I’m calling you out!!!! On a roll … call, here’s where you can read about the amazing accomplishments of Sisters who earn Merit Badges. “Hear YE!”
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Merit Badges Approved 6/3/24 and 6/6/24
Maverin Dei, #8653, MaverinDei
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Jennifer Chapman, #8562, JenniferAnn
Beginner Garden Gate / What’s Your Beef?
Candy Hogan, #8283, Tigger9777
Beginner Outpost / Disconnect to Reconnect
Intermediate Outpost / Disconnect to Reconnect
Linda Bowlby, #7595
Beginner Outpost / First Aid
Intermediate Outpost / First Aid
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Merit Badges Approved 5/28/24 and 5/29/24
Cindy Kinion, #6058, AussieChick
Intermediate Make It Easy / Candlemaking
Expert Farm Kitchen / Food Allergy Awareness
Heather Neeper, #4701, nndairy
Expert Cleaning Up / Shopping Green
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Bustin’ Out
Beginner Outpost / Orienteering
Beginner Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Intermediate Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Expert Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Expert Cleaning Up / Recycling
Tiffany Bowman, #8644, HistoryGirl17
Beginner Make It Easy / Relaxation
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Lily-anne Hein, #6071, GinghamGirl
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Palate Pleasers
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Palate Pleasers
Jessie Yonkovit, #134, JessieMae
Beginner Cleaning Up / Green Energy
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Merit Badges Approved 4/24/24 and 5/1/24
Jill Yelland-DeMooy, #6748, jillyd
Beginner Garden Gate / Birds
Kellie Wade, #8487, kelliewade
Beginner Make It Easy / Let’s Get Physical
Intermediate Make It Easy / Let’s Get Physical
Beginner Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Intermediate Outpost / Buzzin’ Around
Merit Badges Approved 5/7/24
Krista Davis, #528, MaryJanesNiece
Intermediate Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Expert Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Mosaics
Beginner Make It Easy / Macrame
Hannah Frankowski, #6994, GinnyBelle
Beginner Make It Easy / Mindfulness Meditation
Intermediate Make It Easy / Mindfulness Meditation
Expert Make It Easy / Mindfulness Meditation
Beginner Cleaning Up / Leave It Better Than You Found It
Expert Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Expert Make It Easy / Relaxation
Debbie Klann, #770, debbieklann
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Expert Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Beginner Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
Expert Farm Kitchen / MaryJane’s Better Butter
Krista Butters Davis says: Great work on completing your badges!
Here are Merit Badges that were recently approved.
Congratulations Sisters!
Nancy Joplin, #8352, Nancy Joplin
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Crochet
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Homespun Christmas
Denise Thompson, #43, levisgrammy
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Cross Stitch
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Cross-Stitch
Beginner Cleaning Up / My Fair Farmgirl
Intermediate Cleaning Up / My Fair Farmgirl
Expert Cleaning Up / My Fair Farmgirl
Patricia Krug, #8551, patty
Beginner Outpost / Geography
Beginner Cleaning Up / Shopping Green
Intermediate Make It Easy / Relaxation
Debbie Klann, #770, debbieklann
Beginner Each Other / International Civics Challenge
Intermediate Each Other / Languages/Culture
Expert Each Other / Languages/Culture
Intermediate Each Other / International Civics Challenge
Expert Each Other / International Civics Challenge
Nancy Joplin, #8352, Nancy Joplin
Beginner Make It Easy / Collect It!
Beginner Make It Easy / Carp-hen-try
Tiffany Bowman, #8644, Historygirl17
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Crochet
Shennandoah Connor, #8578, Shennandoah
Expert Farm Kitchen / Get It Together
Expert Garden Gate / Herbs
Beginner Garden Gate / The Good, Bad, and Ugly … Bugs
Tina VanDaam, #8431, TinaTina
Intermediate Each Other / Calligraphy
Krista Butters Davis says: Congratulations everyone! This is an awesome amount of badges.
Below are the Merit Badges that were approved today.
Congratulations Sisters!!
Nancy Joplin, #8352, Nancy Joplin
Beginner Garden Gate / Horse Dreams
Intermediate Garden Gate / Herbs
Debbie Klann, #770, debbieklann
Intermediate Make It Easy / Through the Looking Glass
Beginner Make It Easy / Through the Looking Glass
Expert Make It Easy / Through the Looking Glass
Emily Nellinger, #8229, citychick03
Intermediate Each Other / Farmgirl Gratitude
Ann M Van Dyke says: I want to share a trilogy of books that center on a coming-of-age story about a young woman in farming/lumber country in central PA. She is mentored by a Native American healer, becomes a nurse who tends to her farming neighbors and the lumber camp workers and gets her heart broken a couple times. The Trees Inspire, The Trees Endure and The Trees Remember by Joyce L. Kieffer (a retired nurse and lover of trees) can be found at Amazon & BookBaby. Courage, family, love, loss, some wonderful animals and the wisdom of trees. I highly recommend!
Krista Butters Davis says: Congratulations ladies on completing your badges!
Below are the Merit Badges that were approved today and last Sunday.
Congratulations Sisters!!
Debbie Fischer, #1582, Blessed in Colorado
Beginner Each Other / Languages/Culture
Beginner Each Other / Families Forever
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Intermediate Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Buttoned Up
Debbie Klann, #770, debbieklann
Expert Farm Kitchen / Apples
Beginner Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Intermediate Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Expert Each Other / Lost Art of Letter Writing
Expert Farm Kitchen / Icing on the Cake
Denise Thompson, #43, levisgrammy
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Embroidery
Beginner Cleaning Up / Recycling
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Recycling
Expert Cleaning Up / Recycling
Heather Neeper, #4701, nndairy
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Scrapbooking
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Recycling
Expert Make It Easy / Relaxation
Expert Farm Kitchen / Get It Together
Joyce Hein, #6071, GinghamGirl
Beginner Cleaning Up / Living Zero Waste
Intermediate Cleaning Up / Living Zero Waste
Expert Cleaning Up / Living Zero Waste
Karen Martell, #8422, Jokamartell
Beginner Garden Gate / Herbs
Krista Davis, #528, maryjanesniece
Beginner Each Other / Families Forever
Tina VanDaam, #8431, TinaTina
Beginner Each Other / Calligraphy
Krista Butters Davis says: Congratulations ladies! You are all rocking it! I am so proud of you all.
Below are the Merit Badges that were approved today.
Congratulations Sisters!!
Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards)
Debbie Fischer, #1582, Blessed in Colorado
Beginner Outpost / Farmgirl’s Best Friend
Beginner Make It Easy / Let’s Get Physical
Beginner Make It Easy / Relaxation
Krista Butters-Davis, #528, maryjanesniece
Beginner Each Other / Calligraphy
Expert Stitching & Crafting / UFOs
Hannah Frankowski, #6994, GinnyBelle
Intermediate Make It Easy / Relaxation
Denise Thompson, #43, levisgrammy
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Embroidery
Tina VanDaam, #8431, TinaTina
Expert Stitching & Crafting / Quilling
Joanne Seruto, #7580, JoanneMS58
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Sew Wonderful
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Knitting
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Cross-Stitch
Intermediate Stitching & Crafting / Cross-Stitch
Beginner Stitching & Crafting / Quilting
Heather Neeper, #4701, nndairy
Beginner Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Intermediate Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Expert Farm Kitchen / Kitchen Renegade
Krista Butters Davis says: Congratulations everyone! It’s so exciting to see all these completed badges. Amazing work!
Welcome New Sisters! (click for current roster)
Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards)
My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is Debbie Klann!
Debbie Klann (debbieklann #770) has received a certificate of achievement in Farm Kitchen for earning an Expert Level Carpe Cocoa Merit Badge!
“I already knew how to make ganache, so I found 2 different ganache recipes to make my truffles, one dark and one white chocolate. The 4 flavors I decided on were White Chocolate Cranberry Orange (my favorite); White Chocolate Peppermint, dipped in Dark Chocolate (reminiscent of a York peppermint patty); a Bailey’s truffle dipped in dark chocolate’ and a Crown Maple truffle, also dipped in dark chocolate.
I had heard that Starbucks offered chocolate drinks during the holidays. I think I will watch for them and try their version if they are offered again. I tried to make a Mexican version of hot chocolate, not overly sweet but had hints of cinnamon. I really liked it! I don’t think I will try the Aztec chocolate drink (chocolate mixed with grown maize) anytime in the near future!”
Winnie Nielsen says: Wow Debbie, Your chocolate inventions sound delicious!! You came up with some very creative ideas.
Barbara Criss says: Congrats Debbie—be proud of yourself—the best I can do is no bake chocolate cookies.
The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with 7,504 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far—10,886 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ
Wondering who I am? I’m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life …
For this week’s Farm Kitchen/Do You Know the Muffin Man? Beginner Level Young Cultivator Merit Badge, Piper and I put up our muddy boots and got to talking.
Talking about? Muffins, of course. I mean, is there anything else in the wide, green world to talk about really? Right up there with Nancy Drew mystery stories, dresses with pockets, and whether or not one believes in ghosts, breakfast foods are really the go-to in any young girl’s conversational arsenal.
Perhaps Pooh and Piglet put it best:
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said.
But of course—and this is the really exciting part—muffins aren’t just for breakfast anymore. They belong to one of those remarkable food categories like eggs, apples with peanut butter, and granola bars: an excellent choice no matter the time of day. Midnight snack muffins? Um, yes please. Breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, lunch, snack, dinner, and dessert? They can all be satiated with a muffin. They really are the perfect food …
“Aunty,” said Piper, “you’re getting that dreamy-eyed look again. Are you okay?”
“Just waxing poetical about muffins,” said I. “Top or bottom?”
“Top, of course!”
“What if you slice them from top to bottom instead of lopping off the top like most people do? Then each half would have half a top and half a bottom?”
Piper thought for a minute, then declared me a genius. (I know, I admit it humbly.)
Our next question was regarding our favorite flavors and it was such a long discussion we needed sustenance and lemonade, so we broke out the cookie jar while we deliberated. In the end, while we did choose current favorites, we realized our muffin knowledge was sadly lacking. Example: Piper had only ever had blueberry muffins and chocolate muffins, and I had been stuck in a lemon poppyseed rut for far too long. We had a feeling this badge was going to get us out of our comfort zone, and we were right!
Joan Hendrix says: I’ve been cutting my muffins vertically for years just so I get some top with each half! I would eat muffins every day if I could get away with it.
Love ’em!
Lisa Von Saunder says: Love the Pooh and Piglet reference. I could live on muffins. Being southern originally, corn muffins top my bucket list of must haves. I am now making mine from hand ground corn meal made from the greatest corn for baking of all, Floriani. It was a gift from a young ethno-botanist friend , who grew the corn and ground it by hand and so forth. I treasure it and its over the top corny flavor.
Barbara Criss says: I love muffins—especially blueberry ones. My friends little boy called them moo-fins. I am afraid I picked up this bad habit and now my husband calls them moo-fins too. I need to bake more of them, but I truly hate to wash a muffin pan. You are right they are a great food.
Lisa Von Saunder says: hi Barbara, try some pam on the entire pan and use muffin cups, I like the aluminum foil ones.
Savory – fits the bill for me. Feta and spinach and ham and cheddar both are great with soup or salad as a meal or as mini’s to go with cocktails!
Welcome New Sisters! (click for current roster)
Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards)
My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is Joanna Vaughan!
Joanna Vaughan (JojoNH #566) has received a certificate of achievement in Stitching & Crafting for earning a Beginner Level of the Quilting Merit Badge!
“Learned how to sew the quilting squares together by hand. Using 2 1/2″ squares, I assembled the top to a table runner. The runner measures 31″ long by 15″ wide finished.
Learned an easy technique to add the batting and backing to the top. Learned which stitches would be best for the binding edge, and then decided on a tied top for finishing the quilting.
Since this was all done by hand, it took between 24-28 hours from start to finish.
I’m now obsessed!! I have always loved hand-sewing. Now, knowing how easy this was to do, I’m ready to tackle a larger project by hand as well. I could not be happier with the end result of my table runner!”
Barbara Criss says: This is really beautiful! The colors go together so well. You should be so proud of yourself. Keep doing more projects because obviously you have a talent for this. You go girl!
Lisa Von Saunder says: Just lovely Joanna! All that hand work, amazing!
Debbie Klann says: Joanna, that is lovely! I can’t believe that is only your first project…nice work! And I love that you are now hooked on quilting!
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
I want to vote on the bouquets (Fake or real). The instructions say to search for Joy and Smiles but when I do, nothing is found. Can you please send me a link or better instructions?
Thank you so much.
Gail Chapman
Live Oak, FL
Gail, here is the link that should take you right to it.
https://www.raisingjane.org/journal/67466
Congratulations everyone! Keep up the amazing work!