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1. Preheat your oven to 250.
2. Spread out about 50 tiny twists rold gold pretzels on parchment paper lines cookie sheet.
3. Unwrap 50 individual rolo candies (a 12 ounce bag) and place in the center of each pretzel.
4. Put tray in oven for 4-6 minutes (enough to get the rolo soft and squishable).
5. Take tray out of oven and smoosh pecan halves on top of each rolo, pressing down to fill in the holes of the pretzel.
6. Let cool. Can refrigerate to cool. Sit out a little bit before eating, cause the caramel inside the rolo will get tough from being in the fridge.
7. Yum!

By the time the oven's preheated, you're ready to put the tray in. The hardest part of the whole recipe was unwrapping all those rolos!

I came across a recipe that's worth sharing. I found it this afternoon and it was ready for sampling by dinner time. A perfect, sweet and light festive bread: Pumpkin Cranberry Bread.


The list of ingredients are simple and the bread is ready in an hour. It's as easy as mixing your dry ingredients into the wet and baking. I opted for pumpkin pie spice instead of the cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg since I would only have to buy one package of spice instead of three. I used sweetened dried cranberries and pecans.


This was done for a bake sale, so I divided the batter among six mini-loaf foil pans. I still had enough left over to make six muffins for me to enjoy.

The TV show Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel really is as good as everyone's saying. Watch it.

After what has been the longest hiatus possible, CraftPOP.com has re-opened for accepting submissions. CraftPOP.com is a link directory of popular homemade arts, crafts, hobbies, ideas, and other DIY resources. It's been fine-tuned and ready for new link additions, so make sure your site of great craft and do-it-yourself projects is included!

I took a stab at dying my own yarn with kool-ade. Photos and experience up on my projects page: Kool-Ade Yarn!

Photography Tips -- How To Take And Sell Photos - full of information.

Another gem from youtube: Cross Country Drive + Time Lapse Video Apparently it's a music video for the song "Behind" by Lacquer, but it's still a great video.

Most creative idea ever: Inserting misc souvenirs into photos in place of the real thing. Genius!

An update to the first lanyard I made a few months ago. This one can be worn as a necklace too, since my work IDs can just hook onto the strand.

Thanks to jezzjazz for solving my flower mystery! that gorgeous flower is a Passion fruit flower! How in the world did that end up in North Alabama?

Near my dad's office is a big pile of dirt covered with this flower. I think it's gorgeous, but I don't have a clue what it is... does anyone know?

front view:

and, back view (just as pretty):

Just over a year ago, my mother's best friend was violently attacked in her home and nearly died. Today, she's in the middle of a trial with her accused attacker, and the guy is claiming insanity.

Still my favorite group pool at Flickr: Transparent Screens.

craftmedia.org, courtesy of bluishorange, is a newish blog for sharing crafty links. so far, good stuff.

I've been at my "new" job for three months now, and I'm still using the metal chain issued with my ID card on my first day of work:

Now that I'm done with school for the semester, I had some free time last night to string together something better:

I took some Beadalon wire and strung multi-colored glass seed beads on it. I threaded a larger silver bead toward the bottom and created a loop where my ID could hook on. Voila -- now I've got style!