Tastebook

I have recently discovered a cool website - Tastebook.com - where you can enter your recipes to (basically) make your own cookbook.

I have a LOT of recipes I've torn from magazines, ones I've written down from friends, and ones I've printed off the net.  My skinny manilla folder is overflowing!  When we moved I had to rubberband it just so the stuff wouldn't fall out...it's really that bad.  Quite a few of the recipes are ones that I printed off Weight Watchers a number of years ago (actually in 2001) that I want to try but haven't yet - and just can't seem to toss them.

I honestly don't know how I found this website...maybe it was a typo or it popped up from another site I was on.  Who knows.  But, I have decided that since I have so much free time now (ha!) I am going to get all my grandma's recipes - she was an AMAZING cook - and make a cookbook so all us grandkids can have copies of her recipes.  I know my aunt is doing the same with my other grandma's recipes (I hope she adds her Pumpkin Bar recipe AND the recipe for the jello and cottage cheese salad - it's really good).  Ah...brings back childhood memories.

My First Post!

Here is sit...and SO not sure what to write.  I read blogs all the time but have no clue what to say!

I wouldn't consider myself very crafty by any means.  However, I have found that I LOVE making things and seeing the faces of those receiving the item.  So, I forge forward to learn and try to become more creative.

For a number of years I have made different things.  It started out with padded photo albums...but with everything going digital I knew I couldn't do that.  Then I started making decorative wreaths...cutting 4" squares of fabric and "punching" them into a straw wreath.  I could do anything - Halloween, Christmas, a color-themed to match a kitchen, whatever.  But country has gone out the window, so to speak.  Now I make People Feeders.  What are People Feeders you ask?  Let me show you...

A little history...when I was a kid (probably early teens) my grandma - who lived less than 1/4 mile down the road - had one of these on her kitchen table.  If I recall correctly, she said she got it at a craft show in Waverly.  Anyway, my sisters and I thought they were the coolest thing so Grandma got one for me.  I treasured that thing and used it so much the paint wore off!

I've made at least 2 dozen of these - ranging from sports teams to holidays.  My favorite ones are the two pictured above.  I love how the white looks like frost or snow.  Some time (soon) I'm going to figure out how to decorate the glass jar.  Now to just figure out how to "advertise" my creations!

Next project - cake decorating!  Heaven help me.