When you’re working a lot or you just don’t have any time to deal with making a nutritious supper -this is the recipe for you! No pre-cooking is involved; just drop all the ingredients into your crock-pot and you’re done.

Enjoy!

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What do you do when your office is cold and your hands are freeeeeezing? Well, you knit some hand warmers! Here are mine and the pattern as well. Enjoy.

Here is the pattern:

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So -I admit it, I am often a last minute shopper AND I love to give something personal and special. I also like to make things. I have grandiose ideas that often overshoot Christmas, but often I can do some small special little thing and still enjoy that little extra touch they can give. Last year I crocheted small flowers and attached them to my gifts. Here are some ideas I have found to try this year.

Dishcloths Facecloths Bath Scrubbies

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I love looking at what others are doing creatively. I can’t help it. I don’t have much of an attention span I suppose and am always more interested in what others are doing than siting down and doing myself -well, I am at least equally interested!

I was one of those kids that always got in trouble for not focusing on my own work and paying too much attention too what everyone else was doing. There are just so too many really good creative blogs to look at. I get a little something special from each one. I suppose they all give me some little joy. I read cookbooks and recipes like fiction as well. Pattern books, pretty gardening magazines. All things beautiful and creative. Here is a really nifty thing that caught my attention this week. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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I’ve been moving some of my sites from one web host to another in order to organize my sites and simply my life. Initially, the plan was to move many sites to Dreamhost. This was a mistake. It took me over 3 weeks to get one site up and running and over 4 weeks were spent trying to get this blog up -and in the end -it never happened. After only 15 minutes with Media Temple -I had this blog up and running perfectly. Between database servers being down and admin panel malfunctions -I spent far too much time troubleshooting blind -which wasted huge amounts of time! Dreamhosts’s technical support is a joke. You can read more about their bad service and ongoing problems here and here.

Now I am with Media Temple. I should have gone with them first. They have 24/7/365 technical support available by PHONE . Not that I needed it. So far, so good. I did my research, but I was looking for cost savings, however -my time is worth something as well and after this experience of having hours and weeks wasted -I have come to the conclusion that Media Temple saves me money. Competent service has to be worth something. I know that no hosting provider can be perfect, but for now -I see a huge difference.

-21cg.