Use Your Words March 2020: Uh, Thanks?

Hey-O friends!

Today’s post is a writing challenge created by Karen @ Baking in A Tornado.  8 participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words for someone else to use in a post. All words must be used at least once. All posts will be different as each writer has received their own original set of words. No blogger knows who received their words or in what direction the writer will take them. Until today.  

My words are:

appeal ~ circumspect ~ savage ~ theory

They were submitted by: https://wanderingwebdesigner.com/blog

Thanks for the awesome words, Rena

Stay healthy, friends,
-Michele

Check out the other cool kids participating this month:

                   Baking in a Tornado

                   Spatulas on Parade

                   Wandering Web Designer

                   On the Border

                   Part-time Working Hockey Mom

                   Climaxed 

                   Sparkly Poetic Weirdo            

Words With Friends February 2020: Yum!

Hey-O friends!

Today’s post is a writing challenge created by Karen @ Baking in A Tornado.  10 participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words for someone else to use in a post. All words must be used at least once. All posts will be different as each writer has received their own original set of words. No blogger knows who received their words or in what direction the writer will take them. Until today.  

My words are:

triple, pairings, enjoyed, last, missive

They were submitted by: Jenn @

https://sparklyjenn.blogspot.com/ 
Thanks for the words, Jenn!

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Attention Employees: Read and memorize this week's missive via Chef Boyar-Jonah.

Chef Boyar-Jonah, circa 2008

Enjoy your weekend, friends,
-Michele

Check out the other cool kids participating this week:

                         Baking In A Tornado

                          Spatulas On Parade

                  Wandering Web Designer

                                  On The Border   

        Part-time Working Hockey Mom

                       Southern Belle Charm  

                                         Climaxed   

                       Sparkly Poetic Weirdo

                           Medicated Musings     

Use Your Words January 2020: The Skimpy

Hey-O friends!

Today’s post is a writing challenge created by Karen @ Baking in A Tornado.  9 participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words for someone else to use in a post. All words must be used at least once. All posts will be different as each writer has received their own original set of words. No blogger knows who received their words or in what direction the writer will take them. Until today.  

My words are:

meatballs ~ wrapping paper ~ Hamilton ~ Game Show Network ~ bathroom

They were submitted by:

http://mymedicatedmusings.blogspot.com 
Thanks for the words, Twinnie!

Pattern Story #12: Infomercial

Property of Butterick Pattern Service 1980s

Infomercial

Are you tired of the kids always stealing your towels?

Can you be sure that the towel on the floor is really clean?

Are your bathrobes at the cleaners?

Well, fret no more, grown-ups. Because now you can adorn yourself with 'The Skimpy.'

'The Skimpy' is just that. A scant piece of terrycloth that magically wraps around your body and snaps at your chest or waist. It covers just enough to keep your nosy neighbors from seeing your bits, while still keeping you and/or your man looking stylish.

'The Skimpy' can be worn at any time of the day!
You'll want to wear it:
* In the morning, before or after your shower.
* When you get home from work.
* When those pesky kids spill meatballs on your yoga pants.
* Even when you're staying in for the night and want something comfortable to wear while watching The Game Show Network!

Do you find yourself stumbling from your bathroom with no idea of what to wear?
Try 'The Skimpy!'
Are you looking for something to put on before you get ready for your child's school's version of "Hamilton?"
Try 'The Skimpy!'

Usually, 'The Skimpy' can be purchased for $1000.00. We're not selling it today for one thousand dollars. Not $500, or even the fabulous price of $100!!!
'The Skimpy' is available to YOU during the next 30 minutes only, for the low, low price of $29.99!

But wait! There's more!

Order two and we'll send you the second 'The Skimpy' for only $19.95! We'll even monogram your 'The Skimpy' for a small additional fee. 

It. Just. Doesn't. Stop.!

Order in the next 30 minutes and we'll even package your order in our famous Infomercial wrapping paper! Ask your operator for other unbelievable deals on 'The Skimpy' accessories. You'll be given our special pricing on hair wraps and spa sandals!

Remember, regular towels can belong to anyone. Bathrobes can be heavy and difficult to tie. 'The Skimpy,' will let everyone know you make your own choices in pre-clothing, and your choice is 'The Skimpy.'

Call us for your own 'The Skimpy' right now!
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Have a "dry" weekend, friends!

Michele

Don't forget to check out the cool kids who participated this month:

                        Baking in a Tornado

                        Spatulas on Parade

                        Wandering Web Designer

                        Southern Beller Charm

                        Part-Time Working Hockey Mom   

                        Climaxed  

                        Medicated Musings

                        On the Border     

Funny Friday October 2019: Hot Sauce!

Funny Friday, October 2019

Today’s post is this month’s Funny Friday, a regular feature published on the last Friday of every month. Funny Friday is a collaborative project. Each month one of the participants submits a picture, then we all write 5 captions or thoughts inspired by that month’s picture. Links to the other bloggers’ posts are below, click on them and see what they’ve come up with. I hope we bring a smile to your face as you start your weekend.

Here’s today’s picture. It was submitted by Karen of Baking In A Tornado.

1. Fashion Alert!!! "Hot Pants" are coming back, Spring 2020

2. I've been called a "smart a$$" before, but never a "spicy a$$." Is that a thing?

3. "If you're not wearing your Sriracha pants on Wednesdays, you can't sit with us."

4. Will my "Frank's Hot Sauce" sweater clash with these pants?

5. You think these are cute? Wait till you see my Soy Sauce slippers! (Kikkoman, of course!)

Click on the links below and let some other bloggers make you smile!

Baking In A Tornado

                    Spatulas on Parade  

Use Your Words October 2019 : I hate tomatoes.

Hey-O friends!
Today’s post is a writing challenge created by Karen @ Baking in A Tornado.  6 participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words for someone else to use in a post. All words must be used at least once. All posts will be different as each writer has received their own original set of words. No blogger knows who received their words or in what direction the writer will take them. Until today.   

My words are from the very sweet Tamara @ Part-Time Working Hockey Mom  Thanks, Tamara! Those were challenging words, but I loved them!

My words: advocate ~ innate ~ fortify ~ entity ~ toys ~ shrieking

Pattern Story #11 I hate tomatoes.

I'm not talking about the tomatoes that fortify your body with lycopene and potassium (although I'm not crazy about those either.) I'm talking about the little cushions one uses in sewing to hold pins. (View A in the pattern photo below.)

Pattern Property of McCall Pattern Company 2016

When I was in sixth grade, our class participated in various skills units, like wood-shop, cooking, and sewing. There probably were others, but the sewing class definitely sticks in my mind, because I was TERRIBLE at it. I'm not kidding. For our first project, we were taught how to make our very own pin cushion in the shape of yes, a tomato. 

The teacher, Mrs. Hill, carefully showed us each step in creating the project, then held up her own blue ribbon-worthy, perfectly round tomato pin cushion. There may have been oohs and ahhs, I can't recall everything. Finally, we were off to make our own. I thought I followed every direction. I cut, stuffed, and wrapped the fabric and string just like the teacher did in her directions. Looking around the class, I saw other students holding up their red entities with pride. Me? I held up a mess of stuffed, stretched fabric and thread cut into too many pieces. I slowly walked up to Mrs. Hill and watched as she put her hands to her cheeks and shook her head in disgust dismay. 

By now, my classmates were finished shrieking in delight at their creations. They had succeeded with their ripe, perfect, probably-soon-to-be-thrown-in-the-trash-after-class projects and were ready to move on. I was cursing my innate inability to reproduce a fabric, sawdust-filled piece of fake fruit from perfectly given directions.  I must admit, my tomato resembled a red egg. Or, as Mrs. Hill put it, my pin cushion looked "like a flat, pet rock". Thanks for that, "Teach."

Mrs. Hill may not have been her correct name, It's been almost 40 years since I sat in that class. But today, I can close my eyes and see her disappointment in that squishy mess. In the days that followed, while the other children were off on their next projects (probably sewing life-like toys or 17th century costumes; I don't know,) Mrs. Hill, whose job was to be an advocate of both home-made goods and children, (thank goodness!) spent a chunk of her time helping me turn my "pet rock" into a somewhat familiar-looking red orb. Where is it now? I have no idea. Funny what you choose to remember. (and forget.)

I'd like to tell you that as a seamstress or as a teacher who gives directions to little ones that I've overcome the disdain I hold for those tomatoes, but I'd be lying. I've never made one since. My pins are kept in bowls where I can easily grab them. The cushions I've accumulated over the years have been tag-a-longs from eBay sewing-kits, antique stores, or Joann's.  The middle one in the photo above belonged to my husband's grandmother. (Okay, I actually love THAT one.)

So you might ask me, "Why/When/How in the world did you even start to sew after such a disastrous experience? You know the kind, Michele. The experiences where you can still remember small details 40 years later? The kind when you recall a particular failure, you feel the shame of it late at night?"

My only answer is that I learned to master it like anything else in my life. 
Out of spite.
:)

My REAL sewing buddy/pet rock, Tom. Tom-ato. Never forget.

Have a "fruitful" weekend friends,

Michele

Check out the other cool kids playing "Use Your Words" this month!

       Baking In a Tornado

       Wandering Web Designer

       Spatulas on Parade

       On the Border

       Climaxed     

       Part-Time Working Hockey Mom    

       

Use Your Words: September 2019: Two Closets are better than one.

Today’s post is a writing challenge created by Karen @ Baking in A Tornado.  6 participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words for someone else to use in a post. All words must be used at least once. All posts will be different as each writer has received their own original set of words. No blogger knows who received their words or in what direction the writer will take them. Until today.   

My words are from our lovely host, Karen@
https://Bakinginatornado.com 

 evidence ~ eggs ~ energy ~ enjoy ~ economy

 Thank you, Karen!

Pattern Story #9


Narrator: This winter on Lifetime:
 In a world...
Where 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce.
Where style and fashion are all around us and fabric choices are wide and abundant...
Where makeover shows are literally creating whole networks...

We follow six couples in crisis. Husbands that have lost their energy.  Wives who are on the edge of calling their relationships quits.

Can two people who used to enjoy the company of each other find connection again?
In this economy, can these marriages be saved?

Find out this and much more with both our marriage/therapy/style experts and the easter eggs we leave along all season.

Lifetime TV and you can help also solve these problems:

Can these couples rediscover love?

Will each spouse find evidence of their individuality again?

Is there enough style sense and ego in the world to know?

Tune in this winter to find out what these duos might discover ...

From the creators of "What Not to Wear Now" and "Project Runaway From my Closet!" and from the producers of "Our Multiple Marriages,"

Lifetime brings you:

*"Get Your Own Darn Wardrobe!!": the Marriage edition.
"Can our marriage be the same without us looking the same?"

Only this winter
and only on Lifetime.

1991 Butterick Company 

McCall Pattern Company NY 1985

Simplicity Pattern Company 1969

*Do you and your spouse literally share a closet? Write to us online and let us know if we can help you "Get Your Own Darn Wardrobe!". Lifetime.com. Name, participants and topics are subject to change.

Be you and have a wonderful. weekend, friends!
-Michele

Check the other participants out and see what words they got and how they used them.  

   

Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

                       Baking In A Tornado

              Wandering Web Designer

                     Spatulas on Parade

                             On the Border   

     Part-Time Working Hockey Mom  

                                  Climaxed              

Funny Friday: August 2019

Hey-O friends. 

Thanks for stopping by for today's post. On a personal note, I'd like to thank those of you who (on the blog and in private) sent their condolences after my Grandfather's passing. Your simple words of kindness meant and continue to mean so much. 

Funny Friday, August 2019

Today’s post is this month’s Funny Friday, a regular feature published on the last Friday of every month. Funny Friday is a collaborative project. Each month one of the participants submits a picture, then we all write 5 captions or thoughts inspired by that month’s picture. Links to the other bloggers’ posts are below, click on them and see what they’ve come up with. I hope we bring a smile to your face as you start your weekend.

Here’s today’s picture. It was submitted by Karen of Baking In A Tornado.

1. Old MacDonald found a beach, E. I. E. I. O.

2. "We do not think this means what you think it means." -every fish farmer, probably

3.  "Hey Jim! I'd love to meet up Saturday morning. How about on the beach at 8? Oh, and don't forget to bring that cute John, dear! Love, Barbara"
After re-reading Barbara's note, Farmer Jim realized two mistakes. One, he needed to pay better attention to grammar. Two, Jim needed to have a serious talk with his twin brother, John.

4. This is what happens when you find your dream "surfer dude" on FARMERSONLY.COM

5. "Hello, Animal Control? There is a loose "Deere" on the beach."

Click on the links below and let some other bloggers make you smile:

          Baking In A Tornado

          Spatulas on Parade  

             

Have a wonderful weekend, friends!
-Michele