"The Country Store" traditional food, country crafts, natural decorations. By Stephanie Donaldson, hardcover 160 pages, new, read once. Brief summary of the book- Introduction, history and traditions of the Country store, how to prepare, use and display provisions. Recipes for Flavored vinegars, pickles and chutneys. Flavored butters, Savory preserves and sauces, flavored salts and peppers. Herbs and spice mixes, flavored mustards, jams- jellies, and honeys. Candied fruits, preserved fruits, preserved vegetables, syrups, cordials and liqueurs. Teas/tisanes, baked goods, and breads. Sweetmeats and candies. Make cosmetics, herbal infusions, rosewaters, essential oils. This is only half the book. Mixing oils (explainations) bath bags, scrubs, dusting powders (all of these are recipes). Creams, cleansers, skin tonics, hand creams, tonics, (recipes). Potpourri recipes, room freshners, burners, how to make-scented sachets and bags (recipes). Natural remedies and medicines... Scented polishes (recipes) beeswax and turpentine polish. Candles (beeswax instructions). Garland and Swags instructions on how to make 'natural' arrangements. Basket dried flowers..instructions. Treats for birds too! Easter recipes...hot cross buns, Easter eggs, Halloween-pumpkin pie, harvest loaf-recipes, herb cornbreads, and sooo much more! Tired of typing, LOL. All this in one book-- Make an offer of- Seeds, bulbs, gourdhouse bird houses (painted) or regular birdhouse? Deb

Some of my most wonderful minis are grocery store-bought and I make no excuses for them. While they are not currently available to anyone, they are my little gems.

hi well don,t feel bad I have,nt been to inspired for a while and have some short term memory probs and aadd that involves some "completion probs lol. have you done stuff like this before? have you used "liquid sandpaper" a chemical that will not strip but clean and get the legs for primer? use good primer , use fine sandpaper , clean well, I like a sponge brush but use a good brush that type of paint does not show brush stroks real bad . do the legs have turnings or straight? usea small brush or sponge brush for the turnings FIRST! then come back and do the rest from the top down . but the wood is a bit different I can say I have used the "formbys" one step finishing kits and stuff and it workd great kinda depends on just how "perfect you want it and if the top is beat up or not . but if you have done this you know that stripping the top to bare wood if it has a poly finish on it can be a daunting process sometimes and is the reason I have found some real nice pcs half done in thrift stores. but the "systems kinda take some of this away. by using a darker color than they are it covers a lot of errors and by allready having the stain in the finish it allows you to coat over the existing finish by just prepping the surface not taking it to bare wood. (wow that made sense) but finding the colors should not be that hard and a good paint mixer should never tell you that they don,t have it check just this link at what the color combos are for this and this was found by just asking for "enamel sage green" the darker shade will hide dirt better! but try this and look over this site. Rick Here is a link that might be useful: sherwin williams/martha stewart sage green

I don't remember ever getting an actual spanking, I am sure when I was really young I did get them just don't recall it. I would get sent to the corner however. I had gone shopping with my mom and big sister in the BIG city (we were from a very small town), they were looking for a special dress for my sister for some event. Well I was so tired of being dragged around that I crawled up under one of the round dress displays (it had a floor to it) and just fell asleep. My mom finally noticed I was not right there and went into panic mode, they searched and then started hollering then the store workers got into the act. I never heard a thing I was so insulated in my little nap spot sleeping soundly. Someone finally saw my little shoe poking out from under the dresses. My mom was about to have a stroke by then. She screamed at me then nearly hugged the stuffing out of me. I tell you one thing I never did that again. Another time I got a talking to was when mom came out on to the front porch and looked at me and my dog and said what are you eating? Well it was a box of doggie treats, but I was sharing with my dog!! I thought they were regular cookies! My dog really loved my cookies LOL I thought they were a bit dry myself. Now this one not so much did I get in trouble as did my 2 much older sisters! Our house was just down the road from my grandparents so we would walk or ride bikes back and forth. There was a huge barn at my grandparents with a hay loft and a big opening on one end to load the hay in and out of with a rope dohickey out of it to raise and lower the hay. We did not know it but my mother could see that barn and opening through the kitchen window at the sink (at our house). One day my sisters decided we would go up to the loft and swing on the rope thing, which meant we were dangling in the air very high above the ground. Then they decided to make me do it! So of course I did. They lift me up and I grab on to the rope and the push me out of the hay loft, there I was dangling. Well at that very moment my mother was at the sink and looked out and all she saw was me(her baby) dangling out of the hayloft by a rope!! I do not know how she came across that field over the fences, I think maybe she flew... My sisters got the whipping of their lives and I got the stuffing squeezed out of me again! And of course told to never do that again no matter what my stupid sisters said.