If you are not local, please contact me with your name and address so I can mail you the two precious, handcrafted by me, peat pot party favors!!!! email becsflowers@aol.com and put georgieporgie in the subject please! They’ll be in today’s mail to you. If you are local, send me your delivery address. Thanks and congratulations! Look for other contests periodically!
Those cool, clear, plastic jars with the lid that flips open on one side, to spoon it on, or the side that opens to sprinkle it on are great containers to recycle!
For starters, the Kraft Cheese container has a shrink-wrapped label on it that is easily removed by sticking a sharp knife, or other sharp object, under the shrink wrap label and making a slit to peel it off by. No messy soaking in hot water or having to use a solvent (like Ronson lighter fluid) to get the sticky label gunk off with, because there IS no “gunk”!
And with the lid off, it has a nice wide opening, as wide as the container, for filling easily. I have 2 or 3 or 6 of these…LOL! And this is what I put in them.
I keep flour in one. This comes in handy when I grease a cake pan and need just a “shake” or two, of flour, in the cake pan. It’s handier to get to than my flour canister that I keep put away under my cabinet. I keep it to the right of the oven in a cupboard with the salt and spices, etc. ( Then I cover my cake pan with some Saran Wrap and shake a couple times. This really makes flouring a cake pan easy!)
The next container has a mixture of sugar and cinnamon for toast and/or cereal, like oatmeal. Stored in same spice cabinet. Everybody likes cinnamon sugar! I use 1 1/2 cups of sugar and 2 TABLESPOONS (the bigger ones of the two) of cinnamon. Shake well and taste. You may want more or less cinnamon for your taste. This is one of those recipes that you just have to make it according to your own taste. (Cinnamon toast was the second main food group my little brother lived off of when he was in college. His first main food group was “fried eggs”. He could fry eggs and make soup and cinnamon toast. Pathetic!!!)
The 3rd cheese container at our house is used for a NON food item, and carefully labeled as POISON and stored away from where small kids can get to it. It is filled with snow-melt granules and usually kept in my automobile’s winter emergency kit. It is handy to have if I am away from home and encounter a patch of ice like in a parking lot or sidewalk, where walking might be a problem. I don’t really get outside if it is slick, but sometimes it doesn’t hurt to be prepared. Mark has prosthetic legs and can’t tell by “feel” if its slick or just wet out until its too late, so having snow-melt in a manageable container is just perfect. Be SURE to label it with a magic marker, and keep the container in a zip lock freezer baggie to protect the contents from humidity (so it doesn’t turn into a rock hard mess) and to also help protect your trunk or wherever you store your winter travel kit. Also, labeling it POISON, and writing the Poison Control Center’s 1-800 phone number on it wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
These cheese containers are probably the second most recycled container goin’ on at our house. If you don’t eat a lot of parmesan cheese, ask your friends and neighbors to save their empty containers for ya! If you can think of any other uses for the containers, be sure to share them with us in the comment section.
The drawing for the 2 artisticly decorated peat pot party favors (boy that’s a mouthfull….) is Monday. I will draw a name out of a hat, from all the names of people who leave a comment on my blog. I originally said it would be on comments left on Wednesday’s post, but decided to count it on any post until Monday.
Thank you for reading- now go make yourself some cinnamon toast!
Till tomorrow, remember: I LOVE white trash….
(It’s easier to paint, saving me a bundle!!!!)
When I first heard the word,”blog” a little over 3 years ago, I didn’t give it much thought. The owner of one of my favorite rubber stamp companies took his online catalog and site off from where I once knew it, and switched everything over to his “blog”. I was about as interested as a 3 year old at a turnip festival, and about as savvy, too!
Well, not much has changed. I have *somewhat* graduated from the turnip festival, although slowly, and have moved past the stage of “blog” rhyming with “nog” stage, where I was on the constant lookout for a winter beverage booth at a Scandinavian Festival. ~SKOL!~ LOL!
It was only last night (and 30 minutes,) when I learned how to put my blog in a category. Don’t test me on it now… I’m not sure that it won’t take me 30 more minutes to go back and change it!
Anyhow, the blog category that I have chosen is “House and Garden”. I picked that over “art”, because not everything that I recycle or craft, is made into ”art” .
I didn’t feel like “environment” was right either, because although a lot of what I create is made from recycled goodies, sometimes my techniques aren’t “all that green”. Sometimes I’m doin’ good to apply “poison stuff” outdoors or at least “well ventilated”…
And last, sometimes I like to write about recipes and household stuff unrelated to anything! So, that’s where I came up with the decision to put this blog under “House & Garden”.
What do you all think? Should I leave this under “House & Garden” or do you think another category is better suited? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
In fact, let’s make this worth your while to comment. I will pick a random number, out of a hat, next Monday, according to how many people leave comments on this blog entry. That lucky person will win 2 of my decorated garden party peat pots! ( I will arrange delivery after the contest. Contest only for residents of the continental USA, sorry…)
So, get with it- let me know what category I should be listed under. Please write “stay here” (for house & garden) or list the category that you think would be more appropriate for what I write about.
As always, its fun to be a junk collector!
Thanks for your time!