Featherstone Quiltworks

I’ll confess right off the bat — I got this “recipe” from Judy Laquidara’s blog, Patchwork Times.  There are variations all over blogland, but here’s what I like:

Homemade Hand Cream #1

This makes a heavier cream, excellent for wintertime and WONDERFUL for your feet.

16 oz. baby lotion
8 oz. Vaseline
8 oz. Vitamin E Cream (can usually find at dollar stores)

Whip these three ingredients together with your electric mixer until well mixed.  Put into 1-cup wide-mouth canning jars (my new favorite way) or into travel-size plastic containers.

Tip:  To get the cream into small-necked containers, scoop the lotion into a large zipper-type bag and cut out a corner.  Roll the top of the bag down securely so it doesn’t open up on you when you’re squeezing the lotion out the corner opening.

Homemade Hand Cream #2

This makes a lighter-weight cream, still excellent.  The only difference is the amount of Vaseline.

16 oz. baby lotion
4 oz. Vaseline
8 oz. Vitamin E Cream

Whip these three ingredients together with your electric mixer until well mixed.  Put into 1-cup wide-mouth canning jars (my new favorite way) or into travel-size plastic containers.

And a REMINDER:  Click here if you haven’t entered my give-away.  (Comments must be on the original posting to be eligible to win the prize, so comments on this particular post are closed.)

–Sue

Give-away ends Friday noon (Minneapolis time — CDT) August 12th.  Here is the basket to be given away:

Besides the teapot, there are two china mugs, napkins, note cards, honey sticks, a dishtowel, a basket, fabric (t/b/d) and an assortment of tea.

For information about entering the contest, click HERE.

Good Luck!

–Sue

It must be time for a give-away! No good reason — just “because”!

I’ve mentioned that we had some interior painting done a couple of weeks ago.  Painting necessitated moving EVERYTHING in the kitchen/living room/dining room, and we have a lot of stuff.  The biggest challenge was the display of teapots I have above the kitchen cabinets.  I don’t know how many times I was up and down the ladder, but it was a lot!  Then the job of washing everything.  Followed by climbing up and down the ladder countless more times to put everything back.

But a couple of things happened that week:

1)  I counted my teapots.

2)  I decided I could spare one. It’s a brand-new Hues N Brews 40-ounce teapot (with infuser) that I forgot I had!  It’s been in the china cabinet, waiting for its very first Tea Party.  It’s pretty cool.  It has a basket for loose tea right inside the pot.  It has that mid-century look, and reminds me of Fiesta Ware, only in a pastel (if you want the orange one, you’ll have to get it yourself from Amazon!).

So the commenter who has the closest guess of “How Many Teapots Does Sue Have In Her Kitchen” will receive a gift basket including the above-pictured teapot and some other tea-related goodies, and of course some fabric.  (In case of a tie, I will go to a random number generator site to break the tie.)

Now, a few of you have been in my house.  I’ve never noticed anyone counting teapots.  Plus, they have not all been visible at one time.  Plus, it has been an expanding collection!

SO, to help level the playing field, here are a couple of pictures I had on my blog in the past showing a sampling:

and another…

So what time is it? For the person who has the closest guess, it’s TEA TIME!

Leave me a comment with your best guess of the number of teapots I have in my kitchen.  Comments will close at 12:00 CDT (noon) Friday, August 12, 2011.  One entry per person.  Good Luck!

(Your guess must be entered as a comment to this post to be eligible.)

–Sue

First of all, a big THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by and took the time to enter.  It was a lot of fun to read the comments and see who was “in the neighborhood”!

I did the drawing this morning by www.random.org.  I set the parameters to 1 through 66 (inclusive), choosing three numbers lottery style (where numbers wouldn’t be repeated).  (And a side note:  the three numbers came up in numerical order.  I double and triple checked, and it is a coincidence that our winners are in ascending order.)

And, the winners are…

13, 22, and 62!!!  Oh, I guess you probably want names.  The winners (who have already been notified by e-mail) are…

First Prize:  #13, Freda Henderson — wins the template sets and a rotary cutter

Second Prize:  #22, Lori in SD — wins the Minnesota Moda charm pack

Third Prize:  #62, thepricklypinecone — wins the 8 x 10 Monarch Butterfly print

Congratulations to the winners!  And if you were one of the first 30 to comment, you win a shop-hop charm!  Please take a moment to click on the “contact me” button at the top of the page and send me your name and mailing address.  If I haven’t heard from you by Thursday, I will send individual e-mails.

Thank you, everyone!

–Sue

This week I’m celebrating hitting my 500th post.  (C’mon, it’s hot and humid — we need to have a little fun!)

So here’s some useless, but hopefully interesting, information about my blog.  In the admin part of my blog, the counter page keeps track of some data about my visitors.  This is a good time to tell you that, no, I can’t see who you are by just you visiting my site, but it does keep track of things like what people may have searched for to arrive at my blog.

After “Featherstone Quiltworks”, the next most searched-for term is “Fruit Ladies”.  This tells me that a lot of people bought this fabric because it is so fun (that’s why I bought it), but then what to do with it???  Here’s what I did with mine:

I made a picnic/beach “blanket”.  I had been collecting the various fruit fabrics, so it was just a matter of finding the wicker fabric.  If you haven’t seen the “Fruit Ladies”, here’s a close-up of the border print:

And the other half of celebrating is a give-away!  Click on the button below and Mona the Monarch will lead you to the give-away post.  One entry per person, please.

Thanks for stopping by, and good luck!

–Sue