Fall Sail (I mean Sale)

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The BRB Meets The Phone Company

The Burning River Boutique finally has its very own phone number!  I feel so official-like.

440-941-1BRB (1272)

Pretty clever, huh?

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Perfect weather ~ not too cold, not too hot!

Yesterday, I went for a walk along the beach and gathered some more treasures....lots of green beach glass, a few aqua pieces and some neat-o-peato shells.  

I contemplated walking along the shore to get back to our very own section of beach, but that would have meant doing "horizontal rock climbing" and I figured that with my lack-o-coordination, I'd trip and fall and lie there unconscious while the buzzards pecked out my eyeballs.  That just didn't sound like a fun way to spend the day, so I passed.

After I made my way back home, I built some new items for the shop, which will be appearing soon.

Hope your Autumn is shaping up nicely. 

Thanks for checking in!

The Great Pumpkin

With the leaves on the trees turning colors and the ones on the ground crunching underfoot, it takes me back to skipping up the sidewalk to our house where the aroma of after school treats would greet me. 

This treat is among my favorites and it's yummy any time of year ~

Pumpkin Nut Bars

1/2C all vegetable shortening (pretty sure mom used Crisco)

1C brown sugar, firmly packed

1C sifted all purpose flour

1/2t soda

1/2t baking powder

1t cinnamon

1/4t ginger

1/4t nutmeg

2/3C pumpkin

2 eggs

1t vanilla

1/2C chopped nuts

Combine all ingredients except nuts in a large mixing bowl.  Beat for 2 minutes with electric mixer at medium speed.  Fold in nuts.

Spread evenly in 13x9x2 pan.  Bake in preheated 350 deg oven for 20 to 25 minutes.  Cool.

Spread with frosting.

Orange Frosting:

Blend until smooth 2T solid vegetable shortening (again with the Crisco), 1-1/2C sifted powdered sugar, 1T grated orange peel and 2T orange juice.  Makes about 1C frosting.

Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

Or, it could be Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day....man-o-jiminy-Christmas balls, is it windy!  

The waves have just been crashing in from all this wind and I'm thinkin' that there actually could be surf in Cleveland, USA...  anyway, the waves churning up the lake like they have been should make for great beach glass hunting, but maybe later...it's still way too windy and too moist (it's raining) and I have more coffee to drink to think about heading down there right now.  Pretty sure that covers most of the excuses to be a big old lazy butt.

Perhaps I'll hunker in and make a bracelet or a necklace or both.  I did finish that sun catcher that I was telling you about, but there's been no sun for it to catch so that I can take a picture of it and put it in the shop.  It'll come back....I'm not scared.

Welcome, Autumn

When I think of the Fall it always brings to mind specific scents like cinnamon, cloves, and bonfires and of course the sound of rustling leaves and the taste of apples (pies, cider, apple butter, candy or caramel apples).  

I can't do much about bringing you any cider to sip while you stroll through the leaves on your way to a bonfire, but I can share Beverly Nye's recipe for spicy pumpkin loaf. 

My mom made this quite often in the fall and winter months.  One year, I adapted it to mini loaf pans and gave them as treats for Christmas.

Spicy Pumpkin Loaf

Combine:

3-3/4C flour

2t soda

2t cinnamon

1t salt

1t nutmeg

1/2t ginger

1/2t ground cloves

Cream:

2 sticks butter or margarine

Gradually add:

2C sugar - cream well.

Blend in and beat well:

4 eggs

At low speed, add dry ingredients alternately with 1-1/2C canned or cooked pumpkin, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.

Stir in 12oz pkg chocolate chips and 1C chopped nuts.

Turn into two greased 9x5 inch loaf pans.  Bake at 350 deg. for 1 hour.  Cool, then drizzle with the delicious spice glaze (below).  Slices better after a day.

Spice glaze

Combine:

1C powdered sugar

1/4t nutmeg

1/4t cinnamon

dash of cloves

Blend in:

3-4T hot water until the consistency of a glaze.

This recipe is taken directly from Bevery Nye's cookbook, but once again I pretty much mix everything together as I go (such a rebel) and this bread also freezes well.

Something Shiny

I'm always getting distracted by something shiny, but this time I decided to put it to good use ~ a sun catcher made with mirrors (no smoke) and beach glass. 

So far, I'm kinda diggin' it. 

I'll let you know when I actually finish it and put it in the shop....so many shiny things to choose from.