Tool Time Tuesday...Just Add Snow

Happy Tuesday everyone...for this Tool Time I went to the hardware store, the automotive section, the Dollar Tree and used miscellaneous craft supplies I had. I made this project for family and friends years ago, but thought I would bring it out again with a TTT twist.
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Did you know that this little bucket that would normally hold paint or nails....


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could look like this!!!
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and then spill out into something like this. I know this one is tough to imagine, but we don't have any snow here, so you'll have to build this little snowman in your mind.

He is a cutie though. See all the steps below to make this snowman kit for yourself or for gifts this Christmas.

Of course you'll need the bucket, because that's his hat. I bought these long candy canes at the dollar store for his arms, but you can always use two twigs or branches.

Next you'll need items for his face...I saw these next two ornaments and I immediately saw a carrot nose.

These silver bells are perfect for his smile...and they already have a snowflake pattern on them.

I found this in the automotive section. It's a funnel for pouring oil in your car...and IT"S ORANGE! Looks like a carrot nose to me!! (I know...I think I need therapy)





Here are the two ornaments ready to be painted.

Ok...these are too cute for words.

Here are some ideas for the charcoal eyes. The obvious styrofoam balls painted black.

or the not so obvious tops from 2 spice jars.

just open the lid...

insert pipe cleaner,

twist the ends

close the lid and you are ready to insert the pipe cleaner in the snow to hold in the eye.

For the buttons down the front of the snowman, I used 3 plastic Christmas ornaments.

Again, insert pipe cleaner...

Twist the ends and it's ready to go.

Here are the same steps for the jingle bells for the smile. You also have to use pipe cleaners for the nose if you are going to use one of the ornaments. Don't forget to add a colorful scarf. The green one that I used in the first few pictures is just a fleece blanket that was on clearance. I cut a long strip out of it to make the scarf. If you use fleece it's a no sew, because it doesn't unravel!!!

This snowman kit will make great gifts for all the children on your Christmas list....very easy to put together, very inexpensive and so much fun for the whole family.

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Hope you like this one...Enjoy!!

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Have a wonderful Tuesday,

~Karen~

Nutrients needed by the body

More than 75% of women are not adequate to the daily needs of vitamins or minerals. Consuming a multivitamin is fine, but it still will not replace the real nutrition. Raw foods contain vitamins and minerals will help reduce the risk of various diseases such as cancer and heart attacks. Below you can see what kind of vitamins and minerals you everything you need:

Vitamin D
Why needed: Vitamin D helps you maintain strong bones, boosting immunity, and prevent cancer cells grow, according to a study from Harvard University. A panel of experts stated that women under the age of 50 years need 10 times more than the recommended every day.

How to get it: Drink two glasses of milk with vitamin D every day. In addition, sitting under UV light also triggers the skin to produce vitamin D. sit up to 15 minutes in the open air between 11.00-14.00 o'clock twice a week. Use a sun cream with SPF 8 or below, said Joan Pleuss, RD, a nutritionist from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. But do not overdo it, especially if your family has a history of skin cancer.

Magnesium
Why needed: Low magnesium levels can cause menstrual migraines, and headaches when under stress, and increase the risk of diabetes.

How to get it: For starters, just eat as usual. In the latter study, adults who are always breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks, more potential to meet the recommended dietary limits (recommended dietary allowance, or RDA) for magnesium, than did not. "The amount of magnesium in the diet is not much, so eating more would increase the difference," said Pleuss. Materials most recommended foods: nuts. A ounce of nuts of any kind to offer 20% RDA (320 mg for women over 30 years).

Iron
Why needed: Lack of iron levels can increase the risk of anemia and fatigue and lead to hair loss.

How to get it: Hold a barbecue! Three ounces of beef provides approximately 20% RDA (18 mg for women under 50 years). Similarly, if you eat soy, tofu, spinach, although iron from plant materials are not easily absorbed by the body. "Add the tomato salad or a piece of orange into a vegetarian menu. Vitamin C it will help your body utilize iron," says Dee Sandquist, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

Calcium
Why needed: Calcium is often referred to as a bone builder, but these minerals also reduce symptoms of PMS, such as mood changes and cramps, about half. Research conducted at Columbia University showed that people who consume enough calcium to have a lower risk (31%) of pramenopause breast cancer, and reduce the risk by 11% to high blood pressure.

How to get it: Complete your breakfast cereal or milk, then you have to meet your calcium needs by 51% than that skip breakfast or eat other foods. Choose a cereal with 10% or more RDA (1000 mg), eating one or two foods made from milk every day, and consumption of multivitamins that contain calcium.

Folic Acid
Why needed: Usually, we just heard that folic acid pregnant women is needed, but all she really needed it. Research shows that folic acid deficiency increases the risk of heart attacks and colon cancer.

How to get it: Consumption of salads. Women who eat a salad every day will meet the RDA of folic acid was 41% (400 mcg). If you are pregnant, taking folic acid supplements with 100% RDA.

posted by: akperku.blogspot.com
from: kompas

FERIA TAURINA DUITAMA 2010 EL CARTEL

Duitama, la Perla de Boyaca y ciudad transportadora , en le Departamento de Boyacá, ciudad ubicada al centro-oriente de Colombia, tendrá el privilegio de despedir de su profesión, al maestro español Luís Francisco Esplá , única plaza en la que actuará en nuestro país.

CARTELES DUITAMA 2010

DOMINGO 3 DE ENERO
Toros de Marruecos (Corrida de rejones) : Jorge Enrique Piraquive,El Willy Rodriguez,Juan Rafael Restrepo.
DOMINGO 10 DE ENERO
Toros del "Paraiso": Luis Francisco Espla,Sebastian Vargas,Uceda Leal.

LUNES 11DE ENERO
Toros de Las Ventas (Mano aMano) : Finito de Cordoba,Luis Bolivar.

DOMINGO 17 DE ENERO
Varias ganaderias (Nonillos) : Leandro de Andalucia,Sergio Blanco,Jose Miguel Gonzalez.

Esperamos de todo corazon que la Feria Taurina Duitama 2010 ,sea mucho mejor que Feria 2009,Duitama tiene muchos conocedores del tema taurino asi que no defrauden a esto eruditos ,de la tauromaquia.

Healthy Life With Tomatoes

ALTHOUGH cheap, nutrient-rich tomatoes. In the outer layer is lycopene, an antioxidant that can prevent various types of cancer. Can also be processed into a variety of drinks and fresh food that could shake up the tongue.

Tomatoes are by botanists called Lycopersicum esculentum Mill, is a plant of the Solanaceae family, which is blooming like a trumpet. Tomato plants, including one year (annual) which means that old one-time only for the harvest period. This plant shrubs or bushes shaped length can reach 2 meters. Stem form to a round square. there is a gap of pinnate leaves without leaf buffer.

The shape, color, taste, and texture of tomatoes is very diverse. There is a round, round, flat, curly, or like a light bulb. Ripe fruit colors vary from yellow, orange, to red, depending on the type of the dominant pigment. It was also varied, from sour to sweet. The fruit-bunches are arranged in bunches. Overall fleshy fruits and are loaded with water.

Various varieties
Some basic varieties used to distinguish among them tomato shape, stem, thickness of meat, and water content. Based on the shape or appearance, tomatoes are classified as follows:

1. Ordinary tomatoes (Lycopersicum commune)
Form of flat round fruit, soft, irregular, and slightly grooved near the stem.

2. Apples Tomato (Lycopersicum pyriforme)
Shape of a round, compact, a little hard to resemble an apple.

3. Potato Tomato (Lycopersicum grandifolium)
Fruit is round, large, compact, with smaller sizes of tomatoes apples.

4. Curly tomato (Lycopersicum validum)
Slightly oval-shaped fruit, hard. The leaves are thick curly and dark green.

Utilization

Tomatoes can be used either in fresh or in processed form. In the form of fresh, tomatoes are often used as a food supplement ingredients (vegetables), for salads, sandwiches, chili, and so on.

In the form of processed tomatoes can be made into various kinds of canned products, such as whole tomatoes, tomato slices, sauce, and puree. In addition, you can make fruit juice and concentrated to produce tomato paste.

So far the results have been processed tomatoes are widely known by the public is fruit juice and tomato sauce. Fruit juice (fruit juice) is a liquid that does not undergo a process of fermentation, but obtained from the pressing process the fresh fruit and ripe. Processing of tomatoes into juice, but can produce a more durable product, is also a practical beverage, delicious and refreshing taste, is also beneficial to health.

Tomato sauce used for flavoring food. Making the sauce is done by evaporating some of the water from which the fruit juice viscosity desired. Into the fruit juice concentrates are added to a variety of savory seasonings. In order to become more thick sauce, often also added starches and other thickening.

Rich in Vitamin C and A

Tomatoes, both fresh and processed form, has a nutrient composition of a complete and good enough. Tomato fruit consists of 5-10 per cent of dry weight without water and 1 percent of the skin and seeds. If dried tomatoes, about 50 percent of the dry weight of reducing sugars (mainly glucose and fructose), the remaining organic acids, minerals, pigments, vitamins, and lipids.

Tomatoes can be classified as a source of vitamin C are very good (excellent) for 100 grams of tomato filled 20 percent or more of vitamin C daily needs. Vitamin C to maintain healthy teeth and gums, speeding up wound recovery, prevent disease Scurvy (skorbut), and avoid the occurrence of smooth vascular hemorrhage.

In addition, tomatoes are also a source of vitamin A is good (good) for 100 grams of tomatoes may contribute about 10-20 percent of daily vitamin A requirement. Vitamin A is necessary for the health of the organ of vision, the immune system, growth, and reproduction. Vitamin A and C in tomatoes is also efficacious as an antioxidant.

Tomato juice contains vitamins and minerals are fairly complete. 100 grams of tomato juice will be obtained 7 mg of calcium, phosphorus 15 mg, 0.9 mg iron, 230 mg sodium, and potassium 230 mg. Vitamins contained in 100 grams of tomato juice is a vitamin A (1050 IU), vitamin B1 (0.05 mg), vitamin B2 (0.03 mg), and vitamin C (16 mg).

High lycopene content of
Tomatoes contain lycopene high. Lycopene is a pigment that causes red tomatoes. Like beta-carotene, lycopene belongs to the carotenoid group. There have been many studies that reveal the health benefits of lycopene.

Lycopene are known to have antioxidant capabilities and can protect the body against various diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Crushed tomatoes or cooked is the source of lycopene is better than raw tomatoes.

For example, the amount of lycopene in tomato juice can reach five times more than in fresh tomatoes. The researchers speculate, cooked tomatoes or destroyed may issue more lycopene, which is easily absorbed body.

Lycopene found in tomato cell wall. Therefore, with a little cooking oil could be released this component. In addition, cooking tomatoes with olive oil (olive oil) allows the body to absorb lycopene better (Ahuja et al., 2003).

Phenolic component is also important compounds in tomatoes potential, although in fewer numbers. This component provides a beneficial effect. Recently known that tomato puree (tomato destruction), contain small amounts of compounds called routine. Routine compounds can be absorbed and utilized properly by the body.

Author: Prof.Dr. Made Astawan, Lecturer at the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition-IPB

From : Healthy Life

Healthy Food For Children

A child can not yet determine their own food. Snack habits anywhere enables children to eat unclean foods and contain a variety of hazardous chemicals. Both are derived from the dye, giving a sense of, or preservatives. Chicken Balls can be a choice of healthy snacks kids and nutrient dense. Good luck. Recipes/Test Kitchen/Food Stylist/Image: Budi Sutomo.

Bola-Bola Ayam

Material:

1. 400 g chicken meat, minced
2. 3 tablespoons flour
3. 150 ml of fresh liquid milk
4. ½ tbsp margarine
5. 1 egg, beaten off
6. 40 g carrots, diced small
7. Oil for frying

Spices:

1. 3 cloves garlic, crushed
2. 2 spring onions, crushed
3. 1 leek, thinly sliced
4. ½ tsp pepper finely
5. ½ tsp fine salt

Layers:

1. 2 eggs, beaten off
2. 60 g flour PANIR

How to Make:

1. Heat margarine and saute onion and garlic until fragrant. Pour the flour has dissolved into a liquid fresh milk. Cook, stirring constantly until boiling. Lift.

2. Pour the flour porridge into minced chicken meat. Add carrots, pepper, salt, scallions and egg, mix well.

3. Take one tablespoon of dough. Form into dots. Do it until the dough out.

4. Dip the chicken balls into the beaten eggs, roll up PANIR flour until the whole surface covered with flour.

5. Heat the oil, fried balls of chicken until cooked and brown yellow. Lift. Set in a serving dish. Serve warm.

source : health food

Tool Time Tuesday...I'm Hooked on These

Before I begin the Tool Time, I want to thank everyone for all your comments about my new sewing room. Wow, that was a lot of blogging love coming my way...there were 100 comments!! There were some questions about different things, so I'll do a post and answer them all in one.
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Today's Tool Time is a quick tip, but one of my absolute must haves in the house. They are Command's 3M removable strips and hooks. I know you have probably seen these on TV, but they really do work. The hooks come in different sizes and can be used for anything. They mount to just about any surface and really remove without harming the wall, paint or wood. The tip with removing it, is to pull the tab straight down close to the wall. It stretches as it comes off without any damage. Here is a small sample of some that I have.

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I use them in a small cabinet in our bathroom. The cabinet stores supplies and all my jewelry. On the inside of the door was wasted space, so I used the hooks to hang all my necklaces.
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Here is one on our front door which is metal. There is one issue with this...it will pop off in extreme temps in the winter.

Great to hang your favorite wreath.

This is what the hook looks like. You will have to apply the sticker to the hook. One side says "wall" and the other is applied to the hook. See the black arrows on the bottom tab...that's where you pull it straight down to remove.

I used these hooks to hang two wreaths over our bed. I move furniture so much, I would have holes in the walls everywhere if I didn't use these.

You can't tell where this one is, but it's on the top of our fireplace mantel. I leave them up all year, because you can't really see them. They work great for hanging the evergreen garland at Christmas!

They also stick to glass.

Oh, look another wreath. I think I have a problem.

These are the covered cork boards in my sewing room. See the little tabs sticking out of the corners of the black one. I used the poster stickers for these. No hooks needed, you just stick them to the item and then to the wall. I never use the stickers that come with the cork squares. They will ruin the wall.

This one is a large hook I have mounted to the inside cabinet door of my pots and pans. This holds the cords to electric skillets.

This one holds little flashlights. You know when your family isn't feeling well and they want you to check their throat. Well, hang this next to the medicine cabinet, so you always have one on hand.

and this is a decorative wall art that may change with the wind, so sticker hooks are better than nails.

This was a quick tip, but one you can use in a million ways. For quilting you could sew little rings to the back corners of the quilt and then hang it from the hooks. Make sure the hooks are below the quilt edge so you can't see them. Just think...quilts everywhere and no nails. The hooks are labeled with the weight that it can hold, so make sure you use the right size.
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Have a wonderful Tuesday,

~Karen~
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ps...I have no affiliation with this company, I just love them!

Woo Hoo..My New Sewing Room

It's finally done!! My sewing room in the basement was flooded on October 20th. I didn't plan this post to be today, but it's November 20th and it's been one crazy month. My sister was the biggest help to us throughout the whole process and I thank her from the bottom of my heart. She really pushed to get this done, because she knew I was at my wits end...especially with the flood part.
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I've never told you, but my dad (who lives with us) has flooded our basement 4 other times before this. Two times he put a big soup pot in the sink to fill it up and walked away for hours and never checked it. Because the pot was covering the drain, the water just over flowed and rained in the basement. The 2 other times I won't even get into. I thought my sewing room was in a safe zone down there, but there is no safe zone from an 85 year old forgetful man. LOL!!
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I needed to move back upstairs some where and my only option was a room we have that connects my dad's kitchen to our family room. It 12' x 24' and we use it for all our family functions. When my family and my husband's family get together here for most holidays, there are over 40 of us, so this room is used a lot. It had 2 big long tables, bookshelves and a buffet for serving food.
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Well, we clear everything out, brought up old furniture from the basement, cleared all the books out of the bookshelves and my sister and my niece gave me 3 butcher block tables...and this is what we did.
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• we painted everything single piece of old furniture black to bring it all together
• my sister is a master at adding crown moulding to anything to make it more my style. She used left over crown moulding from her house projects.
• I gathered up all my recycling projects for storage boxes
• I scavenged the house for all my galvanized metal things so it all would match
• the only things we purchased was 3 sheets of bead board for the back of the bookshelves, pipe straps for all the handles of the boxes, foam letters for my name, cork board, and a gallon of black paint. My sister brought some other things from her house that she said she "had", but I know she lied and bought them for me out of sympathy! I just didn't want her to spend any more money!

So here it is...

This view is from the door from our family room looking in. That's my dad's kitchen door in the back. The door from our family room is a French door, so you can see in...I have to keep this room clean. Yikes...wish me luck on that.

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The table to the left is my work/craft table, the center hutch is storage and that's my computer desk to the right.

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The back wall is a bookcase for storage and floating in the middle of the room is my cutting table, ironing board and sewing table (which you can't see)



This unit was made from three old cheap bookcase. We replaced the back flimsy backing with bead board, my sister added the top wooden boxes to make them taller and then added crown moulding to tie the 3 together. Paint, paint and more paint!

These are the boxes from one of the TTT when I used the pipe straps. These hold all the different colored scraps of fabric.

This is another piece that I painted. It stores all those boxes I had in my sewing room. Each one is labeled with something.

Here's a close up.

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This is my work/craft table

• fabric covered cork board (still have to glue some buttons on the tacks to have them match)
• hot glue gun and drill are already set and plugged into a surge bar, so all I need to do is click a switch. The surge bar is attached to a lamp, so if the lamp is on, I know the hot glue gun is still on. Safety feature for me.
• the little wooden drawers in the back hold all the little beads and screws.
• the galvanized buckets below are from Home Depot for $12. I bought those a long time ago to hold soda, bottled water and beer when we have parties. For now it holds my batting and polyfil. Easy to bring them back out for parties.
  

The hutch is for storage. This is a super old piece of teak wood furniture that we had in the basement. Again...paint and crown moulding.

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Cereal boxes from a Tool Time Tuesday. I covered these with fabric on the spine, but painted the body of it black.

I used the pipe straps for handles and key rings to label.

This is another recycled box project. Those are all the bottled water boxes covered in fabric. Still need 3 more.

Same handles and key chains.

This is my computer desk. The frame above is waiting for a piece of sheet metal from Lowe's. Our Home Depot didn't carry it. That will be a Tool Time Tuesday at some point. My poor desk misses the laptop. That poor computer didn't have a chance in the flood.

This is on my desk. It's a globe paper weight. I had to buy this at a consignment shop. Every time I look at it, it reminds me of all the blogging friends I have made around the world. You have all made my world a better place...and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

This is my cutting table. Take a good luck at this now and all the other areas in this room, because they will never look this clean again. EVER. Even now as I type, this table doesn't look like this anymore!!

These are old plate racks that I use for my rulers.

This is a mini DVD player that I watch the Walton's on all the time.

This is from my sister. She bought it an office supply store for her work, but she doesn't use it. It's used to hold a paper as you type on the computer. I'm using it to hold a pattern as I'm cutting the fabric, so the directions are always there, not lost under piles of fabric.

Here's my ironing board covered to match the fabric on the boxes.

Just don't look underneath. I was too lazy to sew one, so I staple gunned the crap out of it!! lol

This is a super old fridge that we use for soda and water. I kept it in here...had to paint it though.

This is the before.

Here are other befores and durings...painting all the table legs. See the little bookcase in the back?

This is the bookcase before...the third one isn't in yet. See the cheap backing, it's almost like card stock that looks like wood.

This is a during picture before the shelves went in. That's the new bead board.

This is the before of the hutch when it was in the basement.

We brought the top upstairs and added to a different bottom (the buffet that was already in the room).

and here's a during picture of it painted.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my sewing room. This is why I've been behind on visiting all your blogs and trying to catch up on emails. Once the holidays are over and I buy my new machines, I'll be back in business. Some of you have asked how I made out with the insurance. The major things are covered like my Bernina, my serger and the computer, but with a major catch. Our insurance has full replacement coverage, but the only thing is, it has a "Hold Back Policy". This means they pay me for the "depreciated" value of the items up front, then I have 180 days to go out and purchase the new items, send them the receipts to prove that I purchased the same items that I lost and "then" they will repay me the difference. We also have a $1000.00 deductible, so I think I will be doing all of this after the holidays, because that means fronting a lot of money...which we don't have at the moment. In the mean time, I will borrow a sewing machine from my sister.
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I will try to take some pictures of our Thanksgiving when I turn this room back into a food buffet area. Shouldn't be too bad. I just need to store all the stuff that is on the top underneath and cover the three tables with tableclothes. Wish me luck.

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Thanks for all your well wishes during this time. I can't thank you enough for your love and support.

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Have a wonderful weekend,

~Karen~