CHRISTMAS TREE PARTY BASKETS

While searching for plastic canvas patterns on Ebay, I found this adorable Christmas party basket. What sold me were the smley face trees!

You can find them for sale in my Etsy shop - grannyscraaftattic.etsy.com

I have listed them as a set of 5. However if you want to order a larger quantity, please convo me for quantity discounts. Since they take a while to create, I would suggest getting your order in early.

COUCH TISSUE BOX COVER

I love patterns that are out of the box, so when I found this couch tissue box cover I knew I just had to add it to my shop!  You can choose whatever color you would like. Would you like round pillows? Square pillows? Same color as the couch or a contrasting color? The picture above was sent to me by a very satisfied customer.

BTW, the tissues and everything on the table in the picture, except for the actual tissue box cover, are not included.

Check it out at Granny's:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/48749938/couch-tissue-box-cover-made-to-order-you?ref=shop_home_active_3

GRANNY IS BACK!

It's been way too long since I've posted anything but I am resurrecting my blog and will be posting much more from now on........I promise!

Stay tuned!

MINI CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

I have gone crazy with making mini Christmas Ornaments this year. I have Mini Stockings, Mini Ski Hats and Mini Basket ornaments.

The Mini Baskets can also have 'snow', berries, poinsettias, a pinecone and leaves in them:

You can find these items for sale at http://grannyscraftattic.etsy.com/

Now all I need is a Mini Christmas Tree (that's coming eventually).

Merry Christmas one and all!

MY SWEET POTATOES ON CRACK

My goodness, where has this year gone???? It's almost Thanksgiving already and I would like to share my most favorite Thanksgiving recipe with you. It's for a sweet potato kind of casserole. These funny pictures are the only ones I have, but if you use your imagination, you can figure out what they look like normally. I have named my pictures "My Sweet Potatoes" and "My Sweet Potatoes on Crack"


















YOU WILL NEED:

2 large cans of sweet potatoes in syrup

1/4 cup margarine

1/4 cup orange juice

1 small can of crushed pineapple

1 cup mini marshmallows

More marshmallows for decoration

DIRECTIONS:

Heat the sweet potatoes to boiling, drain and return the potatoes to the pot.

Mash in the margarine, add the orange juice and the pineapple WITH THE JUICE from the can.

Fold in the cup of marshmallows.

Put it all into a round casserole dish. Mound some potatoes in the middle, making a valley around it for the extra marshmallows later.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Remove from the oven and fill the 'valley' with marshmallows and return to oven for about 5 minutes or until the marshmallows are lightly brown.

Enjoy!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL!

MINI SKI HAT CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

If you don't know by now, I love out of the ordinary items. I've seen crochet patterns for ski hats and said to myself, "Self, why not make a mini ski hat as a Christmas ornament?"



So.......this is my latest posting in my Etsy Shop:

I used Red Heart Shimmer Yarn for them. Since I have TONS of yarn I will be making these in other colors as well.

What do you think of them?

THE GREAT CHANGING THE FLASHLIGHT BATTERY DRAMA

THERE WILL BE NO PICTURES IN THIS POST.

I decided to change the batteries in the flashlight today. Simple enough, right? You unscrew the top from the bottom, take out the old batteries, put in the new batteries and voila! a working flashlight.



For most people, this works....but I'm not most people.



I couldn't unscrew the top from the bottom. I took it over to my neighbor and he couldn't open it either. Then I went to the apartment building office, looking for the maintenance man...he's strong, he can open it. Okay...so he opened the flashlight case.


The batteries were corroded.


Came back and looked on line to find out how to remove corrosion from a flashlight:

"Make a paste of 2 tablespoons baking soda with a little water, take a wire brush and rub the paste on the corrosion. Take a damp cloth, wipe it down and let it dry."

Sounds simple enough, right? You forget, it's me, the maintenance-challenged crafter we're talking about here.

The only brush I could find that I would even want to touch corrosion was an old toothbrush. I dipped it into the baking soda paste and scrubbed away at the corrosion. Now since the case that holds the batteries is smaller than my hand, there was no way I could get inside with a 'damp cloth' and wipe it down. I let a little water into the case and swished it around, and dumped it out really well.

The case is now standing upright air-drying. This might take a few days.

And all I wanted to do was change the batteries in my flashlight.......