Country Meadow Ltd. will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday from Thursday, May 24 through Monday, May 28, 2012. We be open and start processing orders on Tuesday, May, 29, 2012.
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
This will be our first time vending at the University District Street Fair and I am totaly stoked!!!
We are sharing a booth with dDrahos Design (she makes fantastic wood boxes out of reclaimed wood!).
Our booth number is 316 so come check us out!
You can buy soap, lotion and sugar scrubs from us and one of dDrahos wooden boxes to keep it all in!
Details
May 19 & 20, 2012
University District Street Fair
University Way NE
Seattle, WA
Saturday, May 19 – 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday, May 20 – 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
The U District StreetFair is the kick-off event for the festival season in the Seattle region. It is the longest running street festival in the nation. Self-described as “country fair meets urban retail corridor”, the StreetFair attracts 50,000 attendees and over 350 craft, food and information booths to the District on the third weekend of May each year. The StreetFair is an energetic and exciting celebration of arts and crafts, community, music, and food. You’ll find a whirl of color and creativity.
Join us in 2012 and celebrate our 43rd annual Fair. There will be three main stages featuring music, dance performance, comedy and more, a special children’s area with age appropriate events, a wonderful medley of street performers and much more. The unique local and regional arts & crafts and an array of international food will delight you. The StreetFair is a free event, located in the heart of the University District of Seattle on University Way NE, and is produced by the
Side Note: We will NOT be checking our emails or processing orders Friday, Saturday or Sunday. We will resume normal business as usual on Monday!!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
New Blog Alert!
(yep..another one!)
Check out her tutorial on how to distress wood with Vaseline!
If you like that you will love this:
Mason Jar Planter Box
Can’t get any easier than that!!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
We tried a new recipe in my Cooking Light magazine…
And I will say…
It was fabulous!!!
I will post the recipe as it is but this is what we did:
Since we already had ground cumin I didn’t want to go to the trouble of cooking/grinding whole seeds so I just used the ground stuff.
After mixing the spices I added the chopped garlic to the baggie. Big mistake. The spices stuck to the garlic. So after putting oil in the skillet hubs dumped the spice/garlic mixture in and ended up seasoning the tilapia with blackened seasoning.
We left out the jalepeno pepper.
This recipe is quick, cheap and delicious!!
Cumin-Spiced Fish Tacos with Avocado-Mango Salsa
Ingredients
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
3/4 teaspoon salt, divided
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 pound tilapia fillets
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 cup sliced peeled avocado
2/3 cup finely chopped peeled ripe mango
1/4 cup chopped green onions
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 jalapeno pepper, thinly sliced (optional)
8 (6-inch) corn tortillas
Directions
1. Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add cumin seeds; cook 2 minutes or until toasted, shaking pan frequently. Place cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt, paprika, and black pepper in a spice grinder; process until finely ground. Combine cumin mixture and garlic; rub over fish. Return the skillet to medium-high heat. Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add fish; cook 2 minutes on each side or until done. Remove from heat; keep warm.
2. Combine the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, avocado, and next 6 ingredients (through 1/4 teaspoon red pepper). Stir in jalapeño, if desired.
3. Heat tortillas according to package instructions. Break fish into pieces; divide evenly among tortillas. Top each tortilla with 2 tablespoons salsa. Fold tortillas in half; serve immediately.
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
New Blog Alert!
New blog we are following:
You have to to check out her Gingham Cookies!!!!!
(complete how-to instructions)
The say SPRING in a way that no other cookie can.
Awesome!
Seriously…..
How can you not want that on your table!!??
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
www.countrymeadowltd.com
We know it’s not even summer yet but in retail you have to think ahead…..way ahead.
Since we have carried the same fall scents for many years we thought it was time to bring in something ‘fresh’. In order to do that we need to drastically reduce and/or completely sell our current stock….now .. so we can begin to test new ones.
We WILL be keeping Autumn Winds for sure…(but are putting it on sale anyway just for you!)
I haven’t decided on the Pumpkin Spice yet..
So the following fall soap are now half off.
Buy now and save!
These soaps WILL keep until you are ready to use them this fall (or use them now and buy the new scents this fall!)
Autumn Winds Soap
Pumpkin Spice Soap
Apple Spice Soap
$2.63 each
(you can’t beat that!!!!)
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Join us and 50 other local businesses for the 2012 Woman’s Expo!
We will be handing out free soap and lotion samples as well as having products for sale.
Details:
Woman’s Expo 2012
Camano Island Center
606 Arrowhead Road
Camano Island, WA
Saturday, May 5 – 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
All women are invited to join us for a day of fun and pampering!
Admission is FREE!
Check out products and services geared towards women by over 50 local businesses, many owned or operated by women.
Enjoy live music by singer/songwriter Brittany Collins, a fashion show by Lane Bryant and Vault Denim Jeans, and a great array of speakers. Check out the Beauty and Martini Bar, sponsored by Bella Salon and The Skin Care Lounge (donations appreciated).
There will be plenty of chances to win great raffle prizes! Wine tasting will be presented by Carpenter Creek, and beer tasting by Skagit River Brewery. Two options for lunch will be available for purchase.
Mammograms by Seattle Cancer Care Alliance will be available in a mobile van; call 360-387-0222 for an appointment. Most insurance accepted; sponsorships will be available for the uninsured. You won’t want to miss this exciting event!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
www.countrymeadowltd.com
Coral damage linked to Deepwater Horizon spill
By Matt Smith, CNN
(CNN) — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill damaged coral formations deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and miles from the ruptured well at the heart of the disaster, researchers reported Monday.
Scientists using remote-controlled probes and the venerable research submersible Alvin spotted a coral colony covered in “black scum” about 7 miles (11 kilometers) southwest of the undersea gusher, Penn State University biologist Charles Fisher said. Another nearby formation was covered in a gooey brown and white mix of oil and organic materials from the coral, he said.
“What this does tell us is there was acute damage to a reef 7 miles away,” Fisher said. “It tells us it’s likely this oil hit a lot of other areas of the seafloor.”
Fisher was the chief scientist for an expedition that surveyed the area in November and December 2010 with funding from the National Science Foundation. Some of the findings are being published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Samples taken from the coral beds, located at a depth of about 4,300 feet, matched the chemical fingerprint of the oil from the Macondo well, said Helen White, the lead author of the paper documenting the results.
An estimated 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of crude poured into the Gulf after the April 2010 explosion that sank the drill rig Deepwater Horizon and killed 11 men aboard. Oil spewed into the sea for nearly three months before a cap was placed on the BP-owned Macondo well, nearly a mile beneath the surface.
Scientists have previously confirmed that a plume of hydrocarbons from the well settled in the deep Gulf. White, a geochemist at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, said other data is still being analyzed.
“I think it’s going to take a while before we understand the long-term impacts of the spill,” she said.
Fisher said coral is a good bellwether because it is stationary, draws sustenance from the surrounding water and provides a refuge and breeding ground for other marine life.
“When a coral gets insulted, if you will, what it does is it produces a lot of mucus to try to get rid of that insult, kind of like we do reacting to dust or hay fever,” he said. The coral would normally shed that material, but in this case, it started to die, and the oil and other residues stuck to it.
What scientists saw wasn’t a “big puddle” of oil, “but there was enough in it that we could vacuum it off and fingerprint it,” he said.
“It certainly told us that we need to look around for more coral communities in the area and try to define the full footprint of the impact,” he said.
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
http://www.countrymeadowsoaps.com/
Today I learned about MX Records…
And all is well.
(whisper: ALL of our emails are working now)
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
http://www.countrymeadowltd.com/
Um…Yea….
If you tried to go to our website or this blog the last couple of days or even sent us email…
And you didn’t get anywhere…
That was my fault.
To make a long story short…
I was making ‘adjustments’ through our domain hosting company and screwed up.
I thought I was doing one thing and ended up doing something totaly different.
Which caused everything to disappear.
From all appearances it all looks to be working….
However if you sent us an email in the last 2-3 days and we didn’t respond or it was bounced back please send it again. We didn’t get it!
And I promise to keep my fingers out of where they don’t belong even though I will say after this I am pretty familiar on how to redirect DNS IP addresses!
Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products
http://www.countrymeadowltd.com/