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Calico Kitten
Designs is so happy to welcome Country Chatter Newsletter to our website.
The newsletter is just my way of sharing my part of the world with
everyone, and helping people with their businesses. I am hoping to make
the world just a little bit better for a couple minutes, to bring a laugh
or a smile to your face and just a way of saying thanks.
Fall has come
to the valley, in the 90's during the day and cools down at night and
beautiful in the mornings in the 60's or 70's. Time to go for my
walks at night and time to decorate the house
for Fall and Halloween. Pumpkins are out, football on Sundays and
did I mention that Da Bears are
4 and 0. Tigger loves football, he tries to yell louder than the TV
and the cats and kittens just hide
when Da Bears are on TV.
It is so nice
not to be working on the weekends, Claudia and I have been shopping and
shopping,
going to Home Shows, and I have been re-modeling the house. I
learned how to use my
electric saw this weekend and I still have all my fingers, so look out.
I painted the bathroom
this past weekend and put up bead board on one wall and it looks so nice
and the kitchen is
next this weekend after watching Da Bears win again. And then the
fun starts this month with
all the activities that are going on.
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Activities
Around the Valley
This is for my friends who need a little reminder about what is going
on around my part of the world.
It is starting to "cool" off and my favorite time of the year is the Fall.
The evenings are starting to cool down, and time to go out and see the
valley. This is the time
of the year when everything is happening out here and you are bound to
find something that
you like.
Farmers Markets & Craft Shows - Every
Saturday
Roadrunner Park Market - 7am-11pm
3502 East Cactus Rd. just east of the Hwy 51 off-ramp
Fallfest in the Park, October 14
& 15, 2006
Prescott, AZ.
Arts and Crafts Show
Prescott Courthouse Square
A Walk in the Park, October 14 & 15,
2006
Kingman, AZ. Locomotive Park
Food, entertainment, arts and crafts, antiques & Collectibles
Pumpkin Festival - Every weekend
in October
Young's Farm, Dewey, AZ
This is the last Pumpkin Festival at the farm, they are closing in
December.
We have gone up to the Pumpkin Festival for over 10 years, and we will
miss it dearly.
The price of progress, houses will probably be there next year.
Front Porch Festival, Saturday October 14th
Catlin Court and Downtown Glendale, AZ
This kicks off the Fall Season in the Valley.
Arts and Crafts, Make & Take, Food, Entertainment and so much more.
Arizona Irish Festival, October
28th
Irish Cultural Center, 1106 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ
Peoria Performances, Every Thursday evening
Peoria City Hall Amphitheater, 83rd Avenue & Cinnabar
These concerts are free and open to the public and start at 7 pm
Halloween Monster Bash, Saturday
October 28, 2006
Peoria Sports Complex, 16101 N. 83rd Ave. 5-9 pm
Hot Air Balloon Glow, Parade of Costumes, Pumpkin Patch & "Monster Street"
Food & Other Activities.
Arizona State Fair, October 13
thru November 7th
Arizona State Fairground, 19th Ave. & Mc Dowell
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Crafter's Corner
Calico Kitten Designs wants to be your place to find everything that you
need to make your life just a little bit
more easy for you. The kittens want to make it the place that you
look for recipes (check out all the wonderful new recipes that have been
added), patterns for crafts, a newsletter to bring you a laugh or too,
links to your favorite websites, and if you would like to look at some of my crafts and order, thank you.
We have a Quilting Club for quilters started, there are 4 of us, so far
and it is called "Calico Kitten Quilting Club". So if you would like
to join us, we would love to have you. Please email the kittens at
admin@calicokittendesigns.com
Each month, you will send to one person on the list, four 5 inch
squares of fabric of one theme. We will do this for 3 months with one
theme and then choose another theme for the next 3 months. At the end of
the three months, please design something with your fabric and send me a
photo and I will put it in the newsletter with your name and website. If
you are interested in doing this, please email the staff at
Admin@calicokittendesigns.com
and please put quilts in the message line.
Bear is in
charge of link exchanges and was wondering if anyone would like to
exchange links with Calico Kitten Designs.
You can get in touch with him at
admin@calicokittendesigns.com and he will be more than happy to sent
you ours.
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Recipes
If you would like to have yours in
the next issue of Country Chatter, please email Bandit at
admin@calicokittendesigns.com
and he just loves samples.
Pumpkin Squares
Crust
In a large bowl, combine mix with wooden spoon:
1 package yellow cake mix (save 1 cup for topping)
1/2 cup melted margarine or butter
1 egg
Spread into 9x13 cake pan with only the bottom greased. Use a
moistened wooden
spoon to spread.
Filling
In a large bowl, beat together:
3 cups (1 lb. 14 oz.) pumpkin pie mix (not plain pumpkin)
2/3 cup milk
2 eggs
Pour over Crust.
Topping
In medium-sized bowl, combine:
1 cup reserved cake mix
1/4 cup softened margarine or butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
Mix with pastry blender. Sprinkle over filling.
Bake at 350
degrees for 45-50 minutes until knife inserted into the center comes out
clean. Refrigerate to thicken. Serve chilled or at room
temperature with a dollop of
real whipped cream and a sprinkle of nutmeg. Makes 15-18 squares.
Hearty Nut
Seed, Soy Bean and Oat Bread
Ingredients
6-7 Cups
unbleached white flour
1 cup whole rolled oats
1 cup sunflower seeds (roasted or raw)
1 cup pumpkin seeds (raw)
1 cup pecans, whole or half
1 cup cashews or pistachios
1 cup soy beans, roasted
1/2 cups flax seeds, ground
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 envelopes rapid rise yeast
2 tsp. sea salt
2 1/2 cups water
4 T. butter
In electric
mixing bowl with dough hook combine 2 cups flour with oats, all seeds and
nuts, sugar, salt and yeast. Heat water and butter in pan until
butter is melted and temperature is 120-130
degrees F. Add to mixture and mix for ten minutes, adding enough of
the remaining flour
1/4 cup at a time until dough pulls away from sides of bowl. Remove
dough hook, cover bowl
and let rest for ten minutes.
Remove dough
from bowl, cut in half and form two loaves of bread and place in oiled
9"x5" pans.
Cover and let rise in draft-free warm area until double in size. (30-45
minutes) Brush tops
with softened butter and spray mist of water over tops. Bake in
pre-heated 375 degrees
oven on middle rack. Remove from pans and cool on wire rack.
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Well, I hope
that you have made it down to this little part, I love talking about
Arizona, sharing this state with everyone. Fall has arrived,
Halloween is coming, be a kid and
enjoy Halloween, decorate your house and don't forget you have to taste
all the candy to
make sure it is safe !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to share a part of my
world
with everyone and doing this newsletter
is my way of thanking
everyone for being a friend.
Say a prayer for our Armed Forces and pray
that
they will be home soon.
Count your blessings, hug your family and friends,
thanks for being a part of Country Chatter
Please sign our guestbook, so we
knew you were here
Country Chatter
Cindy Kingren
623-210-3511
(after 3 pm - pacific time)
dacarebear@yahoo.com
you can reach
the kittens at
admin@calicokittendesigns.com
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