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WINNERS!!!! Glamping Book Giveaway #2 – tricks of the trade

Happy Monday to one and all—with glamping tents and trailers, big or small!

You’ve shared your secrets for setting up a good glamp, so now I present my two book winner champs for this week’s contest …

Okay, the names go into a vintage fishing creel. A little hand goes in. And two names come out …

And the second two winners of my Glamping with MaryJane book giveaway are:

 

Billie Jo Moffett and Lucy McCarty!!!!!!

Billie Jo Moffett said:

August 7, 2012 at 9:38 am “Watch for those lace curtains everybody sells at garage sales ……… cheap and can be used as curtains in camper or use velcro to attach to tent doors for elegant entrance ….. also helps keep mosquitos out. Or be creative and turn into fancy mosquito netting over bed.”
 
Lucy McCarty said:

August 7, 2012 at 9:43 am “Grands biscuits in a can…. You can make them as instructed, or…. fried buscuits, fried donuts… Super easy, quick and fun while glamping!!!”

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Be a pretty, polished (& healthy) chick!

The weather around here has been topping out at 98 degrees. And we’re not talking about the late ’90s boy band, though they’d match my fever pitch right now. 

(I know, I know, I have no room to complain when the midwest is hitting 118!)

After my crew and I finished my glamping book, my daughter surprised all of them with a gift certificate for a pedicure but I guess she didn’t think I’d want one. I took it as a sure sign I should follow suit when I received an unexpected package of sample polish last week from Chick Nail Polish.

I called around town and found someone who could give me a proper pedicure, something I haven’t indulged in for a couple of years. Who doesn’t want to sit inside an air-conditioned room and get a lil’ pampered?  

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Singapore – with recipe for Singapore Sling

For some of my Geography journal entries, my friend, Alyson Oüten, takes you around the globe, from Bangkok, to Cambodia, to Spain and beyond! Today, she is off to Singapore at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Take it from here, Aly. It’s all yours!!!!!

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Today’s Recipe: Homemade Marshmallows

Today’s recipe, MaryJane’s Homemade Marshmallows, is another sneak-peek recipe from my book, Glamping with MaryJane. (Actually, in my book, my basic recipe below ends up with a host of yummy, unlikely ingredients added, but I’ll save those surprises for you until you have my book in your hands!)

Remember last month’s recipe?

Sweet & Smoky Salmon Zucchini Rolls

Oh goodness. The name alone starts a mind-blowing seismic-flavor-tastebud-overload.

But today is all about celebrating the tasty white, round, and fluffy balls of sugar-sweetness dubbed Marshmallow … because it’s National S’more Day!

And let’s not forget their partner, the homemade graham cracker, which will be part two of this recipe series, right here tomorrow. Don’t forget to check back.

Happy s’more day to you and yours. And s’more to you, and you, and you …

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