By Joan Bramsch & Vicki Metzger
A Hyacinth Flower Garden - In Miniature
Tools: -- tweezers, scissors, hot glue gun and glue.
Materials:
1. medium-weight green wire - 2 1/2 inches for each flower stem. ================================
Instructions:
1. Heat glue gun. JOAN BRAMSCH is a family person, educator, writer and E-publisher. Her articles appear internationally in print and online. Six of her best-selling adult novels - near one million copies - have worldwide distribution. Her
2. shredded styrofoam in several colors -- pink, blue, white, yellow.
3. green foliage -- spagnum moss, plastic grass picks, pieces from an artificial plastic or paper evergreen.
4. Plastic foam base for landscaped scene or some scrap to hold the flowers until used.
2. Cut wire into correct length.
3. Apply hot glue to 1/2 inch of wire.
4. Immediately dip glued end into colored shredded foam of your choice. Work foam into glue, BEING CAREFUL NOT TO BURN YOUR FINGERS. Then stick the other end of the wire into the foam base.
5 Clip greenery from source, then hot glue the pieces around base of flower wire.
6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 until you have the size hyacinth garden that you wish.
7. Inhale deeply...and take time to smell the flowers!!!!
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By Anonymous
SYRACUSE, NY May 27, 2004 -– Fagliarone Group CPAs participated in its 3rd annual Day of Caring on Monday, May 17 at Jamesville Beach, an Onondaga County Park facility. Over forty employees from the firm's Syracuse, Auburn and New Hartford offices spent the day painting picnic benches, staining the shelter and clearing the nature trails from brush and debris.
The project was coordinated by the United Way of Central New York through its Seasons of Caring program. Fagliarone Group CPAs began an annual firm-wide and day-long volunteer program in 2002 to celebrate its 30th anniversary. For this one day a year, the firm closes its offices so that all employees can simultaneously participate in a community volunteer project.
“We continue to celebrate our annual Day of Caring because being a solid community citizen and contributing to the well-being of the areas where we live and work is important to our organization," said Donald Taylor, CPA, President of Fagliarone Group CPAs. “We also continue to see wonderful internal benefits for our firm, including team-building among the employees from our different offices in a roll-up-your sleeves but fun experience,” said Taylor.
"I was very impressed with the work ethic everyone demonstrated. This volunteer activity was as productive as any I've experienced in my 30 years with the Parks Department," said William Gabruk, Park Superintendent. "Our Parks and the entire community benefit from these kinds of activities," said Gabruk.
Fagliarone Group CPAs, P.C., an Independent Member of the BDO Seidman Alliance, is a regional Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm with offices in Syracuse, Auburn, New Hartford and Oswego. Established in 1972, the firm specializes in a wide range of financial services for both businesses and individuals, including tax planning and preparation, auditing and financial planning services. The firm has 50 professionals on staff.
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By Anonymous
August 12, 2004 -- Lexaloffle Games has released its Japanese rock garden puzzler for Mac OS X. Zen Puzzle Garden not only borrows the visual theme of Japanese rock gardens but also extends it into the gameplay. The apparent simple beauty of each garden conceals a greater complexity.
The player assumes the role of a diligent monk with a rake. To complete each puzzle they must rake all of the sand without raking themselves into a corner. This task is made difficult with the introduction of several rules. The monk must not walk over raked sand or rocks and must step off the sand for the garden to be completed.
Lexaloffle Games looks forward to continuing its support for both Macintosh and Windows platforms and will announce dual releases later this year.
A 5 garden demo of Zen Puzzle Garden is available for download from the game's homepage: http://www.lexaloffle.com/zen.htm
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