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But are they recyclable?…..

Yes, I have saved them for years….in a closet….hundreds of them….feeling too guilty to throw them away…and yes, I have used them for hundreds of craft projects. I have used them for building blocks. I have used them for everything I can think of….I am tired of them sitting in my closet…..I want to be rid of them. I need to know if they are recyclable??? I feel too guilty throwing them all away…so I just keep adding more and more. I sew A LOT, therefore I have a lot of empty thread spools!! I have tried to email Gutermann and Coats & Clark…but I never get a reply….

Does anyone out there know if plastic sewing spools are recyclable?? Help!!

UPDATE: I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM COATS & CLARK…THEIR PLASTIC SEWING SPOOLS ARE #5…..WELL..SO, THEY ARE RECYCLABLE…THOUGH MY TOWN DOESN’T RECYCLE #5..SO I HAVE TO SEND THEM OFF TO SOMEWHERE THAT DOES……I’ll keep ya posted…

Dog Cookies…….

Basic Dog Treat Recipe

2 cups whole wheat flour

½ cup cornmeal

2/3 cup veggie broth

6 tablespoons vegetable oil

Optional: wheat germ, egg, molasses, honey, peanut butter….add more veggie broth as needed

1. Mix all ingredients together.

2. Drop onto greased cookie sheet using spoon

3. Bake 350 F for 10-12 minutes.

Okay, these don’t LOOK pretty..but the dogs LOVE them….and they are EASY!

Did I mention that the dogs LOVE them….

Don’t forget to go over to Loves Jurn3 to enter the giveaway for a free custom woolie!

Another review/giveaway….

Hi everybody…exciting news….Tricia over at Loves Jurn3 just put up a review/giveaway of my woolies. Go on over to her site to check it out….and then enter it as many times as you like…for a free custom woolie made by me!! Good luck!!

Nostalgia…..and brown sugar cookies

Nostalgia….longing for something past….do you ever get that feeling……longing for the past? I guess with all that snow I got that feeling…I hadn’t made my grandmother’s brown sugar cookies in a long time…and I finally made them…..after playing all day in the snow….

Growing up, my grandmother’s brown sugar cookies were my favorite. My grandmother only made three types of cookies…chocolate chip, vanilla and brown sugar. Whenever she made cookies she would put them in her cookie tins and they would be in her dining room…waiting for you….as you came into her house. Well….I actually have my grandmother’s dining room furniture and I have her cookie tins…..I love those cookie tins…my grandfather made them….they are a set of four…they are one of my most treasured items. Unfortunately, the cookie tin is already almost empty! But here is the recipe. It is a very simple recipe, but delicious…

Nana’s Brown Sugar Cookies

¾ cup brown sugar

¾ cup butter

1 egg

2 cups sifted flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

Cream together brown sugar and butter. Add beaten egg. Add rest of ingredients. Add walnuts if desired. Roll into balls and place on greased cookie sheet. Use fork to create criss cross design on each cookie.

Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 10 minutes.

Yields approximately 3 dozen cookies.

Recycled Chunky Crayons…Part Two……

Well..It is a blizzard out…or so they tell me….so we decided to work on Quinn’s Valentine Day cards…..He wanted a star mold..not hearts (too girlie)…..and the only mold I could find had six stars….so we had to do it four times…in hindsight..I should have bought two molds..but I figured how often am I really going to use these molds…….

I think I lost count of how many crayons we took off the paper…I wonder if Crayola sells “unwrapped” crayons for craft projects like this…..I will have to check into that…..I would say each mold took about 3 crayons…and we did 24 molds….that’s only 72 crayons..it SEEMED like a lot more….(I like all the icicles in the windows in the background….)

Well…..then after doing all the lovely star crayons…..Quinn then had to make the actual cards…..we stuck the crayons onto the cards using two sided foam tape……they turned out great……now back to this blizzard…..

Craft Hope…

Okay…I am not a knitter and I am not a crocheter……that is for sure! But I am almost done my red scarf for Craft Hope’s latest project. The scarf has to be at least 60 inches long and it is due by February 14th…so I must mail it by Thursday! I have been working on this one scarf for about 3 weeks. I must finish it. I don’t think I will ever make another again….though never say never…this is something I have definitely learned in life! Wish me luck!

Oh..and it is the last day to enter for the custom woolie giveaway…..check it out…..at the Etsy Cloth Diaper Team blog.

Beautiful Snow….

Over the weekend we had lots and lots of gorgeous snow! My children love to eat the snow…they would eat and eat and eat it all day…if I let them.

It was almost too much snow…..River had a hard time walking through it…she stayed out for over 2 hours…she loved it so much. I think she would have stayed out longer.

The dogs weren’t too happy about it. I tried to get them to play in the snow…but they didn’t want much to do with it..until I dug a path for them.

Don’t forget to go on over to the Etsy Cloth Diaper Team blog….enter to win a custom made woolie……custom made by me!!!

Thoughts of Spring…..

A kid can dream….can’t they?????

Don’t forget about the giveaway going on over at the Etsy Cloth Diaper Team blog….enter to win a custom made woolie……custom made by me!!!

First Review/Giveaway starts tomorrow….

I’ve been working like crazy to stock up my Etsy shop. Tomorrow, the first review/giveaway starts!! Above is just a preview of what you will find in my shop….starting tomorrow morning!

The first one is sponsored by The Etsy Cloth Diaper Team. They are starting a new series called “Fluff-a-rump on hump day!” Every Wednesday in February a team shop will be featured, introducing themselves and giving some background on their shop. Along with their feature, the shop will be offering an item for a giveaway! The blog giveaway winner will be announced the following Wednesday.

My giveaway starts tomorrow, February 2nd! So, check it out for your chance to win a custom woolie.

Also, I just added Google Friend Finder to my blog……feel free to check it out and sign up to follow my blog!

Recycled Chunky Crayons…

So, I saw this great project for recycled chunky crayons from the makesandtakes website. I decided we just had to do it. It looked like a lot of fun. So, first I had to go out and buy some candy molds..since I didn’t have any. We found some fun ones.

Next, we had to start breaking up the crayons. I thought we had a million broken crayons without the paper…but I was surpised how quickly we ran out of them. So, I had to start taking the paper off all the crayons…and that was not fun! It got tough..some of the paper was almost glued on the crayons!

I had to break out a knife and start cutting the paper off!

But River had a great time breaking up the crayons into tiny pieces. She got very good at it…and in no time at all…we had the molds filled! I didn’t want to do all 24 hearts..I thought that was a bit too many….

Once we had the molds filled…we followed the directions and put them in the oven at 225 degrees for about 10 minutes. They came out perfect……we didn’t swirl them anymore…they seemed great just the way they were…some of the crayons were metallic..so those had a neat look to them.

We waited for them to cool..which was the hard part! Once they were cool….we poked them out of the molds……

And finally River got to color with them! It was a lot of fun. Now, my ten year old wants to do it!