New posts at Choice Morsels include:

  1) A fun site called Polyvore, where you can construct a fashion collage with pre-made templates that show you where to put clothing, bags, shoes, photos, etc so you can make your own personalized fashion collage!

      I have an example posted on lower right at Choice Morsels blog called, "Cat's night out," which is a fashion collage based on the theme of "how would Catwoman dress for a night out on the town?"

2)  Then scroll down one post to read my Mama Kat's Prompt for this week: My Childhood Hero. (Which happens to be Batman from the 60's TV series.)
    

     Check these 2 posts out at http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com

New At BevStuff Zazzle Store:

         I just added a new "Fruit of the Spirit" coffee/tea mug that has the list of 9 fruits of the Spirit from Galations 5:22-23 in a nice arrangement of assorted fonts in pastel colors with flowers & butterlfies! Nice!

      I have plans for a matching teapot, t-shirt, bag and apron on my drawing board that will be available next week!

      You can check that out at: www.zazzle.com/bevstuff* 

Announcement About Picnik.Com:

Picnik was my favorite photo editor--I even bought premium level, but they recently sent out notice that they are "closing" and are giving everyone who paid them their money back.
Until they close down on April 19 all features including those previously premium are open to EVERYONE to use!    
I have several free photo editors---but none so easy as Picnik!
I wondered what to do---but after a brief search on the Internet I found the on-line image editor: www.Fotoflexer.com, which has all the main stuff Picnik had as well as the simplicity of use!
I like Pixlr as well, which is a free on-line image editor, but it's more complicated to use, since it's all drop-down menus. It has full tutorial videos.
I also found something called Aviary Tools at: http://advanced.aviary.com/tools 
Aviary offers a variety of free services, all browser based, including an image editor. No down-loading.
You'll have to watch their tutorials, though, to learn their stuff.
I think the Aviary tools look pretty cool and I'd like to learn to use them eventually!
It's amazing what you can find!
(I haven't added these references to Choice Morsels yet, but will eventually!)

Catch you later!

Here it is again---another writing prompt.

I selected #4 on her list: "a scene from breakfast."
So I revisited a moment from the early days of my marriage when we were newlyweds and I had no idea one cooked eggs any other way then over-easy.
It's one of my favorite stories to tell about those days!
Go to http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com to read the full story!

My friend, Megan is coming over for our bi-weekly dinner. I'm making turkey smoked sausage mixed with saute sweet potatoes, apples and onions over rice.
Yum!

I've added my new website "Bevstuff" to the tabs over to the left, above! 
I've worked real hard on it!
So swing by and check it out!
   
 

Let's Celebrate!

   I've joined another writers prompt group: Write On Edge.
While Mama Kat's Prompts are really blog ideas, Write On Edge prompts are writers writing challenges like flash fiction, specified topics, descriptions, dialogue, etc. A bit more elaborate.
Anyway, this weeks Edge prompt was to take an event from my life and write a title and tag line like it was a book title and tag line.

Mine is called "Nineteen Hours to Ankara" and the full tagline I wrote is at
http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com   

You'll want to stop by and read it.

Other Stuff:

       I'm presently setting up a website at Yola for my Zazzle store. It's not published yet---still tweaking it out.
I designed my own banner for it and also put it on my Zazzle store.
It came out pretty nice and I'm pretty happy with it---took me hours to do!
It looks something like a fence with flowers scattered on it and my logo.
You can see it here, if you'd like to look:
www.zazzle.com/bevstuff*

I've had a cold this week---I don't even know where I picked it up. It was a chest cold. Clearing up now. Five days seemed long, but that's a pretty short cycle for a virus. I use Zycam and it does help speed things along.

That's Mama Kat's Writing Prompt for this week!

I didn't immediately have one. My first recollections of startling moments were actually horrible ones!  But my goal in blogging is writing about pleasant, up-lifting, informative & interesting posts---not stuff that will throw my readers into depression!

So, I prayed, asking Jesus to bring to mind a positive startling moment to write about. After all, who knows better what's hidden in those old dusty mental file cabinets?
And He did. Up popped a good, positive story about of a startling moment of experiencing of God's provision!
The full story is at Choice Morsels: http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com

After that story are a few catch-up tid-bits of things I'm doing.
If you'd like to see my most recent Monarch Butterfly stationary design, go here: http://www.zazzle.com/bevstuff
It's pictured in the featured products.
If you go to "Promote My Store," then scroll to bottom there, you can join my Fan Club and get an email update any time I do anything new!
I'd appreciate the encouragement!

Wish I could post picture links url code, but it won't work in Bravenet,  which is the BIG reason I switched to Google Bogger. It works there!

And the answer is, "No."
You can't get fresh, real roses in the color blue. 
I posted a list of exactly what flowers do come in blue at
http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com

It was one of my favorite post topics here, so I just reprised it there.
Plus it's a topic people frequently look up, so might as well settle the question.

Also I posted a couple of florist website pictures of "lavender" roses, which tend to run anywhere from pinkish to more lavenderish.
Probably depends on how much lime they were given during their growing period.

PLUS I've just posted a new t-shirt design to my Zazzle line there, so you can see it. (The shirt sayings are hard to actually read in the flash panel!)
I try out my ideas on my husband and friends. When I tell them my idea and they burst into a chuckle or out-right laugh, I know it's good!
And so this is one that passed the chuckle test!!

Yup, it finally got cold enough to wilt everything sensitive to be wilted around here this past week. It got down to 22.
So, I pulled all the vinca up, snipped the gerber stems, any wilted rubeckia blossoms and the salvia. It's warmed up since, however, and the rubeckia was more blooms.
My strawberries, which are the southern breed, are in full bloom and thick with berries. Those I covered to protect from being nipped.

At least the I had the salvia thru Christmas with its bright red flowers and dark green leaves. Pretty.

The Mama Kat's Writing Prompt this week was "If a movie were made of my life---who would I cast to play the characters?"

What I wrote for that is over at http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com

if you want to swing by.
Who would you pick to play you?

Also my most recent design for my Zazzle store is there: A Fudge Pad Mouse Pad!  It's chocolate luxury to run your mouse over!

Hope everything in your New Year is starting out well!
The Zone has had it's monthly over-all. The Challenge for January is based on the idea of a resolution-making & exploring why an individual X-men character might want to make one.
 Sort of an introspective challenge.

I hope to organize myself back into devoting 1 day a week to writing. I was doing pretty well until we went on vacation in Sept, then the holidays came along...

The rest of what's going on can be read at http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com
Mama Kat's Writing Prompt this week is to pick out actors who might portray like my husband and myself, if our lives were suddenly going to be made into a movie.
I have a the perfect ones picked out already!
You'll want to swing by Choice Morsels on this Thursday to read it! 

I hope everyone had a good Christmas! And may you have a blessed New Year!

I'm pleased to say my computer work will now be easier as I have an ergonomic mouse,which is more upright so you can wrap your hand around it, and a desk chair with ARMS, finally!
I posted other 'going's on' and a photo slide show of my winter garden, a shot of my mince Xmas pie & our cat in a box on Christmas morning
 at 
http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com

I've just added some new Links.

 Zazzle is an authorized dealer for many copyrighted products and carries a full line of Disney, Hallmark & Star Wars products, so I've added links to those particular places under
"Check Out Zazzle" to the right.

I've also entered a new Mama Kat's Losin' It writers prompt at
http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com
The subject was "what kind of party dress would you put together for yourself if you had a party to go to that called for it."

It includes photos.

 Just to let you know, our new car finally came through, after much tenaciousness on our part. The whole story is detailed
at
http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com.

Also Mama Kat's Losin' It writers prompt about my "Most Embarrassing Moment" at college is after that post, so you might enjoy that.

I got notice today that Zazzle has introduced a new product: ceramic teapots.
I had an abstract idea I couldn't resist trying. It was keeping me awake, so I had to get up and try it.
It should be on the panel tomorrow at Choice Morsels.
It's came out pretty neat I think. It's a straight up and down style teapot.

Catch you later.

      I provided a list of suggestion for getting over those winter blues with a list of things that raise serotonin levels, which is your "happy hormone."
     Here's the Link to read it:  http://choice-morsels.blogspot.com

      I also designed a new chocolate T-shirt to add to my new Zazzle store.
Here's the Link to view it:
http://www.zazzle.com/cant_survive_without_chocolate_shirt-235567667381135491 

Got all 4 out of 6 boxes in the mail and ready to work on Christmas cards. Hubby is working on printing the mailing labels now.

Still playing Gardens of Time.
I'm trying to earn enough "gold" by going to other guilds for "gold tourneys" in order to play the special Christmas premium scene!

We got the tree inside up this weekend. It's lovely.

I made meatball subs for the Bible study last night. They were yum. Plenty

leftover for a night batch of spagetti and meatballs tonight!