The Winner of the Gingher Ella give-a-way for Caylee and other stuff

First, I want to thank each of you for participating in the give-a-way. I do this from time to time in order to pay if forward to the sweetest stitching friends all over the world.

 Way back, when the Caylee Anthony case was going to trial, I thought how ironic that her birthday was August 6th and she would have been 6. How ironic that her birthday is 10 days different from a child I lost, Aaron, who this year (can't believe it) would have been 26 years old. So much in the news about Casey and not many focusing on Caylee. Nothing will bring Caylee back but I hope that she will be remembered every year on her birthday by those who remember and loved her. In rememberence this year of her, I drew the winner of the 195 comments left on the July 6th posting!

The winner is Loraine from Utah!!!!  She also has a beautiful  blog to enjoy as well.

Yep, I had to look twice when I put in the numbers through the Random Computer Generator as it picked number 195, the last person. Most of the time hardly ever does it pick first or last numbers, so Loraine enjoy and send me your email so I can get your snail mail address. Congrads!

Tonight I finally cooked after a long time of eating whatever. I decided and thankfully had the ingredients perfect for a pumpkin pie. If anything, it made the place smell pretty good while it was cooking and there for a minute, I turned up the AC and pretended it was Fall :O

The crust may look weird. I usually use the frozen kind but instead I tried the rolled up Pillsbury ones and the only pie pan I had was perfect for it. I crimped the edges in any kind of way and poured in a mixture of:

Pumpkin , 15 oz can

2 eggs

1 tablespoon of Pumpkin Pie Spice

1 tablespoon of cinnamon (optional, I love cinnamon)

1--14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk

and a slow handheld mixer from Walmart that has only one speed---High--spattered remains on the refrigerator afterward but doggone good.

Combine all from what was not spattered on the refrigerator during mixing at high speed into a pie crust and cook at 425 for, I don't know, I just watch it. Probably about 30 minutes.

I almost cooked it too long but still was really good. Just missed the cool whip or ice cream part!

Hope your weekend went well. Mine was full of reading and watching a couple of free movies.

 With the exception of a LDS prophet at the doorstep banging on it to convert me to this religion, it was pretty quiet. It didn't set well with me as I had just watched the news about Warren Jeff and pedophiles are one of my pet peeves. No, I didn't answer the door.

 Everybody has their own religion, but by age 48 I think I'm comfortable with mine and I hope the brave man does not come back or Annie Oakley will show her belief system at the door, pamphlet or no pamphlet this time. ;)

 Keep calm and carry on......

Jennifer

Always Hope for Breast Cancer survivors---freebie

The past two weeks have been more than stressful. For a while there, I thought I would never get my creative block induced by it, back again. I've picked up the needle for a few stitches in a small LHN project but not enough to show. I've been quite busy trying to get some things in some kind of non-chaos mode, if that is possible. I want to thank each of you who wrote encouraging comments. Each one was read with great thankfulness. Sometimes, I have to jump start my creative block by designing something brand new. Something that you too may find helpful and can apply it to your own life.

I actually designed this last year and the year has rolled back so fast, filled with just surviving in this economy.

I hope you can use it and accept it as a token of thankfulness from my heart.

October is not far away and Breast Cancer Awareness month is always close to my heart so this design was quite easy last year to add to my portfolio. I have not stitched it myself but would like to.

Always Hope

designed by Feathers in the Nest

copyright 2011

linen of choices

pink, green and gold threads of choice.

This will probably be the fresh start I need.

Enjoy!

P.S. There are 2 days left for the Gingher scissor giveaway for memory of Caylee Marie Anthony's birthday, August 6th.

If interested in these beautiful scissors sitting on my desk, still in unopened package, just enter as a follower on the July 6th posting, for a random draw on August 7th.

till later God Bless each and every one of you,

Jennifer