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Crafts, recipes, tips and tricks around the house. In olden days, as far back as 1950 if you can imagine, there would be a great many things that your mother would teach you so that you might one day be a good housewife. A lot of those things have fallen away. Mostly because you no longer NEED to know them, like how to decorate a cake or quilt a blanket. But just because you don’t need to know these things doesn’t mean they aren’t fun to know. Most of the things I’ll be showing you are things that I’ve found helpful in my life or that I just wanted to learn. You can also find links to buy kits for making the crafts you see here or the project already completed. So ENJOY!!!



Tuesday, December 14, 2010

PARTY!

December 9 – Party Prompt: Party. What social gathering rocked your socks off in 2010? Describe the people, music, food, drink, clothes, shenanigans. (Author: Shauna Reid)

In the last few years I have put a total kybosh on birthdays.  I've not felt ethusiastic about getting older and felt no reason to celebrate that fact.  In 2009 I "celebrated" my birthday by working at the Daily Grill in the afternoon and sitting in my apartment that evening.  I thought that it might become something of a tradition.  But I don't know why.  I love parties, I love people and most importantly, I love CAKE.  So why wouldn't I want all these things to happen at the same place at the same time?  This year, my wonderful friend JohnRobert gave me a birthday party.  Julie's Crafty Birthday.  It had a theme and everything.  The idea was that if you wanted to bring me a gift you it would be something you made yourself.  I got some great stuff and the best part was that my dear friends gave me the thing most precious, time.  It makes a girl feel so loved.

Before the party I had to work.  My boss bought me salmon for lunch and sent me home with a full belly smile.  When I got home from work there were flowers on my porch from this guy I know and a gift.  My party was going to start at 10pm so beforehand some of my friends met me at Muse Cafe to hear me say some jokes.  They gave me pity birthday laughs and treated me like a super star.  Then it was off to the bar where these greaties made me feel like the most popular girl in school.  It was so nice to have so many people that I care so much about there to let me know that they were really glad that I decided to push my way out of good ole' Joanie's body that July day so many years ago.  Drinking and hugs and talking and floating around the bar just feeling like 1 million dollars.  It was one of the best days of 2010.  It's nice to have these times to remind us that we aren't alone that all the people we are cheering on are also right there behind us.  SO GREAT!!  Here are some pictures.

 The aforementioned flowers.  So beautiful.
 Candles and Cake.  Who thought of such a wonderful thing?
 SMDGers 
 Terrible drink.  Rachel hasn't tried hers yet.
 Julie and Dawn (with Dion lurking in the background)
 Larisa and Julie (with Dion lurking in the background--again)
More Cake!!  BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!
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