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!

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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

Shanty 2 Chic

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

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 we are following:

Glorious Treats

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

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!)

Special Clearance:

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

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

(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/

And all is well.

(whisper: ALL of our emails are working now)

Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products

http://www.countrymeadowltd.com/

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/

My current read:

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith’s classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith’s mastery of the short story form.

In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fiction. Including over 60 short stories written throughout her career, collected together for the first time, The Selected Stories reveals the stunning versatility and terrifying power of Highsmith’s work.

These stories highlight the remarkable range of Highsmith’s powers her unique ability to quickly, almost imperceptibly, draw out the mystery and strangeness of her subject, which appears achingly ordinary to our naked eye. Whether writing about jaded wives or household pets, Highsmith continually upsets our expectations and presents a world frighteningly familiar to our own, where danger lurks around every turn. Stories from The Animal-Lovers Book of Beastly Murders portray, with incisive humor, the murderously competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this viciously satirical reprise of Kafka, cats, dogs, and cockroaches are no longer necessary aspects of a happy home but actually have the power to destroy it. In the short sketches that make up the Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith rediscovers predictable female characters “The Dancer,” “The Female Novelist,” “The Prude” and, through scathing humor, invests them with uniquely destructive powers. As a writer, Highsmith was all too well aware of the stolid patriarchal conventions that ruled her day her publisher rejected her second book out of hand because of its homosexual content. She is not a polemicist, but, as stories like “Oona the Jolly Cave Woman” and “The Mobile Bed-Object” reveal, her bizarre, haunting fiction continually betrays the inadequacy of our conventional understanding of female character. Highsmith eventually moved away from these coolly satiric, darkly comic exercises, and in her later collections, The Black House, Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, and Mermaids on the Golf Course, she uses the warm familiarities of middle-class life the manicured lawns, the cozy uptown apartments, the local pubs as the backbone for her chilling portrayals. “The Black House,” for instance, explores the small-town male camaraderie and the destructive secret it masks: in this world, the fact that everyone knows your name is more likely a curse than a blessing. In the title story of the final collection presented here, “Mermaids on a Golf-Course,” a man’s extraordinary brush with death endows his everyday desires with fantastically devastating consequences. In her later work, Highsmith adds a dimension of penetrating psychological insight, evoked most vividly in stories like “A Curious Suicide” and “The Stuff of Madness,” where the precarious line between fantasy and reality is blurred and we experience the terrifying possibility of slipping between them. Great writers view the world askew, and in their art they reflect our world back to us, slightly distorted.

The Selected Stories reveals Highsmith’s deft and exacting style, her incisive satirical intelligence, and her faultless eye for depicting the inner tremblings of human character. Her world remains all the more frightening because we recognize it as our own.

Rebecca
Country Meadow Ltd.
Eco Shea Body Products

www.countrymeadowltd.com