For The Sports Minded Father For Fathers Day!

Father's Day is only 17 days away and we have the perfect gift for Dad! For the sports enthusiast in your life we have many sports related beaded banner patterns at Bead Shak! Check out some of what we have below: From baseball, to soccer, bowling, football to basketball we have it all! To see all our Sports related beaded banner patterns check them out here by clicking the link below: Sports and Hobbies -------------------------------------------------- For all your beading needs come and visit with us at Bead Shak ! .·:*¨♥ Happy Beading Everyone ♥¨*:·. .·:*¨♥ Jenny and Jan ♥¨*:·. Technorati tags: bead work, beading, Fathers Day, beads, pony beads, crafts, craft supplies, gifts, presents, online shopping, advertising, beaded banner patterns, beaded banners, business, peyote, creativity, home decor, hobbies, weblog, needlecraft, special occasions, soceer, baseball, football, bowling IceRocket tags: bead work, beading, Fathers Day, beads, pony beads, crafts, craft supplies, gifts, presents, online shopping, advertising, beaded banner patterns, beaded banners, business, peyote, creativity, home decor, hobbies, weblog, needlecraft, special occasions, soceer, baseball, football, bowling

Happy Memorial Day!

We would like take this time to wish everyone a very happy and safe Memorial Day with your family and friends! ------------------------------------------------ Memorial Day is a United States Federal Holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May, observed this year May 28, 2007. It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This Holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War . After World War 1, it expanded to include those who died inany war or military action. One of the longest standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500 which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. Many people celebrate this holiday by visiting cemeteries and memorials. In addition to remembering, Memorial Day is also time for friends and family to gather together for picnics, family gatherings and sporting events. ------------------------------------------------------ Below are some recipes to help you celebrate Memorial Day! Grilled Chicken With Vegetable Salsa 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast 1 or 2 cloves garlic, minced Salt and pepper to taste Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper and minced garlic. Clean the grill off with a grill brush and a towel, and lightly brush with olive oil to keep chicken from sticking. Heat grill on a medium-high setting for 5 minutes. (You should be able to hold your hand over the grates for only 3 seconds.) Place chicken on grill and cook about 8 to 10 minutes, or until chicken is fork tender and juices run clear, turning once. Remove immediately, and serve with scoop of vegetable salsa For the salsa: 2 tomatoes, coarsely diced 1 red bell pepper, coarsely diced 1 small red onion, coarsely diced 1/2 cup cilantro or flat-leaf parsley, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced Good-quality, extra virgin olive oil 1 red chili, chopped (optional) Salt and pepper to taste Combine vegetables and seasonings in a small mixing bowl. If you like a little heat, add a chopped red chili. Add enough olive oil to coat, and toss. Allow to sit at room temperature for about an hour. Serve with grilled chicken breast. Serves 4 to 6. ------------------------------------------------------------- Grilled Tequila Beef Steaks 4 New York strip steaks (each 8 to 10 oz., cut 1 to 1 1/2 inches thick), fat trimmed 1/2 c Tequila 2 tb Olive oil 1 tb Pepper, freshly ground 2 ts Lemon peel, grated 1 Garlic clove, pressed or minced Salt With a damp paper towel, wipe steaks; put meat in a 1-gallon plastic food bag. Add tequila, oil, pepper, lemon peel, and garlic; seal bag, and turn to mix seasonings. Set bag in a bowl; chill at least 1 hour or up to 1 day; turn bag over occasionally. Drain steaks and place on a grill 4 to 6 inches above a solid bed of hot coals. Turn steaks to brown evenly; for medium-rare (cut to test), cook 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer to plates; season to taste with salt. ------------------------------------------------------------- Strawberry Shortcakes 3 pints of strawberries, hulled (2 pints quartered, 1 pint crushed with potato masher or fork) 6 T. granulated sugar or to taste For shortcakes: 2 C. flour 1/2 t. salt 1 T. baking powder 3 T. sugar, plus 2 T. for sprinkling 1 stick (8 Tbs.) frozen butter 1 egg, beaten 6-8 T. half and half 1 egg white, lightly beaten To serve: 1 C. chilled heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks with 1 T. sugar Mix berries with sugar in medium bowl; set aside while preparing shortcakes. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position. Heat oven to 425°F. Mix flour, salt, baking powder and 3 T. sugar. Grate butter on the large holes of a grater into dry ingredients. Toss butter with flour to coat, quickly rubbing butter into dry ingredients with fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Mix egg and 6 T. half and half; pour into flour mixture. Toss with a fork until mixture forms large clumps, adding more half and half if mixture seems dry. Turn dough onto work surface and lightly knead until it comes together. Roll dough to 3/4-inch thick. Dip 3-inch biscuit cutter into flour and cut as many dough rounds as possible. Gather scraps; gently knead. Repeat cutting process to form 8 rounds. Place 1 inch apart on small baking sheet. Brush tops with egg white and drizzle with sugar. Bake until golden brown, 12 - 14 minutes. Place baking sheet on wire rack; cool cakes until warm, about 10 minutes. Split each cake, crosswise, and spoon a portion of berries over each cake bottom. Spoon a dollop of whipped cream over berries. Cap with cake top and serve immediately. Serves: 8. ------------------------------------------------------------------ On line Coloring Pages, Puzzles and Activities for Memorial Day! Coloring Pages Puzzles Memorial Day Short Stories ----------------------------------------------------------------- Free Patriotic Key Chain Pattern Click on Free Patterns! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Happy Memorial Day! ·:*¨♥ Happy Beading Everyone ♥¨*:·. .·:*¨♥ Jenny and Jan ♥¨*:·. 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How To Make Friendship Pins!

Friendship Pins or Safety Pin Beading is a craft that anyone can do of any age or experience level! If you have never beaded before friendship pins are a great way to start out. They are easy to do, fun and unique. With the summer school break upon us its the perfect craft for kids to do or a great craft to teach your kids if they have never done them before! Friendship Pins make cute gifts for you family and friends, you can trade them with your friends, collect them from people all over the world and so much more, the possibilities are limitless. --------------------------------------------------------- How To Once you find the friendship pin pattern you want to do you will see the list of materials you need to buy. Seed beads you can buy a mixed bag of seed beads or for an individual project you can purchase bags of each color. We found that the mixed bag of seed beads is your best value as it allows you to do many projects not just the one. For the safety pin size it depends on the project your going to make. Some designs are smaller meaning there is not as many rows across and down so the number and size of the safety pins you need for any project will vary. Also it can get confusing some designers quote the actual size of safety pin in inches that you need some designers quote the number size. The chart below is a quide to size and the number for each safety pin size. 3/4" #00 safety pin 7/8" #0 safety pin 1 1/8" #1 safety pin 1 1/2" #2 safety pin 2" #3 safety pin 2 1/4" #4 safety pin 3" #5 safety pin New Larger Size The best thing to do is write down the materials you need for the particular project you want to work on and then get your supplies for that project. ------------------------------------------------- Once you have all your materials the fun part begins! We have Free Instructions on how to do Friendship Pins on the Bead Shak site ready for you to download and print out! Below is a quick guide on how to get started! First open the safety pin, string on the beads according to the pattern Starting at the top and Row 1 and work your way down the safety pin. Once the beads are all on from Row 1, pinch the end of the safety pin with plier so the safety pin won't come open ---------------------------------------------------------------- Once you have all your rows done, we need to hang them on the bigger safety pin so we do it like the diagram below. Open the safety that you are going to hang your project on. Then take a flat tool for example a screw driver and carefully pry open the coiled end of the safety pin. Following the pattern from left to right, slip the loop of the first beaded safety pin onto the large one. Pull it around the coil of the of the large pin and to the back side of the pin as shown in the diagram Continue on until all your pins have been put on. Once all the pins are on, then take your pliers and carefully close up the coil end of the safety pin. Your finished project will look like the diagrams below! Congratulations you have just made your first friendship pin project! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hints and Tips When you purchase your seed beads you will see in the package that they are not all the same size some are a larger than others or slightly different in shape. When you do your project try to pick out of the package the seed beads that are closest in diameter and height so that your project will come out the best it possibly can. --------------------------------------------------- We have made up an e-book of some of our most popular and best selling Friendship Pin patterns! This e-book has 12 very cleverly designed patterns and it covers every Holiday and Season! These make great gifts for you family and friends! This collection of Friendship Pins is a great value! You can check them out here: Friendship Pin E-Book ----------------------------------------------------------------- ·:*¨♥ Happy Beading Everyone ♥¨*:·. .·:*¨♥ Jenny and Jan ♥¨*:·. IceRocket tags: friendship pins, safety pin crafts, crafts, hobbies, beading projects, seed beads, online shopping, presents, gifs, gift ideas, advertising, bead work, beaded banner patterns, creativity, kids crafts, bead projects, free beading instructions, how to, holiday Technorati tags: friendship pins, safety pin crafts, crafts, hobbies, beading projects, seed beads, online shopping, presents, gifs, gift ideas, advertising, bead work, beaded banner patterns, creativity, kids crafts, bead projects, free beading instructions, how to, holiday "All images are the Property of The Bead Shak"

Happy Victoria Day Weekend Canada!

Happy Victoria Day Weekend Canada! We just wanted to wish all our Canadian friends a very happy and safe Victoria Day Weekend! We hope that you enjoy this first long weekend of the year with your family and friends! ·:*¨♥ Happy Beading Everyone ♥¨*:·. .·:*¨♥ Jenny and Jan ♥¨*:·. ~Bead Shak~ IceRocket tags: Victoria Day, Canada, Canadian, beading projects, beading, peyote, online shopping, advertising, creativity, hobbies, crafts, holiday, weblog, business, bead work, beaded banner patterns, gift ideas, presents Technorati tags: Victoria Day, Canada, Canadian, beading projects, beading, peyote, online shopping, advertising, creativity, hobbies, crafts, holiday, weblog, business, bead work, beaded banner patterns, gift ideas, presents

Happy Mother's Day From Bead Shak!

Happy Mother's Day! We want to wish you all a very Happy Mother's Day! We hope that you have a relaxing and fun filled day full of surprises! --------------------------- A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done! ~Author Unknown~ ----------------------------- ·:*¨♥ Happy Beading Everyone ♥¨*:·. .·:*¨♥ Jenny and Jan ♥¨*:·. Technorati tags: Happy Mother's Day, Mother's Day, crafts, beading projects, beading, advertising, online shopping, home decor, beaded banner patterns, hobbies, craft supplies, pony beads, creativity, business IceRocket tags: Happy Mother's Day, Mother's Day, crafts, beading projects, beading, advertising, online shopping, home decor, beaded banner patterns, hobbies, craft supplies, pony beads, creativity, business

Friendship Pins, Beaded Plant Pokes, Magnets, Ornaments and More!

We have put together a selection of our most popular beading patterns in an E-Book for you! The projects we have selected are fun projects, suitable for any age and experience level! Friendship Pin E- Book Why not make memories with our Seasons of Friendship Pin Collection! This ebook of 12 cleverly designed friendship pins cover every holiday and season! A great collection to make for yourself or family and friends! With summer holidays coming this is the perfect bead pattern collection for everyone of all ages to do, whether your just getting started into beading or have experience this is the perfect collection! ---------------------------------------------- A Year of Plant Pokes and Magnets This is one of our very popular series and now you can have it to! Christmas all the way through to Thanksgiving is represented in this ebook! A fantastic collection of patterns, with suggested materials list, clear and easy to read graphs, colored pictures of the projects and instructions all included! Its a fun, cute way to pass the summer months, or to make gifts for family and friends! --------------------------------------------------- Holiday Ornaments This fantastic collection of Christmas Ornaments includes a very cute whimsical reindeer, a very handsome snowman, a heavenly angel and the traditional Christmas tree! Its never to late to start making your projects for Christmas gift giving this year or to get a head start on decorations for your tree! Either way this collection is a must have! ------------------------------------------------------------- We have added to the Bead Shak site other new ebooks and bead patterns! We have something for everyone! With summer holidays coming up these are the perfect way to pass the holidays and to get a head start on making gifts for family and friends! All our patterns come with clear and easy to read graphs, a suggested materials list, a colored picture of the finished project and instructions! If you need any additional help with any of our projects we are just an email away! We hope that you enjoy this new series that we have added to Bead Shak! ------------------------------------------------- ·:*¨♥ Happy Beading Everyone ♥¨*:·. .·:*¨♥ Jenny and Jan ♥¨*:·. IceRocket tags: beading projects, beading, online shopping, advertising, craft supplies, crafts, weblog, Christmas, holidays, Mothers Day, hobbies, gifts, presents, creativity, home decor, beaded ornaments, beaded banner patterns, bead work, friendship pins, business Technorati tags: beading projects, beading, online shopping, advertising, craft supplies, crafts, weblog, Christmas, holidays, Mothers Day, hobbies, gifts, presents, creativity, home decor, beaded ornaments, beaded banner patterns, bead work, friendship pins, business