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Project Library: Rats!!

What's Cooking Rats!!

That’s right, Rats!! Chocolate covered Rats, that is, made from delicious dried apricots with peanut ears and Starburst candy tails. It’s what’s for dinner, if you use What’s Cooking?, A Cookbook for Kids based on the Disney Pixar movie Ratatouille.

In a burst of hands on creativity to deliver a book review for fellow staffers, Head Chef Nancy Wurm from the TSCPL Bookmobile department enlisted fellow cooks Sandra Lane and Robin Clark to create several tasty dishes from the book for the staff to sample.

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Project Library: Handmade Washcloth

 

This week library customer, Anne P., shares her handmade knitted and crocheted washcloths with us. The pattern was taken from the book Knitting Loves Crochet: 22 Stylish Designs to Hook Up Your Knitting with a Touch of Crochet by Candi Jensen .  Anne has the following to say about her project:

I enjoyed the basic nature of this pattern. I had been searching for a simple yet elegant design for dishrags to knit for my mom. This fit the bill perfectly! I don't know a lot of crochet, as I'm primarily a knitter, but I could still follow the pattern and it turned out fantastic!”

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Project Library: Deceptively Delicious

This week’s project was submitted by Meghan. 

“I’ve been trying to think of ways to get my husband to eat healthier without all the moaning and complaining that usually arises when I try to make him eat vegetables. When a coworker highly recommended Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively Delicious cookbook, I figured it couldn’t hurt! Since his diet mostly consists of things that kids like to eat (mac ‘n’ cheese, pizza, hamburgers), this seemed like an easy way to trick him into eating healthier. And for the most part, it worked!

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Project Library: Magnifiers and Fly Tying

Not only does the library have a plethora of books, videos, games, and music for you to check out, library patron, Jim, reminds us that the Red Carpet Services has visual aids to assist in any number of projects whether it be reading or, in his case, tying flies.

Jim has the following to say about Red Carpet Services:

For the past several years I've borrowed a magnifier from Red Carpet Services to assist in my fly tying hobby. It fits over my head and enables me to tie small flies I would otherwise be unable to construct.  There are several powers of magnification available for checkout, and I know I'll be ramping up in that department as I age. The ability to check out this resource allows me to continue enjoying my hobby, not to mention the cost savings involved. I wish more people knew about this wonderful library service.

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Project Library: Handmade Marshmallows

Hot ChocolateLibrary customer, Robin, submitted this delicious project taken from the book "Hot Chocolate: 50 Heavenly Cups of Comfort" by Fred Thompson. What a fun project for cold, wintry days.

If you are looking for a project that will wow kids and adults alike with a yummy taste, try the recipe in this book for marshmallows. They are easy to make (but they have to "set-up" overnight) and taste remarkably good. They melt deliciously in hot chocolate, and taste just as good all by themselves or rolled in powdered chocolate or strawberry drink mix. I found marshmallow making to be a fantastically fun time for the whole family. Plus the hot chocolate recipes in this book are divine!!

According to Robin, the following was what was most helpful about this project: easy to read, simple to make recipes, uses common ingredients, and it was yummy.

Thanks for sharing your project with us, Robin.  If this book doesn’t help satisfy your sweet tooth, check out these other books on
S’mores, Chocolate Drinks, and Desserts.

If you’re interested in submitting your own project fill out the Project Library form and tell us about your completed (or half completed) projects: meals that you’ve cooked, breads and cookies that you’ve baked, quilts that you’ve sewn, volcanoes that you’ve erupted, papers you’ve written, babies you’ve named, pictures you’ve drawn, rooms that you’ve decorated, or dogs that you’ve trained. Send us pictures or video of your library projects, a brief description, and the titles of the books or other library resources that you used to help complete your project and we’ll post them here in the Project Library column.

 

Project Library: Fireplace Revitalization

This project comes from Scarlett and her husband; just in time for these cold snowy days we’ve been having.

Old Logs"My husband and I completely revitalized our old fireplace with a little help from some handy library books. A little background on this project: our home was owned by the same couple for 50 years. Due to the fact that they'd passed on before we bought the house, we never got the chance to meet them. This hasn't stopped us from trying to figure them out though and they've proved to be interesting characters. They had an apparent love of cable television, cigarettes, and heavy drapery. We realized when we started this project that they had actually placed a TV in the fireplace and ran some cabling up through the New Log Set 1cinder box at the base of the firebox. My husband easily dismantled that ingenious fire hazard but we needed a bit of outside assistance in figuring out how to regrout the firebox, install a safe gas line, and put the whole thing together. Hello TSCPL! We got several great books on fireplaces and plumbing. My dad scored us a new gas line switch and helped talk my husband through the installation. I bought the new log set online (and man, was that one heavy box!) and was responsible for all the grout work. I'm not afraid to say that I really kick ass with a grout gun. :) The best part of this project was putting everything together and turning it on for the first time (and not having anything explode!) We love it, especially on cold winter nights!"

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Project Library: Gourd Art

Gourd 1These library projects comes to us from Nancy:

Checking out every gourd art book we have is what got me started on my gourd art journey. I was searching for a new creative outlet and saw the book The Decorated Gourd by Dyan Mai Peterson. I was hooked! This is the first book that inspired me. My dream is to someday be as good as this artist. I created the gourd on the right after reading The Decorated Gourd. 

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Project Library: Itty Bitty Hats

Itty Bitty Hats by Susan B. AndersonHere are a couple of library projects from Lissa:

The black and orange hats are both from a book here called Itty Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson. I made the infant-sized orange hat holding two strands of Lion Brand yarn microspun together on size 8 circular knitting needles, and made the black hat (child-sized) with one strand of a worsted weight black novelty yarn from Yarn Bee, Hobby Lobby’s store brand.
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I liked the
Itty Bitty Hats book because the projects were mainly creative variations of this simple knit-in-the-round rolled brim. I also liked that when I substituted a different yarn and the hat turned out too big for a baby that I had discovered a lovely pattern for a simple adult sized hat as well.

Thanks for sharing your project with us, Lissa!  Click here to find more books with knitting patterns and here for books on how to knit.

Please share your library projects with us and the library community! Fill out the Project Library form and tell us about your completed (or half completed) projects: meals that you’ve cooked , breads and cookies that you’ve baked, quilts that you’ve sewn, volcanoes that you’ve erupted, papers you’ve written, babies you’ve named, pictures you’ve drawn, rooms that you’ve decorated, or dogs that you’ve trained. Send us pictures or video of your library projects, a brief description, and the titles of the books or other library resources that you used to help complete your project and we’ll post them here in the Project Library column.

Project Library: Inaugural Post


Welcome to Project Library!

The Gluten-Free Vegetarian Kitchen As everyone knows the library is the place to go when you are in need of information for homework, research papers, and experiments as well as the place to find information on how to build, fix, and maintain numerous things in your household or life. We know that you come to us for any number of endeavors and we have the circulation numbers to prove it! We often share our creations with each other here at the library, but we want to know what you’ve been working on. Share your projects with us and the library community here on our website. By using this form, email Project Library and tell us about your completed (or half completed) projects: meals that you’ve cooked , breads and cookies that you’ve baked, quilts that you’ve sewn, volcanoes that you’ve erupted, papers you’ve written, babies you’ve named, pictures you’ve drawn, rooms that you’ve decorated, or dogs that you’ve trained. Send us pictures or video of your library projects, a brief description, and the titles of the books or other library resources that you used to help complete your project and we’ll post them here in the Project Library column.

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