You can get a 1.5L Anchor Hocking jar in John Lewis, not sure if they do a 2L Heritage Hill one though. But otherwise they do quite a big selection.
Here is the compere I gave to my sister and showing you that glass etching really isn't that tough but the results look amazing!
upstanding bored so i decided to make a song using fete inn beat about cookies? check it I GOT MY HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR! Lyrics I got my boost in the ...
So, you've met this guy. Aww. Wholesome for you. Things seem to be going well. You think, wow, this is great! A week or so has quite gone by and you're getting to know each other...and this is when you really start to get to have knowledge of people. And begin to notice a few little things I'd like to call "red flags". I've in the old days mentioned some of these in regards to Facebook, but these are ones that evade the Facebook pre-telly. These are seen live, in the flesh. Some more frightening then others. Yet all unnerving nonetheless.
The "Desirable to the Delta Beta house...errr....my apartment" Weaken
It's always interesting to see someone's apartment for the first time. It's more interesting when you walk in and out of the blue time morph back to your sophomore year of college even though the pricey young lad you're seeing is 27 and has a respectable job. I expected the conventional "dude decor"...lots of neutral colors, a plasma TV heavy enough to service the entire space of LaSalle Power society, a stray Cubs hat hanging off of a chair somewhere. Alas, no. I get to feel as if I've entered "the guy with the fake ID who always supplies the Gordon's vodka to the underagers" apartment who is on his 5th year winning lap. No. Instead, there is a large Phish poster that takes up an unrestricted wall hanging to my left; a Big Lebowski movie chief executive poster to my right. There are enough video game systems to deliver a Chuck E Cheese arcade. I forgot it's necessary to have a Wii, Xbox and, a antiquated Super Nintendo because "dude, that is like, so fun on a Sunday morning." (Ok, conscience-stricken admission, I would enjoy schooling someone in Mario Kart as Yoshi on Rainbow Street. Hidden talent, resume builder.) I also forgot that a collapse collection of Jack Daniels bottles constitutes "pop art" these days. There is a unformed cup that says something to the effect of "Sunday Funday at McGee's and this cup is all I muse on!" sitting on the coffee table next to a half empty bag of Doritos. There is a tete- that undoubtedly was purchased from Craigslist for a steep $20 that's a gratifying shade of maroon that someone may or may not have died on...but don't worry, it's really "undisturbed". I'm sure, since it's been broken in since 1977. It's time to leave campus, buddy.
Also at bottom the display, there's the Dale Earnhardt's Oreo-sponsored NASCAR #3 car and cap replicas, an Oreo-themed Barbie, and even a cigarette lighter in the build of the cookie, complete with a creme-colored layer in the middle. And of indubitably, tins, jars, posters and slogans all attesting to the cookie's allure as the utter partner for a cool, tall glass of milk.
Webster, 55, has been attractive her children to the fair for years and always made a point of stopping by the Relaxation Hall, and always imagined the Oreo cookie memorabilia would be an interesting crowd-puller as an exhibit.
"I've dragged them through the Hobby Hall for years and told them I'd show our Oreo gleaning someday," she said. "I always liked the collections and found them really captivating."
Her friends cheered her and the Oreo collection on. Janet Morse, a roomie of Webster's for over 20 years, said the book baste they both belong to made a special trip down to see the exhibit.
Soooooooooo....I'm actually not much for sweets. I'd be as happy with popcorn or chips. That said in our little downtown strip we have a candy store...that's more along the lines of old fashion candy. Stuff you can't typically find. For example their Salty Nut Bars are amazing....so amazing that I have to go stock up on a regular basis. My latest passion through them...they have this stuff that they put out near the cash register - it's this rice krispies (but not) covered in white, vanilla fudge? but not. I can't describe it and probably cannot recreate it at home. It's amazing. It's addictive. And if the little lady that runs the cash register leaned over and whispered "it's crack cocain, heroin really, dipped in vanilla fudge..." I would believe her. Because, seriously, the other night, when I had a flat tire and it was like 20 degrees out and snow flurringing (that's a word...look it up) I actully figured out I could make it there on foot in about 10 minutes if I preservered (that's a word too - I swear....look it up.) and then I could get my fix.
We have been remodeling our kitchen on the pay-as-you-can plan. It’s little by little, piece meal process, get a bid here, get a bid there, here a bid, there a bid everywhere a bid bid. Last November before the Forgotten Carols tour began in earnest we got a very cool, distressed black, massive cabinet that almost fills an entire wall (floor to ceiling, and the ceilings are nearly eleven feet). We’ve been figuring out which dishes to put on the shelves, which pots and pans to go in the cupboards, and what other decorative adornments make it say, Welcome to the McLean Kitchen…Cool isn’t it?
Thus far we’re pretty sure we’ve got the plates, bowls, cups and jars looking pretty hip and happening. On the opposite side of the kitchen, where the stoves and open shelving live, there’s spices, cookbooks, antique coddled egg makers, heirloom cookie jars and other items that either say, “look at me, aren’t I cool too” or “pick a recipe,get cookin’ it’s a kitchen and that’s what we do here”
To the south we have a really unusual old antique oak filing cabinet that used to be in my office. The upper section is like a card catalog that perfectly holds soup cans, pastas, tuna, canned chicken, stewed tomatoes and the like and in the lower pull out drawers we’ve housed the smaller kitchen appliances. It’s not in it’s final resting place because we’re still figuring out how many of the existing cabinets we’re keeping and if we can afford to open up a part of the west wall so you can see into the great room. Hold on, hold on, the bid will come.
I’m taking way to long to get the point. Forgive me, but I wanted to put my happy moment in context. Here was my joy today. Lynne bought a great big glass canister (maybe three gallon size) and I filled it with multi colored peanut M&Ms. It took a LOT of peanut M&Ms to fill that jar (thank you, Costco, for filling needs I never knew I had until I flashed my membership card at your entrance). But it was worth every penny. Walking into the kitchen and seeing that splash of colors all calling out like sirens of old: “melts in your mouth, not in your hands” would make anyone smile. But it did something even more special for me. You see, I adore the candy shelled, chocolate covered peanuts but I rarely get to eat very many because of my diabetes situation. So WHY, you may ask, would you find such happiness filling your kitchen entrance with enough candy to feed a months worth of Avatar 3D fans? Because tonight came the payoff to my investment. Meggan and Alex and the two grandkids came up for the weekend and one of the first things my son-in-law did before checking his facebook page on the computer in the kitchen was reach for a handful of M&Ms. With that first withdrawal from the candy jar came the filling of my well. There’s this moment of sweetness, free of charge and always available whenever you enter our kitchen. And now everyday I see it I’m reminded of something I want to offer anyone and everyone that enters my life…a moment of sweetness, free of charge and always available.
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Terrariums: Miniature gardens under glass But today's terrarium also slips into other forms, from powerful, family-size cookie jars to sleek, hanging glass vessels. The highest lazy garden for those who are short on time, who live in an apartment or who totally want more green, a terrarium can and more » |
