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BooBooks book club discussion of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet: first Sat. in December (December 3rd & 4th)
Coming Soon to the Froggy Bottom Cafe:
Thanksgiving Thursday: Open for Business!
Thursday December 1st: Inexpensive Holiday Gifts
Thursday December 1st: Inexpensive Holiday Gifts
Froggy Bottom Thanksgiving!
Froggy Bottom Cafe: Talkin’ Turkey Today
Froggy Bottom Café: Sweet Tooth Friday
Froggy Bottom Cafe: Side Dish Friday!
CabinGirl Diaries (Including Archive) — Some of these diaries will also include Recipes.
Food and Class in America: a Rantata
Cooking Cheap with Hope and Love – by Diane
Please post links to more diaries with recipes and I’ll add them to the Bulletin Board Notice!
It’s just the same, but the tables are cleaner here!
across the table, yes!
Quickie question: what’s the dollar limit when talking “inexpensive”? Are we talking “free”? Just want to know when I’m brainstorming (or brain scattered-showering in my case…).
I was thinking mainly of homemade items, or home-assembled items. Something less expensive than retail and created with love. For example, I’ll see whether I can put together some coherent instructions for making simple beaded earrings. The cost can be very little or quite a bit, depending on what beads you choose.
But we don’t have to stop at homemade things. I’d love to hear any ideas that can stretch the gift budget.
I’ve done beaded earrings before, but many moons ago. A friend of mine also mentioned sock puppets (?)… There’s always knitting, of which I am barely able to do. Or photography, a nicely framed photo, I’ve done that before. Jellies, jams, insta-meals with dried beans and herbs and spices, etc. A calligraphied poem or such. Actually one year, I got my dad the Snoopy stamps (cuz he loves Snoopy) and framed them in a nice way for him…
I’m obviously a bit ramble-y this evening…
You’re HERE! Hi! (I was just inviting you to come here.
We just painted the ceiling!
You and Kansas tonight are just making me feel so good…
I’m loving it!!
What time zones are you guys in? I could probably check, but I’m lazy that way. And where’s Sallycat? I heart her… Don’t mean to be name-dropping or anything, she’s just so wonderful, as are you guys…
Thanks Sherm – you are so sweet!
I’ve been hanging out looing for recipes for the gift diary…reading a trashy novel while the cat snoozed on my lap.
Checking in briefly…time for sleep here on the left coast – I’ll cruise by your spot in the morning to see how you’re weekend is going <grins>
I’ll be around tomorrow, tho’ late in the day… My sleep schedule is a bit mixed up right now, so I won’t be up til after noon, is my guess… Sending you good wishes for a happy Sunday….
Hugs and love to sweetiebob…
I’ve done special mix CDs — since I’m a big movie soundtrack junkie, and my family often likes the soundtrack of a movie but rarely buy the CDs. Last year I did a 2-CD set of thematic highlights from all three Lord of the Rings films, a single CD compliation of highlights from the first three Harry Potter movies, and one I called “Comic Book Superheros” — which had tracks from Hellboy, both X-Men movies and Spiderman 2, and I threw in one track from King Arthur because there was still room on the CD.
I also downloaded images off the web and created spiffy covers for the CDs in Photoshop, with track lists (and liner notes for the Superhero mix, since the only one my family knew anything about was Spiderman).
My brother and his wife did a “Our Favorite Music” mix CD, which had everything from classical to broadway to hula to Japanese pop; they made fifty copies and then gave the CDs away to guests at their wedding.
A box of blank CDs is not that expensive; all you need is a computer with a CD burner. I used iTunes to download, assemble and play-test the playlists for burning. You can make any kind of mix of music that is meaningful to you, or that you think the recipient would like. It is time consuming to go through your own music collection to pick out what tracks to use, though!
Puget4 and I made this family policy 20 years ago. Cheap but fun, emphasizing that the experience not the investment value is what we share and celebrate.
Mainly we get each other toys, such as puzzles, or board games, or thought-provoking items or things that will drive the other insane. Boomerangs, giant soap bubble makers, kites, a juggling set, a plastic sled, whatever.
Puget4 has an especially extreme silly bone, and if you can hit it with something that strikes her as goofy, she’s ever-so-much fun to watch.
One year the university food science department announced that they’d be “canning” Christmas gifts for a small fee. They had quart and gallon sized cans so we took our games and trinkets over and had them all canned. Then of course we disguised them in variously shaped boxes and sacks with holiday wrapping.
So we trudged up to Florida Mom’s house which at that time was in Cleveland. Stepdad, who’s since passed on, didn’t share the family passion for the ridiculous. So naturally he had to get the first gift. He opened the wrapper and found a can opener. He had absolutely no clue how to react.
The course of events left him twisting in the wind just long enough, then Mom’s package revealed a quart sized can. He gave a hearty belly-laugh and then on we went.
What fun!!
Here’s a template for adding the bulletin board sections to your extended text.
I’m going to bed. But, it’s an open bar, help yourself!
And don’t forget the 4s!
It’s 3 in the morning and I just had one of those spontaneous long, late night conversations with my son who was in a mood to talk. The things I learn in these sessions!
that comment was sure loaded, kansas. 🙂