It’s wine o’clock somewhere(!), which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today’s find is a DIY idea: Combine corks with scrap fabric to make a nativity scene.
For additional reuse ideas, see earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series here, and holiday-oriented posts here and here.
(Photo via Diario di una Creamamma. Thanks, Do The Green Thing!)
Truth!
(Source: Post Carbon Institute)
Aunt Belle’s Spicy Honey Cake
3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1-1/2 tablespoons grated fresh orange peel
2 teaspoons grated fresh lemon peel
2 cups honey
1 cup strong coffee
1/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
sliced almonds, optional
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease two 9” x 5” loaf pans. Line the pans with parchment paper, then lightly grease the paper. Set the pans aside. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg together into a bowl. Stir in the orange peel and lemon peel and set aside. Heat the honey, coffee and vegetable oil together over low-medium heat for a minute or two, just enough to blend them together easily. Set aside to cool. In the bowl of an electric mixer set at medium speed, beat the eggs and sugar for 2-3 minutes or until well blended. Stir in the honey mixture and blend it in thoroughly. Add the flour mixture and blend it in thoroughly. Spoon the batter into the prepared pans. Scatter some sliced almonds on top. Bake for about 1-1/4 hours or until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes then invert onto a cake rack to cool completely. Makes 2 cakes
(Source: ronniefein)
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Fire Fire Burning Bright will you ignite my soul tonight…
Everybody knows that they’re guilty
Everybody knows that they’ve lied
Everybody knows that they’re guilty
Resting on their conscience eating their insides
It’s freedom, said it’s freedom time now
It’s freedom, said it’s freedom time now
Time to get free, oh give yourselves up now
It’s freedom, said it’s freedom time
There’s a war in the mind over territory for the dominion
Who will dominate the opinion?
Skisms and isms keeping us in forms of religion
Conforming our vision to the world church’s decision
Trapped in a section submitted to committee election moral infection -
Epidemic lies and deception, insurrection of the highest possible order
Distorting our tape recorders from hearing, like under water
Beyond the borders fond of sin and disorder
Bound by the strategy of systemic depravity, heavy as gravity
Head first in the cavity without a bottom
A fate worse than Sodom
What’s got ‘em drunk of the spirits?
Truth comes we can’t hear it
When you’ve been… programmed to fear it
I had a vision I was falling in indecision
Appalling calling religion, some program on television
How can dominant wisdom be recognized in the system of Antichrists
The majority rules intelligent fools, PhD’s in illusion
Masters of mass confusion, Bachelors of past illusion?
Now who are you choosing, the head or the tail, the bloodshed of Male
Or confidence in the veil?
Conferences of Yale discussing doctrines of Baal,
Causing people to fail keeping the third in jail,
His word has nailed Everything to the Tree,
Severing all of me from all that I used to be
Formless and void, totally paranoid, enjoying darkness as lord
Keeping me from the sword, blocked from mercy, bitter than Cerasse
Hungry and thirsty, for good meat we would eat and still dined at the table of deceit,
How incomplete
From confrontation to retreat,
We prolong the true enemies defeat
Destitute in necessity… causing desperation to get the best of me
Punishment ‘til there was nothing left of me
Realizing the inescapable death of me
No options in the valley of decision
The only doctrine, supernatural circumcision
Inwardly only water can purge the heart from words the fiery darts
Thrown by the workers of the arts, iniquity, shapen in
There’s no escaping when you’re whole philosophy is paper thin
In vanity, the wide road is insanity, could it be all of humanity?
Picture that, scripture that;
The origin of man’s heart is black
How can we show up for an invisible war
Preoccupied with a shadow, making love with a whore?
Aching in sores Babylon the great mystery
Mother of human history, system of social sorcery
Our present condition needs serious recognition
Where there’s no repentance there can be no remission
And that sentence, more serious than Vietnam
The atom bomb and Saddam and Minister Farakkhan
What’s going on, what’s the priority to you?
By what authority do we do?
The majority hasn’t a clue
We’ve majored in curses, search the chapters, check the verses
Recapture the land, remove the mark from off of our hands
So we can stand in agreement with His command
Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand
Everything else is damned, let them with ears understand
Everybody knows that they’ve lied
Everybody knows that they’ve perpetrated inside
Everybody knows that they’re guilty yes
Resting on their conscience eating their insides
Get free, be who you’re supposed to be
Freedom, said it’s freedom time now
Freedom, said it’s freedom time
Freedom, freedom time now…
L.H
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