that wore it and gave it away as gifts. I became an early trained girly-girly who loved jewelry. One of my fondest memories is playing in my Grandmother’s and mother’s jewelry box.

My jewelry making days started early too! My mother recently presented me with a brooch and a tie tack that I made for my parents when I was in the Brownies (Girl Scouts). Now granted it was only gluing little stones in the metal, but it was a beginning. In my early teens, I made chokers and ankle bracelets with a needle and thread, a hook and eye, and plain but colorful glass beads that came in tubes from the “Five and Dime”.

Fast forward to the 1990′s in Atlanta. I saw a bead store. I thought to myself “how cool”. I thought about it and brought a couple of necklaces with me to have redesigned but the woman at the counter convinced me that I could do it myself. So it began, a rekindling of an old love. Over the years, I’ve given my jewelry as gifts to family and friends and at their beckoning, I started selling, doing craft shows and now most recently, my Etsy shop. The beads gave way to taking classes in bead embroidery, bead weaving, wire wrapping, then Silversmithing classes and then a 3-month formalized jeweler’s program.

I use only quality materials in my work: gemstones, glass, crystals and precious metals to creatively design jewelry.

I feel that jewelry is a very personal expression and like fine art -it speaks to you. Not only is jewelry a body adornment but it reflects “you” in many ways, i.e., symbols, colors, memories, and healing. My creations are lasting, distinctive treasures for you to enjoy for many years to come.

I am a 2-year Breast Cancer Survivor – a percentage of my proceeds go to the American Cancer Society and while I’ve been doing jewelry all along, I found it to be very therapeutic for me. I found I was also inspired while I made my pieces which helped me to keep my sanity and helped with my healing process.

What is amazing though is that I found the name of my studio during this time. I have always loved angels – the night before I got the results of my biopsy a dear friend presented me with a Sterling Silver angel wing that she bought for me on eBay – she told the vendor that she wanted 2 – one for me and for her – and she told her that if she didn’t have 2 she didn’t want to buy them. Well, when she received them – they were left and right wings – not 2 left and not 2 right – one for me and one for her…her husband said that this was amazing because with a matching pair of wings we could lift each other up – with one wing, angels couldn’t fly. So this wing became something for me to focus on when I prayed or when I was scared or upset – touching it would bring me peace.

The morning of my surgery, I was sitting in my little cubicle waiting for my husband and daughter to be allowed to come in to see me off. I could feel the anxiety building so I was doing some heavy praying and trying to regulate my breathing. All of a sudden, on the wall across from my bed I saw 3 images what looked like wings and it looked like light coming through a blind. I was baffled because there were no windows in the room. I asked the nurse if I could go to the bathroom since I was already hooked up to some of the intravenous so I could double check to see where this light source could be coming from. There wasn’t anything that was causing a reflection. When I got back to my bed, I was sitting there kind of mumbling to myself when my husband, daughter, and minister came in. I told them what I had seen and told them that this was sign that everything was going to be alright.

When I thought about a new name for my business and Etsy Shop “Whisper Wing Studio” immediately came to my mind…divinely inspired! And today, although I am happy and healthy the wings continue to whisper to me through my work and the people that I meet.

Julie at Whisper Wing Studio has offered to give one lucky reader a pair of her gorgeous handcrafted earrings…just in time for Mother’s Day! Whose Mother wouldn’t love to receive these? Or a perfect Mother’s Day gift for yourself!

This gorgeous combination of gemstones really reminds me of the tropical sea…beautiful faceted Amazonite rectangles and domed freshwater pearls dangle with a tiny accent glass bead the same color as the Amazonite from shiny sterling silver handmade wire earrings. They measure 1-1/2 inches in length.To enter:

Visit Whisper Wing Studios and leave a comment here at The Post-It Place stating which is your favorite piece. All entries must be received by April 22nd at 5 PM EST. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will have 3 days to respond to the confirmation e-mail before another winner will be selected. Have fun and Good Luck!

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