Welcome MSNBC Weblog Central readers! Hope you like the mix of holiday preparations and quilting! Often times, there is more quilting going on, but you know how it is this time of year.
I’m going to bake today, no matter WHAT. Baking cookies is one of the small pleasures in my life. Messy but productive and nice to share. I love cookies. Gingersnaps, hermits, pecan cookies rolled in powdered sugar, a layered cookie that is topped with coconut, nuts and chocolate chips, flourless peanut butter cookies, shortbread. I have a new chocolate cookie to try making this year which is also flourless. What sort of cookies do you bake?
Yup, fruitcake fame strikes again. What’s not to like about the Wall Street Journal up and citing my web site in an article about a topic near and dear to my heart?
On Monday, I’ll be making a morning show call in appearance on WTRC radio in Elkhart IN. On Friday I’ll be chatting up the folks in Edmonton Canada on CBC radio there.
Meanwhile, Christmas fast approaches, so I think I better get back to work. And even just a little sewing machine time would be a good thing.
Is this crazy or what? Yesterday, I got to meet, in person, Natalie Merchant. That’s all I’m going to say about that. It was a little thrilling to me. OK, that’s it.
On the personal fame thing, I’ve been contacted by a TV show-to-be (does the Society do a fruitcake bake off?), and today the Society got big press in the Sacramento Bee and little press in the Tampa Tribune. what a hoot. I think there’s a phone message for the Society as well.
What can I say? It’s ALL about the fruitcake!
On a different note altogether, but as a result of the Sacramento Bee article, I received email from the Founder of Sinkie.com. What’s a Sinkie? The International Association of People Who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink. Their motto: “If it has anything to do with having a quick bite, it has everything to do with being a Sinkie.” www.sinkie.com
To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.
