AMANDA'S BASKETS: THREE H'S HAVE HIT...

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

THREE H'S HAVE HIT...

I took this photo in Alabama. I was at the Grand Hotel for lunch and these flowers were in full bloom all over.

I finally found my bird feeder and hung it up...

And all sorts of birds come to munch on the seeds. This photo isn't too great but you get the idea. I kept the seeds in a plastic container that has been wet, in the rain, in the snow, etc. And yet, the seeds stayed dry. Unbelievable!

So, I haven't blogged the past couple of days because as I said, the three 'H's' hit...read that heat, humidity and hurt. Yep, the pain from the shingles has increased this week and I simply have not had it in me to do much of anything including blogging.

I wanted to check in today just to let you know what's going on...

Hopefully, I will be in better shape tomorrow...
Sorry about the missed days...
See you soon...

CRAFTING IDEAS

I decided to play with box making. (That was one of the demonstrations this past weekend but they included fabric.). So I first made a box shape out of a flyer that was card stock weight. I used my grid that makes fold marks - one size for the bottom and the same size plus one grid mark for the top. After folding, I cut the fold marks at both ends, overlapped them and glued using my stick glue. I then used scrap decorative paper to cover the entire box, inside and out. The top and bottom were loose before adding the scrap paper but after adding it, they fit nicely. It was an easy, fun and fast craft. And the result was really cute.

BOOK IDEAS

(New). I was looking through the recipes and marked many of them. The first one I want to try is the Wake-Up Potato and Sausage Breakfast Casserole. Everyone here likes the Jimmy Dean Breakfast Casserole so I thought I would try this one to see if it's just as good. The recipe is very similar except instead of bread, it calls for potatoes. Being originally from the midwest, you know that potatoes are golden for me! I would eat them breakfast, lunch and dinner and still not get tired of eating potatoes!