In the Mood for Red for Tomorrow

http://franticfortime.tumblr.com/post/39038520413/red-remains

I Really Like This-Fun Fur

http://annissette.livejournal.com/148351.html

Brown Sugar Cupcakes-No Egg Yolk

1 1/4 cup brown sugar
1 stick of margarine
1 egg white
1/5-1/4 cup salad dressing like miracle whip
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup water 1 1/4 cup self rising flour


cream sugar, butter, egg white, salad dressing, vanilla and salt
add baking powder with one third of each of the flour and water
mix well, add another third of the flour and water
mix, add final third of flour and water

Chips, any kind you like--white, toll house, caramel etc. (optional)

Spoon the batter over three or four candy chips, or, spoon the batter in the baking cups in the cupcake tin and add chips in at this point by putting on top of each cake and shoving under the batter a little, they should be shoved into the cake to avoid scorching, this makes a chocolate chip mini cake where the first technique makes a candy crust (fancier).

Or, omit the candy.

Bake about 9-13 minutes or until done.

Cool and frost with frosting below.

Refrigerate or freeze until time to eat. Refrigerate leftovers.

Makes around twenty cakes or 68 gem cakes. If the pan is bigger fill the extra tins halfway with water so nothing burns.

Stumbled Upon Icing that Does Not Use Powdered Sugar

I developed a new recipe for Christmas and any time really due to a lack of supplies and I am very pleased with it.

8 oz. cream cheese
2 TB corn syrup
1/3 cup of light brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (imitation is ok)

Whip the softened cream cheese with a cake mixer. Blend in the corn syrup. Blend in the vanilla extract. Finally add the brown sugar and whip until fluffy all with the same pair of beaters.

Delicious icing for cakes.

I stuffed this into a star decorating tube and dolloped gem cakes with it, no xxxx sugar needed!

This is what is left of it. Raindeer cupcake wrappers, easy as pie.

Tunic Sweater /dress:for Christmas

Using Herschnerr's Holiday Yarns -- red mixed with silver thread and white, create this triped wide striped sweater dress that is drop shouldered until you put in on and layer a red top underneath it. Uses 10 needles for ribbed hem and neckline and 11 for the body. This takes under 4 skeins, 2 of each. Front about 6 inches above the knee.

Neckline.

Rear.

It is pretty much the same number of stitches starting at the hem until the modified boat neckline. The armholes are finished in single crochet with matching yarn. Bottom row of white for 10 inches, red next at 7 inches, 4 inches of white and a final 9 inches of red.  It is worked in two sections, front plus back, the back neckline is 1 inch before binding completely off and the front is 2 inches before bind off. Cast 57 stitches on and rib in 2x1 ribbing. Decrease three for the body, till the bustline then increase back to 57 stitches. Sew sides and shoulders before finishing the armholes with single crochet.

 This can be done in half double crochet plus rib stitch and a J hook. Chain 55 stitches for the bottom band and work the body with 54 stitches of hdc for the same number of inches as above (10w, 7r, 4w and 9r for the red/white). Chain 55 for the collar neckband and work in crochet rib for 1 1/4 inch--Since this is an easy fitting design. The shoulder seam can be sewn last to accommodate the neckband results most exactly or you could cast on the neckband with 16 inch circular knitting needles and do a 2x1 rib.

This pattern has been edited --the original post misstated the number of inches per stripe color [[Red nine inches or so and white 5 inches in duration while knitting in 'st st.']]This WILL NOT match the picture, it IS: 10 inches of white, 7 inches of red, 4 inches of white and finally 9 inches of red, a 30 inch tunic dress, if you want it longer add one inch of red and one inch of white to one of the stripes of that color. It is pretty with this width of stripes and looks 'store bought.'
Since this was only about an hour or two ago, I am leaving this here, assuming no one could have gotten too far along with the pattern yet.

European Emigration Ships 1900

If you're into finding out how your European ancesters got to North America years ago, most of us came from somewhere namely LONDON-- when researching sirnames, almost everyone I know had a sirname that originated in LONDON, which includes about 11 last names, a shock because they have mixed ancestrage even Indian (native American-Indian).

You can research emigration ships or lists for no cost at this website-- although I don't know how long this site will be up.

Names from LONDON (I found these somewhere online a few years ago maybe three years ago). Luebke(R), Cole, Cope, Hancock, Schuster, Miller, Choate, Sibberson, Jones and so on. Whether they were Scotish, Irish, Polish or what have you it seems that most people flocked to London for jobs and enough money to move.

Recycling a Stash of T's

Take an un-loved sweatshirt with an unwanted design, a long sleeved tee in stripes or print and LAYER them. First turn the sweat top inside out -->

This is super dark but you can see the idea, bunch up the sweatshirt to the length you like and pull the other tee down tunic length, it should be fitted.

A new look for $0.00
a steal !

Socotra

Yemen:

Socotra:

Socotra is about 3/5th the size of Hawaii.

Or, the same size as all of the other inhabitable Hawaiian Islands combined.

 It is very diverse and unique, devoted to religion and tourism and keen on golfing, fishing, growing dates and tobacco.70-80 degrees all year and history back to B.C. There are caves.

The people remain more purebred than in many places
 ""EXCERPT FROM WIKIPEDIA

 HHaplogroup J-P209 is believed to have arisen roughly 30,000 years ago in Southwest Asia (possibly in Arabia Felix)  aplogroup J-P209 (previously known as HG9 or Eu9/Eu10) is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is one of the major male lines of all living men. It is divided into two main branches referred to as J-M267 and J-M172.

Distribution

Haplogroup J-P209 is found in greatest concentration in Southwestern Arabian Peninsula. Outside of this region, haplogroup J-P209 has a presence in North Africa. It also has a moderate presence in Southern Europe (especially in central and southern Italy, Malta, Greece, and Albania), Central Asia, and South Asia, particularly in the form of its subclade J-M172. Haplogroup J-P209 is also found in north East Africa, particularly in the form of its subclade (J-M267). The J-M410 subclade is found mostly in Greece, Anatolia, and southern Italy. In Northern India, 28.7% of the Shia Muslim population belongs to haplogroup J.^[1]
Haplogroup J-P209* includes all of J-P209 except for J-M267 and J-M172. J-P209* is rarely found outside of the island of Socotra, where it is quite frequent at 71.4%.^[2] Haplogroup J-P209* also has been found with lower frequency in Oman,^[3] Ashkenazi Jews,^[4], Saudi Arabia,^[5] Greece,^[3] the Czech Republic,^[3][6] and several Turkic peoples.^[7][8][9]
The following gives a summary of most of the studies which specifically tested for J-M267 and J-M172, showing its distribution in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Country/Region	Sampling	N	J-M267	J-M172	Total J	Study
Algeria	Oran	102	22.5	4.9	27.4	Robino et al. (2008)
Caucasus	Chechen	330	20.9	56.7	77.6	Balanovsky et al.(2011)
Caucasus	Ingush	143	2.8	88.8	91.6	Balanovsky et al.(2011)
Cyprus		164	9.6	12.9	22.5	El-Sibai et al. (2009)[10]
Egypt		124	19.8	7.6	27.4	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Greece	Crete/Heraklion	104	1.9	44.2	46.1	Martinez et al. (2007)
Greece	Crete	143	3.5	35	38.5	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Greece		154	1.9	18.1	20	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Iran		92	3.2	25	28.2	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Iraq	Arab, Assyrian, Mandean	117	33.1	25.1	58.2	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Israel	Akka	101	39.2	18.6	57.8	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Italy		699	2	20	22	Capelli et al. (2007)
Italy	Central Marche	59	5.1	35.6	40.7	Capelli et al. (2007)
Italy	West Calabria	57	3.5	35.1	38.6	Capelli et al. (2007)
Italy	Sicily	212	5.2	22.6	27.8	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Italy	Sardinia	81	4.9	9.9	14.8	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Jordan		273	35.5	14.6	50.1	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Kuwait		42	33.3	9.5	42.8	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Lebanon		951	17	29.4	46.4	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Malta		90	7.8	21.1	28.9	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Morocco		316	1	0.2	1.2	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Morocco	Residents in Italy	51	19.6	0	19.6	Onofri et al. (2008)
Portugal	Portugal	303	4.3	6.9	11.2	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Qatar	Qatar	72	58.3	8.3	66.6	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Cadiz	28	3.6	14.3	17.9	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Cantabria	70	2.9	2.9	5.8	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Castille	21	0	9.5	9.5	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Cordoba	27	0	14.7	14.7	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Galicia	19	5.3	0	5.3	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Huelva	22	0	13.7	13.7	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Ibiza	54	0	3.7	3.7	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Leon	60	1.7	5	6.7	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Malaga	26	0	15.4	15.4	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Mallorca	62	1.6	8	9.7	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Sevilla	155	3.2	7.8	11	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Spain	Valencia	31	2.7	5.5	8.2	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Syria	Arab, Assyrian, Syriac/Aramean	554	33.6	20.8	54.4	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Tunisia		62	0	8	8	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Tunisia		52	34.6	3.8	38.4	Onofri et al. (2008)
Tunisia	Tunis	148	32.4	3.4	35.8	Arredi et al. (2004)
Turkey		523	9.1	24.2	33.3	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
UAE		164	34.7	10.3	45	El-Sibai et al. (2009)
Yemen		62	72.5	9.6	82.1	El-Sibai et al. (2009)

                                                                              ""

Collar And Wrist Cuffs in Lush Lavendar

Cast on 128 stitches in size 7 American needles (Use 16 inch Boyle circular needles-inexpensive and easy)
Work two by two ribs for one inch
Work in Stockinette stitch for about 9 inches or more if desired
Change to 3 by 2 rib stitch and work for about 1 1/2 inches

Fingerless Wrist Cuffs:
Cast on 50 stitches on 7 double pointed needles (use double pointed set of four, this will not take five needles)
Work 2x3 rib stitch for 2 inches, make button hole by casting off three of the stitches, continue around and then cast on three chain stitch when you reach the cast off area. This will be large enough for a thumb hole.
Work one more rib row and change to straight stockinette stitch for 6 inches.
Work one by one rib at this point for about two inches.
Done.

One 8 oz. skein of Red Heart Super Saver is more that sufficient. You can probably make two sets of wristlets and one collar with an 8 oz. skein.

If you like Find the design here, also.