We all have our own Thanksgiving traditions – grandma’s stuffing, whole turkey or turkey breast, apple pie vs. pumpkin. This bread will be a new tradition in the old homestead – a moist cranberry and walnut wonder – perfect in the morning with a cup of coffee before you hit the ground running! Continue reading
I haven’t gotten over Halloween yet!
Buried under the throw on the back of the sofa.
Plywood the Tabby
We can’t all be born with fabulous powers or be bitten by radioactive spiders. We don’t wake up one day with six-pack abs or a physique that defies gravity. Some of us need a little help and advertisers in comics were well aware of it.
Now that the weather is getting chilly, it’s always nice to have an apple oatmeal muffin to go with your morning coffee. They have a wonderful texture from the oats, a hint of cinnamon, and they’re bursting with chunks of juicy apples. You could also swap out the apples for pears or cranberries! Continue reading
Two hundred and seventeen in a continued series creating a collage using five elements.
The advertisements in girl comics were always different. Whereas ads in boy’s comics appealed to hapless adventurers with home built go-kart kits, antisocial ne’er-do-wells with practical jokes and future glue sniffers who had prurient interests with x-ray spectacles, girl ads were all about self image. They were either about finger nails, weight gaining secrets for the scrawny or miraculous reducing techniques for the girls that think 5 pounds is going to make the difference between being a wallflower or the belle of the sock hop.
…and it’s GUARANTEED! Continue reading
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