Idea of what to do with them:
whole bag of Kettle Tias Nacho chips crunched down to fine bits
shredded lettuce
olives
taco meat
avocadoes
grated colby cheese
for the dressing, a carton of sour cream thinned down just a little with milk
All just mixed together in a bowl! The kids LOVED it! We all loved it so much I waited one night, just for decency's sake, then made it again :-)
Found Spirals
I've had a saved search on Ebay for "spiral skirt" for a long time. Besides the Birch Street, there isn't much out there. I guess I'm the only one with a fascination for clothing that makes one look like a barber pole.
I found these under "square dance", not even tagged with the keyword "spiral"!
I found these under "square dance", not even tagged with the keyword "spiral"!
After much hunting, I found the pattern they used!
My Cake Wreck
They asked me to frost the birthday cake, then they were going to decorate it, but they were so clueless and something about that blue surface was just so inspirational, I begged and pleaded to do it myself.
I’m not proud of this. I basically grabbed that cake and started splattering frosting in a big hurry to show the kids I really could do something cool. It’s poorly thought out, the design is all over the place, and there SHOULD have been twelve curlicues.
But the kids liked it :-)
Argh! And this is the best I can do at DISHING a slice of cake??
Hehe, no really most of the pieces came out perfect looking and I took this one. It tasted just as good as the others!
I’m not proud of this. I basically grabbed that cake and started splattering frosting in a big hurry to show the kids I really could do something cool. It’s poorly thought out, the design is all over the place, and there SHOULD have been twelve curlicues.
But the kids liked it :-)
Argh! And this is the best I can do at DISHING a slice of cake??
Hehe, no really most of the pieces came out perfect looking and I took this one. It tasted just as good as the others!
My second Singer got fixed!
The motor went out, and it's been sitting downstairs for more than a year, waiting for me to find time to look at it. But I really don't know what I'm doing with motors anyway!
However I found a nice lady who works on sewing machines, knows what she's doing, and fixed the whole thing right as rain for $43.
I'm so tickled to have this one back and working again!
Our friends gave this to me, complete with all the dozens of attachments that came with it (including a ruffler, which came standard!) and all the pattern cams. It's got all metal gears inside and is "ENTIRELY MADE IN AMERICA" as the manual boasts!
However I found a nice lady who works on sewing machines, knows what she's doing, and fixed the whole thing right as rain for $43.
I'm so tickled to have this one back and working again!
Our friends gave this to me, complete with all the dozens of attachments that came with it (including a ruffler, which came standard!) and all the pattern cams. It's got all metal gears inside and is "ENTIRELY MADE IN AMERICA" as the manual boasts!
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Kettle Tias Nachos Chips: Share the Love
Kettle Tias, rather new to the shelf, and Ed brought me home a bag to try (knowing my devotion to nachos)
I wrote the company a fangirl email thus:
LOVE the Kettle Tias nacho flavor.
I was SO mad when they quit making Natural Doritos after only a short while. For a while there it was like Doritos had come back, then they stopped. That was a bummer.
Your Kettle Tias are about 80% as good as Natural Doritos which is far better than most brands.
PLEASE don't stop making them! Finally we have something good to use for our homemade nachos!
THANK YOU!!!!
And they just sent me an adorable thank you note, with coupons.
I think I should up the love level to 95% :-)
Check out the products here,
http://www.kettlebrand.com/our_products/tias_/
After all, what did Doritos ever do for me? They never sent me a thank-you note, only stopped making their stupid product just when I'd decided I loved it.
That phone call to Lay's a few years ago was quite interesting. She told me they'd stopped making Natural Doritos simply because of lack of interest. Not enough people bought them. I whined, "But what about me? Why can't you keep on making them for me?"
Seriously, if they had warned me they were going to stop, I would have bought... like... at least as many cases as I could fit into my van.
Anyway, she told me they had had a line of potato chips with less salt, which had been sold in the regular potato chip aisle (I wouldn't have seen it, I only shop in the natural aisle) but they'd stopped making that, too, because nobody bought it. She had a line or two to share about the perversity of the American public, who SAY they want to eat healthier, but in actuality don't care enough even to buy Lay's potato chips with less salt, even though they tasted every bit as good and were marketed right next to the regular kind.
I wrote the company a fangirl email thus:
I was SO mad when they quit making Natural Doritos after only a short while. For a while there it was like Doritos had come back, then they stopped. That was a bummer.
Your Kettle Tias are about 80% as good as Natural Doritos which is far better than most brands.
PLEASE don't stop making them! Finally we have something good to use for our homemade nachos!
THANK YOU!!!!
And they just sent me an adorable thank you note, with coupons.
I think I should up the love level to 95% :-)
Check out the products here,
http://www.kettlebrand.com/our_products/tias_/
After all, what did Doritos ever do for me? They never sent me a thank-you note, only stopped making their stupid product just when I'd decided I loved it.
That phone call to Lay's a few years ago was quite interesting. She told me they'd stopped making Natural Doritos simply because of lack of interest. Not enough people bought them. I whined, "But what about me? Why can't you keep on making them for me?"
Seriously, if they had warned me they were going to stop, I would have bought... like... at least as many cases as I could fit into my van.
Anyway, she told me they had had a line of potato chips with less salt, which had been sold in the regular potato chip aisle (I wouldn't have seen it, I only shop in the natural aisle) but they'd stopped making that, too, because nobody bought it. She had a line or two to share about the perversity of the American public, who SAY they want to eat healthier, but in actuality don't care enough even to buy Lay's potato chips with less salt, even though they tasted every bit as good and were marketed right next to the regular kind.
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