tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-360518752011-07-07T22:28:30.427-07:00an outlet for me to type anything and everything about the world around me ... designs &amp; crafts, news, recipes, etcpetite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.comBlogger1241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-69237022545613425152010-02-17T21:42:00.000-08:002010-02-17T21:52:50.709-08:00http://www.cheeseslave.com/<br /><br />i love the tag for this blog: for the love of cheese. and bacon. and butter. and raw milk. and all those other things we're not supposed to eat.<br /><br />http://www.realmilk.com/<br /><br />i started the kiddies on raw milk in this year ... raw milk taste great ... no additives ... if you know how the other milk are made and all the pasteurized that is suppose to make it safe for you to drink ... think again ... raw milk in the real deal with no additives of vitamin A and vitamin D ... which is already in the raw version in the first place. And all the whole fat that the growing brain needs.<br /><br /><h1>Raw Milk Vs. Pasteurized Milk </h1> <p><strong>From <i>Armchair Science</i>, London (April 1938) </strong></p> <p>There is no substitute for clean, raw milk as a food, so far as children are concerned. Science has not yet succeeded in providing, in the pasteurized variety, those essential qualities that are the only real foundation for a healthy child.</p> <p> Unfortunately, many grossly distorted statements are current regarding our milk supply. If we are to believe the protagonists of the Pasteurization-of-all-milk-at-all costs Party, raw milk is as good, or rather as bad, as rat poison-although as the Minister of Agriculture recently stated, "the human race existed long before Pasteur was heard of."</p> <p> The process of pasteurization was debated in the House of Commons and the suggestion made that no raw milk should be sold for human consumption. This would mean installation of expensive machinery by every supplier, and if it should become compulsory there is little doubt that many small firms would shut down and the business pass in the hands of a few big dealers.</p> <p> If we are to be compelled to drink pasteurized milk, we should at least understand what pasteurization means. It set out to accomplish two things: Destruction of certain disease-carrying germs and the prevention of souring milk. These results are obtained by keeping the milk at a temperature of 145 degrees to 150 degrees F. for half an hour, at least, and then reducing the temperature to not more than 55 degrees F.</p> <p> It is undoubtedly beneficial to destroy dangerous germs, but pasteurization does more than this-it kills off harmless and useful germs alike, and by subjecting the milk to high temperatures, destroys some nutritious constituents.</p> <p> With regards to the prevention of souring; sour raw milk is very widely used. It is given to invalids, being easily digested, laxative in its properties, and not unpleasant to take. But, after pasteurization, the lactic acid bacilli are killed. The milk, in consequence, cannot become sour and quickly decomposes, while undesirable germs multiply very quickly.</p> <p> Pasteurization's great claim to popularity is the widespread belief, fostered by its supporters, that tuberculosis in children is caused by the harmful germs found in raw milk. Scientists have examined and tested thousands of milk samples, and experiments have been carried out on hundreds of animals in regard to this problem of disease-carrying by milk. But the one vital fact that seems to have been completely missed is that it is CLEAN, raw milk that is wanted. If this can be guaranteed, no other form of food for children can, or should, be allowed to take its place.</p> <p> Dirty milk, of course, is like any other form of impure food — a definite menace. But Certified Grade A Milk, produced under Government supervision and guaranteed absolutely clean, is available practically all over the country and is the dairy-farmer's answer to the pasteurization zealots.</p> <p> Recent figures published regarding the spread of tuberculosis by milk show, among other facts, that over a period of five years, during which time 70 children belonging to a special organization received a pint of raw milk daily. One case only of the disease occurred. During a similar period when pasteurized milk had been given, 14 cases were reported.</p> <p> Besides destroying part of the vitamin C contained in raw milk and encouraging growth of harmful bacteria, pasteurization turns the sugar of milk, known as lactose, into beta-lactose — which is far more soluble and therefore more rapidly absorbed in the system, with the result that the child soon becomes hungry again.</p> <p> Probably pasteurization's worst offence is that it makes insoluable the major part of the calcium contained in raw milk. This frequently leads to rickets, bad teeth, and nervous troubles, for sufficient calcium content is vital to children; and with the loss of phosphorus also associated with calcium, bone and breain formation suffer serious setbacks.</p> <p> Pasteurization also destroys 20 percent of the iodine present in raw milk, causes constipation and generally takes from the milk its most vital qualities.</p> <p> In face of these facts-which are undeniable-what has the Pasteurization Party to say? Instead of compelling dealers to set up expensive machinery for turning raw milk into something that is definitely not what it sets out to be — a nutritious, health giving food — let them pass legislation making the dairy-farmers produce clean, raw milk — that is milk pure to drink with all its constituents unaltered.</p> <p align="center"> <b>The above was published in Magazine Digest - June 1938<br /> <i>Armchair Science</i> is a British Medical Journal</b></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6923702254561342515?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-60537130348816134922010-01-09T02:27:00.001-08:002010-01-09T02:43:44.998-08:00trying to find something healthy if no fresh fruit available for the tods. especially on the go.<br />freeze dried fruit came into mind. adding a different texture for their palettes.<br /><br />i purchased some freeze dried banana at trader joe's ... just bananas and they like those.<br />make sure there is no other additives such as added sugars, preservatives, dye colors and artificial flavors.<br /><br />but i don't think i would like to try freeze dried fruit powder of any kind. why would anyone want to add that to make fruit smoothie unless you are an astronaut?!<br /><br />of course real fresh fruit will be preferred at all times even in smoothies.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6053713034881613492?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-63336396580010722212009-12-31T14:02:00.000-08:002009-12-31T19:23:06.115-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Sz0izG6ezmI/AAAAAAAAATI/9BjcwycU0po/s1600-h/411x0LnyfEL._AA260_.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 260px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Sz0izG6ezmI/AAAAAAAAATI/9BjcwycU0po/s320/411x0LnyfEL._AA260_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421527787848519266" border="0" /></a><br /><br />this is a very refreshing dish<br /><br />makes about 4 servings<br /><br />1/2 of green papaya - shred the papaya<br />1 carrot - shred the carrot<br />12 or more cherry tomatoes - cut those in halves<br /><br />dressing ingredients:<br />2 tablespoons of fish sauce - suggest using the tiparos brand, but whatever you have available is okay<br />2 cloves of garlic<br />2 tablespoons of sugar - use sugar cane sugar - i found tapunzel which is unrefined and unbleached organic whole cane sugar<br />1/2 of lemon and squeeze the juice<br /><br />the tool shown above a mortar and a pestle<br /><br />pound or mash the garlic cloves<br />add papaya shreds, carrot shreds and tomatoes half and pound more<br />then add the rest of the ingredients and pound some more<br /><br />if you like sweeter taste add more sugar, if you like more sour taste just add more lemon<br />and for a burst of flavor ... add some fresh chilly!<br /><br />enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6333639658001072221?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-68649259207645547352009-12-31T12:02:00.000-08:002009-12-31T12:06:54.028-08:00<span style="font-size:85%;">i was looking for information for sodium lactate used in meat products and found this ... even better!</span><br /><h2>Safe Gluten-Free Food List (Safe Ingredients)</h2> <!-- The Adsense will automatically be inserted half way through the content. Applies for both Side and Middle options. --> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Acacia Gum<br />Acesulfame K<br />Acesulfame Potassium<br />Acetanisole<br />Acetophenone<br />Acorn Quercus<br />Adipic Acid<br />Adzuki Bean<br />Acacia Gum<br />Agar<br />Agave<br />Albumen<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=271">Alcohol (Spirits - Specific Types)</a><br />Alfalfa<br />Algae<br />Algin<br />Alginic Acid<br />Alginate<br />Alkalized Cocoa<br />Allicin<br />Almond Nut<br />Alpha-amylase<br />Alpha-lactalbumin<br />Aluminum<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Amaranth</a><br />Ambergris<br />Ammonium Hydroxide</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Ammonium Phosphate<br />Ammonium Sulphate<br />Amylose<br />Amylopectin<br />Annatto<br />Annatto Color<br />Apple Cider Vinegar<br />Arabic Gum<br />Arrowroot<br />Artichokes<br />Artificial Butter Flavor<br />Artificial Flavoring<br />Ascorbic Acid<br />Aspartame<br />Aspartic Acid<br />Aspic<br />Astragalus Gummifer<br />Autolyzed Yeast Extract<br />Avena Sativia (<a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=14">Oats</a>³)</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Avena Sativia Extract (from <a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=14">Oats</a>³)<br />Avidin<br />Azodicarbonamide<br />Baking Soda<br />Balsamic Vinegar<br />Beeswax<br />Beans<br />Bean, Adzuki<br />Bean, Hyacinth<br />Bean, Lentil<br />Bean, Mung<br />Bean Romano (Chickpea)<br />Bean Tepary<br />Benzoic acid<br />Besan (Chickpea)<br />Beta Glucan (from <a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=14">Oats</a>³)<br />Betaine<br />Beta Carotene<br />BHA<br />BHT<br />Bicarbonate of Soda<br />Biotin<br />Blue Cheese<br />Brown Sugar<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Buckwheat</a><br />Butter (check additives)<br />Butylated Hydroxyanisole<br />Butyl Compounds<br />Calcium Acetate<br />Calcium Carbonate<br />Calcium Caseinate<br />Calcium Chloride<br />Calcium Disodium<br />Calcium Hydroxide<br />Calcium Lactate<br />Calcium Pantothenate<br />Calcium Phosphate<br />Calcium Propionate<br />Calcium Silicate<br />Calcium Sorbate<br />Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate<br />Calcium Stearate<br />Calcium Sulfate<br />Calrose<br />Camphor<br />Cane Sugar<br />Cane Vinegar</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Canola (Rapeseed)<br />Canola Oil (Rapeseed Oil)<br />Caprylic Acid<br />Carageenan Chondrus Crispus<br />Carbonated Water<br />Carboxymethyl Cellulose<br />Carmine<br />Carnauba Wax<br />Carob Bean<br />Carob Bean Gum<br />Carob Flour<br />Carrageenan<br />Casein<br />Cassava Manihot Esculenta<br />Castor Oil<br />Catalase<br />Cellulose¹<br />Cellulose Ether<br />Cellulose Gum<br />Cetyl Alcohol<br />Cetyl Stearyl Alcohol<br />Champagne Vinegar<br />Channa (Chickpea)<br />Chana Flour (Chickpea Flour)<br />Cheeses - (most, but check ingredients)<br />Chestnuts<br />Chickpea<br />Chlorella<br />Chocolate Liquor<br />Choline Chloride<br />Chromium Citrate<br />Chymosin<br />Citric Acid<br />Citrus Red No. 2<br />Cochineal<br />Cocoa<br />Cocoa Butter<br />Coconut<br />Coconut Vinegar<br />Collagen<br />Colloidal Silicon Dioxide<br />Confectioner's Glaze<br />Copernicia Cerifera<br />Copper Sulphate<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=189">Corn</a><br />Corn Gluten<br />Corn Masa Flour<br />Corn Meal<br />Corn Flour<br />Corn Starch<br />Corn Sugar<br />Corn Sugar Vinegar<br />Corn Syrup<br />Corn Syrup Solids<br />Corn Swetener<br />Corn Vinegar<br />Corn Zein<br />Cortisone<br />Cotton Seed<br />Cotton Seed Oil<br />Cowitch<br />Cowpea<br />Cream of Tartar<br />Crospovidone<br />Curds<br />Cyanocobalamin<br />Cysteine, L<br />Dal (Lentils)<br />D-Alpha-tocopherol<br />Dasheen Flour (Taro)<br />Dates<br />D-Calcium Pantothenate<br />Delactosed Whey<br />Demineralized Whey<br />Desamidocollagen<br />Dextran<br />Dextrose<br />Diglycerides<br />Dioctyl Sodium<br />Dioctyl Sodium Solfosuccinate<br />Dipotassium Phosphate<br />Disodium Guanylate<br />Disodium Inosinate<br />Disodium Phosphate<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/articles/184/1/American-Dietetic-Association-Revises-Its-Gluten-Free-Guidelines---Distilled-Vinegar-is-Safe-for-a-Gluten-Free-Diet/Page1.html">Distilled Alcohols </a><br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=415">Distilled Vinegar </a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=415">Distilled White Vinegar </a><br />Dutch Processed Cocoa<br />EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid)<br />Eggs<br />Egg Yolks<br />Elastin<br />Ester Gum<br />Ethyl Alcohol<br />Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid<br />Ethyl Maltol<br />Ethyl Vanillin<br />Expeller Pressed Canola Oil<br />FD&amp;C Blue No. 1 Dye<br />FD&amp;C Blue No. 1 Lake<br />FD&amp;C Blue No. 2 Dye</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />FD&amp;C Blue No. 2 Lake<br />FD&amp;C Green No. 3 Dye<br />FD&amp;C Green No. 3 Lake<br />FD&amp;C Red No. 3 Dye</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />FD&amp;C Red No. 40 Dye<br />FD&amp;C Red No. 40 Lake<br />FD&amp;C Yellow No. 5 Dye<br />FD&amp;C Yellow No. 6 Dye<br />FD&amp;C Yellow No. 6 Lake<br />Ferric Orthophosphate<br />Ferrous Gluconate<br />Ferrous Fumerate<br />Ferrous Lactate<br />Ferrous Sulfate<br />Fish (fresh)<br />Flaked Rice<br />Flax<br />Folacin<br />Folate<br />Folic Acid-Folacin<br />Formaldehyde<br />Fructose<br />Fruit (including dried)<br />Fruit Vinegar<br />Fumaric Acid<br />Galactose<br />Garbanzo Beans<br />Gelatin<br />Glucoamylase<br />Gluconolactone<br />Glucose<br />Glucose Syrup<br />Glutamate (free)<br />Glutamic Acid<br />Glutamine<br />Glutinous Rice<br />Glutinous Rice Flour<br />Glycerides<br />Glycerin<br />Glycerol Monooleate<br />Glycol Monosterate<br />Glycol<br />Glycolic acid<br />Gram flour (chick peas)<br />Grape Skin Extract<br />Grits, Corn<br />Guar Gum<br />Gum Acacia<br />Gum Arabic<br />Gum Base<br />Gum Tragacanth<br />Hemp<br />Hemp Seeds<br />Herbs<br />Herb Vinegar<br />Hexanedioic Acid<br />High Fructose Corn Syrup<br />Hominy<br />Honey<br />Hops<br />Horseradish (Pure)<br />Hyacinth Bean<br />Hydrogen Peroxide<br />Hydrolyzed Caseinate<br />Hydrolyzed Meat Protein<br />Hydrolyzed Soy Protein<br />Hydroxypropyl Cellulose<br />Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose<br />Hypromellose<br />Illepe<br />Iodine<br />Inulin<br />Invert Sugar<br />Iron Ammonium Citrate<br />Isinglass<br />Isolated Soy Protein<br />Isomalt<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Job's Tears</a><br />Jowar (Sorghum)<br />Karaya Gum<br />Kasha (roasted buckwheat)<br />Keratin<br />K-Carmine Color<br />K-Gelatin<br />Koshihikari (rice)<br />Kudzu<br />Kudzu Root Starch<br />Lactalbumin Phosphate<br />Lactase<br />Lactic Acid<br />Lactitol<br />Lactose<br />Lactulose<br />Lanolin<br />Lard<br />L-cysteine<br />Lecithin<br />Lemon Grass<br />Lentils<br />Licorice<br />Licorice Extract<br />Lipase<br />L-leucine<br />L-<a class="HelpLink" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="">lysine</a><br />L-methionine<br />Locust Bean Gum</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">L-tryptophan<br />Magnesium Carbonate<br />Magnesium Hydroxide<br />Magnesium Oxide<br />Maize </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Maize Waxy<br />Malic Acid<br />Maltitol<br />Maltodextrin<br />Maltol<br />Manganese Sulfate<br />Manioc<br />Masa<br />Masa Flour<br />Masa Harina<br />Meat (fresh)<br />Medium Chain Triglycerides<br />Menhaden Oil<br />Methyl Cellulose²<br />Microcrystalline Cellulose<br />Micro-particulated Egg White Protein<br />Milk<br />Milk Protein Isolate<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Millet</a><br />Milo (Sorghum)<br />Mineral Oil<br />Mineral Salts<br />Molybdenum Amino Acid Chelate<br />Monocalcium Phosphate<br />Monoglycerides<br />Mono and Diglycerides<br />Monopotassium Phosphate<br /><a class="HelpLink" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="">monosaccharides<br /></a><br />Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)<br />Monostearates<br />MSG<br />Mung Bean<br />Musk<br />Mustard Flour<br />Myristic Acid<br />Natural Smoke Flavor<br />Niacin-Niacinamide<br />Neotame<br />Niacin<br />Niacinamide<br />Nitrates<br />Nitrous Oxide<br />Non-fat Milk<br />Nuts (except wheat, rye &amp; barley)<br />Nut, Acron<br />Nut, Almond<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=14">Oats</a>³<br />Oils and Fats<br />Oleic Acid<br />Oleoresin<br />Olestra<br />Oleyl Alcohol/Oil<br />Orange B<br />Oryzanol<br />Palmitic Acid<br />Pantothenic Acid<br />Papain<br />Paprika<br />Paraffin<br />Patially Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Patially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil<br />Peas<br />Pea - Chick<br />Pea - Cow<br />Pea Flour<br />Pea Starch<br />Peanuts<br />Peanut Flour<br />Pectin<br />Pectinase<br />Peppermint Oil</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Peppers<br />Pepsin<br />Peru Balsam<br />Petrolatum<br />PGPR (Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate)<br />Phenylalanine<br />Phosphoric Acid<br />Phosphoric Glycol</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Pigeon Peas<br />Polenta<br />Polydextrose<br />Polyethylene Glycol<br />Polyglycerol<br />Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (PGPR)<br />Polysorbates<br />Polysorbate 60<br />Polysorbate 80</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Potassium Benzoate<br />Potassium Caseinate<br />Potassium Citrate<br />Potassium Iodide<br />Potassium Lactate<br />Potassium Matabisulphite<br />Potassium Sorbate<br />Potatoes<br />Potato Flour<br />Potato Starch<br />Povidone<br />Prinus<br />Pristane<br />Propolis<br />Propylene Glycol<br />Propylene Glycol Monosterate<br />Propyl Gallate<br />Protease<br />Psyllium<br />Pyridoxine Hydrochloride<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Quinoa<br />Ragi</a><br />Raisin Vinegar<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Rape </a><br />Recaldent<br />Reduced Iron<br />Rennet<br />Rennet Casein<br />Resinous Glaze<br /><a class="HelpLink" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="">reticulin<br /></a><br />Riboflavin<br />Rice<br />Rice (Enriched)<br />Rice Flour<br />Rice Starch<br />Rice Syrup<br />Rice Vinegar<br />Ricinoleic Acid<br />Romano Bean (chickpea)<br />Rosematta<br />Rosin<br />Royal Jelly<br />Saccharin<br />Saffron<br />Sago<br />Sago Palm<br />Sago Flour<br />Sago Starch<br />Saifun (bean threads)<br />Salt<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Seaweed<br />Seeds (except wheat, rye &amp; barley)<br />Seed - Sesame<br />Seed - Sunflower<br />Shea<br />Sherry Vinegar<br />Silicon Dioxide<br />Soba (be sure its 100% buckwheat)<br />Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate<br />Sodium Acetate<br />Sodium Alginate<br />Sodium Ascorbate<br />Sodium Benzoate<br />Sodium Caseinate<br />Sodium Citrate<br />Sodium Erythrobate<br />Sodium Hexametaphosphate<br />Sodium Lactate<br />Sodium Lauryl Sulfate<br />Sodium Metabisulphite<br />Sodium Nitrate<br />Sodium Phosphate<br />Sodium Polyphosphate<br />Sodium Silaco Aluminate<br />Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate<br />Sodium Sulphite<br />Sodium Stannate<br />Sodium Tripolyphosphate<br />Sorbic Acid<br />Sorbitan Monostearate<br />Sorbitol-Mannitol (can cause IBS symptoms)<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Sorghum</a><br />Sorghum Flour<br />Soy<br />Soybean<br />Soy Lecithin<br />Soy Protein<br />Soy Protein Isolate<br />Spices (pure)<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=271">Spirits (Specific Types)</a><br />Spirit Vinegar<br />Stearates<br />Stearamide<br />Stearamine<br />Stearic Acid<br />Stearyl Lactate<br />Stevia<br />Subflower Seed<br />Succotash (corn and beans)<br />Sucralose<br />Sucrose<br />Sulfosuccinate<br />Sulfites<br />Sulfur Dioxide<br />Sweet Chestnut Flour<br />Tagatose<br />Tallow<br />Tapioca<br />Tapioca Flour<br />Tapioca Starch<br />Tara Gum<br />Taro<br />Tarro<br />Tarrow Root<br />Tartaric Acid<br />Tartrazine<br />TBHQ is Tetra or Tributylhydroquinone<br />Tea<br />Tea-Tree Oil<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=188">Teff</a><br />Teff Flour<br />Tepary Bean<br />Textured Vegetable Protein<br />Thiamin Hydrochloride<br />Thiamine Mononitrate<br />Thiamine Hydrochloride<br />Titanium Dioxide<br />Tofu (Soy Curd)<br />Tolu Balsam<br />Torula Yeast<br />Tragacanth<br />Tragacanth Gum<br />Triacetin<br />Tricalcium Phosphate<br />Tri-Calcium Phosphate<br />Trypsin<br />Turmeric (Kurkuma)<br />TVP<br />Tyrosine<br />Urad/Urid Beans<br />Urad/Urid Dal (peas) Vegetables<br />Urad/Urid flour<br />Urd<br />Vinegar (All except Malt)<br />Vanilla Extract<br />Vanilla Flavoring<br />Vanillin<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=415">Vinegars (Specific Types)</a><br />Vitamin A (retinol)<br />Vitamin A Palmitate<br />Vitamin B1<br />Vitamin B-12<br />Vitamin B2<br />Vitamin B6<br />Vitamin D<br />Vitamin E Acetate<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> Waxy Maize<br />Whey<br />Whey Protein Concentrate<br />Whey Protein Isolate<br />White Vinegar<br /><a href="http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=271">Wines</a><br />Wine Vinegars (&amp; Balsamic)<br />Wild Rice<br />Xanthan Gum<br />Xylitol<br />Yam Flour<br />Yeast<br />Yogurt (plain, unflavored)<br />Zinc Oxide<br />Zinc Sulfate </span></p> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">1) Cellulose is a carbohydrate polymer of D-glucose. It is the structural material of plants, such as wood in trees. It contains no gluten protein.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">2) Methyl cellulose is a chemically modified form of cellulose that makes a good substitute for gluten in rice-based breads, etc.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">3) Recent research indicates that oats may be safe for people on gluten-free diets, although many people may also have an additional, unrelated intolerance to them. Cross contamination with wheat is also a factor that you need to consider before choosing to include oats in your diet.</span></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6864925920764554735?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-59956816913534469562009-12-23T12:48:00.000-08:002009-12-23T12:57:09.923-08:001 stem of lemon grass chopped up<br />2 cloves of garlic<br />1 mid size shallot<br /><br />cut all those up and mash them<br /><br />1 teaspoon of salt<br />2 teaspoon of sugar<br />pinch of white pepper<br />2 tablespoon of chinese wine<br />2 tablespoon of oyster sauce<br />2 tablespoon of dark soy sauce<br />1 tablespoon of sesame oil<br /><br />put those with the chicken (a pack of organic drumsticks and a pack of organic dark meat)<br />and then mixed in the lemon grass, shallot and garlic mashed paste to marinate<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5995681691353446956?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-60723335294761015722009-12-09T20:59:00.000-08:002009-12-09T22:36:11.733-08:00Breaking down the ingredients in a johnson's baby shampoo:<br /><br />Water - (H2O)<br />we all know water ... hopefully it is clean water.<br /><br />Cocamidopropyl Betaine -<br />(CAPB) is a synthetic surfactant (wetting agents that lower the surface tension of a liquid so it can spread out easily) derivative of coconut oil (i know what that is) and dimethylaminopropylamine (now that is a mouthful try saying it 10 times really really fast, but i still don't know what that is?) it is some kind of amino compound ... but it has some impurities that can lead to skin irritation, but not likely allergy if not produced correctly.<br />And one property being an antiseptic. Also help stabilize the foam in the shampoo.<br /><br />PEG-80 Sorbitan Laurate -<br />(also known as PEGs Sorbitan and sorbitol Fatty Acid Esters) is detergent like chemical that works as a surfactant ... ... according to the cosmetic ingredient review expert panel ... it is safe to use.cleans skin and hair by helping water to mix with oil and dirt so that they can be washed away. okay that make sense just as long as it is safe ... but note that this is synthetic.<br /><br />Sodium Trideceth Sulfate -<br />is in the family of organic salts. it is is also a surfactant (so how many surfactants do we need in a baby shampoo?) less irritant and milder than sodium lauryl sulfate found in most adults shampoo products is a plus. a cleansing agent that has conditioning properties.<br /><br />PEG-150 Distearate -<br />basically the same thing like all of the above that helps with cleaning skin and hair by helping water to mix with oil and dirt so it can be easily wash away ... etc<br />it is produced from stearic acid which is a natural occurring fatty acid derived from animal fats and oils. stearic acid mixed with number of units of ethylene oxide to create the desired chain.<br />and what the heck is ethylene oxide? it is an organic compound that use to sterilize the majority of medical supplies such as bandages and surgical implements. in itself this is classified as carcinogenic to humans by the international agency for research on cancer.<br />so then my next question is if it is mixed with stearic acid then it is no longer carcinogenic?<br /><br />Fragrance - smells good, but do not know what kind or if it is safe<br /><br />Polyquaternium-10 - (quaternized hydroxyethylcellulose)<br />also known as quaternium-19 is a white granular powder with characteristic amine (organic compounds derivatives of ammonia) odor and deemed safe by the cosmetic ingredient review expert panel. it can reduce static electricity and enhances appearance and feel of hair by increasing hair body, sheen and texture of hair that has been damaged. it absorbed well into hair.<br /><br />Tetrasodium EDTA - and the EDTA = ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid<br />wow ... okay no wonder they need the shorter version ... nor do i know what it is ... okay it is a chelating agent? something to do with separating bonds of atoms ... yada yada ... trying to make some sense of this ... oh okay it is a water softener ... basically getting rid of the metals in water by stripping it away!<br /><br />okay ... still not finished yet<br /><br />Quaternium-15 - is a quaternary ammonium salt or compound used as a preservative in many cosmetics and industrial substances. They are used as disinfectants, surfactants, fabric softeners and anti static agents (especially in shampoos).<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br />It acts as a formaldehyde releaser. (hmm why do we need a formaldehyde releaser ... cause all those chemicals listed above can actually creates formaldehyde??? Formaldehyde is an intermediate in the oxidation of methane as well as other carbon compounds! In view of its widespread use, toxicity, and volatility, exposure to formaldehyde is a significant consideration for human health! (must i go on ... you get the picture)<br />It can cause contact dermatitis, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>a symptom of an allergic reaction, especially in those with sensitive skin, on an infant's skin, or on sensitive areas such as the genitals ... hmm ... so why is in in a infant product?<br /><br />Citric Acid - is a weak organic compound. a natural preservative and is also used to add the sour taste in foods and soda pops. used as a benign cleaning agent. and also a chelating agent.<br /><br />Yellow 10 and Orange 4 - are color dyes<br /><br />in the United States, quinoline yellow is certified by the Federal Food and Drug Administration and designated as D. &amp; C. yellow No. 10. Under the provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations, it "may be safely used for coloring drugs generally in amounts consistent with current good manufacturing practice." This is precisely the function for which it was employed in the study in Finland (where quinoline yellow is approved for food use).<br /><br />May also contain: Citric Acid, Sodium Hydroxide<br /><br />Sodium Hydroxide - also known as lye or caustic soda ... solid sodium hydroxide or solutions of sodium hydroxide will cause chemical burns<br /><br />an hour of my life learning all this stuff<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><b><br /></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6072333529476101572?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-48400176851931753922009-12-01T22:29:00.000-08:002009-12-01T22:54:04.235-08:00i hate cold dry weather ... my hands are cracking up and itchy at times ... so i decided to buy a pound of shea butter ... waiting for it to come in the mail =)<br /><br />found this simple body butter recipe:<br /><br />8 ounces of shea butter<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br />1 Tbs of jojoba oil<br />1/2 tsp of vitamin E<br />1/4 tsp of essential oil<br /><br />i will like to add some aloe gel to it and for the essential oils ginger mixed with lemon ... well let see if i can make it and will post some pics of the result<br /><br />directions:<br /><br />mixing bowl ... get a metal one<br />using a double boiler method ... heat the water to boiling then lower the heat<br />melt shea butter but do not boil the butter ( let it heat for a while so it doesn't turn gritty)<br />also it is flammable so watch out<br />add the vitamin E and jojoba oils to the mix first<br />use a mixer to mix for 8 minutes<br />have another bowl ready with ice and again a double method with the mixture on top of ice<br />continue mixing the shea butter mixture for 10 minutes<br />and let it sit for a bit in the ice for 5 minutes<br />and mix it up again for another 10 minutes<br />and let it sit for a bit in the ice for 5 minutes<br />and mix it up again for another 10 minutes till it is fluffy<br />lastly add the essential oils and continue to mix it until it firms up to a whipped cream or frosting texture<br /><br />organic / natural preservatives:<br /><br />vitamin E also known as (d-alpha tocopherol) it is also an anti oxidant which will help the butter not to become rancid so fast<br /><br />a dash of neem oil which is anti fungal and anti bacterial<br /><br />lemon essential oil minimum amount of 0.7% promotes preservation and also has vitamin C and removes moisture to prevent spoilage and rotting<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4840017685193175392?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-40794247830585718142009-10-11T10:35:00.001-07:002009-10-11T10:53:21.505-07:00okay maybe not cheap, but it is about saving money for the everyday use products<br /><br />nowadays every pennies count<br /><br />i really like the following websites:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ebates.com/rf.do?referrerid=W%2BejQQtrozTD%2Bl1Ju39%2F5w%3D%3D">www.ebates.com</a> : where it pays to shop online ... you use ebates portal to link to your fave online stores and get cash back. sometimes they have double days so i always look for that. the site is very well organized and you can save your favorite stores. you get pay via paypal link to your own account ... really no brainer.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.retailmenot.com">www.retailmenot.com</a> : share the love share ... coupons! who doesn't like coupons ... $5 here and $10 here ... just adds up. this is a community website where everyone get to post the latest deals and coupons for other people to use. the more we share the more we save as a group =D<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pricegrabber.com">www.pricegrabber.com</a> : compare prices ... be smart shopper ... tax free ... ship free ... you just enter your zipcode and outcome are a list of online stores and their prices and pick the one right for you. well organized and with ratings of each online stores.<br /><a href="http://www.dealcatcher.com"><br />www.dealcatcher.com</a> : you can go to this site everyday to search for deals ... mostly for electronics and computers and office stuff ... but sometimes you will find coupons that you cannot resist. you can really spent a lot of time just browsing ... if you are bored at work you can rrs feed from this site ;P<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4079424783058571814?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-14184968657804572662009-08-29T00:26:00.000-07:002009-08-29T00:59:00.435-07:00i am bummed cause the condo i wanna get will not close escrow on the intended date. but there is one thing i am sure of is never to go with those small lenders.<br />one of them is known as AMX alternative mortgage express ... www.amxloans.com ... one of the divisions of land home financial services, inc.<br /><br />waste of time and money if you are dealing with this lender ... probably ran out of money or whatever.<br /><br />we are putting almost a 50% down payment on a 469K condo, we have no outstanding debt and our credit score is high up at 870 points. if we are the ideal client than you other folks out there forget about getting a loan from this lender cause they will waste your time and money to come up with a lame excuse after pre approving you to deny you the loan in the very last minute. <br /><br />we were slate to close on august 31st and was very ready to sign closing on august 27th then was told by our loan officer that it is a red light!<br /><br />and their excuse was the condo / building was not fannie mae approved ... and shouldn't they know that right away if they do their diligences? who are you kidding? and with a 220K down payment we are not going for a low income loan ... seriously.<br /><br />i also posted in a threat to answer someone's question:<br /><br />AMX alternative mortgage express. who has used this lender?<br /><br />Has anyone used this lender? any comment?<br />by gaofengxu August 13, 2009 2:59 PM<br /><br />http://www.mortgagegrapevine.com/thread/?thread=570418<br /><br />A horrible experience with them and it is recent too. Just yesterday!<br />My husband and I were suppose to sign to close escrow and they just decided that they do not want to give us a loan in the last minute ... and our closing date is the 31 of August and I hate them.<br />We provided them with all the requirements and this is for a 469K condo and we are putting 220K down which is almost 50% and we have no debt whatsoever and both of us with great credit score 870s.<br />We were pre approved ... so now we are going with Bank of America cause AMX wasted our time and money!!! And I am grateful that the buyer is understanding in this matter.<br />If this is how they do business ... you have to beware.<br />by petitespoon August 29, 2009 3:07 AM<br /><br />so you live and learn ... go with the big guys ... Bank of America or Chase ... great experiences with those two banks.<br /><br />we just locked in a 5.30% rate with B of A ... not too shabby.<br /><br />another back story was we did have a back up lender called PMC BanCorp www.pmcmtg.com<br />you can call this lender nosy or what ... they were asking for the details on deposits i made into one of our checking accounts and needed bank images to verify ... verify for what? that the 11 dollars i made selling beads on ebay was legit? ... is that going to pay for the mortgage? why not look at our income from a job for example, those are steady income that would pay for the mortgage ... not my 11 dollars or 13 dollars a month selling beads on ebay!!! ... what a bunch of retards ... thank goodness i am not going with any of these lenders!<br /><br />even the B of A loan officer dropped his jaw when he heard all this craziness.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1418496865780457266?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-20646706225940424112009-06-03T15:43:00.000-07:002009-06-03T15:46:55.169-07:00genius ... just what i needed<br /><br />http://www.rolbe.com/etsy.htm<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-2064670622594042411?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-91528250035256697702009-05-20T12:25:00.000-07:002009-05-20T12:47:05.941-07:00i haven't been doing much with my blog<br />i have been putting together some standards for jewelry making just as references i can refer to later on ... so here is the first one<br /><br />i always wonder what length should i make certain necklaces in ... so here is a quick reference of length<br /><br />for women's<br />16 inches is choker length<br />17 - 18 inches is at collarbone<br />20 inches is a few inches below collerbone<br />22 inches at or above neckline<br />24 inches below neckline<br />28 - 30 inches at or below bust line<br /><br />for men's<br />18 inches is at the base of the neck (for some men this is already really tight)<br />20 inches is at collarbone which is most common size for average men<br />22 inches is a few inches below collarbone<br />24 inches is just above the sternum<br /><br />sizing:<br />in general it is better to have a 2 inches minimum for anything close to the neck<br /><br />if your neck size measures at 15 inches it is better to choose a 17 - 18 inches necklace, which also depends on the chain you choose to wear too. for something that would require to lie flat on your neck, you would want to have it longer than shorter just for appearance.<br /><br />for men in general 20 inches should be good for a simple chain. necklace with hanging pendants or charms should require a longer necklace.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-9152825003525669770?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-43751246836006039962008-12-01T01:36:00.000-08:002008-12-01T01:46:08.127-08:00november raised $42.06 for toysfortots.org<br /><br /><br />10% retail sales at my jewelry findings etsy shops proceed to toysfortots.org<br />for month of november and december 2008<br /><br />shop for a cause visit my etsy online shops:<br /><a href="http://www.petitespoon.etsy.com">petite spoon</a><br />and<br /><a href="http://www.petitevintage.etsy.com">petite vintage</a><br /><br /><br /><br />10% retail sales at my jewelry shops proceed to a family in need to recovery from lost of their house to the Porter Ranch fire<br /><br />shop for a cause visit these shops:<br /><a href="http://www.petitedesign.etsy.com">petite design</a><br />or<br /><a href="http://www.love.stelladot.com">love.stella & dot</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4375124683600603996?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-79255396898833034602008-11-01T20:53:00.000-07:002008-11-01T20:56:34.321-07:00<blockquote>I love referrals ... buy something from my etsy shops and get Free Shipping if you sign up with RME =D</blockquote><br /><br /><!-- By copying and pasting and/or using the Refer a Friend Button software you are accepting and assenting to the terms of the MoneyExchange Button Software License set forth at https://www.revolutionmoneyexchange.com/website/Licenses.aspx --><br /><a href='https://www.revolutionmoneyexchange.com/ReferAFriend_landing.aspx?referreremail=ychia76@yahoo.com&SOLID=rafbtn893313a' target='_blank'><img src='https://www.revolutionmoneyexchange.com/images/raf_signup.gif' alt='Refer A Friend using Revolution Money Exchange' style='border:none;' /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7925539689883303460?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-88799566492816674552008-05-17T23:16:00.001-07:002008-12-09T19:36:47.042-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SC_J6z3xz3I/AAAAAAAAAMg/ZFqefwJUczM/s1600-h/get_convo_image.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SC_J6z3xz3I/AAAAAAAAAMg/ZFqefwJUczM/s400/get_convo_image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201598106829967218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SC_KFj3xz4I/AAAAAAAAAMo/JM8I0bxQ86s/s1600-h/get_convo_image.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SC_KFj3xz4I/AAAAAAAAAMo/JM8I0bxQ86s/s400/get_convo_image.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201598291513560962" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SC_KUD3xz5I/AAAAAAAAAMw/x3DOsMLH6B4/s1600-h/get_convo_image.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SC_KUD3xz5I/AAAAAAAAAMw/x3DOsMLH6B4/s400/get_convo_image.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201598540621664146" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8879956649281667455?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-20011161165548430712008-04-21T23:47:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:47.523-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">absolutely stunning colors<br />these are the multi color pebbles<br />size range from 9mm to 13mm<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SA2Kd3T9vfI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/0_0EaySVQc8/s1600-h/peb_group_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SA2Kd3T9vfI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/0_0EaySVQc8/s320/peb_group_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191958191096577522" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">colors from top to bottom:<br />leafy<br />firecracker<br />banana<br />ash<br />rose<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SA2KeXT9vgI/AAAAAAAAAMY/ZnePs5z4_ww/s1600-h/peb_group_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/SA2KeXT9vgI/AAAAAAAAAMY/ZnePs5z4_ww/s320/peb_group_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191958199686512130" border="0" /></a><br />summer<br />mellow<br />plummy<br />pollack<br />sky<br /><br />65 g pack for $30<br />200 g pack for $85<br />order yours for june delivery<br />petitespoon.etsy.com<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-2001116116554843071?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-52234009687019495372008-04-08T23:02:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:47.707-08:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R_xdXFj9aII/AAAAAAAAAMI/VoOPQamuPHk/s1600-h/pair174.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R_xdXFj9aII/AAAAAAAAAMI/VoOPQamuPHk/s320/pair174.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187123522035345538" /></a><br />have you gotten your pair of toms yet?<br /><br />it is for a great cause<br /><br />buy a pair of toms ... toms will matched every pair purchased with a donated pair to a child in need of shoes<br /><br />i bought 2 pairs of natural canvas the other day and i am going to paint those<br /><br />www.tomsshoes.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5223400968701949537?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-37188823244392671562008-04-06T09:16:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:47.807-08:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R_j4xFj9aHI/AAAAAAAAAMA/yeSK5OVsmZo/s1600-h/il_fullxfull.23516915.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R_j4xFj9aHI/AAAAAAAAAMA/yeSK5OVsmZo/s320/il_fullxfull.23516915.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186168493107406962" /></a><br />i purchased this lovely fabric for someone to design a diaper fanny pack for me ... let see how it will turn out in a couple of weeks ... <br /><br />if you like fabrics and modern japanese prints check out www.karaku.etsy.com and speak with mayumi the owner of the shop in tokyo<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3718882324439267156?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-60508552651780980742008-04-03T22:59:00.001-07:002008-12-09T19:36:47.987-08:00okay ... i am skeptical too ... cookie and diet just doesn't mesh well together ...<br /><br />the japanese makes everything look so pretty ... it is the most popular diet in japan and now it is slowly invading the united state market ... it is called soypal cookie diet.<br /><br />lose 9 pounds in 9 days ... wow! <br /><br />so basically the juice is okara ... pulp fiber by product of soymilk and tofu ... and made into cookie with added flavor ... cause who likes fiber ... taste literally like cardboard if no flavor added =P ... the protein part is the plus and other vitamins added.<br /><br />you get 7 cookies per package ... good size cookies ... the idea is to chew those okay yummy cookies down nice and slow and drink two glass of fluid so the high fiber can expand in your stomach to make you full like having a meal but without the added calories ... 150kcal per pack.<br /><br />replace one meal in a day with cookies ... usually dinner would be best.<br /><br />well since i can't go on the diet just yet cause of breast feeding. i eat the cookie when i feel hungry so i don't have to dive into junk food like chips and popcorn etc.<br /><br />the main thing about diet is to eat less and exercise! and also not to starve yourself ... cause when you starve your body actually store up more fat.<br /><br />so one of my mom's friend is actually going on this diet of full force and she said it is working well for her to replace her dinner.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R_XKZlj9aGI/AAAAAAAAAL4/xMwIFxvEHVg/s1600-h/1_box.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R_XKZlj9aGI/AAAAAAAAAL4/xMwIFxvEHVg/s320/1_box.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185273086915471458" /></a><br />www.soypal.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6050855265178098074?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-33944677887751908642008-03-28T23:10:00.000-07:002008-03-28T23:13:26.425-07:00i can only rant but nothing can be done ... that is just so sad =(<br /><br />Living Near Freeways Hurts Kids' Lungs<br /><br />FRIDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Children growing up alongside freeways risk having their lung development impaired, which can increase the likelihood of serious respiratory diseases later in life, researchers report.<br /><br />Other studies have shown that children living next to highways are more likely to develop respiratory problems, such as asthma. But this is the first study to show that long exposure to car and truck exhaust actually affects the growth of the lungs, and hence their capacity.<br /><br />The report is published in the Jan. 26 online issue of The Lancet.<br /><br />"Exposure from tailpipe emissions from motor vehicles potentially carries chronic health risks to children's lung development," said lead researcher W. James Gauderman, an assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. "We found that kids who live closer to freeways had significantly less lung capacity, compared with kids who lived further from freeways."<br /><br />In the study, Gauderman and his colleagues followed 3,677 children for eight years, tracking their lung development. The children were 10 at the start of the study, and came from 12 southern California communities. The air quality differed in each community.<br /><br />The researchers found that lung growth in children who lived within 500 meters of a freeway (about a quarter of a mile) was significantly less than children who lived 1,500 meters or more from a freeway.<br /><br />Gauderman's group also found that exposure to freeways and regional air pollution had negative and independent effects on the growth of lung function. In addition, there was a significant drop in percentage of expected lung function among 18-year-olds who lived within 500 meters of a freeway.<br /><br />Gauderman thinks that these effects on lung development are serious. "Lung capacity is something that once a child is done growing, that amount of lung capacity they have is carried with them throughout their adult life," he explained.<br /><br />Lung capacity is further reduced as people age, Gauderman said. "Reduced lung capacity is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and respiratory diseases, such as emphysema," he added.<br /><br />"What we worry most about are kids who have compromised lung function to start out with," Gauderman said. "When they are older, they will have a significantly increased risk for respiratory diseases."<br /><br />One expert thinks that the problem is real, but the solution is elusive, and only changes in neighborhoods or automobile emissions seem likely to have an impact.<br /><br />"Prior studies and common sense both suggest that breathing in a great deal of automobile exhaust cannot be good for the healthy development of children's lungs," said Dr. David L. Katz, an associate professor of public health and director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine.<br /><br />These data show a clear and clinically important association between the proximity of a child's home to a major freeway and deficits in lung function by age 18, Katz said. "The deficits observed in the force and volume of each breath suggests increased risk of asthma and bronchitis, as well as a decreased capacity for physical exertion," he said.<br /><br />What these investigators cannot do is fix the problem, Katz said. "Can we redesign urban neighborhoods so that no home or school is near highway traffic? Can we reduce the volume and/or composition of car exhaust so that highways no longer represent threats to the lungs of growing children?" he asked.<br /><br />More information<br /><br />The American Academy of Family Physicians can tell you more about outdoor air pollution.<br /><br />Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3394467788775190864?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-87235187603678757202008-03-28T19:57:00.000-07:002008-03-30T15:36:38.809-07:00my rant of the blog is about irresponsible people and a chain reaction of events that leads to this rant<br /><br />it is all common sense, but i still like to put this all down<br /><br />if someone care about children and the well being of children would they choose to open a preschool next to a location of a busy freeway overpass in los angeles? especially the busy 10 and 405 intersection ... and the 405 was also expanded which means more cars and more pollutants in the morning hours.<br /><br />maybe they didn’t do it intentionally or they did because all they care is about the money since it is a business.<br /><br />another argument would be affordability ... but then what is the price of your child health?<br /><br />it is really the chicken or the egg ... supply and demand ... and the cycle of hypocritical issue<br /><br />if there is one preschool that is not near the freeway that cost let say $1,000 a month vs. the one that is just next to it that cost $800 a month ... but then your child would suffer from air pollution that would lead to deteriorate lung functions and cardiovascular diseases down the road as in leading into adulthood ... would you rethink for a moment ... starting at age 2 exposed for 4-8 hours a day until they turn 5 or 6 before moving them to a public school hopefully not near a freeway ... sinus infection that would lead to asthma, bronchitis etc … even as healthy as your child to begin with, exposure to even second hand smoking is a bad deal starting at a very young age.<br /><br />why are those preschool given a license? what is the loophole of criteria to open a preschool but not dealing with environmental issue … which also is a health issue … in a virus level … should someone responsible who has the power to change please put this down for any school private or public … do not have schools be built near freeways which is a toxic area.<br /><br />the worst of all thing ... is be in denial ... seriously it doesn't matter which direction the wind blows ... the worst is when there is no wind to blow anything away and all the pollutants just settle in the air where the children laugh away their lives!<br /><br />here is a letter in regards to health of children who grow up breathing polluted air:<br /><br />http://www.portoflosangeles.org/EIR/TraPacFIER/FEIR_Chapter_2G_Academia_and_Local_Chapters.pdf<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8723518760367875720?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-63300055601372991662008-01-07T23:27:00.000-08:002008-12-09T19:36:48.178-08:00okay, i heart etsy.com because of all the cool stuff i can find that are handmade by artisans!<br /><br />well, i found amanda and her beautiful creation. her porcelain creation are absolutely beautiful and beyond words to describe. i had her create a custom order for me for a friend's wedding.<br /><br />i really love her fish so i emailed her about an idea of the two fish who found each other among other fishes in the sea. and with that in mind she created this piece.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R4Mn5mKT3bI/AAAAAAAAALo/vinw__Git10/s1600-h/amanda.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R4Mn5mKT3bI/AAAAAAAAALo/vinw__Git10/s400/amanda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153006269091798450" border="0" /></a>she uses fine english grolleg porcelain ( pure white kaolin from england ... primary clay used in many porcelain formulations to get a translucent and plasticity texture) hand-thrown on wheel. then she draws freehand using a porcupine quill revealing layers of handmade red colored slip. it is then fired to cone 10 ... at 2380 degrees F! the glaze she uses are food-safe, dishwasher-safe and microwave-safe.<br /><br />she is just wonderful to work with.<br /><br />i am definitely going back for more custom creation!<br /><br />check out her other cool creation at yogagoat.etsy.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6330005560137299166?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-11920358158031197422007-12-05T14:48:00.000-08:002008-12-09T19:36:48.368-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R1crtdTY78I/AAAAAAAAALg/ZWBlQD64oMs/s1600-h/2084846871_491df330aa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/R1crtdTY78I/AAAAAAAAALg/ZWBlQD64oMs/s400/2084846871_491df330aa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140625559626772418" /></a><br /><br />yup, that is the question ...<br /><br />obesity is not only an epidemic it is a humanity issue ... would you let your kids eat a tub of lard ...? coca cola, oreo cookies, mc donald fries ... etc<br /><br />moderation is the key ... diet soda is not a solution ... you think you are not gaining fat drinking or eating diet labeled whatever ... think again.<br /><br /><br />Do Diet Sodas Make You Fat?<br /> <br />Posted Tue, Dec 04, 2007, 11:12 am PST<br /><br /><br />The short answer(s) to this question is no and, maybe, yes. One recent study has shown that people who drink diet soda still have a 41 percent chance of being overweight.<br /><br />What is even more interesting about this research is that these diet-soda drinkers have a greater risk for obesity than do those who drink regular sodas.<br /><br />How is this possible? It can't be that the diet sodas are causing obesity, since they contain no calories.<br /><br />Some researchers believe that the problem with diet sodas is this: When people consume diet drinks, they think they're doing something "good" for their body — and then they feel free to splurge on other, high-calorie items.<br /><br />For example, if you are eating at McDonald's and order a diet soda in place of a regular soda, you may think, "Now I can super-size my meal." People don't do this intentionally; it just happens and we don't pay attention to it — and then the extra pounds slip on board and stow away.<br /><br />There is also some research that suggests diet sodas may actually stimulate the appetite. This explanation of the relationship between diet sodas and obesity is that the overly sweet taste of diet drinks actually creates a craving for still more sweet things, thus upping calorie consumption.<br /><br />What then should you do about your drink choices?<br /><br />First, remember: Everything in moderation. If you are drinking a lot of regular or diet soda each day, decreasing your intake of either may help you lose weight. Also, think about when during the day you drink diet sodas; do you then tend to splurge on other calories?<br /><br />Although escaping the obesity epidemic isn't as easy as avoiding diet sodas, you should think about what you drink.<br /><br />© 2007 Johns Hopkins University. All Rights Reserved. This article from Johns Hopkins University is provided as a service by Yahoo. All materials are produced independently by Johns Hopkins University, which is solely responsible for its content.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1192035815803119742?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-7675233647504267722007-11-13T20:11:00.000-08:002008-12-09T19:36:49.134-08:00i am very glad to have met heather. she is a jewelry designer and also a customer of mine who found a wonderful design using those greek washer beads.<br /><br />this is an interview with her. i hope you enjoy her work as much as i did.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">what got you into designing jewelry? who influenced you?</span><br /><br /><blockquote>i got into jewelry making and designing after the birth of my daughter. i am a culinary trained chef and i wanted to stay home with my daughter after she was born. i wanted to do something creative so i took a class in basic stringing. i was bored with that within a couple of days so i started to look around for other things to learn how to do. i found pmc [precious metal clay] and have really loved working with it. i am currently taking classes on traditional metal smithing and i really love all that i am learning.</blockquote><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RzqaArxKtCI/AAAAAAAAALI/4NAOoT18TF8/s1600-h/_MG_5727.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RzqaArxKtCI/AAAAAAAAALI/4NAOoT18TF8/s320/_MG_5727.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132584061881725986" /></a><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>so many people and things have influenced me. i would have to say that some of my culinary training has influenced me and the designs i make. my sisters and my daughter. i grew up in hawaii so i would have to say that still has an influence on me. we get back ‘home’ every chance we can. nature and living in the southwest has really influenced me and my designs.</blockquote><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RzqYkLxKtBI/AAAAAAAAALA/otfg9jsWY8Y/s1600-h/_MG_5698.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RzqYkLxKtBI/AAAAAAAAALA/otfg9jsWY8Y/s320/_MG_5698.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132582472743826450" /></a><br /><br /><center>doesn't this look delicious</center><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">how did you come up with the idea of this piece that you made for your sister?</span><br /><br /><blockquote>i have wanted to try chain maille but i’m a little out of time for another class. in one of my metal classes we had to make jump rings. so i had extra and was just going to link a few together and make earrings but once i got started i thought it would make a great bracelet. i sometimes don’t name pieces because i come up with really silly names, but i called this one, “Copper Coins.” it reminded me of pennies.</blockquote><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rzqa77xKtDI/AAAAAAAAALQ/nHBkBpCqGqE/s1600-h/_MG_5737.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rzqa77xKtDI/AAAAAAAAALQ/nHBkBpCqGqE/s320/_MG_5737.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132585079788975154" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">what is your favorite material to use in your designs? what makes it special?</span><br /><br /><blockquote>my favorite material still has to be pmc. i really love to work with it. since i’ve been making things with traditional metal i think that my pmc pieces have gotten much better and have a little more substance to them. i love to use semiprecious stones because i think that just makes the fine silver that much more beautiful. i also love to mix metals as you can see from the bracelet.</blockquote><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RzqcU7xKtEI/AAAAAAAAALY/-UBS1xcb0O8/s1600-h/_MG_5738.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RzqcU7xKtEI/AAAAAAAAALY/-UBS1xcb0O8/s320/_MG_5738.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132586608797332546" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />some pointers for setting up for a show? what must you do and what you shouldn’t do?</span> <br /><br /><blockquote>i did my first show on the 3rd of november. i wasn’t sure what to expect so i planned for everything! i brought way too much jewelries for the space i had. so don’t put them all out at once.<br /><br />make sure you bring the following:<br /><br />01. business cards<br /><br />02. something to display your earrings and necklaces so that you have levels of jewelry not all lying on the table.<br /><br />03. someone to help you!<br /><br />04. bags for items that are purchased and tissue to wrap them in! i got small kraft bags that i stamped my company logo on so if they didn’t take a business card they still knew how to get hold of me.<br /><br />05. tablecloths and one that is dark – black is perfect. just something that the jewelry will pop off of. i have a lot of silver so that seems to work best for me but anything that doesn’t take away from your pieces is fine.<br /><br />06. mirror so that they can see what it looks like on.<br /><br />07. chairs because you’ll do a lot of waiting.<br /><br />08. something to read because you’ll do a lot of waiting. when a customer comes up or you see them coming put it away but there were many times through out the day that there was just no one around.<br /><br />09. receipt book and pens<br /><br />10. cash – ones, fives, tens and twenties. i priced all my jewelry with the tax and made all the prices even – example instead of $11.99 just say $12.00. then you don’t have to worry with all the change. i did bring a little change but not much.<br /><br />if you have time to visit other shows before yours make notes of what you like and don’t like. have fun with it. make sure you smile A LOT! and engage people in conversation without bugging them!<br /></blockquote><br />i am working on my own website so you can find me at <a href="http://www.hawaiiheather.etsy.com">http://www.hawaiiheather.etsy.com</a> for now. <br /><br />my next show will be a local craft show in gilbert, arizona on the 24th of november.<br /><br />all contributed content © heather gill<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-767523364750426772?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-18423301810524359382007-11-04T16:23:00.000-08:002007-11-04T16:58:38.082-08:00have you thought about making a loan to a mother of 4 children living in paraguay to help buy more material to continue her business as a tailor or a father in bolivia who needs $1000 so he may continue his water supply business and hopefully send his children to college.<br /><br />with the internet and money transfer you can do anything to help the poor and support the economy. is it that hard to fathom, yet possible. Dr. Muhammad Yunus the founder of Grameen Bank and winner of the nobel peace prize started microfinancing in 1976 giving out a loan of $27 to 42 women in a village in Bangladesh.<br /><br />i found this interesting organization called kiva.org and that is what the organization seek out to do ... connect people to make change ... just using that simple idea and make it grassroot.<br /><br />* kiva in swahili means agreement or unity<br /><br />don't let your money just sit in your checking account do something with it and make a change!<br /><br />checkout www.kiva.org<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1842330181052435938?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-37045498808351092512007-10-30T15:28:00.001-07:002007-10-30T15:31:50.785-07:00i have to say i was flattered to have someone interview me for her blog space about my little shop petitespoon.etsy.com and my designs ... thank you kara for such opportunity.<br /><br />check it out at:<br />http://innocentcharmschats.blogspot.com/2007/10/to-say-thanks-to-fab-lady.html<br /><br />her blog is fabulous =D<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3704549880835109251?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-77753775402761904142007-10-02T10:37:00.000-07:002007-10-02T11:45:46.298-07:00who doesn't want free stuff?<br /><br />i really do hate those sign up website for free stuff and all you end up getting is really free junk e-mails that clog up your time into deleting them all. there is always a catch 22 ... i get all those e-mails about free $500 gift cards from home depot or target at the end it is a waste of time. so when it is too good to be true ... it is. nothing is really for free. <br /><br /><br />From CNNMoney.com<br /><br />How to find free stuff<br /><br />Monday September 24, 2:09 pm ET <br /><br />By Gerri Willis, CNN<br /><br />Everybody likes free stuff. So put your wallet away and get out those pencils. We went out to find the best deals out there for the taking.<br /><br />1: Free Samples<br /><br />Let's face it...free stuff is the best stuff. You have to be careful of free-product programs...your inbox may be flooded with ads or there may be hidden fees. So read the fine print carefully.<br /><br />Here's one Web site that connects manufacturers with consumers who test products. That's www.startsampling.com. You'll also want to check out company Web sites directly like tide.com and olay.com to sign up for discount coupons and new-product samples.<br /><br />2: Free Phone Aid<br /><br />We've all been charged for dialing 4-1-1, but now there's free directory assistance. That number is 800-FREE-411. You will have to listen to a few seconds of advertising. But you'll get your number at no charge.<br /><br />And here's another handy phone tool...If you really want to get out of a meeting...or a date, you can "receive" a fake call. Check out popularitydialer.com. Set the time you need to receive the call and which excuse you want to use...(like the "return to the office" call), and voila! you'll receive a "fake" call with a recorded message that demands you leave whatever you're doing and go back to work.<br /><br />3: Free Memory<br /><br />If Post-its just aren't cutting it as your scheduling tool, there are some free tools on the Web that can help. Check out memotome.com. You'll never have to say a happy belated birthday again. Just put in your e-mail, and program in the events and dates you need to be reminded of. There's also birthdayalarm.com. Membership is free and you'll even get free invites and party planning tools.<br /><br />4: Free Books<br /><br />If you're an avid reader, you may really love paperbackswap.com. All you have to do is choose a book you'd like to read from a list and you'll receive it in the mail.<br /><br />At the same time, you list the books you want to get rid of. When someone requests to read it, all you have to do is pop it in the mail. You will have to pay for postage, but it's usually around $2.13.<br /><br />5: Financial Planning<br /><br />Before you invest in a financial planner, check out some of these online tools. To figure out how much you'll need in retirement, check out this calculator. All you have to do is punch in some basic info about your income and savings. If you want to take a peek inside your portfolio to see how your funds are doing, Morningstar.com has a great tool on its Web site called Instant X-ray.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7775377540276190414?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-82858590754567944212007-09-21T07:03:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:49.270-08:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RwBvV-oO3sI/AAAAAAAAAK4/xPqw0LCNq_k/s1600-h/clemmieweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RwBvV-oO3sI/AAAAAAAAAK4/xPqw0LCNq_k/s320/clemmieweb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116211600072564418" /></a><br /><br /><center>we all welcome baby Clémentine<br /><br />on september 21st, 2007 at 7:03 AM pacific time<br /><br />8 pounds 12 ounces and 21 inches tall<br /><br />Love, mama Yvonne, papa JP and big bro Théodore<br /><br />a link to more photos at <A HREF="http://www.chialu.com/clemmie">www.chialu.com/clemmie</A></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8285859075456794421?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-22085690026174231012007-08-21T09:22:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:50.344-08:00i haven't post for a long time what is happening at my petite shop ... these are the beautiful and color greek ceramic beads that i have been carrying in my shop since june. <br /><br />greek ceramic beads or round washers come in bright colorful tone, earthy shades assortments and metalized gold, silver, copper etc you name it. these kiln-fired, dyed terra cotta beads often have the look of wood, metal, or stone. they keep up well except for when it goes through some crushing at the post office cause they were fed through a letter machine.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssSyXC0rtI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/CN8F3zXAsAo/s1600-h/greek_washer-8mm-bright01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssSyXC0rtI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/CN8F3zXAsAo/s320/greek_washer-8mm-bright01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101191659315834578" /></a><br /><center>the bright colorful tone comes in 8mm and 13mm</center><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssSzHC0ruI/AAAAAAAAAKY/Kaz7jre4Kp8/s1600-h/greek_washer-8mm-earth02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssSzHC0ruI/AAAAAAAAAKY/Kaz7jre4Kp8/s320/greek_washer-8mm-earth02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101191672200736482" /></a><br /><center>the earthy tone comes in 8mm and 13mm</center><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssS0XC0rvI/AAAAAAAAAKg/8az_G3xel74/s1600-h/greek_washer-8mm-gold01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssS0XC0rvI/AAAAAAAAAKg/8az_G3xel74/s320/greek_washer-8mm-gold01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101191693675572978" /></a><br /><center>the metalized 24 k gold finish comes in 8mm</center><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssS03C0rwI/AAAAAAAAAKo/i_q5LafCPxY/s1600-h/greek_washer-8mm-silver02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssS03C0rwI/AAAAAAAAAKo/i_q5LafCPxY/s320/greek_washer-8mm-silver02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101191702265507586" /></a><br /><center>the metalized 100% fine silver finish comes in 8mm</center><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssS2nC0rxI/AAAAAAAAAKw/cdz4Kw2XwmE/s1600-h/greek_washer-8mm-copper01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RssS2nC0rxI/AAAAAAAAAKw/cdz4Kw2XwmE/s320/greek_washer-8mm-copper01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101191732330278674" /></a><br /><center>the metalized pure copper finish comes in 8mm</center><br /><br />these hand-formed ceramic beads are truly a labor of love. they are kiln-fired terracotta biscuits then fired again with rough copper and lastly the finishing coat of either pure copper, 100% fine silver, or 24 k gold is applied. these beauties also come in green patina copper and antique patina silver.<br /><br />* Mykonos is an island of Greece part of the Cyclades. it is believe that this island is named after an offspring of the god Apollo. this happening destination is among the best of Europe nightlife.<br /><br />visit my petitespOOn at http://petitespoon.etsy.com<br /><br />email me at petitespoon@gmail.com about flat rate s/h special to US $1, to Canada $2, to everywhere else $3 on wires, findings and beads order till the end of the year using google checkout<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-2208569002617423101?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-30051474301158529102007-08-14T09:23:00.001-07:002007-10-02T11:46:36.851-07:00what a recall by mattel and fisher-price?!? if you want to cut cost you cut safety issues for sure this is a backlash for doing so. it shouldn't be a surprise ... i look at the european toy market and all toys made local in germany or france they cost 3 to 4 times as much than counterpart made in china products ... so what do parents choose if they have limited budget and still want to get toys that is worth their money? <br /><br /><br />Mattel recalling more Chinese-made toys<br />By NATASHA METZLER, Associated Press Writer<br /><br />Toy-making giant Mattel Inc. issued recalls Tuesday for about 9 million Chinese-made toys that contain magnets children can swallow or which could have lead paint.<br /><br />The recall includes 7.3 million play sets, including Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures, and 253,000 die cast cars that contain lead paint.<br /><br />Nancy A. Nord, acting Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman, told a news conference no injuries had been reported with any of the products involved in the new recall.<br /><br />"The scope of these recalls is intentionally large to prevent any injuries from occurring," she told the news conference.<br /><br />At least one U.S. child has died and 19 others have needed surgery since 2003 after swallowing magnets used in toys, the government said. Several injuries had been reported in an earlier Polly Pocket recall last November.<br /><br />Mattel, in a full-page ad Tuesday in some U.S. newspapers, said the company was "one of the most trusted names with parents" and was "working extremely hard to address your concerns and continue creating safe, entertaining toys for you and your children."<br /><br />Tuesday's recall was the latest blow to the toy industry, which has had a string of recalled products from China. With about 80 percent of toys sold worldwide made in China, toy sellers are worried shoppers will shy away from their products.<br /><br />It was also the second recall involving lead paint for Mattel in two weeks. Earlier this month, consumers were warned about 1.5 million Chinese-made toys that contain lead paint.<br /><br />"There is no excuse for lead to be found in toys entering this country," Nord said. "It's totally unacceptable and it needs to stop."<br /><br />Toys recalled Tuesday include 253,000 "Sarge" cars from the movie "Cars," because the surface paint could contain lead levels in excess of federal standard. The 2 1/2-inch, 1-inch high car looks like a military jeep.<br /><br />Lead is toxic if ingested by young children, and under current regulations, children's products found to have more than .06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall.<br /><br />Also recalled Tuesday were 345,000 Batman and "One Piece" action figures, 683,000 Barbie and Tanner play sets and 1 million Doggie Day Care play sets.<br /><br />In the newspaper ads, presented as a letter to "fellow parents" from Mattel chief executive Bob Eckert, the company said "nothing is more important than the safety of our children."<br /><br />"We have already taken steps to further ensure the safety of our toys," Eckert said.<br /><br />Nord said the company has stopped selling the recalled products, instructed retailers to pull them from the shelves and made a production change. Mattel is also offering replacement products.<br /><br />The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which negotiated details of Mattel's recalls, reported that in the previous recall of Polly Pockets play sets in Nov. 11, three children had been injured by swallowing more than one magnet. All three suffered intestinal perforations that required surgery.<br /><br />When more than one magnet is swallowed, they can attach to each other and cause intestinal perforation, infection or blockage, which can be fatal.<br /><br />In March 2006, another toy company, Mega Brands Inc., recalled 3.8 million Magnetix magnetic building sets after one child died and four others were seriously injured after swallowing tiny magnets in them.<br /><br />Two weeks ago, Mattel's Fisher-Price division announced the worldwide recall of 1.5 million Chinese-made preschool toys featuring characters such as Dora the Explorer, Big Bird and Elmo. About 967,000 of those toys were sold in the United States between May and August.<br /><br />Mattel discovered the latest problem while they were investigating the earlier recall, Nord said.<br /><br />Mattel officials maintained that a European retailer discovered the lead in some of the lead-covered Fisher-Price products in early July. On July 6, the company halted operations at the factory in China that produced the toys and launched an investigation.<br /><br />Days after the Fisher-Price recall, Chinese officials temporarily banned the toys' manufacturer, Lee Der Industrial Co., from exporting products. A Lee Der co-owner, Cheung Shu-hung, committed suicide at a warehouse over the weekend, apparently by hanging himself, a state-run newspaper reported Monday.<br /><br />Lee Der was under pressure in the global controversy over the safety of Chinese-made products, and it is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China.<br /><br />After Mattel announced the recall of its Fisher-Price toys, it launched a full-scale investigation into all of its factories in China.<br /><br />Before this month, Fisher-Price and parent company Mattel had never recalled toys because of lead paint.<br /><br />Consumers should call Mattel at 888-597-6597 for information about the recalled toys with magnets, or 800-916-4997 for information about the recalled cars.<br /><br />___<br /><br />Mattel: http://service.mattel.com/us/recall.asp<br /><br />Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov/<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3005147430115852910?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-18732918518301690742007-07-29T13:58:00.000-07:002009-05-20T12:52:16.030-07:00business.com got acquired by r.h. donnelley aka yellow pages company!<br />the bid went up to $345 million ...<br />i read on some discussion board some people questioning the purchase price to be outrageous because some of them thinks that the price tag is for the domain name only. if you go to business.com it is like yahoo.com or google.com, but only it is a b2b search engine. and beside purchasing the domain name you get all the technology and people who works behind the scene and business.com is generating revenue. so what is there to complain about?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">R.H. Donnelley to Acquire Business.com Inc.<br /><br />CARY, NC UNITED STATES<br /><br />Business.com's CEO, Jake Winebaum, To Be Appointed President of R.H.<br />Donnelley's Interactive Operations<br /><br />CARY, N.C., July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- R.H. Donnelley<br />Corporation (NYSE: RHD), one of the nation's leading Yellow Pages and online local commercial search companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Business.com, a leading businesssearch engine and directory and pay-per-click advertising network.<br />(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060731/NYM044LOGO)<br />Through this transaction, R.H. Donnelley will add to its existing interactive portfolio a rapidly growing and profitable business-to-business company, with online properties that include Business.com, Work.com and the Business.com Advertising Network. These online brands attract an audience of highly qualified and motivated business decision makers. Business.com optimizes the revenues from these properties through the use of its Performance Based Advertising (PBA) platform, which is considered to be one of the most advanced systems in the marketplace.<br /><br />In addition, R.H. Donnelley's Triple Play(TM) business-to-consumer integrated marketing solutions will also benefit from a significant infusion of leading-edge search and directory technology and interactive thought leadership from Business.com, particularly in the areas of performance based advertising technologies and corresponding ad network capabilities. Business.com employs approximately 100 highly-skilled technologists, strategists and businesspeople and serves more than 6,000 business-to-business advertisers and their agencies. The company is profitable and is expected to generate revenues of greater than $50 million in 2007. It is widely recognized as a leader in the online business-to-business commercial search space and has been named to the "Inc. 500" and BtoB magazine's "Media Power 50".<br /><br />"With this transaction R.H. Donnelley takes another significant step forward in the online local commercial search marketplace," said David C. Swanson, chairman and CEO of R.H. Donnelley Corporation. "Upon closing, we will immediately gain a profitable business-to-business vertical that is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the market. We also gain technology and talent that will accelerate our capabilities with DexKnows.com and other aspects of our digital strategy." Business.com is led by Founder and CEO Jake Winebaum, a highly-regarded, successful leader of Internet and media companies. Upon closing of the transaction, Winebaum will be appointed as President of R.H. Donnelley's interactive unit (RHDi), which will now include DexKnows.com(TM), LocalLaunch! search engine marketing company, Business.com, Work.com and the Business.com Advertising Network. Winebaum</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">will lead RHDi from Santa Monica, Calif., and will report directly to</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Swanson.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Prior to starting Business.com, Winebaum led the Internet activities of</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Walt Disney Company, serving as the Chairman of Buena Vista Internet</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Group, which managed high-profile brands such as Disney.com and ESPN.com.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">His leadership and contributions to the Internet industry have been</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">acknowledge by Time magazine, which included him as one of the Top 50 Cyber</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Elite and Wired magazine, who placed him on the Wired 25.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "We are very excited about joining the R.H. Donnelley organization,"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Winebaum said. "Business.com and the platform we built over the past seven</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">years are a perfect complement to R.H. Donnelley's interactive strategy.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The solutions that we have created for business decision makers and</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">advertisers are directly applicable to what is required to service the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">local search and directory needs of consumers and local merchants. It is</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">exciting to become part of an organization with such substantial reach,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">capabilities and resources. Business.com is already a profitable and</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">growing enterprise, but together we will accelerate this growth and ensure</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">our combined leadership position in the business and local markets."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Swanson added, "We are very pleased to welcome Jake and the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Business.com team to R.H. Donnelley. Jake's track record of success and</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">significant experience in building and running successful interactive</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">organizations make him the perfect choice to lead RHDi's fast-growing</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">interactive business."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Under the terms of the agreement, R.H. Donnelley will acquire</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Business.com for $345 million in cash and deferred purchase consideration.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2007 and is subject</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">to customary terms and closing conditions, including compliance with the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Conference Call Information</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> R.H. Donnelley Corporation will discuss this transaction and 2nd</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">quarter earnings on a conference call scheduled for Thursday, July 26,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">2007, at 10:00 a.m. ET. Individuals within the United States can access the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">call by dialing 888-387-9606 -- others should dial 517-645-6055. The pass</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">code for the call is "RHD." In order to ensure a prompt start time, please</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">dial into the call by 9:50 a.m. (ET). A replay of the teleconference can be</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">accessed from within the United States by dialing 800-793-2380 and</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">internationally by dialing 203-369-3339. There is no pass code for the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">replay, which will be available through August 9, 2007. In addition, a live</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Web cast will be available on RHD's Web site at http://www.rhd.com, and an</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">archived version will be available for up to one year.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> About R.H. Donnelley</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> R.H. Donnelley connects businesses and consumers through its broad</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">portfolio of print and interactive marketing solutions. Small- and</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">medium-sized businesses look to R.H. Donnelley's experienced team of</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">marketing consultants to help them grow their companies and drive sales</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">leads. Consumers depend on the company's reliable, trusted, local business</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">content to deliver the most relevant search results when they are seeking</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">local goods and services. R.H. Donnelley's Triple Play integrated marketing</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">solution provides the most comprehensive print Yellow Pages, Internet</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Yellow Pages and search engine marketing/search engine optimization</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(SEM/SEO) tools for local businesses to attract ready-to-buy customers. For</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">more information, visit http://www.rhd.com.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> About Business.com</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Business.com (http://www.business.com) is the leading business search engine</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">and directory and pay-per-click advertising network, serving more than 30</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">million business users and thousands of advertisers every month.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Business.com helps business decision makers quickly find what they need to</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">manage and grow their businesses, and enables advertisers to reach these</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">users wherever they are across the business Internet through premier</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">partners, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Forbes, BusinessWeek,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hoovers, Financial Times and Internet.com. The company recently launched</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Work.com (http://www.work.com), a b-to-b community publishing platform featuring</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">more than 1,800 business how-to guides contributed by business experts.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Business.com was named to the 2006 Inc. 500 and BtoB magazine's Media Power</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">50. Business.com was founded in 1999 by eCompanies and is headquartered in</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Santa Monica, Calif. Its investors partners include Benchmark Capital,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Institutional Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Reed Business</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Information and McGraw-Hill.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Safe Harbor Provision</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Certain statements contained in the release regarding RHD's, RHDi's or</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Business.com's future operating results or performance or business plans or</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">prospects and any other statements not constituting historical fact are</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"forward-looking statements" subject to the safe harbor created by the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Where possible, the words</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "will," "planned,"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"estimated," "potential," "goal," "outlook" and similar expressions, as</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">they relate to RHD or its management, have been used to identify such</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements reflect only our</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">current beliefs and assumptions with respect to future business plans,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">prospects, decisions and results, and are based on information currently</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">available to us. Accordingly, the statements are subject to significant</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">risks, uncertainties and contingencies, which could cause actual operating</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">results, performance or business plans or prospects to differ materially</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: (1) the risk</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">that the conditions to closing will not be satisfied; (2) the risk that the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">transaction will be delayed or fail to close; and (3) the possibility that</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">the expected strategic advantages of the transaction will not be realized</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">or may take longer to realize than expected. Additional factors that could</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">cause RHD's results to differ materially from those described in the</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">forward-looking statements are described in detail in RHD's Annual Report</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 in Item 1A "Risk</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Factors" as well as RHD's other periodic filings with the SEC that are</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1873291851830169074?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-4245914182438372942007-07-23T10:27:00.000-07:002007-08-14T09:21:51.554-07:00it was a sunday morning and my cousin and i spend an hour and half at the bead faire. it was a bead lover's heaven for all those who love beads!<br />a line was already formed at the ticket booth when we arrived at 10am. it was also a pretty hot day especially with my huge belly. thank goodness we didn't wait that long to get in or i would have just have a heat stroke out there.<br />the first thing we checkout was polymer clay beads. the lady must have a lot of patient to make those beads. everyone of them were so detailed and they are all little art sculptures.<br />there was tons of beads!!! as we walked into the main hall with probably 100 of booths displayed of mostly semi-precious gemstones and freshwater pearls. at the via murano booth, i really love the vintage venetian glass beads. those were selling for $5-10 each. they were showing demo on how to use their snapeez jump rings and twisted tornado crimps. those are just great findings! i have to get some for my little shop.<br />i bought some thai karen hill tribe silver beads and charms. those where a bit expensive but well worth the money. the designs on those beads were intricate and just beautiful and they were not light weight. i bought my mix of ocean themes: fishes, seashells, starfishes, sea turtles and little swirls of waves.<br />i also purchased some potato pearls and some semi-precious gemstones.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-424591418243837294?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-46350926294475918922007-07-12T21:37:00.000-07:002007-10-02T11:46:06.457-07:00are nowadays flight attendants retarded or what? at least for the one that a mom and her 19 months old son met on express jet airlines is ... after trying to tell the mom to drug her baby boy so he can shut up from saying 'bye bye, plane' ... i would be concerned if it were a 19 years old person, but what can a 19 months old do beside throw a tantrum, yell and scream, cry ... and saying 'bye bye, plane' should be the least of a concern. at least the baby is not yelling 'bomb bomb, plane.'<br /><br />From Associated Press on Yahoo! News:<br /><br />Mom says she, toddler kicked off plane<br />Thu Jul 12, 2:15 PM ET<br /><br />A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked off a plane after she refused a flight attendant's request to medicate her son to get him to quiet down and stop saying "Bye bye, plane."<br /><br />Kate Penland, of suburban Atlanta, said she and her 19-month-old son, Garren, were flying from Atlanta to Oklahoma last month on a Continental Express flight that made a stop in Houston.<br /><br />As the plane was taxiing in Houston en route to Oklahoma, "he started saying 'Bye, bye plane,' Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta. The flight attendant objected, she said.<br /><br />"At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, 'It's not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up,'" Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta.<br /><br />When Penland asked the woman if she was joking, she said the stewardess replied, "You know, it's called baby Benadryl."<br /><br />"And I said, 'Well, I'm not going to drug my child so you have a pleasant flight,'" Penland told the TV station.<br /><br />Penland said other passengers began speaking up on her behalf, and the flight attendant announced they were turning around and that Penland and Garren were going to be taken off the plane.<br /><br />Penland and her son were let off the plane and did not complete the trip to Oklahoma, said Kristy Nicholas, spokeswoman for Express Jet Airlines, which flies as Continental Express on behalf of Continental Airlines.<br /><br />Attempts by the Associated Press to reach Penland under a telephone listing that matched her last name were unsuccessful.<br /><br />"I was crying, I was upset and I was thinking, 'What am I going to do? I don't have anything with me, I don't have any more diapers for the baby, no juice, no milk," Penland told WSB.<br /><br />Nicholas said, "We received Ms. Penland's letter expressing her concerns and intend to investigate its contents."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4635092629447591892?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-296585500493250892007-07-04T22:22:00.000-07:002007-07-04T22:37:52.537-07:00well, only in america ... do we have the celebration of independence and finally an american gaining back the title of nathan's hot dog eating contest winner. yup you got it ... the sport of competitive eating aired on espn. joey chestnut ate 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes beating the 6 times champ takeru kobayashi who finished second eating 63 hot dogs.<br />joey chestnut is from sunny california!<br /><br />we also survived a 105 degree fun in the sun in the valley. even with 50 spf applied every 30 minutes my skin still got a slight tan.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-29658550049325089?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-9904231317648950452007-06-13T23:22:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:50.549-08:00okay so now i am proudly displaying my paypal seal of approval ...<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RnDfDXkBRFI/AAAAAAAAAKI/P6VYNAsio7M/s1600-h/verification_seal.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RnDfDXkBRFI/AAAAAAAAAKI/P6VYNAsio7M/s320/verification_seal.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075802029004244050" /></a><br /><br />a link to <A HREF="https://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=petitespoon%40yahoo%2ecom">official paypal verification seal statement</A><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-990423131764895045?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-16227132447818397542007-06-13T22:45:00.001-07:002008-12-09T19:36:50.658-08:00on fonts.<br /><br />jp emailed this article today about computer fonts and apple and microsoft are not really on the same page on how fonts should be displayed on computer screens. <br />apple is for the design of the fonts so blurriness doesn't really matter just as long as the typefaces look great. microsoft seemed to be on the practial side of the thinking in the readability of the fonts even if the design of typefaces are lost in the mist.<br />as a designer of course i prefer the typefaces to be true to their designs, why would we have so much typefaces out there to began with if all we need is something like arial to solve the problem of readability. it just seem too monotone, don't you think?<br /><br />http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html<br /><br /><i>Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering<br /><br />This item ran on the Joel on Software homepage on Tuesday, June 12, 2007<br /><br />Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low resolution screens. Where they differ is in philosophy.<br /><br />Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm should be to preserve the design of the typeface as much as possible, even at the cost of a little bit of blurriness. Microsoft generally believes that the shape of each letter should be hammered into pixel boundaries to prevent blur and improve readability, even at the cost of not being true to the typeface. Now that Safari for Windows is available, which goes to great trouble to use Apple's rendering algorithms, you can actually compare the philosophies side-by-side on the very same monitor and see what I mean. I think you'll notice the difference. Apple's fonts are indeed fuzzy, with blurry edges, but at small font sizes, there seems to be much more variation between different font families, because their rendering is truer to what the font would look like if it were printed at high resolution.<br /><br />(Note: To see the following illustration correctly, you need to have an LCD monitor with pixels arranged in R,G,B order, like mine. Otherwise it's going to look different and wrong.)<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RnDZd3kBREI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Yb02DNbipfw/s1600-h/12font.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RnDZd3kBREI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Yb02DNbipfw/s320/12font.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075795887201010754" /></a><br /><br />The difference originates from Apple's legacy in desktop publishing and graphic design. The nice thing about the Apple algorithm is that you can lay out a page of text for print, and on screen, you get a nice approximation of the finished product. This is especially significant when you consider how dark a block of text looks. Microsoft's mechanism of hammering fonts into pixels means that they don't really mind using thinner lines to eliminate blurry edges, even though this makes the entire paragraph lighter than it would be in print.<br /><br />The advantage of Microsoft's method is that it works better for on-screen reading. Microsoft pragmatically decided that the design of the typeface is not so holy, and that sharp on-screen text that's comfortable to read is more important than the typeface designer's idea of how light or dark an entire block of text should feel. Indeed Microsoft actually designed font faces for on-screen reading, like Georgia and Verdana, around the pixel boundaries; these are beautiful on screen but don't have much character in print.<br /><br />Typically, Apple chose the stylish route, putting art above practicality, because Steve Jobs has taste, while Microsoft chose the comfortable route, the measurably pragmatic way of doing things that completely lacks in panache. To put it another way, if Apple was Target, Microsoft would be Wal-Mart.<br /><br />Now, on to the question of what people prefer. Jeff Atwood's post from yesterday comparing the two font technologies side-by-side generated rather predictable heat: Apple users liked Apple's system, while Windows users liked Microsoft's system. This is not just standard fanboyism; it reflects the fact that when you ask people to choose a style or design that they prefer, unless they are trained, they will generally choose the one that looks most familiar. In most matters of taste, when you do preference surveys, you'll find that most people don't really know what to choose, and will opt for the one that seems most familiar. This goes for anything from silverware (people pick out the patterns that match the silverware they had growing up) to typefaces to graphic design: unless people are trained to know what to look for, they're going to pick the one that is most familiar.<br /><br />Which is why Apple engineers probably feel like they're doing a huge service to the Windows community, bringing their "superior" font rendering technology to the heathens, and it explains why Windows users are generally going to think that Safari's font rendering is blurry and strange and they don't know why, they just don't like it. Actually they're thinking... "Whoa! That's different. I don't like different. Why don't I like these fonts? Oh, when I look closer, they look blurry. That must be why."<br /><br />About the Author: I'm your host, Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City. Since 2000, I've been writing about software development, management, business, and the Internet on this site. For my day job, I run Fog Creek Software, makers of FogBugz - the smart bug tracking software with the stupid name, and Fog Creek Copilot - the easiest way to provide remote tech support over the Internet, with nothing to install or configure. </i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1622713244781839754?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-46751554699034734362007-05-28T15:25:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:51.113-08:00okay we are crazy as usual. we went to the star wars 30th anni convention at the la convention center saturday. we took théodore of course! it took an hour to get the ticket/badge to get in and it cost $45 per person except for children under 6 years of age so théodore got in for free . and we didn't even plan on staying that long, but we stayed for 4 hours. théodore enjoyed the scenery change from staying home most of the week and he had a blast running around in open space and people watching. <br />i haven't been to a convention for a long time ... this is by far more fan crazy than my x-files days. if you are a hardcore fans like some of the folks ... they come dressed up as their favorite star wars characters. they were all there.<br /><br />well click here to view our photo of that eventful day --->> <br /><A HREF="http://www.chialu.com/theo/2007/2007-05/2007-05-26/index.html">a saturday at star wars 30th</A><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RltZHSWvPXI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Te8Lcw6KWMg/s1600-h/starwars+badge.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RltZHSWvPXI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Te8Lcw6KWMg/s320/starwars+badge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069743787256790386" /></a><br /><center> yup, this is my badge. i love the cartoony drawing of 3cpo.</center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4675155469903473436?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-90942545284643053362007-05-15T16:31:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:51.440-08:00i was bored today when théodore was taking his nap. so i designed this logo for tees. what do you think?<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RkpDctWGXnI/AAAAAAAAAJo/Ac6_jUAYY2E/s1600-h/domesticqueen.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RkpDctWGXnI/AAAAAAAAAJo/Ac6_jUAYY2E/s320/domesticqueen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064934891419229810" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RkpPtCWvPWI/AAAAAAAAAJw/DeucfBjwefY/s1600-h/spaghetti+strap+tank.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RkpPtCWvPWI/AAAAAAAAAJw/DeucfBjwefY/s320/spaghetti+strap+tank.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064948366076493154" /></a><br /><br />well just check out my tees shop to see what i have so far <A HREF="http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=53248">petite spOOn tees shop</A><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-9094254528464305336?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-30012992087278866552007-05-15T16:29:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:51.737-08:00we are so happy to see the photo of baby erin sent by papa Sammy via mms.<br />congrats to mama Donna and papa Sammy. she is just so adorable. look at her cheeks!!! don't you just love those cheeks!!!<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RkpCydWGXmI/AAAAAAAAAJg/947ByVHAxvA/s1600-h/baby+erin.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RkpCydWGXmI/AAAAAAAAAJg/947ByVHAxvA/s320/baby+erin.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064934165569756770" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3001299208727886655?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-64214449374260194052007-05-04T09:43:00.000-07:002007-06-13T23:05:02.558-07:00don't you just hate it when people start bombarding you with emails that has to do with urban legends. well before you read about a "must forward to your friends" email, please at least use some sense of your own to stop the chain emails by reading this.<br /><br />this article is great and <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com">SNOPES</A> is a great website to gain all the brains about hoaxes, pranks and urban legends.<br /><br />The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks<br /><br />Steve BassThu May 3, 4:00 AM ET <br /><br />Copyright © 2007 PC World Communications, Inc.<br /><br />Whether they take the form of a comic image of a giant cat or a desperate plea from a sick child, chain e-mail messages and Internet frauds are elements of the online landscape that we've all encountered. No topic is off limits: a medical warning, a promise of free money, or a believably (or shoddily) Photoshopped image. But at the end of the day, they're just elaborate hoaxes or clever pranks--and we've collected 25 of the most infamous ones ever to have graced the Internet or our inboxes.<br /><br />Though some of these deceptions originated years ago, the originals--and dozens of variants--continue to make the rounds. If you keep a patient vigil over your e-mail, you too may eventually spot a message urging you to FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! And if you haven't had enough when you finish reading this article, take a hoax test at the Museum of Hoaxes, and then hop over to Snopes, the premier myth-dispelling site for coverage of zillions of other falsifications.<br /><br />Hoaxes 1 Through 5<br />From the supposed last photo taken at the top of the World Trade Center to the endlessly revised request for assistance from a Nigerian functionary, here are our top five Web and e-mail hoaxes.<br /><br />1. The Accidental Tourist (2001)<br />Quite possibly the most famous hoax picture ever, this gruesome idea of a joke traveled around the Web and made a grand tour of e-mail inboxes everywhere soon after the tragedy of September 11. It depicts a tourist standing on the observation deck of one of the World Trade Center towers, unknowingly posing for a picture as an American Airlines plane approaches in the background.<br /><br />At first glance it appears to be real, but if you examine certain details, you'll see that it's a craftily modified image. For starters, the plane that struck the WTC was a wide-body Boeing 767; the one in the picture is a smaller 757. The approach of the plane in the picture is from the north, yet the building it would have hit--the North tower--didn't have an outdoor observation deck. Furthermore, the South tower's outdoor deck didn't open until 9:30 a.m. on weekdays, more than half an hour after the first plane struck the WTC. The picture is a hoax, through and through--and not a particularly amusing one, under the circumstances.<br /><br />Image courtesy of Snopes.com.<br /><br />2. Sick Kid Needs Your Help (1989)<br />This gem had its roots in reality. It all began in 1989, when nine-year-old cancer patient Craig Shergold thought of a way to achieve his dream of getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. Craig asked people to send greeting cards, and boy, did they. By 1991, 33 million greeting cards had been sent, far surpassing the prior record. Ironically, however, the Guinness World Records site doesn't contain any mention of Craig Sherwood or a "most greeting cards received" record, presumably because the fine folks at the site don't want to encourage anyone to try to break his mark. (Astonishingly, Guinness doesn't have an entry for world's stoutest person, either, but it does honor the World's Largest Tankard of Beer.)<br /><br />Fortunately, doctors succeeded in removing the tumor, and Craig is now a healthy adult, but his appeal for cards has turned into the hoax that won't die. Variations on the theme include a sick girl dying of cancer, and a little boy with leukemia whose dying wish is to start an eternal chain letter. A recent iteration tells a tragic tale of a girl who supposedly was horribly burned in a fire at WalMart, and then claims that AOL will pay all of her medical bills if only if you forward this e-mail to EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! Okay, enough already.<br /><br />Image courtesy of Snopes.com.<br /><br />3. Bill Gates Money Giveaway (1997)<br />No, it's true. I thought it was a scam, but it happened to a buddy of mine. It seems that Microsoft is testing some new program for tracing e-mail, and the company needs volunteers to help try the thing out. He forwarded me an e-mail that he received from Microsoft--and get this, from Bill Gates himself! Two weeks later, as a reward for participating, my pal received a check for thousands of dollars! Sure he did. Another version of this hoax claims that AOL's tracking service is offering a cash reward. Tell you what--when you get your check, send me 10 percent as a finder's fee, okay?<br /><br />4. Five-Cent E-Mail Tax (1999)<br />"Dear Internet Subscriber," the e-mail starts. "The Government of the United States is quietly pushing through legislation that will affect your use of the Internet." It goes on to reveal that "Bill 602P" will authorize the U.S. Postal Service to assess a charge of five cents for every e-mail sent. Not a bad way to cut down on the number of dopey e-mail chain letters and lame jokes people let loose on the world. But credulous curse averters and connoisseurs of boffo laffs can relax: This e-mail alert, which popped up in 1999 and comes back for a visit every year or so, just isn't true. Still, it sounded plausible enough to fool Hillary Clinton during a 2000 debate when she was running for the Senate.<br /><br />5. Nigerian 419 E-Mail Scam (2000)<br />"DEAR SIR," the e-mail starts. "FIRSTLY I MUST FIRST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION; LET ME START BY INTRODUCING MYSELF PROPERLY..." I'm sure you've received one of these--a confidential, urgent e-mail message promising you a reward of mucho dinero for helping this person convey money abroad. All you need do in return is entrust your name and bank account number to the government bureaucrat (or his uncle, aunt, or cousin, the ostensible "credit offficer with the union bank of Nigeria plc (uba) Benin branch") who needs your help.<br /><br />It's the Nigerian con, also know as an Advanced Fee Fraud or 419 scam (so called because of the section number of the Nigerian criminal code that applies to it). Ancestors of these scams appeared in the 1980s, when the media of choice were letters or faxes--and they're still wildly successful at snagging people. In fact, Oprah recently featured a victim of the Nigerian scam on her show. And if you think that smart, educated folks couldn't possibly fall for it, you'll be surprised when you read "The Perfect Mark," a New Yorker magazine article profiling a Massachusetts psychotherapist who was duped--and lost a fortune.<br /><br />To see how the hoax works, visit Scamorama, a fascinating site that features a progression of e-mail messages stringing along 419 scammers, sometimes for months at a time. Finally, check out the 3rd Annual Nigerian E-Mail Conference, an absolutely perfect spoof.<br /><br />Hoaxes 6 Through 10<br />The lower half of our top 10 ranges from a kidneynapping scare to a cookie recipe worth its weight in saffron.<br /><br />6. It's Kidney Harvesting Time (1996)<br />The subject line is laden with exclamation points: "Travelers Beware!!!" If that's not enough to get your attention, the chilling story certainly will. The message warns that an organ-harvesting crime ring is drugging tourists in New Orleans and Las Vegas, snatching their "extra" kidneys, selling the organs to non-Hippocratic hospitals, and leaving the victims to wake up in a bathtub full of ice and find a brief note that explains the situation and conveniently identifies the phone number of the nearest emergency room. Hey, maybe they'll get lucky and the hospital will have a compatible replacement kidney on hand. But travelers, fear not!!! According to the National Kidney Foundation, this scenario has never actually occurred--though it does have the makings of a great horror flick. (Freddy's Last Harvest, anyone?)<br /><br />7. You've Got Virus! (1999 and on)<br />There's isn't a Teddy Bear virus. Nor is there a sulfnbk.exe or A Virtual Card for You ("the "WORST VIRUS EVER!!!...CNN ANNOUNCED IT. PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!").<br /><br />The jdbgmgr.exe hoax (also known as Teddy Bear because the jdbgmgr.exe file is represented by a teddy bear icon) warned recipients of the e-mail message that they were at risk of infection from a virus sent via address books or Microsoft Messenger, and that they should delete the file immediately. But in reality there was no virus--and unfortunately, jdbgmgr.exe was a necessary Java file. The sulfnbk.exe hoax nailed even advanced users with its insistence that the file--a legit one that's used for fixing long file names--was a virus. Lots of people removed it.<br /><br />Similarly, A Virtual Card for You claimed that McAfee had discovered a virus that, when opened, would destroy the hard drive on an infected system and would automatically send itself to everyone on the user's e-mail contacts list. Of course, it didn't do anything except scare people. So before you forward an e-mail virus warning to anyone (especially to me), look it up on Sophos or Vmyths to make sure it isn't a fraud.<br /><br />8. Microsoft Buys Firefox (2006)<br />Talk about scaring the entire open-source community. In October 2006, a previously unknown Web site popped up, announcing Microsoft's acquisition of Firefox and promoting the company's new Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional. The site talks glowingly about the browser's new features and provides a video advertisement for the product. It was a great prank, and the image of the Microsoft Firefox 2007 box was so elaborate and professional looking that the blood pressure of real Firefox users went sky-high.<br /><br />9. The Really Big Kitty (2001)<br />There are big cats and then there are even bigger cats. This one, reportedly tipping the scales at almost 90 pounds, was enormous. The claim seemed plausible and even snookered a lot of e-mail cynics (I'm raising my hand)--until they read the accompanying copy, that is. With nonsense about the owner working at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and more balderdash about nuclear reactors, the jig was up. Eventually, the cat's owner fessed up to a creative Photoshop session, though he claimed that he never expected anyone to believe the photo was real.<br /><br />Image courtesy of Snopes.com.<br /><br />10. $250 Cookie Recipe (1996)<br />The woman loved the cookie she had just nibbled at a Neiman Marcus cafe in Houston, so she asked her waiter for the recipe. "Two-fifty," he said, and she agreed without hesitation, instructing him to add it to her tab. But when the woman's Visa bill arrived, it read $250, instead of $2.50. Bent on revenge, she proceeded to ask you to blast the recipe to--okay, ready?--EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! Like many hoaxes, this one predated the Internet, only to resurface in the electronic age. It appeared in a cookbook in the late 1940s as the $25 fudge cake, popped up in the 1960s as the Waldorf-Astoria red-velvet cake recipe, and re-emerged in the 1970s as the Mrs. Fields cookie recipe.<br /><br />Hoaxes 11 Through 15<br />This group of five begins with a phoney e-mail message promising money and other prizes from Disney, and ends with the classic deaf-to-reason arguments of the Apollo moon landing deniers.<br /><br />11. Free Vacation Courtesy of Disney (1998)<br />Dear Goofy... Forward this e-mail chain letter to everybody under the sun and, once 13,000 people have received it, Walt Disney Jr. will send five grand each to 1,300 lucky people on this list. And "the rest will recieve a free trip for two to Disney for one week during the summer of 1999." Is that Disney World, Disneyland--or Walt's house? The "Jr." after Disney, in reference to a nonexistent person, ought to have been the first clue that this was a hoax. And the misspelling of "receive" was the clincher--remember, hoaxters, "i" before "e" except after "c"). Yet people forwarded the message around the world using the time-honored e-mail chain letter adage: I'm sending it to you... just in case it's true.<br /><br />12. Sunset Over Africa (2003)<br />Now that's a dazzling photo of Africa and Europe, taken right around sunset from the Space Shuttle Columbia. What makes the image especially amazing is that, while London remains in daylight, night has fallen in Italy (a little to the southeast) and the bright lights of Rome, Naples, and Venice are blazing. Too bad it's a digitally altered photo, most likely layered from multiple satellite images. To see an accurate, computer-generated illustration, check out the World Sunlight Map.<br /><br />Image courtesy of Snopes.com.<br /><br />13. Alien Autopsy at Roswell, New Mexico (1995)<br />Roswell, New Mexico: ground zero of UFO controversy. It's also where the movie of the Roswell alien autopsy was filmed 60 years ago. The story goes that a UFO crashed at this site, and the U.S. government performed a hush-hush autopsy on the dead alien.In the mid-1990s, unnamed individuals "discovered" the secret film and posted it for the edification of a disinformed public. Looks pretty real, right? Now fast-forward to 2006 and a conspiracy-deflating admission: The movie is a hoax created in 1995 by John Humphreys, the animator famous for Max Headroom, in his apartment in north London....Or was it???<br /><br />14. Real-Time GPS Cell Phone Tracking (2007)<br />SunSat Satellite Solutions knows where you are.Have you heard about the Web site that can track the location of your cell phone in real time? It uses satellite GPS in combination with Google Maps, and it's amazingly accurate (not to mention a disturbing invasion of privacy). Go ahead, check it out yourself by going to the SunSat Satellite Solutions site and tracking your own cell phone's location. Select your country, type in your cell phone number, click the Start Searching button, and wait for it. (This is one of the year's best pranks. And I won't give away the ending.)<br /><br /><br />15. Apollo Moon Landing Hoax (1969)<br />You're aware that we never landed on the moon, right? It was all just an elaborate hoax designed to score Cold War points for the United States against the Soviet Union in a world of falling dominoes. The whole lunar landing thing? It was a video staged at movie studios and top-secret locations.<br /><br />Okay, you can stop laughing now, but some sites, such as Apollo Reality and Moon Landing, still insist that the Eagle never landed. Of course, enemies of Flat Earthism will point to the Rocket and Space Technology site, which does an in-depth job of debunking the hoax. But true disbelievers should check out this terrific video spoof, complete with outtakes showing lights and cameras.<br /><br />Hoaxes 16 Through 20<br />The world of weird eBay auction items starts off this page, which concludes with a photo hoax purporting to show a 1950s-era vision of the home computer of tomorrow.<br /><br />16. Sell It on eBay! (1995)<br />You won't believe what people have sold on eBay--some of the items pranks, some of them for real, and some, well, it's hard to tell. For a sampling of the weird, you need look no further than a haunted tree stump and a pork chop shaped like a grizzly bear. The Internet itself once went on the market at a modest starting bid of a million bucks, as have a dozen spontaneous images of the Virgin Mary (on toast, on windows, and heaven only knows where else). Bidders have also had a shot at someone's soul, a guy's virginity, and a human kidney, with the price of this last item having reached $5.7 million before eBay pulled the plug. (Hey, guys, don't you know that what you lose in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas?)<br /><br />But my favorite eBay offering involves a tattooed guy who, as a joke, dressed up in his ex-wife's size 12 wedding gown and put it up for auction. Only, the dress ended up selling for $3850, and the guy got five marriage proposals. Nice.<br /><br />17. Chinese Newspaper Duped (2002)<br />Information on the Internet may want to be free--but if it's posted by a for-profit publisher, you'd better take it with a grain of salt. That's the lesson learned by China's Beijing Evening News, which was taken in by the Onion's Capitol Dome spoof. Famous for its authentic-sounding but tongue-in-cheek articles steeped in the language of the Associated Press, the Onion reported that Congress had threatened to leave Washington, D.C., and head for Memphis unless the District agreed to erect a new domed Capitol building with a retractable roof and luxury box seating. Having accepted most of the Onion article at face value, the Chinese newspaper at first stood by its source in the face of international derision and refused to back down. When it finally published a retraction, it blamed the Onion for the confusion: "Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them with the aim of making money." Right.<br /><br />18. The Muppets Have Not Already Won (2001)<br />Osama and Bert: a Sesame Street connection to terrorism?In early October 2001, just prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, protesters at an anti-American rally in Bangladesh showed their support for Osama bin Laden by marching, chanting, and waving placards. One of the posters captured on film by Reuters News Agency was a photo-montage of the Al-Qaeda leader, and in one of the shots a yellow felt puppet to his right glowers furiously at the camera. It's...Bert of Sesame Street. Originally a Zelig-inspired creation of San Francisco Webmaster Dino Ignacio, the satirical Web site Bert Is Evil depicted Bert hobnobbing with the worst of the worst in history, tormenting his roommate Ernie, and generally reveling in wickedness. After Ignacio retired from active efforts to expose Bert's career of evil, others filled the Photoshop void, capturing the cone-headed miscreant with all the latest baddies-du-jour.<br /><br />Evidently, the company responsible for printing the pro-Osama poster found the doctored dual portrait irresistible, although (according to the Urban Legends References Pages) its production manager claims to have produced about 2000 copies of the Osama-and-Bert poster without realizing "what they signified." Well, if you can't trust pictures you find on the Internet, what can you trust?<br /><br />Image courtesy of Snopes.com.<br /><br />19. Chevrolet's Not-So-Better Idea (2006)<br />The ad folks at Chevrolet thought they had a winner: Let site visitors create their own 30-second commercial for the company's 2007 Chevy Tahoe SUV. It'll be fun, they probably thought. We'll give them a choice of video clips and soundtracks, and let them add their own text captions. Yep, viral marketing at its best.<br /><br />Unfortunately for Chevrolet, a few pranksters decided to use the opportunity to express what they thought of the SUV. One commercial said, "Like this snowy wilderness? Better get your fill of it now. Then say hello to global warming." Another lambasted the SUV as a gas guzzler: "Our planet's oil is almost gone. You don't need G.P.S. to see where this road leads."<br /><br />20. Rand's 1954 Home Computer (2004)<br />This intriguing image of a room-size computer made the rounds of the Internet, accompanied by a breathless blurb: "This article is from an issue of 1954 'Popular Mechanics' magazine forecasting the possibility of 'home computers' in 50 years." The steering wheel in the picture is the predecessor to today's mouse, and the keyboard looks like those on teletype machines. It even comes complete with a guy right out of the Eisenhower era.<br /><br />Cool stuff, and easy to believe--but it's not a 1950s Rand Corporation mockup of what a prototype home computer might look like. It's actually a shot taken of a submarine display at the Smithsonian Institution and subsequently modified for inclusion in a Fark.com image-manipulation competition.<br /><br />Image courtesy of Snopes.com.<br /><br />Hoaxes 21 Through 25<br />Our final five takes you from the ultimate instance of Microsoft hubris to an ill-conceived experiment in Internet democracy (or is that Internet anarchy?).<br /><br />21. Microsoft Buys Catholic Church (1994)<br />More than a decade ago, an e-mail press release--from Vatican City, no less--landed in my inbox. Microsoft was announcing that it was in the process of acquiring the Roman Catholic Church in exchange for an unspecified number of shares of Microsoft common stock. The story was a prank, but it sure looked real, circulating for months and perhaps worrying residents of the Holy See.<br /><br />Just think: If the press release had been true, it might have stopped the Vatican from using Linux. And no, I'm not kidding about the Linux part. Watch this video interview with the woman who helped build the Vatican's Web site.<br /><br />22. Hercules, the Enormous Dog (2007)<br />Wow, that dog's almost as big as the horse. That's what I thought when I first looked at this e-mail. The picture depicts a couple, one walking a horse, the other holding the leash of Hercules, a 282-pound English Mastiff and "The World's Biggest Dog Ever According to Guinness World Records."<br /><br />Horsepucky. Here's my analysis of the Photoshop modifications. First, take a close look at the grass under the people and the animals. The area has been subtly lightened in order to make all of the shadows match and look authentic. Next, examine the shadows and you'll notice two anomalies: First, the shadows of the dog and the man start at their feet, but the same doesn't hold true for the horse. Second, the woman's shadow is missing altogether; instead, the man's shadow extends in front of her. Oh and by the way, the Guinness World Records site doesn't have a listing for Hercules or for the world's biggest dog. Okay, okay, so the pictures of the big kitty and the big dog are both fakes--but have you seen the shot of Craig Sherwood riding the world's largest jackelope?<br /><br />23. Lights-Out Gang Member Initiation (1998)<br />People have a tendency to believe e-mail messages that come from authority figures. In 1998, a message purportedly from a police officer working with the DARE program circulated around the Internet. It warned recipients not to flash their lights to inform oncoming cars that their headlamps were off. According to the message, a recently devised gang initiation ritual involved having new gang members drive at night with their headlights turned off until an oncoming car flashed its lights at them; then, in order to become initiated, they were to shoot everyone in that car. It's just another urban myth--and about as silly as the one claiming that gangs mark off their territory by hanging sneakers from power lines.<br /><br />24. Hurricane Lili Waterspouts (2002)<br />It's weird, it's disturbing, and it's seemingly plausible--all of the elements necessary for a successful e-mail forward. The image shows three dark waterspouts in the distance. The subject is "here comes lili," and the e-mail began appearing in inboxes at about the same time that Hurricane Lili started battering the Louisiana coastline. But three waterspouts, all neatly lined up? According to About.com, the National Weather Service labeled the picture a hoax and said that it was a modification of a genuine photo taken in 2001 by a crew member of the Edison Chouest Offshore supply boat.<br /><br />25. Pranks Shut Down Los Angeles Times Wiki (2005)<br />It seemed like a bright idea. The LA Times' "A Wiki for Your Thoughts" fandango asked readers to chime in on the newspaper's editorials via a Wiki. In their explanation of how it would work, the editors even acknowledged that "It sounds nutty." Yet they went ahead with it--and achieved disastrous results. The Wikitorial (the name was nearly as dumb as the scheme) brought out the best and then the worst in readers. On the first day, an editorial about the war in Iraq prompted civil and thoughtful contributions. On day two, pranksters littered the unmoderated Wiki with rude comments, pornography, and profanity. The Webmaster removed the offending entries, but only after they were available for public viewing. By the next morning, the publisher had dismantled the Wiki.<br /><br />Hoaxes by Decade<br />E-mail, Web sites, Photoshop. The digital era has made it easier than ever to pull a fast one on a large audience.<br /><br />Pre-1990 Apollo Moon Landing Hoax (1969) Sick Kid Needs Your Help (1989)1990-1999 Microsoft Buys Catholic Church (1994) Alien Autopsy at Roswell (1995) eBay Sales (1995 and on) $250 Cookie Recipe (1996) Kidney Harvesting (1996) Bill Gates Money Giveaway (1997) Disney Jr. Free Vacation (1998) Lights-Out Gang Member Initiation (1998) Five-Cent E-Mail Tax (1999) Virus Hoaxes (1999 and on)2000 and on Nigerian 419 E-Mail Scam (2000) Giant Cat Photo (2001) World Trade Center Photo (2001) Bert and Osama bin Laden (2001) Hurricane Lili Waterspouts (2002) Onion Dupes Chinese Newspaper (2002) Sunset Over Africa (2003) Rand's 1954 Home Computer (2004) Los Angeles Times Wiki (2005) User-Created Commercials for Chevy Tahoe (2006) Microsoft Buys Firefox (2006) GPS Cell Phone Tracking (2007) Hercules, the Enormous Dog (2007)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6421444937426019405?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-12353451794555894242007-05-03T11:46:00.000-07:002007-05-03T11:51:39.368-07:00yeah it is finally up ... well at least partially.<br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.chialu.com">ChiaLu</A><br /><br />and of course when one is up my design website is down until May 18th!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1235345179455589424?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-53093292284924703812007-04-26T10:12:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:52.101-08:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RjDduNWGXlI/AAAAAAAAAJY/BPzuhITxLe4/s1600-h/4_25_2007-3154-baby72.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RjDduNWGXlI/AAAAAAAAAJY/BPzuhITxLe4/s320/4_25_2007-3154-baby72.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057786167463140946" /></a><br /><br />i am at my week 20 ... woohoo ... i am half way!<br />her due date is september 11th, 2007 and she will be a golden pig in the chinese zodiac signs.<br />her name is clementine and nickname will be clemmie.<br />we are all excited here.<br />i will be a mother of two.<br />jp will be one of those protective dads ... like the t-mobile commerical we saw yesterday with the dad looking at his daugther's boyfriend with a cold hard stare ... maybe in 15 years.<br />théodore will have a little sister to play with. they will be a little shy of 2 years apart and i hope that makes them great buddies.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5309329228492470381?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-47153270734805457962007-04-20T18:28:00.000-07:002007-04-20T18:33:18.321-07:00<a href="http://www.myheritage.com/collage" title="MyHeritage - share black and white photos with facial recognition technology" alt="MyHeritage - share black and white photos with facial recognition technology" target="_blank"><img src="http://storage.myheritagefiles.com/H/storage/site1/files/21/38/12/213812_529818c5869264i70har24.JPG" width="333" height="383" border="0" ></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4715327073480545796?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-36682827930811931992007-04-17T09:03:00.000-07:002007-06-13T23:04:40.913-07:00what a crazy shoot out!?!? after i woke up from a great nap with baby, this shoot out was unfolding on the news. during dinner time the feds and others still haven't found out the identity of the gunman ... i told my party ... "you wanna bet it is some crazy asian dude who couldn't take it anymore!" ... and i was right ... i thought it was a chinese dude, but they announced that it was some anti social korean dude.<br /><br />he came to this country the same year as i did in 1992 ... i guess american style was too stressful for him.<br /><br />it is just sad that all this has to happen ... and the stupid president of va. tech didn't even think twice about closing down the campus that is just beyond words to me. what a stupid ass. those other 30 students taking classes in Norris Hall shouldn't have died.<br /><br />it will take a lot of time to heal ...<br /><br /><br />from yahoo.com news<br /><br />Va. Tech: Gunman student from S. Korea<br /><br />By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer 9 minutes ago<br /><br />The gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead was identified Tuesday as a senior English major from South Korea. But police and university officials offered no clue to his motive.<br /><br />"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," school spokesman Larry Hincker said, a day after the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.<br /><br />The rampage consisted of two attacks, more than two hours apart — first at a dormitory, where two people were killed, then inside a classroom building, where 31 people, including the gunman, died after being locked inside, Virginia State Police said. The gunman committed suicide.<br /><br />Police identified the gunman in the classroom attack as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui (pronounced Choh Suhng-whee). Cho held a green card — meaning he was a legal, permanent U.S. resident — and had been in the United States since 1992, federal officials said. Officials said he graduated from a public high school in Chantilly, Va., in 2003.<br /><br />His family lives in Centreville, Va., a Washington suburb, but he was living on campus, in a different dorm from the one where the bloodbath began, the university said.<br /><br />One law enforcement official said Cho's backpack contained a receipt for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol. As a permanent legal resident of the United States, Cho was eligible to buy a handgun unless he had been convicted of a felony.<br /><br />Investigators stopped short of saying Cho carried out both attacks. But ballistics tests show one gun was used in both, Virginia State Police said.<br /><br />And two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho's fingerprints were found on the two guns used in the rampage. The serial numbers on the two weapons had been filed off, the officials said.<br /><br />Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said it was reasonable to assume that Cho was the shooter in both attacks but that the link was not yet definitive. "There's no evidence of any accomplice at either event, but we're exploring the possibility," he said.<br /><br />The gunman's family lived in an off-white, two-story town house in Centreville.<br /><br />"He was very quiet, always by himself," neighbor Abdul Shash said of the gunman. Shash said the gunman spent a lot of his free time playing basketball, and wouldn't respond if someone greeted him. He described the family as quiet.<br /><br />Marshall Main, who lives across the street, said the family had lived in the townhouse for several years.<br /><br />According to court records, Virginia Tech Police issued a speeding ticket to Cho on April 7 for going 44 mph in a 25 mph zone, and he had a court date set for May 23.<br /><br />South Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed its condolences, and said South Korea hoped that the tragedy would not "stir up racial prejudice or confrontation."<br /><br />"We are in shock beyond description," said Cho Byung-se, a ministry official handling North American affairs. "We convey deep condolences to victims, families and the American people."<br /><br />A memorial service was planned for the victims Tuesday afternoon at the university, and President Bush planned to attend, the White House said. Gov. Tim Kaine was flying back to Virginia from Tokyo for the gathering.<br /><br />Classes were canceled for the rest of the week.<br /><br />Many students were leaving town quickly, lugging pillows, sleeping bags and backpacks down the sidewalks.<br /><br />Jessie Ferguson, 19, a freshman from Arlington, left Newman Hall and headed for her car with tears streaming down her red cheeks.<br /><br />"I'm still kind of shaky," she said. "I had to pump myself up just to kind of come out of the building. I was going to come out, but it took a little bit of 'OK, it's going to be all right. There's lots of cops around.'"<br /><br />Although she wanted to be with friends, she wanted her family more. "I just don't want to be on campus," she said.<br /><br />Will Nachlas, 19, a freshman from Hershey, Pa., sat on a bench, waiting for a ride.<br /><br />"The majority of people are leaving campus, trying to get away," he said. "Lots of people are going home, and lots of people's parents took them home. They don't even know when they'll come back."<br /><br />The first deadly attack was at the dormitory around 7:15 a.m., but some students said they didn't get their first warning about a danger on campus until two hours later, in an e-mail at 9:26 a.m. By then the second attack had begun.<br /><br />Two students told NBC's "Today" show they were unaware of the dorm shooting when they walked into Norris Hall for a German class where the gunman later opened fire.<br /><br />The victims in Norris Hall were found in four different classrooms and a stairwell, Flaherty said. Cho was found dead in one of those classrooms, he said.<br /><br />Derek O'Dell, his arm in a cast after being shot, described a shooter who fired away in "eerily silence" with "no specific target — just taking out anybody he could."<br /><br />After the gunman left the room, students could hear him shooting other people down the hall. O'Dell said he and other students barricaded the door so the shooter couldn't get back in — though he later tried.<br /><br />"After he couldn't get the door open he tried shooting it open ... but the gunshots were blunted by the door," O'Dell said.<br /><br />The slayings left people of this mountain town and the university at its heart praying for the victims and struggling to find order in a tragedy of such unspeakable horror it defies reason.<br /><br />"For Ryan and Emily and for those whose names we do not know," one woman pleaded in a church service Monday night.<br /><br />Another mourner added: "For parents near and far who wonder at a time like this, 'Is my child safe?'"<br /><br />University President Charles Steger emphasized that the university closed off the dorm after the first attack and decided to rely on e-mail and other electronic means to spread the word.<br /><br />He said that before the e-mail was sent, the university began telephoning resident advisers in the dorms and sent people to knock on doors. Students were warned to stay inside and away from the windows.<br /><br />"We can only make decisions based on the information you had at the time. You don't have hours to reflect on it," Steger said.<br /><br />Until Monday, the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.<br /><br />Previously, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower and opened fire with a rifle from the 28th-floor observation deck. He killed 16 people before he was shot to death by police.<br /><br />___<br /><br />Associated Press Writer Justin Pope in Blacksburg contributed to this report.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3668282793081193199?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-33805748135727187692007-04-10T09:35:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:52.228-08:00i have a limited edition of 50 art print of sivvy available at my petite shop <br /><br />click here to the link <A HREF="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5728978">sivvy</A><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rhu9yqzg_1I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/DOmySLbyGwc/s1600-h/sivvy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rhu9yqzg_1I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/DOmySLbyGwc/s400/sivvy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5051840085207613266" /></a><br /><br />a confessional poet with a tragic end<br /><br />she is one of my favorite poets along with anne sexton and sharon olds<br /><br />this weaved collage was made for a pseudo bookcover after reading her collection of poems called ariel<br /><br />i made black and white copies of her image and her typed text<br />cut those into stripes and started weaving away<br />took a photograph of the collage and manipulated the image further using photoshop<br /><br />the image is 5 X 7 inches on 8 1/2 X 11 legion paper - legion photo matte<br />it is a photo quality art paper for professional prints<br />it is heavyweight and pH netural / archival<br />printed on epson 2200 and with epson inks<br /><br />limited edition print of 50 ... signed and dated 2004 (when this piece was created)<br /><br />price $25.00<br /><br />click here to the link <A HREF="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5728978">sivvy</A><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3380574813572718769?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-57650341606679600462007-04-05T12:19:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:52.383-08:00since the pepsi contest site sux with uploading ... i am just going to post the image here for fun =P<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RhVMjpa5L1I/AAAAAAAAAJI/RRhdEzYuk3I/s1600-h/pdiamond.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RhVMjpa5L1I/AAAAAAAAAJI/RRhdEzYuk3I/s400/pdiamond.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5050026732463664978" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5765034160667960046?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-4683314509006021002007-04-05T10:20:00.000-07:002007-04-05T10:28:41.650-07:00this is not going to help the mail go any faster. yes and it is going to be effective may 14th. oh boy i just bought a roll of 100 of the 39 cents! ... so 7% hike will be about an additional 3 cents to the pot.<br /><br />i wait in line an average of 15 minutes at the post office and sometimes when it is super busy 30 minutes and the paying booths are not full with postal worker taking your money. if they are going to put a hike on the stamps, they better hire more people and help move the line ... seriously you shouldn't have to wait more than 5 minutes to get your stuff mailed.<br /><br />"The Postal Service has filed a rate case with the Postal Rate Commission (PRC) asking for a system-wide average rate increase of 8.5%. Standard mail rates would go up an average of 9%, while First-Class rates will rise an average 7.1%. This rate increase comes on the heels of a 5.4% increase in January 2006.<br /><br />This is the first rate case the Postal Service has filed without reaching a negotiated settlement with mailers in more than five years. The full process of litigating this case before the PRC will likely take about ten months. It is expected that the new rates would take effect around May 2007."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-468331450900602100?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-107250241276255542007-03-31T12:39:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:53.059-08:00sunday sundaes - cute lampwork beads charms or crochet markers<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rg65QrIBsSI/AAAAAAAAAIo/TzAUMNrVP2M/s1600-h/sundaes+01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rg65QrIBsSI/AAAAAAAAAIo/TzAUMNrVP2M/s200/sundaes+01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048175928434340130" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rg65QrIBsTI/AAAAAAAAAIw/Kl8YUSKGt84/s1600-h/sundaes+02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rg65QrIBsTI/AAAAAAAAAIw/Kl8YUSKGt84/s200/sundaes+02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048175928434340146" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rg65Q7IBsUI/AAAAAAAAAI4/NBFcMCHFoPM/s1600-h/sundaes+03.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rg65Q7IBsUI/AAAAAAAAAI4/NBFcMCHFoPM/s200/sundaes+03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048175932729307458" /></a><br /><br />available at my petite shop <a href="http://petitespoon.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=818442">sunday sundaes</a><br /><br />you can use sunday sundaes as your sweet charms on your bracelet or necklace<br />or<br />if you crochet these will add to your sweet tooth<br /><br />the lampwork sundaes hangs 1 inches from sterling silver lobster clasps and held together by sterling silver head pins<br /><br />swEEt<br /><br />if you like these made into earrings please let me know<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-10725024127625554?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-5028782236792737412007-03-26T13:02:00.000-07:002007-03-26T13:06:54.437-07:00i didn't get a chance to watch all the games, but whatever i can. some games were so close. i am glad 2 of 4 of the teams i picked for the final four made it to the final. i have ucla and ohio st. i hope those two teams beat their opponents florida and georgetown respectively. i was sad that unc lost, but oh well.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-502878223679273741?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-17719507265492585392007-03-17T22:20:00.000-07:002007-03-17T22:24:14.766-07:00well, it was a great game to the end and indiana never came to lead. indiana definitely had some great defense for the 2nd half of the game which made the game very exciting. i was glued to the t.v. till to end of the game.<br /><br />ucla won and they deserve that win ... cause i need them to play pitt!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1771950726549258539?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-35660370906594489422007-03-17T15:30:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:53.603-08:00i worked on something fun. <br /><br />got craft? identity and collaterals for a local craft fair in vancouver. they are just starting out. if you are in vancouver go check them out and let me know if it was fun!<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RfxsnYNsSJI/AAAAAAAAAIE/Ap93WcErb_4/s1600-h/got-craft-logo-final.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RfxsnYNsSJI/AAAAAAAAAIE/Ap93WcErb_4/s400/got-craft-logo-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043025106518689938" /></a><br /><center>identity</center><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rfxs1INsSKI/AAAAAAAAAIM/Fsjr1FjQZAE/s1600-h/gc-postcard-front-final.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rfxs1INsSKI/AAAAAAAAAIM/Fsjr1FjQZAE/s400/gc-postcard-front-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043025342741891234" /></a><br /><center>postcard front</center><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rfxs1YNsSLI/AAAAAAAAAIU/N10x-faSpmg/s1600-h/gc-postcard-back-final.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rfxs1YNsSLI/AAAAAAAAAIU/N10x-faSpmg/s400/gc-postcard-back-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043025347036858546" /></a><br /><center>postcard back</center><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rfxs1YNsSMI/AAAAAAAAAIc/B9ndiUsIHGs/s1600-h/posters-2up-final.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/Rfxs1YNsSMI/AAAAAAAAAIc/B9ndiUsIHGs/s400/posters-2up-final.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043025347036858562" /></a><br /><center>poster</center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3566037090659448942?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-6679112600807607242007-03-16T23:15:00.000-07:002008-12-09T19:36:53.798-08:00this is a wonderful picture taken by my friend's uncle. it is hong kong island during lunar new year 2007.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RfuIeXUhU0I/AAAAAAAAAH8/QqK8dMoUUwY/s1600-h/H.K.Night_12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RfuIeXUhU0I/AAAAAAAAAH8/QqK8dMoUUwY/s400/H.K.Night_12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042774263008940866" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-667911260080760724?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-51691336281606160152007-03-11T16:18:00.000-07:002007-03-11T16:29:12.497-07:00who ever proposed this time change is causing a major havoc! why did congress pass this bill? to save energy? it is causing more energy ... now i have to get a patch for my mac or change my time manually and what about my cellphone and my other digital calendars. it causes more problem than y2k.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5169133628160616015?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-88096034634432572942007-03-08T10:19:00.000-08:002007-03-08T10:26:20.441-08:00i have to say one thing ... i am very disappointed by epson scanners in general. i have had 2 epson scanners and both of them died on me in less than 2 years. one was cheap the other one was a bit more expensive. i am fed up with epson scanners!<br />the last one i had was the epson perfection 4180 photo.<br /><br />on the other hand, epson printers are great ... i have been using their printers forever and upgrading to a better printer each year and giving away the older ones to charities and friends. <br /><br />i finally bought a new scanner and this time i went with canon ... i bought the canoscan 8600f from amazon for a pretty great deal. i will be updating soon with a review of this scanner.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8809603463443257294?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-10672233966838553352007-03-08T10:14:00.000-08:002007-03-08T20:40:26.096-08:00on sale now =D<br /><script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.etsy.com/etsy_mini.js'></script><script type='text/javascript'>new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(88317, 'shop','thumbnail',5,4).renderIframe();</script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1067223396683855335?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-49031761169885575322007-02-21T14:56:00.000-08:002008-12-09T19:36:54.034-08:00i haven't been doing a lot lately, but i manage to make some new creations.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RdzOiuQ-ZJI/AAAAAAAAAHk/G9iEhjijblU/s1600-h/heli+01+necklace.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RdzOiuQ-ZJI/AAAAAAAAAHk/G9iEhjijblU/s320/heli+01+necklace.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034125579423474834" /></a><br /><center><br /><p>hemera heli(o)u - artisian black and white lampwork beads and sterling silver necklace<br /><p>day of the sun<br /><p>made of beautiful artisian black and white cube lampwork beads accented with bali silver beads and round sterling silver beads<br /><p>length of sterling silver necklace is 18 inches<br />length of beads dangles are 1 inch<br /></center><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RdzOi-Q-ZKI/AAAAAAAAAHs/3qVoIFS0UgM/s1600-h/ruby+lanterns+earrings+02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gnMPABAHYEI/RdzOi-Q-ZKI/AAAAAAAAAHs/3qVoIFS0UgM/s320/ruby+lanterns+earrings+02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034125583718442146" /></a><br /><center><br /><p>Ruby Lanterns - glass beads, ceramic beads, swarovski crystals and sterling silver earrings<br /><p>another lantern earrings<br /><p>black glass beads with ruby flower petals and white accented dots sandwiched by ruby ceramic beads and ruby swarovski crystals hanging on sterling silver ear wires<br /><p>1 inch in length (measured from end of earwire to bottom)<br /></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4903176116988557532?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-49178241606061034332007-02-21T14:47:00.000-08:002007-02-21T14:55:28.406-08:00i sold a lot of wires at my shop this month. already, i am running out of the 26 gauge sterling silver wires. i have only 2 more 10 feet and that will be it until i place an order. i do not know when i will be ordering more for the shop because the price of silver is sky rocketing. i will try my best to get some good deals and share it to you crafters out there. i will try not to make an increase if i can.<br /><br />thanks for your patronage.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4917824160606103433?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-67698989490653785412007-01-11T21:43:00.000-08:002007-01-11T21:48:41.055-08:00wow, what a trip. we went to strasbourg and paris. so much has happened in the past 3 weeks. i am still in jetlag mode along with baby. i am following his schedule so i can zzz too. well he is zzzing right now. also by the end of the month i hope to complete my travel blog and add some photos to jazz it up.<br /><br />message to simone: i am trying to make your apple pie. i worked on the pie crust today so let see how it will turn out tomorrow if i have the time to bake the rest of the pie ... hahaha ... the pie crust is taking a long nap.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6769898949065378541?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-4601327724809046342006-12-12T00:04:00.000-08:002006-12-12T00:06:30.911-08:00i must say i am really hooked to crochet. today marked the day i finished my third scarf ... a pink one for me and it is pretty long.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-460132772480904634?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-57083737244447708272006-12-06T23:55:00.000-08:002006-12-06T23:57:52.483-08:00jp came across this blog about nigeria. old memories.<br /><br /><a href="http://aaron-rowe.co.uk/blog/">aaron rowe's nigeria</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5708373724444770827?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-3794076300387879222006-12-06T23:10:00.000-08:002006-12-06T23:42:07.301-08:00it is a dawn of a new era. when our body expells chemical attack and matches can be used on planes and we are still lost (and died stranded) even with all the technologies around us.<br /><br />a sad world ... i am sad just to type this up. how stupid can you be to light up a match on a plane especially after 9/11? even if you passed a killer gas attack, others around will not die from it other than a little embarrasment from you they will live. and you can still ride the plane instead of being blacklisted from all the airlines.<br /><br />and also i am sad about the death of cnet senior editor james kim out of all the people who died! ... why him? i guess geeks also runs their course. rest in peace ... my hearts goes out to his wife and kids! thank god they are okay.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-379407630038787922?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-75468104239293177552006-11-30T23:24:00.000-08:002006-11-30T23:42:29.639-08:00do people have too much free time in hand?<br /><br />well a california woman who filed a lawsuit to sue kraft food for their guacamole dip does ;P <br />she said the product label was misleading and it wasn't even made out of avocado! <br />another class action lawsuit ... or foodsuit.<br /><br />why not make your own guacamole dip? how much is the kraft guacamole dip? the last time i bought a fresh made guacamole dip, it was at whole foods. it was pretty expensive for such a small container, but really tasty and the dip was made out of real avocado.<br /><br />anyways ... now we should all read food packagings and labels ... so we can sue food companies for false advertisings and get some money to help solve childhood obesity and diabetes.<br /><br />can we have a ban on food companies for using high fructose corn syrup? eventually hfcs is going to kill us all with heart attacks!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7546810423929317755?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-652642886862085622006-11-27T16:04:00.000-08:002006-11-27T16:06:16.730-08:00this time is for our trip to strasbourg, france! we are leaving on december 17th!<br /><br />travel log of chia & lu: chialutravel.blogspot.com<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-65264288686208562?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-82813175167927778912006-11-26T23:52:00.000-08:002006-11-27T00:01:22.285-08:00yes, today marked the day i finished my second crochet scarf for baby. i am working on a third one for me. i hope i will get that done before we head off to france.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8281317516792777891?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-34096355034695503722006-11-25T23:01:00.000-08:002006-11-25T23:03:28.813-08:00i started a new blog today called 'a cheese a day' to recollect memories of cheese eating days. it has multiple stories from other people and my stories all rolled into one.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3409635503469550372?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-76575685111697307222006-11-25T22:19:00.000-08:002006-11-25T22:20:30.611-08:00today marked the day i finished my first crochet scarf.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7657568511169730722?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-88282684860630337402006-11-23T22:17:00.000-08:002006-11-23T22:39:42.262-08:00i usually pick up a huge bag of russet potatoes. i do not know how much i need but it is a good 10 pound bag.<br />my serving is a potato for two people. if you have 12 people for thanksgiving use 6 potatoes if there are going to be a lot of other dishes to taste. if just turkey and mashed then a potato per person.<br /><br />simple mashed potatoes<br /><br />potatoes - pick any kind you want ... i use russet because it is easy to peel and boil<br />butter - you can add how ever much you want. i used up the whole stick to a whole box<br />cream cheese - i love to add cream cheese to give it the tang<br />sour cream - sometimes i add it to soften the mashed up<br />milk - if it is really too dry or add it when you need to reheat the mashed again<br />salt - for taste if needed<br /><br />peeling is a bitch. i do not like peeling potatoes so that is why jp ; ) comes in handy. if you have a significant other who like mashed ask him or her to peel the potatoes.<br /><br />boil the potatoes in several pots if you have 10 pounds of potatoes. if not one pot is enough. boil on medium stove top fire. it will take around 30 minutes to 1 1/2 hours depending on how much you have cooking. test the softness with a fork by poking one of the potatoes. russet potatoes tends to crumble so you don't really need to do the test.<br /><br />drain potatoes after they are cooked to perfection for mashing.<br /><br />i use two bowls to do the job of mashing. one small bowl to mash and to mix in butter, cream cheese etc. and the other bigger bowl to store the mashed. it is easier to mash and to mix in a little at a time. your hands will get tired so have additional people to help you mash. once all that is done. it is time to taste. if you need some salt add some, mix and taste.<br /><br />other ingredients you may want to add ... smoked bacon bits, wasabi, sweet potatoes etc<br />it is better to keep it simple by only adding one additional ingredient<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8828268486063033740?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-6280367468118009282006-11-23T21:24:00.000-08:002006-11-23T22:17:40.208-08:00we had a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. it was great to see all the aunties, uncles and cousins. i actually ate alot and for the turkey disliker like me ... the turkey was juicy and tender to perfection and i had two slices. theodore had stuffings and array of desserts from cheese cake from mousse fantasy to pumpkin pie with whipped cream. he preferred sweets more than anything.<br /><br />this year i mashed potatoes again. it has become my trademark for thanksgiving. i had to think of different kind of stuff i can add to the mash. i put some hickory smoked bacon this time and it tasted smoking. jp and i also did some experimentation with potatoes. we made potato gratin. it needed some tweaking before we can actually present it one day for thanksgiving. so look out for it one thanksgiving!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-628036746811800928?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-78144737773631144232006-11-22T22:54:00.000-08:002006-11-22T23:06:36.987-08:00what did the turkey do wrong that it needs a pardon from president bush? turkeys are meant to be eaten as much chickens even thought in my opinion turkey meat isn't that good. i rather have more stuffings. maybe bush should save his pardons on the poor secret service agents who couldn't catch the robbers whom robbed one of his twins' money and cell phone. first of all is guarding the twins really a secret service agents job? who would leave their bags on the floor in a country like argentina and hoping that no one would notice. those robbers are professional robbers in a third world country. those agents are not use to swipers but more hand to hand combats and dodging bullets. maybe the pardoned turkey should take a second job in guarding the twins.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7814473777363114423?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-91112018757559830202006-11-21T22:55:00.000-08:002006-11-23T22:40:41.087-08:00<span style="font-size:100%;">according to one flight attendant it was. it wasn't even flashed at her, but the baby. for the purpose of feeding the baby i do not see that as offensive cause i am a nursing mom too. but then the mom should have just cover up or have the husband cover up for her whatever makes it easy instead of getting booted of the plane.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="inside-head"><br /><br />Nursing mom files complaint against airlines</span></span><span class="datestamp"><br />Updated 11/17/2006 8:57 AM ET<br /><br /></span><div class="byLine">By Emily Bazar and Sam Hemingway, USA TODAY<br /><br /></div><div style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">A clash between a nursing mother and a flight attendant has sparked a discrimination complaint, an airline investigation and a grass-roots protest.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />Emily Gillette, her husband, Brad; and their then 22-month-old daughter, River, were removed from an Oct. 13 flight from Burlington, Vt., to New York after a flight attendant asked Gillette to cover up while she was breast-feeding the girl.</span></div><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Freedom Airlines operated the Delta Air Lines flight.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Gillette, 27, filed a complaint against both airlines last week with the Vermont Human Rights Commission alleging that the airlineviolated a state law that allows women to breast-feed "in any place of public accommodation." The airlines have until Nov. 27 to respond, Gillette's attorney, Elizabeth Boepple, says.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">In a show of support, about 30 mothers and fathers and dozens of children staged a "nurse-in" protest at Burlington International Airport on Wednesday.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">"I've always nursed my children when I'm on a plane," says Carolyn Beer, 34, of Burlington. "Their ears hurt with the altitude change, and it's a strange environment for them. The alternative is to let your kid scream."</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Gillettes, of Espanola, N.M., boarded the flight shortly before 10 p.m.. They had been in Vermont visiting friends and were headed to New York to see other friends and Emily Gillette's sister.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Gillette took the window seat in the second-to-last row, she says, and her husband took the aisle. She began nursing River, using one hand to hold her shirt closed. She says: "I was not exposed."</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">But the flight attendant approached, tried to hand her a blanket and asked her to cover herself, she recalls. "You're offending me," Gillette quotes the woman as saying.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">"I'm not doing anything wrong and I will not cover up," Gillette says she said in response.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Spokesmen for the airlines declined to discuss specifics of the incident.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">The flight attendant walked away, Gillette says, and a few minutes later, a ticket agent boarded and said the flight attendant had ordered them removed.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">The airline arranged for a hotel for the family for the night and a flight with a different airline the next morning, but Gillette wasn't satisfied.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">"No woman should ever be ashamed of breast-feeding," she says. She wants "both airlines to create policies that protect a woman from being harassed for feeding her child on an airplane."</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Delta is working with Freedom on an investigation, Delta spokesman Anthony Black says. "Delta supports a mother's right to breast-feed-slash-bottle-feed her babies on our aircraft," he says.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Freedom spokesman Paul Skellon says breast-feeding on a plane is OK if it's done in a "discreet way."</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Forty-three states have some form of legislation protecting a woman's right to breast-feed, according to Mary Lofton, spokeswoman for La Leche League International, a group that encourages breast-feeding.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Lofton says the league has had a growing number of contacts from women who say they were harassed for breast-feeding on planes.</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">Sharon Panitch, 37, a massage therapist who organized the Burlington nurse-in, says people who object are "hypocritical."</span></p><p style="font-style: italic;" class="inside-copy"><span style="font-size:85%;">"We just want to take care of our children," Panitch says.</span></p><p class="inside-copy"><i><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sam Hemingway reports for the </span></span><i><span style="font-size:85%;">Burlington Free Press</span> </i></i></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-9111201875755983020?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-8683118084708481352006-11-20T21:38:00.001-08:002006-11-23T22:41:48.645-08:00maybe mel gibson didn't have if half as bad as michael richards, but then gibson is not jewish. offending the jewish community especially in hollywood is a big no no. which is worst not being jewish and offending jewish people or being a jewish and not black and offending black people and calling them with the n word? in any rate people shouldn't be calling each other names it is just bad karma. say sorry and let's move on. why make it even more outlandish? it is a big deal but what is the bigger deal? bush sending more troops to iraq or name calling. people are dying out there no name calling can fix all it, they are still dead. so just move on and take the apology and suck it up people. you got better stuff going in your life than this stupid thing. not like we haven't heard those before.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-868311808470848135?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-44421928009906938822006-11-19T23:06:00.000-08:002006-11-19T23:12:25.744-08:00i was looking for a better instruction in showing how to make double crochet. i finally found one from the dummies book online. <a href="http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-2616.html">click here</a> for a illustrated instructions. i knew i should have gotten that book instead of the other ones i bought.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4442192800990693882?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-58208319456111454422006-11-19T22:48:00.000-08:002006-11-19T23:05:28.117-08:00jp was out on the balcony for an hour shooting the leonids. here is the result using the canon 20D setting: bulb around 1 minute, f 19, iso 200 and focal 38mm. of course when he checked the photos on the actual lcd screen there were no streaks of light but lotta dots of stars. only this morning when he viewed the photos on the computer screen there were mini streaks. this one is one of the better test photographs of the meteor shower. oh of course if he knew he would have bulb for 20 minutes.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/640421/IMG_0068.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/400/154551/IMG_0068.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5820831945611145442?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-20002695205359612152006-11-18T00:44:00.000-08:002006-11-18T00:47:37.262-08:00something new in my little shop =D<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/417682/space%20dog%20green%2002.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/595356/space%20dog%20green%2002.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/996838/space%20dog%20green%2003.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/931121/space%20dog%20green%2003.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/249659/space%20dog%20green%2001.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/405929/space%20dog%20green%2001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />this bracelet is made with lampwork beads and glass beads held together by wires.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-2000269520535961215?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-30704796259699189082006-11-18T00:05:00.000-08:002006-11-18T00:25:09.842-08:00my uncle travels alot. i mean lot. he went to si chuan (in chinese 四川) a province in the central-western china. here i share some of his photographs.<br /><br /><center><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/91114/Hai%20Luo%20go%20Ice%20River.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/555486/Hai%20Luo%20go%20Ice%20River.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Hai Luo Go ice river<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/51036/spring%20pool.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/629515/spring%20pool.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />spring pool<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/78757/morning%20view.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/733703/morning%20view.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />a morning view<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/671810/typcial%20housing.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/276993/typcial%20housing.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />typical housing<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/526299/local%20tibetian%20girl.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/196229/local%20tibetian%20girl.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />local tibetian girl </center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3070479625969918908?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-89116304109967565902006-11-17T23:13:00.000-08:002006-11-23T22:42:25.953-08:00playstation 3 is the most wanted game console of the year (out beat tickle me elmo) and jesus doll is rejected even for marine toys for tots. maybe toys for tots should accept the jesus dolls and trade them for playstations and every kids will be happy =) kudos to you if you are one of those people camping out at a best buy, frys or circuit city for a playstation 3 ... i tried to get one at costco.com but no luck because their system kept crashing and i couldn't log in so i gave up. they were gone within an hour.<br />i would probably settle for a jesus doll even though i am not a religious person, it seemed more peaceful and hopeful for this holiday season. and at least you will not be shot at, beaten to a pulp or robbed at gun point for a jesus doll. happy holiday.<br /><center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/670664/OutofStock.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/260059/OutofStock.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/380158/jesus_doll_rejected_la104.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/7075/4400/200/15215/jesus_doll_rejected_la104.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8911630410996756590?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-47990966316316792242006-11-16T22:33:00.000-08:002006-11-16T23:05:45.025-08:00the order is on its way! woohoo!<br /><br />Processor: 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo<br />Memory: 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM-2x1GB<br />Hard Drive: 120GB Serial ATA Drive@5400rpm<br />Optical Drive: SuperDrive 6X<br />Display: 15" Glossy<br /><br />to replace my g4 =D <br />thanks jp for my early christmas present! XOXO<br /><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2188887-516481" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.macmall.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;"><br /><img src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-2188887-516481" width="125" height="125" alt="iMac-Save up to $100* + more offers" border="0"/></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4799096631631679224?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-47749901479244205482006-11-15T23:13:00.000-08:002006-11-15T23:19:09.609-08:00i voted for him at the end because he has the spirit and i also love cheryl. i am glad the popular vote do come through for emmitt ... with victory V<br /><br />"It is awesome! It is awesome!" declared Smith, after hugging his professional dance partner Cheryl Burke. "We came a long way, we really have."<br /><br />they sure did!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4774990147924420548?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-58082420382684227912006-11-15T22:40:00.000-08:002006-11-15T23:05:12.162-08:00this week i was working on a logo<br />using an existing photograph provided by the client<br /><br />work in progress <br /><br />ideas from the client - two different look and feel<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/one.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/one.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/two.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/two.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />they like the first one because the second one seemed too complicated for them in concept <br />brush stroke and kung fu - both convey inner energy of a person - i guess they do not see that<br /><br />to make it more pleasing to the eye ... i did some tweaking since the original photo was taken in an angle looking up to the person which creating a slight awkward proportion when it is just a flat graphic<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/one-revision-01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/one-revision-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-5808242038268422791?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-13134380173337941782006-11-15T22:18:00.000-08:002006-11-16T22:36:49.246-08:00mind eyes bracelet<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/mind%20eyes%20IMG_9172.0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/mind%20eyes%20IMG_9172.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />mismatch earrings - $10<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/PIF%20oct%209443%20mismatch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/PIF%20oct%209443%20mismatch.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />hearts<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/pink%20hearts%2001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/pink%20hearts%2001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />5 of a kind bracelets<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/5%20of%20a%20kind%20IMG_9181.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/5%20of%20a%20kind%20IMG_9181.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />duo I earrings - $16<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/duo%20I%2002%209423.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/duo%20I%2002%209423.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />duo II earrings - $16<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/duo%20II%2001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/duo%20II%2001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />earth bangles - $50 each <br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/bangle%2001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/bangle%2001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />earth bracelets - $13 each<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/earth%20bracelets%2001%209418.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/earth%20bracelets%2001%209418.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />ocean bracelet - $22<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/coral%2001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/coral%2001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />maelstrom bangle - $168<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/maelstrom%2001%20img%209164.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/200/maelstrom%2001%20img%209164.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1313438017333794178?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-88315436833710596692006-11-15T00:38:00.000-08:002006-11-15T00:44:19.692-08:00i am still working on the one for baby which is actually the second attempt at it since i was crocheting the first one in the width direction rather than in the length which came out really awkward. i preferred the length direction it is much more smooth and hangs on the neck nicely. i may desmantle the first one i made up to the end of the yarn. i also started another one for jp using acrylic yarn and it is much thicker than the cotton one.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-8831543683371059669?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-68203318262460178542006-11-15T00:32:00.000-08:002006-11-15T00:38:17.180-08:00i was looking for some craft stuff at createforless.com and i found their price for sugar n cream yarns are now by far the lowest at $1.39! <br />they ship for free when you spend $100 or more.<br /><a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.createforless.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-2188887-10314206" target="_blank"><br /><img border="0" width="125" alt="Clearance Sale" src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-2188887-10314206" height="125"/></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-6820331826246017854?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-49696481637059649762006-11-15T00:04:00.000-08:002006-11-15T00:29:40.900-08:00sorry ... my shop is going up and down. i guess it is not as smooth of a transition for the people at etsy.com to launch their version two.<br /><br />jp said they are very amateur in releasing a new version of their site. yes and taking a lot of risk in doing so. one thing you don't want is your site to be down ... not even for one hour. jp should know after working on huge sites like work.com, business.com, carsdirect.com and ussearch.com.<br /><br />they may need to rethink about their 10 cents increase for listing ;P<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4969648163705964976?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-70655314919977015492006-11-13T12:53:00.000-08:002006-11-13T12:54:27.653-08:00they are still working on it. my shop is still down.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7065531491997701549?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-75298258987832007782006-11-12T22:39:00.000-08:002006-11-13T12:57:35.606-08:00yummy ...<br />i had to try them since they said they have the best cream puffs in the world. it tasted like a vanilla eclair. i bought the regular cream puff and it has real vanilla bean in it. the pastry shell is extremely fluffy. you have to eat it right away once the filling is filled into the pastry puff so the puff itself does not deflated over time. and they fill the pastry when you order it. a dozen of them for $17 dollars. they are worth every penny.<br />i went to the one in west la on sawtelle.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/products_bigpic_creampuff.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/products_bigpic_creampuff.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-7529825898783200778?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-39746178144741755532006-11-10T23:25:00.000-08:002006-11-15T23:21:12.225-08:00i love this show. it is on hbo with new episodes every friday night 11pm/10c.<br /><br />this is stolen from the show cause i thought it was a great list of "douchebags" (quoting bill maher)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">lobbyist jack abramoff</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/jack-abramoff.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/jack-abramoff.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>aka the look of a bad dude and it is no hobby<br />(his hobby is to lobby but thank god his name is not bobby)<br />he went to the same high school as me argh!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >ex house majority leader delay</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/DeLay%20mug.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/DeLay%20mug.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>hence his name and the #3 powerhouse behind the republican party after dick cheney and cheated by funneling corporate money (this is his actual mugshot taken when he was booked)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ex senator santorum</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/santorum-nytimes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/santorum-nytimes.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>he is no saint from philly<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >katherine harris</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/katherine-harris-holds-possum.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/katherine-harris-holds-possum.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>she is the one who stopped the recount in florida when bush was in the lead in the 2000 election and it all went south from then on<br />(the poor creature must be in pain)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >george allen</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/allen-football.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/allen-football.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>lost his football in virgina<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >mr ex secretary of defense<br />donald rumsfeld</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/donald-rumsfeld.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/donald-rumsfeld.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>supported by bush but resigned after election 2006 was over<br />scapegoat nonetheless<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><br />karl rove</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/karl-rove.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/karl-rove.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>thanks to him that bush is president twice in a row<br />now who is the loser of the bunch<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><br />k-fed</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/kfed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/kfed.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>i think britney spears finally got her brain<br />he is only the sperm donor<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >saddam the insane</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/saddam-before.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/saddam-before.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>before<br />and<br />after<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/1600/saddam.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/7075/4400/400/saddam.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> farewell to hang<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3974617814474175553?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-3722129255087756932006-11-10T00:45:00.000-08:002006-11-10T01:01:37.878-08:00a case of roseola virus ... <br /><br />fever up to 103.5<br />mild diarrhea<br />puffy eyes<br />irritable and extremely tired<br />loss of appetite<br />rash appears after fever ends<br />it strikes baby 6 months to kids 3 years of age<br /><br />treatment of roseola ...<br /><br />let it run it course<br />lot of fluid intake<br />lot of rest<br />to reduce fever ... infant tylenol or acetaminophen<br />or a lukewarm sponge bath<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-372212925508775693?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-48296812598254993532006-11-08T23:26:00.000-08:002006-11-08T23:34:04.131-08:00wow ... what a close call. this is going to be interesting 110th congress. go democrats and bush is going down.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4829681259825499353?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-38935961499953905932006-11-07T22:58:00.000-08:002006-11-08T23:25:27.971-08:00i finally get to vote before the booths are closed tonight by 8pm. I was there at 7:30pm and there were a quite a few parents with their babies. each babies got a ty beanie from the lady at the polling area.<br />mr. governator is way ahead of the game ... this time i did vote for him cause he did an okay job and besides the other guy looks fishy. besides that the interesting thing is who will (the donkey or the elephant) take over the congress? i like to see democrats take over the house.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-3893596149995390593?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-90074556376041333142006-11-05T23:16:00.000-08:002006-11-05T23:22:46.908-08:00my cousin is taking a class and she rolled out some clay for me. i used cookie cutters and rubberstamps to create each pieces. i bought some chinese character rubberstamps and i finally got the chance to use them as a guide for me to carve the pieces. hopefully i will have the time to finish up the pieces before the clay dries up. in the meantime, i just used damp towels to cover the clay and wrapped them in plastic bags.<br />i made 3 different medallions so far: peace, love, and star characters.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-9007455637604133314?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-45485817227263395022006-11-04T22:47:00.000-08:002006-11-04T23:07:12.276-08:00we went to a fun 2 year old birthday party. they rented a huge jumper and popcorn cart for the kids. our almost 10 months old had some laughs in the jumper. even the parents join in the fun. it was a huge hit. i also like the idea of the popcorn cart popping fresh pops for the crowd.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-4548581722726339502?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-981648423580338032006-11-04T00:11:00.000-08:002006-11-04T00:37:47.471-08:00when i first watched this show i thought it was boring, but then it did grow on me after watching a few more episodes. my favorite episodes by far is samurai pie. i can never remember all the names of the five characters of the show. the character that stands out the most from the five is pablo. he is the penguin who is always stumbling and very clumsy, yet he never gives up.<br />in every episodes the five friends embark on a journey in their backyard from their realities to their own fantastic adventures. the 3-d animation is fun to watch especially with songs and dances. the songs and dances are themed and very well put together like a broadway musical production in itself. you can even join in for the fun.<br />this show doesn't have the interactivity like the other shows on nick jr., but it gives you an idea of what you never want to give up ... imagining the possibilities. imagination doesn't require much.<br /><br />... do you wanna make pies?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-98164842358033803?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-19704971689197836192006-11-03T23:54:00.000-08:002006-11-04T00:11:19.402-08:00hmm ... i love spinach and now it is off my grocery list for a while and now tomatoes! i can avoid not eating in a restaurant, but not shop for them as part of my diet that is just going too far. most of the veggies i do clean them and then cook them. i rarely eat raw salad bowl if i do i triple wash them even if they do come in a bag that said prewash ... i don't really trust those packaged veggies. whatever are printed on the packages you still have to clean it ... don't be lazy because food poisoning is no fun. <br /><br />i had food poisoning a couple of times and it all came from eating meat product i bought from carl's jr. (it was always from the same place. the one located on santa monica blvd before 26th street. the carl's jr i go to often was inside campus of USC and i had no problem there.) it was an immediate reaction after 30 minutes to an hour after i ate ... my stomach cramped up and i was forcing myself to vomit all the bad stuff. after 2 hours of going back and forth to the bathroom vomiting i felt much better. i just drank a bottle of water to stay hydrated and just went to bed without anything else. the whole experience was exhausting. so better be safe than sorry ... laziness just doesn't cut it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-1970497168919783619?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162539693118539962006-11-02T23:29:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:28:45.785-08:00i started making baby food with fresh chicken soup and sometimes with fresh beef soup. mostly adding potatoes, carrots, squash and sweet potatoes. this time around i am going to add beans and rice with some minced meat. i just blend them all together using my everyday blender.<br /><br />if you want to start making baby food, i would go with a regular blender rather than getting a smaller one. i made 18 to 20 packages of 2.5 ounces of baby food and it last me a week and a half. i freeze them by reusing the gerber plastic containers. i find those very handy dandy. or you can use ice cube trays.<br /><br />i also would like to try the food mill so i can add some variety of food my husband and i eat so the baby can try some too.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116253969311853996?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162455166252751002006-11-02T00:05:00.000-08:002006-11-03T12:52:59.573-08:00i am already in the spirit of christmas ... available at my <a href="http://www.petitespoon.etsy.com">shop</a>.<br /><br /><center><span style="font-weight:bold;">christmas minis</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/petitespoon/286618226/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/106/286618226_d39efad793_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="christmas minis - christmas theme glass beads sterlings silver earrings" /></a></center><br /><br /><center><span style="font-weight:bold;">let it SNOW</span><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/petitespoon/285416366/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/101/285416366_5ed2ffd321_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="let it snow - vintage buttons christmas card" /></a></center><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116245516625275100?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162361680161133102006-10-31T21:59:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:28:45.675-08:00happy halloween ... it is suppose to be fun going trick or treating ... but sometimes the older teens just spoiled the fun for the rest of the younger ones. the north of santa monica neighborhood slowly turns into a ghetto during this time once a year and it is turning more ghetto-y each year. tonight the cops (santa monica pd) came by to chase the noisy crowds away. it felt like a scene from the dawn of the dead.<br />the idea of sharing doesn't get to the kids nowadays. last year my 10 pounds bag of candies last the night from 5-9pm and this time around it seemed like one of the kids got really greedy and took the whole 5-pound bag of candies and left the rest of the other trick or treaters astray.<br />and what about treating people's property with respect. my candy stand got knocked over just because i have no more candies. do people even think about ringing the door bell if the candies are out ... but no ... let's just destroy ... destroy ... destroy. i feel like i have to put up some fences and have a sign that says "keep out or i will shoot."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116236168016113310?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162280278826708782006-10-30T23:36:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:28:45.621-08:00i gave away my last pif (pay it forward) today. the uno recycled wood bead pendant will be going to a good home =D<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116228027882670878?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162280111048835752006-10-30T23:28:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:28:45.567-08:00yeah ... i got some more sugar & cream yarns today ... the cheapest i can find is at dick blick for $1.29 even with shipping it is still cheaper than joann for $1.99 with free shipping!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2188887-10285590" target="_blank" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.dickblick.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;"> <img src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-2188887-10285590" alt="www.DickBlick.com - Online Art Supplies" border="0" height="60" width="120" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116228011104883575?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162276938134272142006-10-30T22:34:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:28:45.518-08:00how much candies can a person eat in a day? i went out and bought more candies 10 pounds worth of sugar in multi colors. i still have a bag left from last year's halloween. if i ran out i will probably use those. if some one really ate a one-year-old candy and got sick from it may as well blame it on sugar not because it is a year old. to quote my old man here "expiration date is only a recommendation."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116227693813427214?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162148971775408692006-10-29T11:00:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:28:45.410-08:00this cartoon is on nick jr as far as i know every weekday around noonish when i am feeding baby his lunch.<br /><br />it is a fun show about a young boy named diego saving different animals in trouble in each episodes. you discover and learn about the animals and their habitats with fun facts awhile keeping you engage by asking you questions or do certain actions to help diego with pseudo interactive sessions as a part of the animal rescuing. inbetween are songs and dance. i really like the catchy tune of 'rescue pack' when diego needs a tool to help him solve a problem. the rescue pack will ask you if a tool will help diego solve his problem when it changes itself to a tool for example a bicycle, hot air balloon, or kayak. you can also learn some spanish along the way.<br />towards the end of the show, i like how diego would review what you had learn from the adventure by playing a memory game. at the end of the game a real photograph of the animal is revealed.<br />it is overall very rewarding and teaches you about helping others and solving problems. <br /><br />théodore now 9 months reacts to the show and expression of diego ... he will laugh when diego speaks to him.<br /><br />now i have that tune in my head.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116214897177540869?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36051875.post-1162098592859690972006-10-28T22:03:00.000-07:002006-11-03T00:28:45.353-08:00today is just one of those days were things are not done and it is extremely long even with a stroll close to the santa monica pier. we also walked along third street promenade and visited gap kids. i really like their pajamas for toddlers even the lady working there wants one her size. i bought three long pj for baby size 3 just big enough for him for the trip to france. we wanted to get a costume for halloween, but baby was sleepy and we went straight home after one hour not counting the time to park the car and get out of the parking structure.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36051875-116209859285969097?l=petitespoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>petite spOOnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03130140708849037832noreply@blogger.com0