Send your special someone a living rose plant bursting with yellow blooms that will brighten up your loved one’s day for weeks instead of just days. Plant measures 4″ x 8″ and arrives in a stylish white cachepot.
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• Recipe: Pickled Asparagus with Lemon, Tarragon and Garlic
With such delight do we Michiganders greet the first asparagus of the season! It is among the earliest crops here in the Great Lakes region, and when asparagus arrives, we can be sure that it really is, truly is, spring. April’s fits and starts, clotty snows and mucky mud, can deter the belief that winter is over. But asparagus? Well, asparagus does not lie.
Old-time Michigan rural folks called asparagus “speary-grass,” a nickname that makes sense when you consider its growth habits. (In the
A mother and daughter enjoy their long arm quilting machine.
Many people piece their quilts together on the sewing machine; regular sewing machines are excellent for this. Some standard sewing machines can also handle the actual quilting process—sewing the top, batting, and bottom of the quilt together with a plain or decorative stitching pattern. However, a large comforter is difficult to quilt by machine because of the lack of room on the machine bed. Feeding a very thick batting through a standard sewing machine can also be difficult.
If you do a lot of quilting, you may want to consider a long arm quilting machine. A
Where is the next generation of fashion designers coming from?
Maybe your home.
The website FashionPlaytes.com allows girls to flex their burgeoning fashionista muscles by choosing a basic garment , then adding their own flavor with different colors, ribbons, appliqués, rhinestones, ruffles and buttons. A website avatar can even “model” the creations.
Once a look is completed, save it to a “Wish List” or send it in for construction. And before you can say “Tim Gunn,” the outfit is shipped to your home within two to three weeks.
“I found it because she was always creating her own outfits,” says Weston, Fla., mom Lori Lipkin about her daughter, Sabrina.