Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Memorial Day Fun on Zibbet
It's quiet today on the Internet because many families are off at the beach, family picnics, or camping trips.
Memorial Day although a somber holiday to remember the men and women who died in wars, has also become a time of families and friends gathering in the outdoors for food and merriment.
The first known Memorial Day was celebrated in Waterloo, New York.
If you know someone who lost a loved one you might want to take a bunch of hand picked flowers to them as depicted in this print of a painting by Patty Fleckenstein.
For those of you who are home today, may this blog post bring you some Memorial Day enjoyment as I take a spin through the wonderful art world of Zibbet. Just click on any photo caption to read more about the items.
You can also search similar words on Zibbet and come up with other items suitable for Memorial Day. See what I found using the words: flag and patriotic, and the phrase red white and blue.
Have a fun day and take a moment to tell your friends about Zibbet by sending a link to this blog post, or just sending the Zibbet web site.
Winner of Tootsy Two's Special Giveaway is.....
.....ME! Oh my gosh I was so surprised to wake up this morning, turn on my Mac and see that I am the winner.
You can read about the giveaway and also enjoy a wonderful blog by Tootsy Two HERE.
Interested in adding a Tootsy Two quilt to your home? You can find her wonderful Zibet shop HERE.
She also makes the most amazing pin cushions, so unique, they are collectibles.
I just discovered an item in her sold section that if my daughter had seen it, she probably would have bought it for me. You better get to Tootsy Two, and keep watching her shop, because she also sells vintage items that don't last long.
You can read about the giveaway and also enjoy a wonderful blog by Tootsy Two HERE.
Interested in adding a Tootsy Two quilt to your home? You can find her wonderful Zibet shop HERE.
She also makes the most amazing pin cushions, so unique, they are collectibles.
I just discovered an item in her sold section that if my daughter had seen it, she probably would have bought it for me. You better get to Tootsy Two, and keep watching her shop, because she also sells vintage items that don't last long.
Friday, May 28, 2010
An Oven Adventure Part II
While I was thinking all I had to do was find someone to switch the power cord onto the back of the stove and plug it in, I got this reply from the kind person who had given me the stove.
VERY IMPORTANT: My husband said you need to get a new electrical terminal strip in order to re-attach the electrical cord onto the old stove. The old one was electrically fused (happens with age) onto the back of the old stove and he had to break it off so he could disconnect the power cord from that one to connect it to the one we got you. You're really lucky; that was a severe fire hazard! Without that, you won't be able to reconnect the power cord. Andrew says you should look for a different stove altogether because he believes the old one is a fire hazard.
I called the appliance repair place and told them I needed this terminal strip, and after supplying the model number was told the part called a "block" is $37.50. I asked what the labor would be and they said they had to get back to me.
Fast forward to yesterday morning, one of my daughters, came in with her boyfriend and I updated her on the stove story. The BF said, just use the part off the other stove. I had no idea we could do that. I called the appliance repair place again and asked and they said, yes we could do that.
This afternoon, daughter's BF is coming over to switch parts on the 2 stoves and then he is going to haul the other stove to a recycling place to cash it in for metal white goods. He'll get, he says, about $20-30.
I'm being summoned in a few directions, so have to end this blog post.
Wishing everyone a Productive Day.
VERY IMPORTANT: My husband said you need to get a new electrical terminal strip in order to re-attach the electrical cord onto the old stove. The old one was electrically fused (happens with age) onto the back of the old stove and he had to break it off so he could disconnect the power cord from that one to connect it to the one we got you. You're really lucky; that was a severe fire hazard! Without that, you won't be able to reconnect the power cord. Andrew says you should look for a different stove altogether because he believes the old one is a fire hazard.
I called the appliance repair place and told them I needed this terminal strip, and after supplying the model number was told the part called a "block" is $37.50. I asked what the labor would be and they said they had to get back to me.
Fast forward to yesterday morning, one of my daughters, came in with her boyfriend and I updated her on the stove story. The BF said, just use the part off the other stove. I had no idea we could do that. I called the appliance repair place again and asked and they said, yes we could do that.
This afternoon, daughter's BF is coming over to switch parts on the 2 stoves and then he is going to haul the other stove to a recycling place to cash it in for metal white goods. He'll get, he says, about $20-30.
I'm being summoned in a few directions, so have to end this blog post.
Wishing everyone a Productive Day.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Gift Maker
An older blog post from my personal blog. I think I am going to post some of them here. My blog is prvate because I have been blogging since my daughters were little kidlets and just never felt safe announcing to the world where they were, where they went and yada yada.
The Purple Rat doing a sewing project to surprise her BF for his birthday
The Purple Rat bought a hat pattern and made a hat for her BF, for his birthday, so when they go to New York someday, he'll be warm.
When it was done, she tried it on to make sure it was way too big on her. And it was.
DJ with his hat on and his birthday buttons from Portable Graffiti. Lucky guy, I gave him the Archie Bunker for President button from my collection. He likes the band U-2, so I gave him some square U-2 Buttons. 
I think she should make some of these to sell on Zibbet, don't you? Maybe a bit larger for guys, though. ; )
An Oven Adventure
My oven door fell off and it has turned into an adventure...
I placed an ad on my Local Yahoo Groups Bulletin Board asking for advice on attaching an oven door. One reply lead to Julie and her husband coming over. Julie's husband spent a long time trying to put the door back on. We even used the Internet for directions on how to do it with this specific Whirlpool stove. It was finally deemed impossible. But Julie and I had a good time yacking about New York State while he worked on it.
They knew of another stove that they could get for me for free. How cool is that. So a few days later they delivered a nice white GE stove with a glass top, quite similar to the one I have except mine is a Whirlpool. The only thing missing was oven racks, but we assumed we could just use the racks from my stove. Not! The size was different. Mine are too wide.
Oh well, now I had a nice stove and all I had to do was find some oven racks that fit. That should be easy.
Or maybe not so easy. The stove has been an ongoing adventure for close to a month. I posted wanted ads on Freecycle for stove racks and got 2 but they didn't fit. I went to some metal recycle places with no luck. I went to appliance stores. To buy a replacement is very expensive. Then I went to the local dump. They had a pile of appliances there including stoves. Told the guard at the gate my saga and he said they are not allowed to sell parts due to insurance reasons. Okay so then he says but you can buy a whole stove. I asked how much and he said $10. Cool, well that's cheaper than buying an oven rack. So I asked to go look at them.
I was carrying an oven rack that is too large for the oven, and planned to use it as a measuring tool to find a stove with smaller racks. I spotted a GE stove and worked like the dickens to ease it out so I could peek in the oven door. Weird they can't sell the racks because of insurance reasons but they let me shove all that heavy metal stuff around. I could have been killed. LOL There was metal stuff on top of it, too. Finally got it out, opened the door, and no oven racks inside it. Rats!
So I went to the next stove and went through a worse ordeal, because that one had a glass top that was smashed, glass shards all over the place, and heavy metal stuff on top of it. It was hot that day and this was in the full sun. I swore at the thing until I got it so I could open the oven. Yeah! Oven racks, 2 of them. I pulled one out, set it on top of the one I brought there, and sure enough, it was narrower. Without even thinking about it, I set down the oven rack I had brought into the junk pile, and carried the newly found one out.
I walked past the guard at the gate feeling like a criminal, but then told myself, "Hey they get paid in weight for that stuff and I just left a larger heavier rack for them. The stove was smashed and unusable and destined for metal recycling." (end of guilt trip)
I couldn't wait to get home and try it out. My heart sunk when I discovered it was too narrow and wouldn't work. Now I had a total of 5 oven racks and none of them fit in this GE oven.
Yesterday I called the appliance repairman even though I still owe him $75 for the time he repaired my refrigerator. He came over today, and in about 3 minutes flat he had the oven door back on. He said there is a trick to it. He demonstrated by taking the door off, as I was cringing thinking, he won't be able to put it on again. But he did, he put the door on, he took it off, he put it on again.
He said no charge for attaching the oven door, but of course I paid for the refrigerator repair (with a post dated check.)
He does not have a dolly and so the stove is on the front porch and now I need the stoves switched out.
I am getting closer to being able to bake something. All that is left to do is find someone who has a dolly and knows how to change the electric plug and can do the stove switch. I can almost smell brownies baking.
Anyone need some oven racks? What could they be upcycled into? Perhaps repurposed into something to sell on Zibbet?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Promoting Cloth Diapers
Someone posted on Facebook a photo of Huggies new disposable diapers that look like blue jeans. I commented that they are bad for environment and then quick went to Zibbet to search for cloth diapers so I could include a link to something WAY cuter than Huggies plastic trash that just looks like fabric.
I found just what I was looking for on Zibbet:
Nifty Nappy Cloth Diapers that are so, so cute and colorful.
I found just what I was looking for on Zibbet:
Nifty Nappy Cloth Diapers that are so, so cute and colorful.
Zibbet is the place to shop.
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