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Memorial Day Business Plan

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If you and the family are going to be cooking out for Memorial Day, you may want to come up with an original menu for your family and friends to enjoy. You can also include some timeless classics that have always been a hit at Memorial Day barbeques and parties; here are a few recipe ideas that will keep you from spending all your time in the kitchen, and more time enjoying the festivities. If you want to go with a more patriotic theme, you can incorporate red, white, and blue into your foods by creating a fruit parfait using strawberries, blueberries, and cream. You can layer these items in a clear large parfait bowl, or you can make individual servings for each guest using plastic bowls or martini glasses. Or, you can create tasty nachos …show more content…

What is Batik? Is that a specialty store that you go to for designer clothes? No! Its a beautiful Indonesian artform used to put some bold and intricate designs in their cloth. The crafter puts a resist of some nature, usually wax, upon the cloth in a design and then applying dye to the cloth. Wherever there is no wax, the cloth will be dyed, but where the cloth is protected will remain the original color. It is a fun and relaxing new craft that has other crafty applications. Honestly, the approach that I am coming to favor is a bit different. My children are still young and enjoy crayons, which means they enjoy BREAKING crayons! I had pure white delicious cloth and a bunch of broken crayons. There was a small metal paint tray with little divits for the paint in my crafting drawer. Perfect. I broke up each crayon into little pieces and filled several divits. Warming the whole tray in a steamer basket double boiler on my stove. As soon as I achieved liquid wax, dipping a paintbrush in and painting quickly I achieved a beautiful and colorful desgin. They key was to do it in very short strokes so the wax would stay very HOT upon the brush. I have tried adding pariffin to the crayon for a more diffused color and using just straight clear paraffin resist and dying the cloth too. I plan on picking up some beeswax from a local beekeeper and trying that for a resist. After the wax cooled, I placed the cloth between newspaper (I keep a roll of newsprint paper purchased cheap from my local newspaper)and cardboard and then used my iron to warm the wax,wicking it onto the newsprint. It took several changes, but finally I had bold colors and beautiful designs and wax-free cloth . Once the fabric has the wax free, it can be used in a variety of ways. Custom quilting designs, clothing design, framed for artwork, creating pillows or even fabric for slipcovers! This is a completly customized cloth for you to

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