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Text Box: Welcome Spring!

This month we’ll be welcoming the long-awaited spring season—a time when many of us get in the mood to spruce up our gardens and homes. 

If you’re planning a few home decorating projects, check out my new booklet: Interior Decorating Basics: A Beginner’s Guide For Decorating Your Home, just $4.95. (also available as an e-book). Read more about it in the Book Buzz at right.

I’m now offering E-Book versions of all my booklets. Get your books faster and pay No Shipping Charges. Just $4.95 each. Read more about them in the Book Buzz at right or go to the E-Book Page.

I’m also giving away FREE E-Book Recipe Samplers for all my cookbooks. Visit the Recipe Page to get your copies.

Host a fun St. Patrick’s Day celebration with creative theme party ideas from Flamingos, Poodle Skirts & Red Hots. Details below.

Get the little ones involved in a the fun with a Lucky Leprechaun Tea Party from Teapots & Teddy Bears: Fun Children’s Tea Parties. Details on the Tea Party Page.

Try the refreshing Spring Garden Tuna Salad recipe below from The Secret Ingredient: Tasty Recipes With an Unusual Twist.


Happy Spring!
Gloria
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Text Box: FREE Decorating Tips, Party Ideas, Craft Projects & Recipes on the Blue Sage Press Website:

Visit the following pages to get free tips, recipes and ideas for:

Interior Decorating Tips & Suggestions on the Decorating Page.

Home Staging Tips on the Home Staging Page.

Tea Party Ideas and Recipes on the Tea Party Page

Wedding Planning Tips & Craft Projects on the Wedding Page.

Self-Publishing Tips & Information on the Self-Publishing Page.

Free recipes and craft projects for cooking & crafting with Lavender on the Lavender Page.

Free recipes from our cookbooks on the Recipe Page.

Free E-Book Recipe Samplers with recipes from my cookbooks on the Recipe Page.

Fun Musical Recipe Greeting Cards on the Greeting Card Page to view and share.

FREE craft projects and recipes for simple homemade gifts on the Gift Ideas page.
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Creative How-To Books

Visit the Hugs ‘n Stitches Website

 

Easy to Sew Doll Patterns

 

Shown At Right: Welcome Spring Bunny (14”)

Pattern: $4.95

Text Box: Host a Fun St. Patrick’s Day Bash with Creative Ideas From Flamingos, Poodle Skirts & Red Hots
Text Box: FREE Craft Projects & Gift Ideas

The Crafty Cottage website has lots of FREE craft projects, patterns and instructions for decorative painting, customizing lamp shades, no-sew window treatments, cross-stitching, fabric dolls, quilting, herbal crafts, party ideas and homemade gifts from the kitchen. If you love to craft or want to learn how, check it out soon and try making a few handmade gifts for the Holidays.

FREE Decorating Tips For Your Home

No Rules—Just Fun Decorating website offers FREE Decorating Tips for furniture layouts, color schemes, lighting, accessorizing, home staging, de-cluttering and more!

FREE Recipes From My Cookbooks

On The Cozy Kitchen website you’ll find lots of FREE recipes from my cookbooks! Give them a try!

March 2010 Newsletter

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Text Box: Host a Children’s “Lucky Leprechaun” Tea Party From Teapots & Teddy Bears

Creative ideas for invitations, decorations, activities, and tasty recipes on the Tea Party Page.

 

Teapots & Teddy Bears has 24 recipes and 8 theme party ideas for children’s tea parties.

 

Also Available as an E-Book!

New! Interior Decorating Basics

A Beginner’s Guide For Decorating Your Home: Decorating your home to reflect your own personal style is easy when you follow a few basic guidelines. This booklet offers helpful hints for furniture layouts, color schemes, lighting, window treatments, accessorizing and more to help you achieve the results you want. Size: 5.5” X 8.5”, soft cover Booklet, 24 pages. $4.95  Also Available as an E-Book

I’m also offering FREE E-Book Recipe Samplers for each of my cookbooks. Each one includes five or six FREE recipes for you to try. Visit the Recipe Page and click on the FREE E-Book button beside each cookbook to have one e-mailed to you. (You’ll need Free Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view these files.)

On Sale Now!

Now that I’ve released the New Third Edition of Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug, I’m offering the Second Edition for 40% Off (Just $5.97 each) while supplies last.

Also available at 40% Off is the First Edition of  Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug for Kids. Now just $4.17 each, while supplies last.

Text Box: FREE E-Book Recipe Samplers

I’m now offering FREE E-Book Recipe Samplers for each of my cookbooks. Each one includes five or six FREE recipes for you to try. Visit the Recipe Page and click on the “FREE E-Book” button beside each cookbook to have one e-mailed to you.

(You’ll need Free Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view these files.)

All of my booklets are now available as E-Books that are sent to you by e-mail. Go to the E-Books Page to read more about them or order your copies. Now you can get your books faster and pay ZERO Shipping Charges!

Whether you’re Irish or not, you and your guests can enjoy celebrating this “lucky” day. Write your party details on a plastic beer mug, using a green paint pen. Mail in a box that is lined with green tissue paper. Be sure to ask your guests to wear green.

 

Cut large shamrocks from poster board to hang from the ceiling and walls of your party room. Paint a rainbow and a pot of gold on a large banner to hang on the wall. Cover your serving table with a green tablecloth. Your centerpiece can be a black pot filled with bags of gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins, which are the guest favors.

 

Serve drinks from green plastic beer mugs. If you’re serving beer, tint it green with food coloring. In honor of the Irish potato, serve a baked potato bar, with lots of toppings: grated cheese, chopped ham, bacon bits, sour cream, butter, onions, cooked broccoli or green peas, etc. For dessert, serve petit fours or sugar cookies cut into the shape of shamrocks and iced with green frosting.

For a fun activity, cut out 10 or 12 small shamrocks from green construction paper. Write an Irish related question on each one and number each question from 1 to 12. Tape the shamrocks on the walls around the party room. Provide paper and pens and ask guests to write down their answers to each question, but give them a limited amount of time, about 5 minutes, depending on the number of guests. The person with the most correct answers when time runs out wins a prize.

 

Give each guest an instant “scratch-off” lottery ticket and let them reveal their results.

Get More Fun Theme Party Ideas From Flamingos, Poodle Skirts & Red Hots

Text Box: Try a Garden Tuna Salad From The Secret Ingredient: Tasty Recipes with an Unusual Twist

1 (6 oz.) can solid white albacore tuna, drained
1 cup shredded carrots
1 cup celery, finely chopped

1 tablespoon grated onion
1/2 cup mayonnaise                            
1 cup canned shoestring potatoes

 

In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients except potatoes. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Just before serving stir in potatoes.

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