Look At ALL The New Giveaways

Primmies, plan for a LONG time blogging. I just found some more awesome
giveaways and they are posted on my right hand side bar. I have a few featured in an
actual blog post, too. So, clear some time this evening or whenever it's a good time
for you, but there's lots to see and enter so sit back,relax and enjoy!
Whew, I'm exhausted from the posting and the entering. Isn't it great?!?
Warm Regards,
Susan

Here's another giveaway from Tammy at A Primitive Place. She just had her wonderful flag pillow giveaway for her birthday and a thank you to all of her followers, now we get a chance to win "Rin". He's done in burlap with string-tied arms and legs. Rin is grubbly
primmed to give him a worn, well-loved look. He's got old black-button eyes and a hump
back like the old Steiff bears. Say "Hi" to cutie-pie Rin:

Click HERE
to go to Tammy's blog and follow the simple rules to enter the giveaway that ends on
September 18th, and the winner will be announced on September 19, 2011. Good Luck!
Later, Primmies...

Here's a SCRUMPTIOUS recipe that I started making for my daughter 9 years ago.
The Family Circle magazine food editors have printed this again online this week.

The recipe I remember making was called Butterfinger Cheesecake Bites, but this is
an almost identical recipe so I know they taste so good you can't stop eating them.
Ok, get your ingredients together and go!

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup pecans, finely chopped
3 tablespoons light-brown sugar
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
12 fun-size Butterfingers, coarsely chopped (about 3/4 cup)
5 fun-size Butterfingers, finely chopped

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8 x 8-inch baking pan with nonstick foil, allowing foil to hang over two sides.
2. In a medium-size bowl, whisk together the flour, pecans and light-brown sugar. Stir in the butter and mix until all dry ingredients are moistened and a crumbly dough forms. Press into the bottom of the prepared baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 14 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove from oven.
3. In another medium-size bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
Beat in egg, lemon juice and vanilla until combined. Stir in 3/4 cup coarsely chopped candy. Pour into the baked crust. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the finely chopped candy over the top.
4. Cool completely. Gently lift from pan and pull back foil. Cut into 36 squares. Refrigerate until serving. Makes 36 Bites.
Enjoy yourselves,
Susan

Free Candlemat Pattern For Us

Here's a very prim Candlemat pattern from my friend Christine of Preferably Prim all the way across the pond in Northern Ireland. I love how we can meet people from all over the world, most of the time the internet is a good thing. It's a thank you to her followers for the comments on her "Wooly Pineapple" and the congratulations on her 18th wedding anniversary. This is the finished candlemat:

Here's her template for the pattern:

and her instructions:

INSTRUCTIONS:
"Cut one of each size of oval background fabric.
On the top layer, trace on the words and berry strands and stitch them in in dark colored floss.
(I used 6 strands of DMC dark brown for the words and 3 strands of the same color for the berry strands.)
Stitch on the pip berries using 2 strands of floss doing a French knot.
Using the templates, cut out 4 of each part of the acorns and stitch into position.
Now you are ready to blanket stitch the top layer onto the base layer of your mat, using 3 strands of floss.
Repeat the whole way around the outer edge of your mat.
YOU DID IT!
Admire your handiwork and enjoy in your fall decorating!
Once again, thank you for your thoughtfulness and visits - life has been so blessed since I started blogging!
Best wishes
Christine"

And, here's her "Wooly Wednesday" post of her pineapple, it's so cute it's done with little "penny rug" circles in wool felt on the pineapple:

If you want to visit her blog with the Candlemat post click HERE. Isn't her blog cute, she loves Americana and our prim style.
'Til next time, Primmies...

I'm Back (sort of)

Hi, Primmies,
Here's a new giveaway for us to enter. It's from A Primitive Place and Country Journal's blog. This will be their last giveaway before Fall arrives.

The items to win are all Bee Skep-themed. There's a candle mat, a beeskep for your tabletop,
a beeskep and sunflower-themed list pad with magnetic backing, and an Autumn Harvest-scented soy jar candle from Star Mills Candles. Click HERE to go to the blog page to enter the giveaway. The contest starts now and ends at 9 P.M. on August 26, 2011. The winner will be announced on August 27th
later in the evening.
I seem to have caught a virus after being at the hospital last Thursday evening for an
MRI on the cervical and lumbar areas of my spine. Every time we go to the hospital it seems we catch something. Yuk! Mr. Glen Oaks has been feeding me soup and Pepto Bismol.
At least whatever this is waited until today, his mom left on Friday. So I'll just be taking it easy for a couple more days.
Goodnight for now...