It's winter. AGAIN??!

So, this morning it snowed for the first time this season in Dayton. This means all the idiots got the secret moron signal and immediately jumped into their cars before the roads could be salted. The traffic reports were grim.

This morning I broke into Winter in the usual way, kicked off by me stepping into the snow with suede slippers on and cursing.

The rearing of Dayton's ugly winter head means 20 minutes bundling the children every time I decide to walk out of the house. If I dare let them leave their coats in the car before dashing into the mall, I'll get at least 16 dirty looks from other parents in the parking lot before hitting the department store doors. They never once offer to carry my children's coats around the mall for a few hours, though. Whatever happened to coat checks?

On the upside, I really love holiday tunes, and the local station is belting them out non-stop. It's the MOST wonderful time of the year.


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Make Halloween Jewelry

The shapes and colors of Halloween are hard to resist in jewelry form. Learn how to create creepy spiders, cutesy ghosts and more with these complete photo tutorials.

• Halloween Jewelry Projects
  

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Review of Kings Island Halloween Haunt and RIP Tour

Just now getting around to publishing a review of the Halloween Haunt and RIP Tour over at Kings Island this season.

Kings Island Halloween Haunt 2009 Review

RIP Tour Review




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R.I.P. Kodak Easyshare

My camera died today. I'm sad. How's that for a blog post?



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Fireworks Photos... Finally.

Click photos to enlarge...Which one is your favorite?

Captain Crunch:



Tentacles:


Autographed Hairball:


Jaws:

Weeping Willow:

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Plarn: Plastic Yarn

Granny Square Plarn

This weekend I recycled 50 plastic bags with my bare hands. I made them into bracelets, wristbands and of course...back into bags!

This was made possible because I had whipped up some 'plarn', or 'plastic bag yarn'. Plarn is made by shredding plastic bags into strips that are easily joined to create an entire ball of recycled material ready for crochet and knit projects.

• Plarn Creations and Instructions
  

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Sushi Night

I love making sushi for my family!

I made inarizushi no moto (tofu pouches) and put tuna in a few because I had some tuna left over.

The floret looking things are kind of an open-faced onigiri with tuna and whipped creamed cheese that had chives.

The smallish rolls have tuna, celery and whipped chive creamed cheese. The larger ones have fresh green beans from my garden and double layers of tuna.

Yum.



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