Memetales is a great new website where parents and children can connect and read and create and share and …so much more!
What is it?
Memetales is THE online marketplace for picture books. It is a space where people who love picture books come together to share and create around the books. Creating a community of common interest surrounding every book is indeed the best marketing tool.
I had the opportunity to meet the Creator and all around amazing woman behind the scenes: Maya, in October. I had already virtually met her and knew I loved her. And now watching her little start up go from brilliant idea to Fabulous Product has been amazing to watch!
Take a minute and click over to Memetales.. tell me what you think of the site? Share it with your kids and imagine ways to interact and share and create around the theme of your favorite book! Do you know any children’s book authors? Tell them about this new resource and way to get the word out about their book.
I keep thinking how great this resource will be for teachers and librarians.. and what about homeschool moms?? Maya tells me an iPhone app is on the way, and I say HooRay! We have an iTouch and I would so love to have some of these books downloaded for the upcoming LONG family drives this summer…
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- If you want to talk more about children’s books, I’ve been invited to share my passion Tuesday night (3/9) at #GNO (Girls Night Out on Twitter.com). I’ll be a guest panelist and you can join in by RSVPing on MomItForward.com! And don’t forget: enter to win the #GNO giveaway!
I have not been compensated for this post. I was simply asked to join in on #GNO this week on a topic I love!
A Day in the Life; Twitter Style
@ME: Good Morning twitter world… anyone else wake up to a world completely shrouded in FOG??
@ME: What’s your #RAK today?? I plan to buy my neighbor with SIX kids.. some snacks. 
@ME: If I were making a 365 photo project… THIS is how I would make the layout… WOW. Clean and sleek and just.. OH yummy!!! http://tr.im/Osg9
@ME to @7clowncircus: It was a Scrappy Bday Card made with MemoryMixer software and a freebie download art from ShabbyPrincess.com http://flic.kr/p/7CHYDg
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@ME: I love the smell of Chamomile. Can someone please make a perfume out of it?
- @KathieLB to @ME: Found it. http://bit.ly/9AHGyU And it’s a roll-on, purse size.
- @ME to @KathieLB: YOU ARE MY HERO! and only $6!!
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@ME: From foggy pea soup kind of morning to the sunniest day we’ve had in a LONG time! Hooray.. 50+ degrees!
This seriously is what I woke up to. It’s the strangest thing to wake up completely enveloped in eat with a fork, pea soup fog. We’ve had a lot of it this year too. I went to bed Christmas Eve and woke up all moved to Portland??
We’ve had next to zero snowfall, and all this FOG instead?
So much for my town’s promise of 300 sunny days a year….
I love bacon. Who doesn’t?
I do NOT love cooking bacon. Who does?
I recently had to cook a colossal amount of the crispy stuff for my daughter’s band fundraiser…
A POTATO bake sale.
I checked first to see what Google Thinks about cooking gigantic gobs of bacon.
Here’s what Google Thinks…
- Using the Grill
- In the oven with a cooling rack over a pan
- In the oven but starting cold
- In the oven but starting pre-heated
- And finally Make Your Own Bacon… huh??
Here’s how I ended up doing it.
Foil line a jelly roll pan, place bacon directly on pan.
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Bake for approximately 25 minutes, timing for 10 minutes and checking.
I did turn the pieces over about half-way through though most of those sites say you don’t need to.
Once they were the crispness I wanted (extra crispy as I needed crumbled bacon) I let the pan tilt for a few minutes and then poured the grease into a jar.
By the end of three pans of bacon I literally FILLED a 16oz pickle jar with bacon grease.
YUM.
Let’s just say my hair and clothing smelled of red neck parfume. I mentioned my bacon-ess on Twitter and several mentioned how happy my man was going to be with my new sexy scent. And one person on Facebook mis-understood when I mentioned that my kids asked me why I smelled like bacon in the car… she asked: “Why did you have a pickle jar of bacon grease in the car?” I laughed at that one…
NO.
I SMELLED LIKE THE BACON GREASE!
I may never eat bacon again. Okay I lie. The next time SOMEONE else makes it? I’ll eat it!
For fun, Google also thinks about weird stuff with bacon
- Or the Ambitious…100 ways to use bacon
- I first heard about ‘Chacon’ from Kristina Pulsipher.. (self-proclaimed bacon authority apparently).
I first tasted Chacon at a friend’s house 2 Christmases ago.. it was yummy btw.
- And this one’s NOT bacon but it’s still weird:
Hot dog Twinkie sandwich. I’m not kidding.
Add bacon and it would be bacon related eh?
- And from this one I quote:
“Bacon caramel like a chewy SKOR Bar with bacon. How much more of a comforting flavor combination could there ever be?”
Can’t really go wrong if you label it in the dessert/candy section of your site eh??
Short follow up on the potato bar band fundraiser:
…last night the good news is there was a giant long line of Band families happy to purchase their potato bar-fundraiser style. They raised nearly $1,000 (wow huh)? The bad news… there was a giant long line of Band families happy to purchase their potato bar-fundraiser style…and we were at the back of that giant line and DID NOT GET any of the BACON! Plenty of fake-O bits for us though, Thanks.
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Talk about chocolate BLISS.
My 12yrold came home from her church youth activity with Easy Chocolate Truffles! Wha… wow? I’m going to young women’s next time!
Get this. There are only three ingredients…
Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate 8oz.
Whole Package of Oreos
2} 8oz. Packages of Cream Cheese
Last weekend when she asked to make them at home… oh boy, she REALLY [...]
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At the beginning of the school year I shared a Kindergarten story.
Turns out, he was not smarter than a Kindergartener and therefore got to STAY in all day Kindergarten.
HOWEVER.
They re-evaluated.
And.
Now? He is. Smarter than a Kindergartner, I mean. He’s reading. (Man is it cute to listen to him!) He can count by 5s to 100. [...]
(shhh don’t tell your kids; it’s whole-grain-good-for-you)
A while back I posted a whole list of banana luv goodness.
And I promised I would one day share my very own Super Banana Bread Recipe.
First, I cannot seem to make regular size loaves come out right. The middle never cooks? I gave up long ago. Instead I make [...]
HOO-RAY!!
It’s taken me several months but here I am. Wordpress UP, yo.
And now I am super busy learning everything I can about Wordpress and my Theme (Vigilance). Wow, I feel like a 3rd grader attempting to learn calculus.
“Sorry Miss Ashley, how do I locate the CSS file again via my FTP client? I can’t remember [...]
Head on over to http://goodandcrazypeople.blogspot.com/ to see Carissa’s latest…
We’ll let you know when this site is all ready for you!
From My Two Lips To Yours…
From my husband.Does he KNOW me or what?VivaciousTulips… And a Mountain Dew….True Love. Right there.
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SHHHH….
I AM SO EXCITED!
Wordpress is on the way.
I love blogger don’t get me wrong and I’ll still be thrilled to help anyone out with their blogspot issues.
But.
I’m dying to try out something new… see if I’m missing anything on the wordpress side of the fence. SEO plugins, A NORMAL comment section, A WHOLE new [...]
NOTE: GoodNCrazy is moving to the world of self hosted Wordpress! If you haven’t please subscribe to the GoodnCrazy.com RSS feed you’ll still be able to find me! Cheers!
Super easy, Super simple, Alfredo sauce
Serve over any pasta.
We most often use a whole grain penne.
And sometimes we serve it over rice.
And just because.
Asparagus was [...]
A Tweet:
Sheesh. Why did I stay up so late last night? (Watching Jack’s ambivalence about saving the world again. That’ s why.) Now heading to the gym doesn’t sound as good as it did last night…
Sunday naps are the BEST. Until you realize you can’t go to sleep at any sort of normal time and [...]
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“Black Diamond WOW”Mop and Cleaners
Mama Appah Reviews:
My IRL friend agreed to test out the Black Diamond Wow products. She has the cutest house, with a ton of wood flooring and plenty of tile to clean… Alas… I only have linoleum in the house we are renting (sigh). A big thanks to Mama Appah (and her [...]
