KIND PLUS, Dark Chocolate Cherry Cashew

Bought Mike some Dark Chocolate Cherry Cashew Antioxidant Kind Bars for Valentine's Day.

Organizing with wire baskets

Wire basket available at Amazon

This is the basket I use most often at my house. In my kitchen, I keep apples in them and sometimes onions. But don't put them right next to each other because they will give off gases that make each other ripen too fast. So one basket on one side of the kitchen with fruit and one on the other side of the kitchen with onions and garlic works best. They look like gym lockers we had in high school and I had to get over thinking about that because they are so perfect for the job, sturdy and easy to clean. I have one for library books and one for cleaning supplies under the sink in the bathroom.

Magazine rack/fruit storage available at Amazon

File basket available at Amazon.com

I have three of these wall-mounted baskets in my office. 1. Inbox 2. Finished Projects 3. Inspirational Images or a beautiful magazine.

Antique Black Organizing Rack available at Amazon

Magazine organizer available at Amazon.com

Here's a larger version also rustic-industrial chicken wire design.

Glory & Grace Large Rustic Industrial Wall Mount Metal and Wire General Store Multi-Bin Storage Baskets

I want to get one of these for my dining room so people can grab some fruit if they are still hungry after dinner - making it more convenient to eat right.

Storage baskets available at Amazon.com

Same three-compartment storage basket - this one is vertical.

3 Tier Chain Hanging Wire Baskets available at Amazon.com 

Whenever I move this is one of the first things I buy - a three tier basket - I use them for onions and garlic. It's really the best way to store fruits and veggies because the air circulation keeps the produce from going bad as fast. You can often find them at the dollar store.

Darby Wire Basket - Oval -Set of 2

Darby Wire Basket - Rectangle -Set of 2

Mexico: The Cookbook by Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Mexico: The Cookbook by Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Σcookbooks

Ocean Heaven with Jet Li

I have a movie to recommend.  Ocean Heaven with Jet Li. Grabbed at random from the bookmobile shelf, this movie turned out to be very moving, important in understanding parents of autistic children and a view inside modern China I never expected. The acting is underplayed and spectacular. Beautiful movie.

African American Oral History

Aunt Sally, old midwife, the only doctor or nurse ever heard of in Gees Bend before project was started. Gees Bend, Alabama photo by Marion Post Wolcott

I'm going to try to make a list here of the major African American Oral history sites. I'm studying oral history projects so I can start my own and I didn't see any collection list like this. So here goes. If I'm missing one please comment or email me. These are projects that are only about African Americans.

1. The History Makers -  "We have more than 2,000 videotaped interviews. 310 have been digitized, comprising about 8,000 hours of videotaped interviews; 60 special event recordings; more than 2,000 online biographies, and over 30,000 photographic images."
2. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 - contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
3. Getting Word - African American Families of Monticello - 100 Interviews so far
4. Behind the Veil - Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South - 310 interviews--all from North Carolina--from the Durham, Charlotte, Wilmington, Enfield, New Bern, and James City areas.
5. The Oral History Center at the University of Louisville
6. Black Oral History Interviews, 1972-1974 - Quintard Taylor, with associates Charles Ramsay and John Dawkins, interview black pioneers and their descendents throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

Some video documentary interviews

1. Counter Histories  documenting the struggle to desegregate Southern restaurants

Photoshelter's Lattice needs watermarks!

I can't use Photoshelter's new crowd-editing Pinterest alternative, Lattice, because I can't put my images on the Internet without a watermark and here is why:

I have an image of a nutrition label that is very popular. I know for a fact it has never sold with an extended license. It showed up in a magazine with a circulation of 1.5 million. My agency has a limit of 500,000 reproductions, after that you have to purchase an extended license. There isn't one on record. I contacted my agency - they said that because the image is available on my personal portfolio they will not contact the magazine and ask them for the extended license amount. So I am screwed on this one transaction.

I can't really afford to lose ANY sales. And I can't do anything that will make it harder for me to get compensated for future sales.

So I can't put my images on Lattice without a watermark.

Now I am really curious if anyone else feels the same way. So I started a poll.

Would you let me know how you feel about Lattice and watermarks?

Thanks,
Catherine dee Auvil

Beginning Genealogy Tip - Capitalize Your Direct Line

I don't know how many times I have looked at families far back in my tree and I wonder to myself which one of these siblings is MY ancestor again?? So to make it easier on my memory I just learned this tip - type only your direct ancestors in capital letters. I know some people type all their surnames in capital letters. I hate when they do that. What is the purpose? But with this method of capitalizing only my direct ancestors I can look at a group of siblings and right away see my line.