The employees at Blackhawk had a fabulous friend in our late colleague, Angie Stathakis. She made all our lives richer with her kind and thoughtful ways. Through her enthusiasm for her church's annual festival, she imparted a desire to attend. The first September that I worked here, Angie came to my desk and offered me tickets to [...]
I was perusing Pinterest one night when I came upon a fun idea :: use random bowls and little dishes instead of a traditional drawer organizer. I liked this so much that I contemplated devoting my top vanity drawer for keeping my oft-worn jewelry. Soon after, I was walking down the main Housewares aisle here [...]
A friend once gave me a recipe for Corn Relish. My family devoured it and it soon became a staple in our home. My recipe card was well used when I lent it to someone to copy and it never made it back to my file. After a frustrating time hunting, I decided I’d make [...]
As I’ve said before, I moved this summer. I’ve always lived in homes with a shower in the tub and a shower curtain. This time, I moved to a home with a stall-type shower with glass on 2 sides. I had the opinion that I was trading up. Wrong! At first I quite liked my [...]
Snip-snip with herb scissors A good friend gave me a pair of herb scissors for Christmas last year. They are so useful for quick herb chopping! I later saw that we carry them here at Blackhawk on the wall in the Housewares Department. The stainless steel scissors have 5 blades so they are [...]
Split, pit ’n slice your avo As a child, my mother would place half an avocado on a plate and give us a spoon. Yum! Avocado goes with chicken salad, shrimp. Then there’s cold avocado soup. And OMG – guacamole! LOVE IT! I also adore it on whole wheat bread and in any salad. [...]
Make your beverage ROCK! Over the years, I’ve brought many carved soapstone eggs and elephants back from my travels to Africa. However, I never entertained the idea putting any type of soapstone into a beverage to keep it cool or warm. But it is a novel idea! Let me explain. Sparq™ is marketing soapstone rocks [...]
Traveling light ~ the new normal My son just moved to the DC-Baltimore area and I was honored to get an invitation to go up and help him unpack and get settled. Time was [not so long ago] that we didn’t think twice about taking a large, weighty suitcase and carry-on bags when we [...]
A mere dusting of paint gives a vintage look I was in Bali several years ago, and with the array of fabulous handcrafted items to buy, I did a fair amount a lot of shopping . Among my purchases was a pair of hand carved, wooden picture frames that, converted to US currency, were a [...]
I’ve been on a watermelon kick this summer! It all started when my grocery store had a stand of watermelons with a sign saying they were grown 5 miles away. Loving the “locovore” concept, I took home a melon and it was incredible. Since then, pretty much every week, I’ve bought one and they’ve all [...]
