Launi

January 23, 2009June 24, 2020

Vintage TV

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I was just dinking around on YouTube the other day and found the opening theme songs to some reeeeally old—and I’m not kidding—TV shows. Now, I realize that these critters truly date me in a pretty unflattering way, but I’m a sturdy mountain woman. I’ll handle it. Besides, it will be so good for all you “youngsters” to see what was on TV back when there were 5 channels and most of the them were in black and white. Besides, they’re pretty funny–in a lame sort of way.

Here’s the first one:

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The Patti Duke Show (Click on the link)

For those of you who don’t know who Patti Duke is, she played Helen Keller in the movie, “The Miracle Worker,” and is also the mom of Sean Astin (Sam in “Lord of the Rings”) and Mackenzie Astin (Iron Will)

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Petticoat Junction

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Mr. Ed

These sincerely, were some of our favorite shows. Are you jealous?

Try this one: The Winchell Mahoney Show

Do you recognize his voice? In his later years, “Winch” was the voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.

So, after you watch these clips–I expect you all to go to the “happy list” and write about how much you love your color tv and your channels and your cable…bla, bla, bla..

And me…I think I’ll go find Gilligan’s Island….or something.

Ahhh…television at it’s finest hour.

January 22, 2009January 21, 2022

“greenWinkle” BagBags

Ok, I’m being very brave now. I’ve decided to show you the project we’ve been working on for the past year or so. This is a handbag made entirely from plastic shopping bags.

So how green is that?

This particular one is made from the silvery white bags with green writing on them. It has a pearly sheen to it and with the green–well, it turned out really pretty.

We call it the Water Lily BagBag. Besides being made from “repurposed” grocery bags, it’s amazingly strong and durable, and get this–it is washer and dryer safe!

These are the company tags we had carved from coconut shells.

We’ve made quite a few more–each one with totally different colors–in four sizes. I’ll put them on here one at a time so you can see them up close.

I’m working on setting up an Etsy shop so–

–please let me know what you think…

It will make me brave.

January 22, 2009January 21, 2022

The Bald Kid’s Viking Slippers

I’ve been asked to show the sneakers outside the “Door.” So here they are..

So, one day last July, Rhen says to me, “You know what would really be cool?”

I say, “I have no earthly idea.”

He says, “If you could make me some freaking cool, high top, slippers. But that would be too hard, wouldn’t it?”

I just smiled my sly little smile and said, “Yeah…way too hard.”

So began the journey to High Top Sneaker Slippers–in Viking colors, of course!

The finished product.

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Oh, and yes, his feet are this big. I can prove it…

January 21, 2009March 26, 2022

Banana Bread

This is the perfect time of year to be in the kitchen baking something wonderful, not to mention a great time to sit back in a fluffy chair sipping cider and nibbling on this incredible bread.

This is the banana bread we used for April’s wedding and then again for Lyndi’s baby shower. It really is that good. People ask if I give this recipe out…apparently, I do.

I’m not a big walnut fan so you’ll notice they’re missing.

It’s positively perfect and no dopey nuts.

Ingredients

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

1-3/4 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup very ripe banana- mashed

cinnamon sugar

Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with banana. Grease a 9″x5″x3″ pan. Pour about 2 tsp of cinnamon sugar into the bottom of pan and tip pan back and forth and sideways to coat the bottom and side of pan with the cinnamon mixture.

Pour bread batter into prepared pan. Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes or until you can just tell it is done. You can poke a toothpick in the center to make sure. If it comes out clean the bread is done. Try not to over cook it. Remove from pan as soon as you can and let it cool on rack. Brush top with butter and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top.

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Banana Bread

Ingredients

½ cup shortening
½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1-3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp soda
½ tsp salt
1 cup very ripe banana- mashed
cinnamon sugar

Instructions

Cream together shortening and sugar.
Add eggs and beat well.
Sift together dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with banana.
Grease a 9"x5"x3" pan.
Pour about 2 tsp of cinnamon sugar into the bottom of pan and tip pan back and forth and sideways to coat the bottom and side of pan with the cinnamon mixture.
Pour bread batter into prepared pan.
Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes or until you can just tell it is done.
You can poke a toothpick in the center to make sure.
If it comes out clean the bread is done.
Try not to over cook it.
Remove from pan as soon as you can and let it cool on rack.
Brush top with butter and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top.