sweetdesign

@sweetdesign (5142)

United States • Age 53

Joined myLot 18 years ago

Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

www.sweetdesigninc.blogspot.com

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sweetdesign's Discussions

Are you in Weight Watchers?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 25 Sep 11

I am joining Weight Watchers on Tuesday. Just wondering if any body out there is on the Weight Watchers plan, how are you doing? I need to lose a tremendous amount of weight. From what I have learned about online I am pretty sure...

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Extreme Couponing, does this describe you?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 13 Sep 11

I have been watching the Extreme Coupon show and love it. I do use coupons and have two binders that I haul to the store every time we go shopping even if it is just a small trip. I am not as accomplished as some of the couponers...

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Are you a prepper?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 13 Sep 11

Being a prepper means being prepared for any kind of disaster be it a natural disaster ie storms, earthquakes and the like or a man made ie the collapse of our government, financial disasters and the like. I am by no means a...

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Have you bought food storage foods?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 13 Sep 11

Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the food storage type foods? They are the kind that come in #10 cans and such with high shelf stable lives. I have been looking at places online to buy from like Augason Farms, Honeyville...

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Have you ever made your own butter?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 21 Sep 09

I tried this the other day and it was fun and the butter tastes so much better than store bought! It was easy as well! Here is what you need: Jar with tight fitting lid cream (heavy or regular doesn't matter) strong arms for...

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Be warned

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 23 Jul 09

Ok so this has happened to me twice on different PC's and to atleast one friend. On Farmtown in facebook at the marketplace there are viruses,worms,and trojans! It took me all day to get rid of a program that I picked up there...

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Do you bake your own bread?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 20 Jul 09

I am making a starter for sourdough bread today and making white bread today. Which leads me to the question of how many of you mylotters make your own bread? How many use a breadmachine? I do both the breadmachine (though...

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Dragonfly!!

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

I was out in the garden spreading grass clippings on the garden when I noticed a dragonfly sitting on a tomato stake. I put my finger out to it and it climbed onto my finger! He sat there for quite some time then flew back to the...

cool

dragonfly

nature

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Farmtown or Farmville?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

I play both. I like different features of each one. For instance I like that I can earn gobs of coins on farmtown by going to the market and working on other farms when someone hires me. However I like the more user friendly...

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What kind of mower?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

Well we recently invested in a push mower, no motor, no gas, no anything just manpower! I love it! It works like a charm and is so quiet. I don't have to buy gas and haul it back home. I don't have to replace spark plugs. An added...

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What do you do with your grass clippings?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

I put ours on the garden and flower beds! It provides nutreints and detters weed growth. Our neighbour gives us his clippings too. In fact he is mowing right now and we can expect two bags full!! Yeah! I need them for my garden as...

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Canning vegitables

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

Well if I can anything this year it will be from the farmers market cause my garden just is not producing what I had hoped for. Out of all the tomato plants we put out 12 plants only two plants have produced tomatoes! Our squash...

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How is your garden?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

Well mine is better than last year but not as good as I had hoped. I can't seem to get my squash to produce anything but male flowers which of course do not bear fruit and fall off. It is aggrivating to say the least. i have...

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Sells continue to be bad!

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 18 Jul 09

Ok so how many of you are still experiencing low to non exsistant sells from your crafts? I have no exsistant sells. I sold a card about 2 months ago and before that it was february when I sold something. I will say this though my...

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Holy Moly thats a lot of plums

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 11 Jun 09

Well I tell you what after 10 years of never bearing any fruit both our plum trees have outdone themselves!We just canned 12 pints of plum jam. We have enough plums ripening to do atleast 24 more pints! Yikes that is a whole lot...

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Who called? i don't know

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 1 Jun 09

Well I just finished a memo station to be kept by the phone. I think it turned out great and it has a matching pen even!! I love creating useful things!! The pen in the picture is not the one that comes with it the one that comes...

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Doesn't it feel good to win something?

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 31 May 09

It sure does! I have one two blog giveaways in the past week or so. One is a set of beautiful bird tags and the other is a surprise!! It makes me smile when I win something no matter what it is lol. how about you? Have you won...

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my memo holder

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 27 May 09

This is my newest creation. It is a memo holder! I have it listed in my etsy shop and on my blog. It was a bit of a challenge to do since my magnets were not the best in the world to work with. But I perseviered (sp) and got it...

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Garden growing

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 27 May 09

How is your garden doing this year? Mine is doing ok knd of slow going with all the rain you would think it would be bursting with growth. Here are some pics of it.

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Launch Day

sweetdesign @sweetdesign (5142) • United States 24 May 09

How many blogs do you have? Me? I have two now I just launched another blog YEAH me!!!! Alot of you have been to my fabulous first blog (see profile for link) now from there you can go to my new blog Sweet Deign Inc's Tips!! I...

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