WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH THE MONEY?

I have read about a wealthy person in Britain who is giving away “good deed” money to strangers.

He gives an envelope with  £ 1000 cash to someone with the hope that they will do something of value with it. This is over $1500.00 Canadian.

He has given away around £ 100,000 already to various people. One has used the money to get his neighbours hot water turned back on, anther pledged to give the money to a hospice.

So here is my question to you. What would you do if a complete stranger handed you an envelope with $1500.00 in it and just says to spend it how you see fit.

Choose one of the following or tell us about your own choice in the comments.

BOOKMARKS

There is still time to enter to win a copy of the My Memories Suite digital scrapbooking program.
It is so much more than a photo scrapbooking program. How about making bookmarks. Just pop a personalized one into a book and you will have great gift.
I would cover the page with a sheet of plastic laminate on both sides before cutting into individual bookmarks. Use a hole punch and add a nice ribbon at the top

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You can enter to win a copy for yourself here or if you want to buy your own copy use this code to get a discount on your purchase of the My Memories Suite

  
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A BEAUTIFUL GIFT

My husband received a beautiful carving this weekend at the cabin.

I AM SOOOOO JEALOUS.

This would be perfect in my Santa collection but no dice. He is not parting with it.

It is about 2 feet tall.

A TENDER (LOIN) GIFT

Do you want a great hostess gift idea? Or a great no fuss dinner you can pull out on a busy morning to have that night?

This is so easy and makes an unusual hostess gift. Much more useful than a box of chocolates.

Pork Tenderloin En Croute

1 package puff  pastry, thawed
1 pork tenderloin
1/2 onion, chopped
1 1/2 cups mushrooms of any type sliced
2 slices of bacon, chopped
1 teaspoons herbs de Provence
3 tablespoons grainy mustard
1 egg
salt and pepper

1. Put chopped bacon, onions and mushrooms into a frying pan and cook down until soft and browned adding the herbs de Provence in towards the last 5 minutes.
   
2. Place in a colander over a bowl and allow to cool and drain, stirring several times.
3. Trim all fat and silverskin from pork.
4. Roll out half the package of puff pastry on a lightly floured board so that it is about 10-12 inches long and about 7 inches wide. It will be very thin. Place this on a piece of parchment paper.
5. Spread half the mustard down the center of the pastry leaving an inch around the edges clean. Pretend you don’t see that piece that is trying to escape.
   
6. Spread the mushroom mixture on top of the mustard.
7. Tuck the narrow end of the tenderloin under and place this on top of the mushrooms.
8. Spread remaining mustard over top of pork.
9. Roll out second half of puff pastry the same size as the bottom and ease this over your meat.
   
10. Brush the outer edge of the pastry dough with the beaten egg mixed with a teaspoon of water. Fold this up over the top piece pinching and sealing as you go. Fold the corners in a second time and use a floured fork to crimp all the edges.
    
11. Cut two slits in the top and decorate with puff pastry cut outs if you have any extra.
12. Brush the top with egg wash too.
13. Lift onto a piece of tin foil an close slightly and place in the freezer. When frozen you can wrap it down tightly.
14. Decorate foil and add baking instructions.
    (Thaw in fridge. Must be cold when you put it in the oven. Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until golden. Let rest for 10 minutes. Slice and serve)

 

 

POOK TOQUES

I came across a fun product that I thought I would share with you.

I am not being compensated for this in any way. I just really enjoyed their presentation that I saw at a Christmas show last year and asked them if I could share their video with you.

They have a great web site with more videos but I will go with the one that I saw originally.

They are called Pook Toques and they are so cute and fun and so are the demonstrators. You don’t just buy a Pook Toque you learn how to wear one. Have a look.

These guys say it best…..taken from their own website……..As can easily be guessed, yes, alcohol was involved. One night while Tony's mouth was running a little too freely from the talking juice, a friend picked up one of his traditional Canadian wool socks from the floor, threw it at Tony, and told him to "put a sock in it". Instead of in it, Tony put it on it, on his head. Wearing the sock around the apartment while consuming some more of Uncle Tom's magic cough syrup, Tony's creative juices got flowing. Somehow he was able to envision a toque made from these socks and thought it would be a good gag for the upcoming Christmas season. A visit to Walmart° for some socks, a local fabric shop for some fleece, and a few hours tutorial from his mother on the family sewing machine, soon Tony had a working prototype of the Pook Toque'. It took a few bags of socks wasted to get the right sizing of the cuts, but finally the toque came to its present form, and what a toque it is. The original demand Tony received from friends and relatives that found it to be a great toque got Tony to thinking there might be enough crazy people out there willing to wear it.

You can also download the instruction guides. Now how many hats do you know of that come with a guide on how to wear it. It is a different look every day. Stop in and visit their fun website and tell them Lori sent you.

I am in no way affiliated with this company nor am I receiving any compensation for this post. I just like to share fun things with you.

SUNDAY FAVORITES - BIRTHDAY BASKETS

 

Chari @ Happy to Design is hosting Sunday Favorites where we get to re-post a previous item to save us time on a Sunday. Now if I can just do this for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday......if you get the idea. 

This one is from last summer.

We were attending a double birthday party on Saturday night. I must say I was inspired by all the lovely tablescapes you ladies always create when it came to the gifts. I made up two baskets with a black & white theme.
I started with black woven place mats and added two clear rippled dinner plates and two salad plates. I used black and white dish towels as giant napkins. There was a bottle of wine for each of them and two stemless glasses. A nice Malbec for one and a bubbly Proseco for the other.I found pretty white frosted candle holders with white lettering. I put two special chocolate mousse truffles in the little black boxes tied with white ribbons. The wine bottles went into special black wine gift boxes with a cut out front for the label. I set this on a bed of white and gold shredded filler into the white trays and wrapped it all up with a black patterned cellophane. The card hung on the outside was a pretty swirled black and white card stock on which I wrote with a white pen. Last but not least was each ladies initial done in wood hanging on the outside with the white and black polka dot ribbon.
Apparently the offer to cook them dinners was the only thing missing from these gifts.

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SECRET SANTA GIFTS

How many of you participate in one of those Secret Santa gift exchanges at work? How do you decide what to give to someone you hardly know or don't even like?
What is the worst gift you have ever received at one of these things? Have you given something to someone and then later regretted your choice. 
Did anyone ever give you or someone else something completely inappropriate, mean or stupid? 
Did you get the boss' name and then suck up with a gift over the price limit set. Casually let it slip that it was you who got their name? 

Do tell.