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Food Photos

Looking at food photos do not just make me want to go run to the kitchen (ok the supermarket first to get the ingredient which I know I may not have) to cook up something that I know we will enjoy. Not that I am a great cook but what I prepare passes the standards of the kids. Well, we know how kids can be picky.

Anyway, looking at food photos make me think of reading diet pill reviews. Gah!

My food photos can be found here and here.

Now, I’m off to the kitchen to prepare the fresh tomatoes for the pasta 🙂

Posted by Treasure Jar on Jun 14th 2009 | Filed in From the Admin's Desk,Kitchen Needs | Comments (0)

Montreal Rally

  1. Hockey :: air
  2. Twirling :: baton
  3. Montreal ::  Formula One
  4. Better :: Best
  5. New :: old
  6. Rally :: car
  7. Stanley :: tools
  8. USB :: cable
  9. Scouted :: found
  10. Cough :: cover your mouth

Posted by Treasure Jar on Jun 7th 2009 | Filed in From the Admin's Desk,Word Play | Comments (1)

Bottomless Iced Tea

Bottomless iced tea. Our children love to drink this beverage, bottomless or not.

One of the more popular “resto-rant” would be about iced tea not getting filled fast enough especially when there are a lot of customers.

We have encountered those too but more often, we don’t. So what’s the secret?

Sit near where the pitchers are kept 😉

One more thing, we ask if it is ok for two young children to share the bottomless iced tea. They usually say yes.  If only they know these two children drink more than I can drink, so “shhhhh…” 😉

Piano Lessons

My husband is a piano player, having had formal lessons when he was younger. I did have formal lessons but the skills weren’t fully developed maybe because we didn’t have a piano where I can practice or maybe because I do not have the necessary talent and skills that go with it. I rest my case 😀

Anyway, our two children are quite good with the scales even if they haven’t had formal training. We do have several piano sheet music for them though they do not use it when they play. The play the piano mostly by ear.

Below is my youngest daughter practicing the scales:

Yes, she can play some tunes but can not read notes yet 🙂 maybe this year since she will be in first grade already.

Posted by Treasure Jar on Jun 6th 2009 | Filed in From the Admin's Desk | Comments (0)

Yard Sale Finds

Whenever my mother-in-law take vacations in the US, she brings home boxes upon boxes of thingamajigs that she buys during yard sale.

Her boxes has, among other things, a small chain saw (I wonder how this passed customs, lol!), candelabras, books, bags, toys for the grandchildren, area rugs, crystal bottles, condiments containers, silverware baskets, and other knick-knacks that catches her fancy.

She has sent several boxes while she was there. She brought one or two when she came home. And still, the boxes keep coming.

Most of the things in it are for her home down south which I am featuring below:

Pardon the clutter, the grandchildren were staying with her when this photo was taken by my eldest daughter.

Posted by Treasure Jar on Jun 6th 2009 | Filed in FYI,Purse Strings,Through the Lens,Trivia | Comments (8)

Krispy Kreme Chocolate Karnival

Last March, my children and I got an invitation to go to the launching of Krispy Kreme Chocolate Glazed Doughnuts along with blogger friends and media personalities. We had fun being with friends. Our children had fun too playing the games in the venue.

This is a good way to advertisement for a new product, don’t you think so? I had to blur my children’s faces because I don’t want them posted in this blog. Hope you understand.

here is a more detailed post about the event.

Posted by Treasure Jar on Jun 5th 2009 | Filed in From the Admin's Desk,FYI,Plateful of Fun,Socials,Through the Lens | Comments (7)

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