“I find helping others, whether through my consulting work, teaching someone how to stitch, make lace, or just lending a hand is an amazing feeling. I love watching someone I’ve worked with shine and succeed, it just makes my day.”
Meet March 2013 Kitchen Friend Alyson Krumwiede, a consultant from Severn, Maryland. Read on and enter our March giveaway inspired by Alyson’s love for her photos of family and friends.
How did you learn about Amish Friendship Bread?
I first learned of it when one of the girls I used to work with brought in this fabulous apple bread to the office. I had never had Amish Friendship Bread before though my Mom had done some similar things with a fruit cocktail thing when I was a kid. I loved the idea and asked my friend for some starter.
What is your favorite AFB variation?
Pumpkin with Chocolate Chip.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
That’s easy. It started with meeting my new husband. We met in 2009 and were married in 2011. He has just brought so much happiness to my life and is just an amazing, thoughtful loving man. We share our lives with two dogs that he has fallen in love with. I am most content when we’re in the kitchen while I’m working up something special for our dinner while we catch up from the day.
What is your favorite kitchen utensil or appliance?
My rolling pins. I have both my grandmother’s and John’s mother’s along with two other antque ones hanging on my kitchen wall. I use Grandma’s pretty much weekly when I make pizza for dinner.
What is your most treasured possession?
My photos.
What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty and not being judgemental. I am lucky to have some fabulous and supportive friends. We’ve been there for each other through good and rough times. While we each make decisions or choose paths that the other doesn’t agree with, we don’t judge, we just support.
What is your motto?
- No one can make us unhappy, only we can choose unhappiness over happiness. I choose happy.
- Don’t assume you know why someone behaves as they do until you think about why they may be behaving as they are. Usually when seen from the other perspective, it makes sense.
- Don’t tell me I can’t–it’s just a challenge to me then.
- Always leave behind a legacy in everything you do.
Thanks for answering our questions and being a part of the Kitchen community, Alyson!
THE KITCHEN FRIEND GIVEAWAY!
This giveaway is now closed! The winner is Diane Siniscalchi from Ringwood, New Jersey. Thanks to everyone who entered!
Alyson values her photographs as many of us do. It’s the heart of my novel, The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, the second book in the Friendship Bread series. To help you keep your photos, mat stacks, and scrapbooking embellishments organized, I’m giving away this ArtBin 6925AB Super Semi-Satchel to one lucky winner (US residents only, 18 years and up).
ArtBins are a favorite storage system amongst scrapbookers and crafters. Made from translucent acid free polypropylene, there are 3 removable dividers for customization. It’s perfect for card stock, photographs, embellishments, stickers, embossing folders, pre cut fabrics, bulky, hard to store punches, cutting implements and more.
This month, there are seven ways you can enter. Please leave a comment for each one. If you leave a review under another name, please make sure to tell us what it is so we’re able to find and verify it along with the date you left the review. If you’ve already left a review at an earlier date, that counts, too — just tell us when!
- Be a part of this Month’s Bake and Take.
- Take our March FBK Challenge, bake a chocolate AFB recipe, and submit your photo.
- If you’ve had a chance to read The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, please leave an honest review at Amazon.
- If you’ve had a chance to read The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, please leave an honest review at Barnes & Noble.
- If you’ve had a chance to read The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society, please leave an honest review at Goodreads.
- Take a picture of yourself reading or holding up a copy of The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society on the book’s page at Amazon.
- Tell me what you would store in your ArtBin if you won.
This contest ends on Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11:59 pm PST. Good luck!
Welcome Alyson!
I received and read the March newsletter today.
Winfield, KS
I left a review on Amazon on January 29, 2013
Winfield, KS
I left a review on Barns and Noble on January 29, 2013
Winfield, KS
I also left a review on Goodreads on January 29, 2013
Winfield, KS
I make a lot of handmade greeting cards as well as many other DIY crafts. My family and I have “play days” where we try to get together once a month and create cards, scrapbook, or create/ make may different home crafts and decorations. This art bin would be great to put all the UFO’s (unfinished objects) in when I work on more than one project at once and I think it would be easy to store.
that’s a great idea! I have loads of unfinished card projects all over the place. why have I never thought of this before?!
I would store some of my 30 years + photos in the art bin, so my grand children could look at their parents when they were young.
I received the newsletter. I would store my photos in the art bin, since these are a treasure for my grandchildren when they are older.
I made the Chocolate/ White Chocolate Marble AFB for this this months Challenge.
Winfield, KS
I entered the Take and Bake and submitted the recipe and photos of my Chocolate/ White Chocolate Marble AFB.
Winfield, KS
Hi Kira, Sharon and Monica, Thanks for the welcome and good luck in the drawing.
Alyson
Hi Alyson!
Welcome to The Friendship Bread Kitchen, and congratulations on your fairly recent marriage! I love that your perfect happiness is your husband. Even after over 33 years of marriage, I count my husband as my idea of perfect happiness. My six sons have made that happiness grow even more.
Taking photos has been a lifetime passion for me. I always want to freeze the moment. Unfortunately, since I’m taking the pictures for the most part, I’m not included in the memory in print. I guess that’s where journaling has to come in.
That you don’t judge, and instead try to figure out what a person might be going through, says a lot about your character and how much you value your friendships. I’m hoping you gain many new friends on this site!
Happy baking with your treasured rolling pins!
i’m a newsletter subscriber.
if I won the ArtBin, I would store all of the theater and musical and circus tickets I’ve collected, along with the cards and notes my children and husband have given me. I’ve been finding all kinds of precious paraphenalia as I clean and organize my house and I want to be able to save it for scrapbooking this spring and summer. It’s time!!
Hi Diane, six sons …oh my….
I’m like you, not in too many of pictures but they all bring back the memories. And like you John and I keep all the tickets from shows and concerts that we’ve been together, all the cards we’ve given each other and even the cards from flower bouquets. He’s got his squirreled away someplace but mine are in an antique doll truck.
Thank you for the welcome and I hope to make many new friends.
Alyson
I just discovered this website today when looking for new recipes using my AFB starter – so excited to start baking!
I’m a graphic designer and have a business selling original notecards. If I won this giveaway I would use the ArtBin to store the inventory that I keep at home.
Thanks!
I finished reading THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY, and wrote a review at Amazon.com. I’ve begun reading FRIENDSHIP BREAD, so I’m not as sad as I was upon finishing THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY. That was an amazing book, and I’m loving FRIENDSHIP BREAD, too!!
I posted a review of THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY on Barnes and Noble’s site.
I posted a review on Goodreads and sent a recommendation to five of my friends.
I meant to say that I posted a review of THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY on Goodreads and sent a recommendation to five of my friends.
I posted a review for THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY on amazon.com on March 14, 2013, using the name bklover52.
I posted a review of THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY on Barnes & Noble’s site on March 15, 2013, under the name ruby52.
I posted a review of THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY on Goodreads on March 14, 2013, under Diane Siniscalchi.
Sorry for all the extra book review posts, but it was late, my brain wasn’t working, and I hadn’t entered the date and the name I posted under.
I downloaded a picture of me with my copy of THE AVALON LADIES SCRAPBOOKING SOCIETY. I’m not sure where it went. I tagged it with two tags: Darien Gee and Friendship Bread Kitchen.