Sunday Randomness #275: Bringing puzzles back into our lives October 2024 has speed with 32, 33, and 34

 

48 piece Rainforest puzzle

48 piece Melissa & Doug Dinosaur puzzle

300 piece Buffalo puzzle by Charles Wysocki "Birch Point Cove" 

Sunday Randomness #275: Bringing puzzles back into our lives September 2024 has eccentricity with puzzles 29, 30, and 31

 

Glow in the dark!

Masterpieces puzzle Moon Fairy 300 piece (missing that one piece in the center-it's much harder to find the missing piece with the glow-in-the-dark picture)

Wave Hopper puzzle that came in a cool metal van container.  No idea who made it or how many pieces.  We thought maybe around 600-700 hundred?  And yes, we checked all over the poster and the metal van for clues but it only had that thrift store price sticker.

Pendelton Mills has this 1000 piece puzzle of Patchwork rugs/quilts/wall hangings.  Mego made this one a lot easier for me to understand by presenting it as 20 small puzzles.  We each picked different designs, completing about 2/3rds of the puzzle, and then worked on the remaining images together.

Sunday Randomness #275: Bringing puzzles back into our lives September 2024 has country charm with puzzles 26, 27, and 28

White Mountain 550 piece puzzle Breaktime

Sure Lox 300 piece puzzle Hometown Collection (Fair?)

Masterpieces 300 piece puzzle  Town and Country The Old Country Store

 

Sunday Randomness #304: Letting go of memorabilia (it's just material things...)

These bowling bags, shoes, and bowling balls were left from the previous owners.  We did inquire a number of times about items we found throughout the house. (Not a lot but some things here and there.) The answer was always "It's yours now. You can decide what you want to do with it."  We had thought about keeping the bowling equipment and we did. But after 10 years we decide it was high time to let them go.  It really didn't look like we were going to take up bowling anytime soon, if ever.

One had a black ball with the metallic gold sparkles.  The other had a dip ball with brown, black and ivory swirls throughout. From the bowling logs, it looks as though they played often. I'm glad the equipment saw a lot of use with the previous owners.

 

Cookbook club from fandom cookbooks part 2 of 2

B-B shows off a selection of Disney cookbooks including ones from Disney Parks, Christmas, and Encanto.

B-B (in his House scarf!) surrounded by cookbooks from the Harry Potter fandom.

B wears a silver snood to celebrate American Girl cookbooks.  Thank you to Vintage Hairstyling for a great introduction to snoods: https://vintagehairstyling.com/bobbypinblog/2017/12/28-pictures-of-vintage-hair-snoods-that-will-make-you-want-to-wear-your-snood-tomorrow.html

B is ready for the bake-off with her wooden spoon!

Have a desire to cook like a Wizard or Elf or Geek?  B shows us that the library has the book for you as she wears her red wizard robes.

 

Cookbook club from fandom cookbooks part 1 of 2

Our local library branch will host the monthly cookbook club near the end of June.  The cookbook theme this month is Fandoms.  I thought it would be fun to see just a small slice of the wide selection of cookbooks that are available at the Salt Lake County Library System!

We go from Tenacious Tomato Salad, Meaty Mushroom Quasadillas, and Chicken Mole Enchilades in Waffles + Mochi Get Cooking to Rose's Cheese-Flan-Cake-Thingy, Blanche's Fortieth Birthday Cheesecake Squares, Dorothy's Straight Outta Brooklyn Creamy Cheesecake, and Sophia's Cannoli Cheesecake from The Golden Girls Cookbook: Cheesecakes and Cocktails!

Dolly Parton and her sister got together to write Good Lookin' Cookin'.  This bright yellow cookbook includes classics like Country Potato Salad, an appetizer called Chicken Feed, "Witches' Brew Cider (with or without alcohol), Slaw of Many Colors, and Mama's Banana Pudding.

If you look at The Unofficial ELF Cookbook by Jacki Alpers you'll find recipes for: Not-for-Reindeer Maple Syrup-Glazed Carrots, Stir-Fried Beige Cubes, Sweet and Sparkly Popcorn, and "Son of a Nutcracker" Cheese Ball.

Studio Ghibli Cookbook with Unofficial Recipes Inspired by Spirited Away, Ponyo, and More!

This cookbook includes lots of full color pictures of the finished dishes and color pictures of how to make each dish!  Dishes include:

• Ramen, Mushroom and Chicken Stir-Fry, Vanilla Sponge Cake, and the Herring and Pumpkin Pie (from Kiki's Delivery Service)

The Chuck E. Cheese and Friends Party Cookbook has some of the following recipes:

• Rooty Tooty Fruit Salad with fresh fruit and a bright cereal like fruit loops or fruity pebbles. 

•  Oven-Fried Chicken Fingers with parmesan cheese and fresh parsley  

• Kansas City BBQ Chicken Pizza with two kinds of cheese and Kansas City style BBQ sauce