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Oh, yea!

“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.”
~ Fernand Point

mjjj”If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them [...]

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Fellowship Dinner

Tonight is our monthly fellowship dinner at our church.  There is nothing better getting together with folks you love and EATING.  Especially when there are others to help with the clean-up.
I’m bringing:

Nachos with Beef and Black Beans
Pica de Gallo
Refrigerator Pickles
White Cake with Fruit Topping <courtesy of Princess the Baker>
Escalloped Tomatoes

After moving to the [...]

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Snobbery hurts the snob!

I had a life lesson this week.
Frequently I’ll search blogs for tea party ideas and this week I stumbled across one for a self-avowed Tea Lover.  Right.  Tea Snob is a better description.  Why, you ask?  The author spewed on and on over several posts about the inferior quality of store-bought bagged tea and even [...]

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Art Every Day Month 2008

I have decided to commit to Art Every Day Month 2008 which starts (eek!) tomorrow, November 1st. I’m probably more suited to NaNoWriMo, but my kind of writing is more along the lines of short, non-fiction pieces and the thought of attempting to write a novel in a year, let alone a month, is [...]

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Time to start blogging again!

I’ve neglected this blog for far too long. Too many vain attempts to be pithy and important that came off sounding self-important and silly.
Duh. It finally came to me. I was trying to force my own creativity. Which is insane… I don’t think creative things can be manipulated, they have [...]

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Creative Decorating

Table centerpieces don’t need to be expensive floral creations.

This one on my dining room table (aka the school table) serves a double purpose. It entices my three children to eat fruit!

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Setting the Scene

Isn’t this a pretty breakfast setting?
p. 122Dishes should be a part of the background for the colours of the food, and as one chooses dishes there should be some variety — even if the dishes are polished peices of wood, shells, or large leaves from the jungle! Not only does this give interest, [...]

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Commercial Break

This is a public service announcement reminding all readers that this blog is written for both MEN and WOMEN.
Enriching Everyday Life is NOT a blog devoted solely to women’s issues, women’s place in the home, or women as the primary home keeper.
All of God’s people, created in His image, have the in-born desire to create. [...]

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The Incredible, Readable Blog

Laurie, blogging in Japan at Blue Forest Soapbox, left me a comment!
I came across your blog “accidentally” when someone looking up Edith Schaffer linked us both up on the same page. We seem to share a lot of interests even though you are a young mother in Kentucky and i am an older mother in [...]

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