Thanks so much! :) The spoons are really quick and easy, I find clip art,and just cull things from the junk drawers around the house for them. My sister gave me a lot of old jewelry,like single earrings and chains,and I cut up old greeting cards. I cut the handles off the spoons and forks with bolt cutters,really easy,the silver plate cuts like butter,then sand with these really rough emery boards,and then bend the rest of the handle back to make a hanger for the silk cord. I use a Clear Cast resin I bought at Hobby Lobby,mix and pour into the spoon til it's level. One of my sisters suggested using my grandchildrens pics in there, I haven't tried it yet,but the other pics seem to be holding up well,so their photos should work fine. I almost glued pin backs to them,thinking they'd make fine looking pins,but wondered about the weight of that. I think the Clear Cast was about $20,but I know I went to the Hobby Lobby site and printed out a 40% off coupon to buy it,so it was cheaper that way. Then I bend the handles to make bracelets,add beads and charms. The birdhouses I buy at walmart for $2.27 each,doesnt take a lot of old china and stained glass to make them, and yes,they're glued to candle sticks bought cheap at a yard sale :) Ribbon bead fringe glued to the bottom,and those beads that look like old glass knobs for the perch( maybe sold as prisms) Walmart has a box of over 100 in their Christmas decor for $10. You can't see the blue spoon very well,but it's one of my favorites,with a mermaid in it,I glued blue tissue paper to the spoon bowl,and used some old blue Easter grass cut up in there, put a little blue glitter nail polish on the mermaid,lol,it has real shells and a real tiny starfish. Next favorite is the little boy,with the leaf bead,says 'a wonderful world. The one with the white cat wearing blue glasses is for my sister,it has real bird feathers in it,my sister babysits a bird sometimes and saved feathers,lol,so she gets this one! I made a lot more not pictured :) Forgot to add pics of the lapel pins I made from tips of silver spoon handles. As you can see, I'm getting ready for a sale,cheap prices, I think,LOL!!!

Lemon-pepper pork chops, green beans, rice with fresh garlic, steamed cauliflower. I did good if I say so myself! Marilyn Sue, I have to remember to get some sweet potatoes this week. Love them any way they're prepared!

Glenda, you're gonna have to start including the addresses of these restaurants you talk about! Kind of like "Glenda's Diners and More"! Mmmmm... meatballs. Sometimes the pasta is an afterthought for me (sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes). ----- Dinner for me tonight was a salami/pepperoni/provolone sub from Subway, because I had to be at the office. Better than hitting the vending machine, I guess...

I made beef lo mein. I sort of winged it but I used a sauce recipe from myrecipes.com. I used some carrots, green onion and cabbage for the vegetables. I used Dreamfields linguine for the noodles. It was pretty good and stretched out a small package of beef that I picked up on sale (I cut it very thin). I actually made it last night since things are a rush around her these days while Nick has football every evening. Good thing I did because DH was stuck in traffic and I had to take Nick to football practice. I nuked some frozen egg rolls to go along with it.