Egg Noodles

    In an effort to keep up with the girl's phenomenal laying, Mom and I have been making a bunch of egg recipes. (and have been adding an extra egg, most of the time.) One of the recipes we've tried was egg noodles. Which led to use having to find ways to use the noodles. The easiest thing we made was soup. The sort of recipe for soup is after the one for noodles.
                 
                                                 Egg    Noodles
                              2c. flour                                                 1t. salt
                               2 eggs.                                                   water

    Sift flour into a bowl. Add eggs and salt. If it's not liquid enough to make a stiff dough add water one 1t. at a time. Work the dough well with your hands and drop onto a lightly floured board. Roll it out thin (about 1/16") with a rolling pin. Cover and let dry for 30 minutes. Cut the dough lengthwise into 2" stripes. Roll one strips up and cut as narrow or as thin as you want. Repeat for the rest of the strips.  Makes about 4 cups. 

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     Chicken Noodle Soup.

   Mom made chicken stock by boiling left over chicken parts (bones and such.) in water with some pepper and salt. But you can use chicken breasts or legs if you prefer. Once that's done, take out the meat and add your vegetables carrots and celery stuff like that, and get your seasoning right. While that simmers you debone your chicken. When your carrots are tender add your frozen vegetables, peas, corn, whatever you like. Cook for a couple minutes then add the meat and the noodles.  Simmer for another five minutes or until the noodles are tender.
It's not really an exact science.

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Morning Glories, Sweet Potatoes, and a sale

   Morning Glories and Sweet Potatoes are very similar. Both have heart shaped leaves, similar looking flowers, and are (at least in my case) highly invasive. I planted few Morning Glory seeds last year and now I have them coming up in any pot that was near them last year (even ones I don't remember being near them) and in the yard. Most notably within one of my mother's Avocado planters, one of her pepper pots and the Plumeria's pot. There are two growing there. They are very pretty plants, and I like them despite their unruly growth habit, but Mom's getting rather sick of them.

  The Sweet Potatoes are another matter... We planted some bits of sweet potatoes that had grown sprouts the year before last and each year since we've had long woody vines threatening to take over the garden bed. Which I'd wouldn't mind as much if we could eat the potatoes the plants grew. But for some reason the tubers we dig up in the fall are stunted, shriveled monstrosities that have weird black spots on them and taste terrible. I don't know if there is some sort of grub in the garden that chews on the tubers or if there isn't something wrong with the soil itself that keeps them from growing right. We've tried pulling all the roots and tubers out but there are a lot of tinny ones that are very deep in and blend into the soil. Last year we didn't even think they would sprout because of how nasty the tubers were. But each year we find volunteers in that bed. This year we let a couple of vines grow in the hopes that between the egg shells (which are supposed to cut grubs) and the marigold I'd transplanted into that bed (they are said to get rid of nematodes.) we might get some potatoes out of it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

  This Friday 8/9/13 starts Texas' Sales Tax Holiday weekend.  Since jewelry is no longer tax free, the only item in my shop that currently qualifies is my Feather and Fan Stitch Cowl. But like most retailers I'm having a sale. From 8/9/13 to 8/13/13 use coupon code TAXFREE for 5% off any purchase over $1. You don't have to live in Texas to enjoy this sale.      


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Spider Earrings

These cute hand sculpted polymer clay spiders are 7/8" from longest leg tip to longest leg and 5/8" long from the top of the abdomen to the bottom of the head. The entire earring measures 1 1/2" from the top of the ear wire to the bottom of the head.  Each spider is signed with a small 'J' on the back.
*Because they are handmade there may be slight differences between spiders.
They are water proof, but please don't wear them in pool or while bathing. Not good for sleeping in.  Here is the listing:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/122983739/spider-earrings
  I haven't been able to find spider pendants I liked at my usual supply stores, but I figured it's just a oval with a circle and eight legs, I could probably make it out of polymer Clay. The hardest part is getting the legs to look right. It takes me about an hour to make one pair of earrings not counting baking time.  
  I'm currently working on making webs out of the clay. It's going better than I thought it would, but that's mostly because I didn't think I could make spider webs out of clay. (I was never very good at drawing webs as a kid.) My mom suggested I make a cotton spider earring. Most of the ones around here are black with white spots and have the same physic (fat butt) as my earrings. I should be able to add them to the listing soon.  

  I was originally just going to show these earrings in black and brown, but I love green and I've been wanting to see what this metallic green clay I have looks like when baked so I ended up making my own 'custom color'.  

           

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Glow in the Dark Eye Earrings

 When I found glow in dark polymer clay I knew I had to make
these. I call the ones on the left Spooky Eyes and the ones on the right Cyclops Eyes. They were a great excuse to try out the rolling pin my mom found for me at the dollar store.

  There are two inspirations for these earrings. One is this great spooky eye Halloween t-shirt my mom has. Some of the eyes glow in the dark.  The other are these old strings of 'Spooky eye' Halloween lights we put up every year. The oldest strand looks like the "Spooky eyes" and glow green, orange, and red; the newer ones look like a single blood shot eye that glows yellow. But I didn't really like the blood shot look.
If you can't make out the dark pictures try tilting your screen.

   
 The Cyclops eyes measures 13/16" diagonally. Here is the listing:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/158113605/glow-in-the-dark-cyclops-eyes
   The Spooky Eyes measure 1 1/8" long from longest part to longest part, 5/8" tall from the bottom to the peak. Here is the listing: 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/158221996/glow-in-the-dark-spooky-eyes
Each earring is 3/16" thick, weights about .1 oz. (I say 'about' because my scale only has marks for ounces and half ounces), has surgical steel studs and earring backs, and a small 'J' carved into the
back.

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