Good News is a Good Thing

Hey everyone,

Chrissy posted a comment to the post below saying her report came back cancer-free, and she is on the mend! Wanted to make sure everyone saw that.

We are overjoyed Chrissy, and yes, our prayers were answered. Get better soon, and we love you!

November Good Things

Ok everyone, I don't have a beautiful picture to post for the November Good Things but I do have some fun things planned. Nola gave me a magazine page with fun things to make out of candy canes and gumdrops and such and I showed you some things last planning meeting, so come prepared to glue and make something festive for the holidays. I'll probably have a minimal fee of a few dollars depending on which projects you choose to do. There are adorable candy candlesticks, gumdrop wreaths and trees made of candy canes.

What can you bring? Thanks for asking: Please bring your glue gun and some glue sticks. Please also bring a box (or cookie sheet) and tissue to carry home your delicate projects so they don't break. Bring your candle sticks (optional) if you'd like to make some fun candy candles. I think they will do best being assembled on the candle stick that night. Bring some thin red or green ribbon (optional) if you really want to be different and some thick red ribbon (optional) if you want to make the gumdrop wreath. I'll bring these things if you don't but I know some of you like to be individuals. Depending on how fast you are you may even get a couple of projects done that night so come to Carolyns house at 7 pm where we can sip some cider and get in the festive mood. Hope to see you there. Lori

Gosh, I sure hope the stores start putting out the candy canes soon. (I can't believe I just said that~!!!)

Apple Cake Recipe

Here is a copy of the Apple Cake Recipe:
4 cups raw apples peeled and shredded or cup up finely
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp soda
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups nuts.
Raisins are optional
Mix sugar, oil and eggs. Add apples. Mix well. Add dry
ingredients. Mix well. Add nuts and raisins if desired.
Bake in 9x13 pan for 45 minutes at 350.
I served with Cool Whip or whipped cream and
drizzled with caramel ice cream topping. Enjoy.

It was great seeing those who could make our meeting and I enjoyed meeting Janice. The projects were fun. Thank you Cindy for all your hard work. We missed you Tammi and Cheri. I am looking forward to next time already. Lori we hope you are much better by now.

More felt!

Carey's soaps look good - here's a photo of my candy-corn soap and the gift card holder we made. Jean, I'll get you the pattern, I didn't forget you. In fact, I may try to upload it somehow. Let me work on that, then Cheri and Tammi can have it too. It's pretty much a triangle.

Anyway, we also made cute little flowers from a posting I saw on whipup.net. Look here for the post and template. I really recommend looking at the site, lots of cute things. Tracy and Carey made their flowers out of purple, and put french knots on it and made it look like a violet. So cute.

We had a fun evening, sorry to miss Cheri and Tammi. I was glad you all got to meet Janice! She is a one woman fiber expert!

Boy, that FELT good!

Thanks, Janice, for teaching us how to felt! Good clean fun with friends new and old is always needed. Thanks, Cindy, for some fun projects and NolaMom, for "FALLing" for the holiday the way you did, with all those pumpkins everywhere! What a treat!

We missed those who had family stuff, smoke alarms, stuck husbands and the like. We really "felt" for you... OK girls, all puns aside, let's remember to pray for Lori's surgery today, and Chrissy's on the 20th.

And, here's my soap!