Thanksgiving 2011

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Holiday. 

I broke bread with relatives and thoroughly enjoyed it all, the food and the company.

I presented the hostess with a couple of my handmade gifts. 

I'd been making t-shirt scarves which I had planned to sell on etsy.com but some things came up robbing me of my mojo and so I gave some of them away.



I'd wanted to give her a scarf I'd made for Classic weekend depicting  her college colors black and gold (no photo) for Alabama State University but, I messed around and didn't get it to her.
Some of the others I've given away are pictured below

  With the holiday season upon us there's quite a bit I have to choose from for this week.

Wed. Nov. 30th Noon.* Storyteller Dolores Hycock performs Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory

Wed. Nov. 30th 7pm. * Bartow Arena.  The three hikers freed after being held in Iran will speak

Wed. Nov. 30th 7:30 pm. *Norton Campus Center @ B'ham Southern College. Kwanzaa Celebration

Thurs. Dec. 1st 7pm. * Alabama School of Fine Arts Holiday Music Performance

Thurs. Dec. 1st 7:30pm * Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall  UAB Guitar Ensembles
Sun. Dec. 4th 2-4pm *Holiday Craft Bazaar

BLACK FRIDAY IN 5 STEPS

1.Suit up

2.Prepare for battle.

3. Enter the fray
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4. FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!

 If you survive it would be wise to do # 5, just in case.

5.Get checked out for broken bones, concussions and missing body parts.

I think we're done here***

Newspaper Rolls for Pets

I try to recycle as much as possible.  I came across a way to usefully recycle my home newspaper and help an animal in the process along with the people who care for them. When an animal comes into the Greater Birmingham Humane Society  a cage is prepared for it using old newspapers which I'm sure makes for  faster bed making and  more efficient clean up.  Preparation takes time.  Having the necessary items ready to go is helpful.

Making Newspaper Rolls for Pets

I also have some documents I have been shredding and plan to take the shredded paper over also. 

I've made sure there are no staples before shredding. That could harm the animal and my shredder.

I keep my papers that are to be recycled in a recyclable shopping bag.  There's a Catholic Church about 3 miles down from where I live that has a newspaper recycling bin. The plastic covers you see on these papers will be removed before I toss the papers. I recycle whenever the bags begins to get heavy and I will be traveling the way of the recycle bin.  I don't make special trips for this .

According to the video, the slick colored papers should be removed.  I'm assuming that they don't absorb as well.

Open the pages of the newspaper and layer them until they are about  1/2" to 1" thick. Roll the papers from the end and tie with string or use a rubber band.   

Here's one of my finished rolls tied with tee shirt string.I have plenty of this tee shirt string from making tee shirt scarves.



Finished newspaper rolls

When I finish shredding the documents I'll take the bedding along with the newspaper rolls (I'll probably have even more by that time) over to the GBHS.