#MakerMonday - So Perfectly Vanilla

Vanilla Extract is THE most common extract used in baking.  
It's rich flavor adds dimension to any recipe. 

Did you know with a little patience 
you can make your own at home?

#100WomenWiki - BBC News & Wikipedia 12-Hour Edit-A-Thon

Every year, over the course of 3 weeks in December, BBC names and celebrates 100 influential and inspirational women around the world. These names include those of celebrities and those that represent "every woman". As a wrap up for the 2016 season, BBC News asked the question "Is The Internet Sexist?" 

"Wikipedia is the seventh most popular site in the world but only 15% of Wikipedia editors are women and fewer than 15% of its notable profiles are of women." - BBC News

How Can You?

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Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats

If you watch TV you must have seen some of those commercials for Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats. I must admit, I have never eaten Frosted Mini Wheats, likely because in my house it would have been just the Mini-Wheats...sans the frosting. But I really LOVE those commercials. How cute that they personified the mini wheats into these cute little "guys"? Characters we can really relate to ...so much that one little boy actually blows on the milk "cooling it down". I am clearly not the only one either, because Kellogg actually has an entire "theatre" dedicated to the little guys - Mini-Wheats Theatre. It's non-stop Frosted Mini-Wheats commercials starring the "cute little guys".

It's The Little Things

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I have been under the weather the last week and a half, recuperating from some surgery and stuff.  In the last day I was finally able to sit up comfortably and do some stuff.  I had mentioned to my husband awhile back, that I wanted to buy a coloring book and crayons because I have just felt like coloring...but we never bought it.

Yesterday, I was able to go out with my husband and while we were in the drug store, I wondered into the children's section.  There were the coloring books and crayons.  The first thing that caught my eye were some very large coloring books which immediately excited me however, the ones I saw had cartoon characters I couldn't really relate to.

The Coalition vs. The Caucus

Woody King Jr. & Ruby Dee

The Black, Latino & Asian Caucus (“The Caucus”) of the New York City Council was met by members of the ten groups that comprise the Coalition of Theatres of Color (“The Coalition”) in response to information that four of its members were being eliminated for annual support. In an email sent to The Coalition, it was advised that the New Heritage Theatre Group, The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players, The Paul Robeson Theatre and The Negro Ensemble Company would lose funding despite the fact that $800K had already been allocated to The Coalition in June 2009. Presenters for The Coalition were a veritable “Who’s Who”, not only in Black Theatre, but in Theatre,

An Evening With Fashion Vie

The Bronx Car Show