Today is the day…Election Day. Did you Vote????
It took me barely 30 minutes to go through the line and vote today. Not bad at all!!
Posted by: faykatherine | November 4, 2008
Election Day
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Posted by: faykatherine | October 28, 2008
Clocks?
Are you as confused as me about the time this week? For most of my life the last weekend in October we changed all of our clocks back one hour. Today, technology changes it for us. Recently, our government changed this yearly phenomena to the first weekend in November…so this week half of my clocks are one hour off.
I am so confused!! I can’t wait for November 2nd to be in sync again.
Anybody else have this issue in their house?
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Posted by: faykatherine | October 27, 2008
How Do You Rate Restaurants???
Hi! We have been having this discussion in our group of friends…how can you tell how your dining experience will go?? One of our friends feels that if the establishment has awesome bread, the rest of the food will be fantastic too. I feel that I can tell all about a restaurant by their salads…if the lettuce is wilted, has brown spots (or black), has the stem of the lettuce in your salad, etc. warns the diner that the rest of the meal is going to be not up to par. A salad should be crisp and fresh. A restaurant should never mix old salad fixings with new salad fixings…if a restaurant skimps on the salad then the chef will skimp on everything else.
We went to an Italian restaurant right near our home last week…having never tried it before we were hoping it would have homemade pastas and luscious meals. I love privately owned restaurants. And it has been our goal to find the perfect Italian restaurant since we moved to Florida. Anyways, the bread was fabulous!! Then it went downhill from there…I ordered a Chicken Cesar salad with the dressing on the side and after hearing that they had created their pastas fresh daily I wanted to order a side of penne with olive oil. After our waiter checked with the chef, he came back and said that the chef would not do that…I could have a side of penne with their pomodo sauce or order an entre’. They are not Carraba’s, they are toooo high end and did not do special orders. hmmmm…first time I ever heard that at an Italian restaurant! But we forged ahead…and my honey ordered their lasagna with the fresh pasta made daily.
Unfortunately, our meals were less than desired. The salad came out as a very small salad (cost $7.99 for the salad, and $2.99 for the chicken) with wilted, blackened romaine lettuce…very old lettuce. My hubby’s lasagna ($15.99) was cold…so he sent it back…came back cold in the middle again. So the bottom line is that we are amazed this restaurant is still open. It is having its one year anniversary next week…we doubt it will have a second!!
Small changes on their part could make them a place to go to! Unfortunately, some Chefs egos are larger than their restaurants. Let’s remember QUALITY food has a customer return.
How do you rate restaurants???
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Posted by: faykatherine | October 20, 2008
World Series Play Offs
Whoop!! Whoop!! the Tampa Rays won the play-offs!! The Rays are going to play in the World Series! How spectacular is that?!! This is the Rays first time in the World Series…gotta love newbies! Hope they hit a lot of homeruns!!!! Go Rays, Go!!
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Posted by: faykatherine | October 16, 2008
Ace of Cakes
Hi! I love Duff and his peeps on the show Ace of Cakes. Duff owns Charm City Cakes in Baltimore. Does anyone watch it?? Mary Alice cracks me up. And I enjoy watching the team banter back and forth…like brothers and sisters. Their cakes are amazing! and I am inspired when I watch them recreate real things. I wonder if it is easier to recreate things in cake or in glass???????
Maybe we need to have a challenge….
I think I want to be Duff and Ace of Glass!
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Posted by: faykatherine | October 15, 2008
Hi!
Hi! The Get Together was amazing. There were over 20 us that gathered at the new Industrial Arts Center in Gulfport which is only 35 minutes away from me! We shared tips, tricks, and showed off our pretties. I demoed a lizard. When I first started lampworking, I learned how to make these from Al Janelle and made bunches of them. So I thought since I live in Geckoland, that a Gecko type bead would be perfect as the first demo for our gathering. I can’t wait for the next Get Together November 8th. So if you are a glassy peep, come on over and hang out with us.
Here is a picture of a Lizzie that I created on a hothead my first year lampworking.
Posted by: faykatherine | September 27, 2008
The Florida Flames
Hi! I am so excited-only two more weeks until our first Tampa Bay area lampwork get together. Yippeee!!!! I need to practice a bead to demo…I am thinking of something Halloweenish…that should be fun!!! Maybe something ghoulish…spooky….booorific!
Hope to see you there!!
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Posted by: faykatherine | September 25, 2008
It’s Been Awhile
Hi! It has been awhile since my last post…sorry about that. I went to California to take a break and to see family. It was so much fun. Now I am back and looking at the torch and trying to find some mojo to create something. I joined a Halloween Exchange so perhaps a few Halloween beads will get me out of my funk.
Gotta run…hubby has a flat tire and needs some help with something….
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Posted by: faykatherine | August 28, 2008
Happy Birthday
Today is my hubby’s birthday. Every year for the past 20 years, he requests the same thing…beef strogonoff for dinner and a pineapple upside down cake for dessert. So I went shopping for all of the ingredients first thing this morning. Of course I forgot something…the cherries! eeek! What is pineapple upside down cake without a marichino cherry in the middle of each pineapple slice??? So, I am off to the grocery store once again.
Happy Birthday Hubby!!! Hope your day is filled with lots of laughter and cake!!
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Posted by: faykatherine | August 28, 2008
Getting My Life Back…
post Olympics. I don’t know about you but the past two weeks I have been immersed in the Olympics. I watched every event I could. Stayed up all night too. I am just resetting my sleeping clock this week and it is sooooo hard to do. My favorites to watch were gymnastics, beach volleyball, swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, synch diving, and equastrian events. I love the Olympics…do you???
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