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Paper Straw Snowflakes | Centsational Girl
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By Kate Riley •. November 16, 2011. Last summer, I kept seeing cute paper straws popping up in tablescapes and at summer parties, and I couldn’t help but think they’d be so fun to craft with during the holidays, especially in the traditional Christmas colors of red and white. To me, they look just like peppermint sticks! First things first. Take four pipe cleaners and twist them around each other at the center to form the basic snowflake shape. Next, cut your straws to desired length, allowing ab...Now f...
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Buttons Thoughts: Getting along.....
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Sunday, June 28, 2015. Untwisting the chains that tie. The hidden soul of harmony. Friday evening, I sat at my window gazing at the cows that were grazing in the pastures. My eyes darted to the field directly in front of the bush. There seemed to be a lot of activity going on there. That was when I saw the most wondrous sight. It made me think about the way our world could/should be. I have always believed that animals can teach us a thing or two about living in our human world. By that time, I had pulle...
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Buttons Thoughts: Another early morning, with benefits……
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Friday, October 10, 2014. Another early morning, with benefits……. If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving. With the crock pot simmering I have to tackle that sweet tooth and then there is always a need for something with that soup, cornmeal biscuits should work. Now this is fun I should get up very every morning to look for things that are not there. This turned out to be a day with many benefits and it has only begun. I am off. Thanks Pearly for the inspiration. Lisa @ Two Bears Farm.
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Buttons Thoughts: Train to Vancouver! (End of the Line) 11
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Friday, May 25, 2012. End of the Line) 11. 8216;Tis here they say the journey ends. And little doubt it must be so;. But, as I tell my bestest friends,. I hate to go. It is about 11 pm on our last night of this incredible journey it is as if the universe knows that and provides a final gift of moonbeams dancing off the water of this still lake, I am so grateful for the light, it is so beautiful. After the sun rise in the morning we will have about three hours till we reach Vancouver. Friday, May 25, 2012.
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Buttons Thoughts: Lifebuoy Soap!
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Monday, March 21, 2011. Thou fond deceiver.". After seeing this cup on a shelf one day with my Mother, I remember. The nice scum it would leave on your body after your Sunday bath just before the Ed Sullivan Show. You being the last person to sit in the gigantic metal tub after nine kids had bathed before. The nice way it made your hair stand straight up after washing. The wonderful taste of it, if you were silly enough to swear at your Mother. Yes I know why my Mother keeps looking for it in the store.
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Buttons Thoughts: This time of year....
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Monday, August 10, 2015. This time of year. Find your place and hold it;. Find your work and do it. And put everything you got into it. This certainly is a busy time of year. The harvest season, at least around this area, has big tractors driving up and down the road in every direction. Rumbling, and bouncing over the gravel and potholes, spilling golden wheat seed from over flowing grain wagons. It is truly a beautiful sight. So my friends…. Watch out for those big tractors hauling the harvest...By now,...
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Buttons Thoughts: Later!
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011. I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart,. That shows at the same time pearls of the soul. I am sitting at the kitchen table watching the news on the little TV, Ottawa is going to have a wicked snow storm, and roads may be closed. Other areas will be getting freezing rain, and high winds. I look out my window and see flurries, there is a little bit of snow covering parts of the green grass. Wednesday, December 28, 2011. December 28, 2011 9:44 AM. Awww, mine are ...
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Buttons Thoughts: Little Things...
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Life is hardly respectable if it has no generous task,. No duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existence. Every man’s task is a life preserver. With the lunches packed behind the seat of my tractor and the baler dragging behind, I drive through and around the cows in the lane. The weatherman was right, lots of sun and strong winds make this day look promising. It is noon and the rain should begin around 7, if that satellite shot was right. I jump out of the t...
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Buttons Thoughts: The NO story, story...
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Monday, December 22, 2014. The NO story, story. But that is another story. The ice on the puddles, the frost on the weeds and a complete lack of snow that lies just outside the window has me puzzled. Why I am sitting in a truck, huddled in a blanket, munching a sandwich five days before Christmas? I know you are wondering the same thing. I sit here huddled in the truck munching a delicious sandwich, wishing I had of packed a thermos of tea, dreaming of that bag of jelly beans sitting on the kitchen count...
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Buttons Thoughts: A true fighter......
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Sunday, June 21, 2015. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. On Friday June 19. In the middle of the night, a blonde first time Mom who had been abandoned shortly after her own birth on a blustery cold winter’s day long ago, presented our farm with a blonde haired, brown- eyed bundle of cuteness. This little heifer will be named Betty. She is named after my best friend since we were five years old BA. BA came to visit the farm just after Annie was born to help wit...
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