Memories For Life-Etsy Blogger for August

The featured Etsy Blogger for August is Memories For Life.  You can check out her blog HERE.
At the Etsy shop Memories For Life you will find beautiful handmade scrapbooks, notebooks and loads of other items.

I love this one

Baby Girl's Fir...
memoriesforl...	$25.00 USD

and this one

Summer Joy Scrapboo...
memoriesforl...	$20.00 USD

and this recipe book

Family Favorites Re...
memoriesforl...	$5.00 USD

and this flip-flop scrapbook would appeal to any Disney kid, even grown up ones.

Scrapbook Album-Mic...
memoriesforl...	$20.00 USD

You can also order custom made albums so check out her shop!

Etsy Bloggers August 31 Edition

Welcome to the August 31, 2009 edition of etsybloggers.

Elayne Teitelbaum presents ChezChani: Food For Thought posted at ChezChani.

Trina Baker presents Etsy Blog Carnival » gallery32 posted at gallery32.

Two Zany Zebras presents I love SUSHI posted at Two Zany Zebras.

Athena Workman presents August 28th Etsybloggers Blog Carnival: Ode to a Potato posted at the weblog of artist athena workman.

cindy devine presents Etsy bloggers-blog carnival-my favorite thing to cook posted at Devine Designs Jewelry.

Stormy Designs presents My favorite food is... posted at Stormy Designs.

Lily Wrey presents etsyBloggers August 28th, 2009 Blog Carnival posted at TuLips Talking.

Lauren presents Back to School - EtsyBloggers Blog Carnival posted at Lost Mitten.

VeryVerdant presents Progress Report posted at Very Verdant.

agoodwitchtoo presents Back to School Drives Me Bananas! posted at The Copper Cauldron.

Linda B presents My Take on Back to School posted at Linda B's Blog.

Linda Wheelock presents Spotted Cow Soaps: Going Back to School posted at Spotted Cow Soaps.

Laurie Jackson presents The Trifle Recipe posted at Indulge Your Shelf.

SoBella Creations presents First Day of School posted at SoBella Creations.

Alicia Mae presents EtsyBloggers Carnival August 28- favorite food posted at Crafts and Cooking.

Lois presents Monday Morning Musings: I ♥ Kugel posted at Foxy G's Den of i-KNIT-quity.

Chrissy P. presents Good Morning!!! posted at The Felted Chicken

Vanessa presents Back To School posted at Designs by Vanessa.

PurrPrints presents My fave food, turned into a new fave find posted at PurrPrints: Art, Cats, and Randomness.

Elise presents Mock Apple Bars (or, is there anything you CAN’T do with zucchini?) posted at Inside Betani's Bureau.

Margaret Freije presents Summer Tomatoes posted at Splendid Little Stars

Kathy and Carrie presents It's back to school time..... posted at CalKat The Jewelry Junkie.

Sandy Simpson presents C H O C O L A T E . posted at Punky Jane.

Sandi Myers presents August 28 Blog Carnival Favorite Food – The T-Shirt Lady posted at The T-Shirt Lady

Karen aka MysticWynd presents My Favorite Foods From A-Z posted at Mystic Wynd.

sara presents Back to school: What does it mean to ME? posted at Momwithahook Crochet

Rose Works Jewelry presents Back to School - Etsy Bloggers Carnival posted at A Jedi's Musings.

Jimena presents Back to school: What does it mean to me? posted at Panoptica.

Ellen Behm presents Back to School posted at Down the Street Creations.

shellmitchell presents Back to School posted at Shell Mitchell Accessories and Design.

storybeader presents Etsybloggers Carnival - Aug. 28, 2009 posted at Stroll Through Storyland

Glorybe1024 presents Aug 28 Blog Carnival - Favorite Food posted at Lucky Ladybug Designs.

Julie Gazin presents School?s In?.Freedom! posted at Stitches by Julie.

Cheryl Patterson presents Do You Have a Favorite Food? posted at FeltSewGood.

Andrea presents Quick and Easy Recipes for Back-to-School posted at Rock-a-Baby Clothing Co..

Zertuchina presents Favorite Food posted at Zertuchina.

UberArt presents Back to School posted at UberArt Shop.

Brenda/Split Rock Ranch presents Etsy Bloggers Blog Carnival posted at Split Rock Ranch.

Alison DeCamp presents EtsyBloggers...Blog Carnival...Back to School posted at Glass Ali.

Rainy presents Favorite Food Blog Carnival posted at RainyDayArt.

Five O'Clock Somewhere presents Blog Carnival - My Favorite Food posted at Five O'Clock Somewhere.

Kathy Johnston (Cozy) presents That Time posted at A Cozy Life.

TiLTcreations presents Etsyblogger Carnival: Back to School posted at Crafts, kids, home and life.

Tammy presents tamdoll's workspace: Back to School = Getting Organized! posted at tamdoll's workspace.

Now let's go visit our teammates blogs and read this edition of the EtsyBloggers Blog Carnival!.

Technorati tags: etsybloggers, blog carnival.

Hummingbird photos

I have been trying off & on for a few weeks now, to get a few photos of the hummingbirds that frequent my feeders.  I have 2 feeders that hang under my awning that's outside my front window.  The photos that I took from inside came out blurry, due to the screen and glass in the way.
Well, today I filled my feeders back up, as they were nearly empty, and I sat outside with my chair and camera like I had a few days ago.  That time was unsuccessful, every time a bird came I had just turned my camera off to save the batteries.  Bad timing for sure!  Anyway, today I managed to snap a few photos of one little hummingbird that hung around long enough for me to turn my camera on & adjust to action photo setting.

Now, mind you, I'm sitting 8 feet away and using a 5.2 MP digital camera and not using the zoom.
Here's another one, the same bird.

It's keeping an eye on the yellow jacket that's on top of the feeder.  See it? 

I wasn't sure that I "got" this next photo until I uploaded the photos to my computer.  The hummingbird flew towards me and hovered for a few seconds as if to say hello.  They do this quite frequently.  Curious maybe?  Anyway, here it is, hovering.

See it there?  Just left of the center of the photo.  I snapped the photo and the bird flew off.  Then I sat for another half hour and didn't see any more hummingbirds.  But of course, within minutes of coming inside another bird came along.

Hopefully I'll be able to take some better photos soon.  I sure enjoy watching these little birds.

NEW Flowery Post Earrings

I finally have something new listed in my ArtFire store.

Flowery Post Ea...
Price: $6.00

My favorite food is...

My favorite food is....

CHOCOLATE

I am obsessed with it.  Not just chocolate candy but anything chocolate or chocolate covered.  Well, almost anything chocolate covered.  I sure wouldn't eat any of those chocolate covered bugs or some other gross thing like that.  Be it a chocolate bar (don't ask my favorite brand of chocolate because I have several) or chocolate cake or brownies, it's all good.  What type of chocolate I eat depends on my mood, you know?  Sometimes I'm in the mood for a dark semi-sweet and other times a Swiss chocolate or a creamy milk chocolate.  Yes, I am a chocoholic.  I admit it.

Anyway, since chocolate is my favorite food I'll share one of my favorite chocolate recipes.

Chocolate Fudge Pie

1 stick margarine-melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs-beaten
1/4 cup flour
1/4  cup cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix  half of sugar with margarine & eggs.  Mix in the rest of the sugar, cocoa & flour.  Beat well.  Pour into a pre-baked pie crust.  Bake for approx. 40 min. at 325°. 
Great served warm with vanilla icecream or whipped cream. 

Nuts in the cemetary

On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. 'One for you, one for me One for you, one for me,' said one boy. Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, 'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.' He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. 'Come here quick,' said the boy, 'you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls..' The man said, 'Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk.' When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard , 'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.' The old man whispered, 'Boy, you've been tellin' me the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord.' Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, 'One for you, one for me. That's all. Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done.'
They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike.