Newletter #1

Hello, my first post in my new blog. So a little about myself - I love crafts and crafting. My favorites are tole/decorative painting, wood working, and making earrings for myself. Right now my friends and I have a "Christmas Craft Store" in the local shopping mall. We have done this for the past 4 years, from Oct/Nov. to sometimes the end of Jan. We call ourselves the "Palette Pals" (we all paint). This year however we have added new friends who crochet, make jewelry, write books, sew and make christmas decorations from glass blocks. I have a web store: http://www.audreyscountrycrafts.etsy.com/.

Check it out!!

I've been busy crafting and setting up a new web shoppe:

www.ezshoppes.com/shoppe/default.asp?sid=AudreysCountryCrafts.

Some new things I've been painting:

The bottom picture is painted on a cupboard door.

RECIPE OF THE WEEK!!

TWEETIES

1/2 c. margarine 2 stiffly beaten egg whites

2/3 c. sugar 2 egg yolks

1 c. milk 1/3 c. margarine

1 1/2 c. flour 1 1/2 c. icing sugar

1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 c. chocolate chips

2 tsp. baking powder 2 tbsp. margarine

1/2 c. chocolate chips

Cream margarine and sugar slowly. Add flour, baking powder and salt alternately with the milk. Fold in 1/2 cup chocolate chips and stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake at 350 F. for 25-30 minutes; cool. Mix together the egg yolks, 1/3 c margarine and icing sugar. Spread on cake. Melt 1/2 cup chocolate chips with 2 tbsp. margarine and spread over top. Allow to set and cut in squares.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:

People laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same.