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Check out the ideas here -
Or make cookies -
Quick Banana Chocolate Chip Bars
1 Medium Ripe Banana, peeled
1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
¾ Cup Brown Sugar, packed
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
½ Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
¼ Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Olive or Vegetable Oil
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 Egg
¼ Cup Chopped Nuts
½ Cup Chocolate Chips (or what feels good)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray small rectangular or 9x9 square baking pan with non-stick spray.
Chop or mash banana. Combine with flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, oil, milk, vanilla and egg in large bowl. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips to this mixture OR save them to add as topping, sprinkling on top of mixture after poured into the pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Isabellas (Oatmeal Cookies)
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oats
Dash salt, optional
Powdered Sugar
Cream butter and sugar until light. Mix in vanilla, then flour, oats and salt. Chill thoroughly. Shape into small balls and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Flatten with a fork, crisscrossing. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-18 minutes (depending on your oven). Sprinkle with Powdered Sugar
Valentines day, Help!?
Check ideas here:
make a heart or a rose:
Laminate a photo of the two of you, made into a bookmark - so it can be a few small pics or just one, glue it to construction paper with hearts, then hole punch the top and put a ribbon of some kind through the hole.
Make cookies:
Quick Banana Chocolate Chip Bars
1 Medium Ripe Banana, peeled
1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
¾ Cup Brown Sugar, packed
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
½ Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
¼ Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Olive or Vegetable Oil
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 Egg
¼ Cup Chopped Nuts
½ Cup Chocolate Chips (or what feels good)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray small rectangular or 9x9 square baking pan with non-stick spray.
Chop or mash banana. Combine with flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, oil, milk, vanilla and egg in large bowl. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips to this mixture OR save them to add as topping, sprinkling on top of mixture after poured into the pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Isabellas (Oatmeal Cookies)
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oats
Dash salt, optional
Powdered Sugar
Cream butter and sugar until light. Mix in vanilla, then flour, oats and salt. Chill thoroughly. Shape into small balls and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Flatten with a fork, crisscrossing. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-18 minutes (depending on your oven). Sprinkle with Powdered Sugar
how to keep clarinet reeds from chipping so quickly?
If we're talking chips and not splits then we have a 'banging them on something' problem. Reeds don't normally chip all by themselves through normal playing and when they do, it's not daily.
Splits, on the other hand, aren't uncommon at all and could be due to bad quality, too dry, playing to rough, etc...
Chips are nearly always the result of hitting something such as the teeth, another player, the mouthpiece cap, or the ligature (put the ligature on before putting on the reed), etc... Or the result of damage on the mouthpiece itself.
The strength of the reed won't matter - if you look at the tip of a 1 and compare it to a 5; the difference there isn't really all that great to the eye - they're all very thin.
There's no way that you're getting consistent bad quality from the brands you're using - those companies just don't turn out consistent garbage.
That means we have a player issue here and that she's not "very careful" after all. She's likely doing something she doesn't know she's doing.
First check her reedguard and make sure there's nothing down in there where the reed tip goes. Like a piece of old reed.
If we're chipping on the corners then the reed isn't centered on the mouthpiece (causing it to crack on the corner and then chip off when hit against anything - even lips). Check the position of the reed against the mouthpiece rail - it should be very nearly even all around.
If she puts the cap on with the reed attached or puts the ligature on after placing the reed then she may be hitting the reed at that point.
Check the mouthpiece itself - is it chipped anywhere along the tip or rails? If so, trash it.
There's nothing wrong with Rico plasticover reeds for a student. There are even some professional situations that those are good for. That's not your issue either. Does she chip those as well?
A clarinet teacher or professional player would be a lot of help and might take only a few minutes to isolate the problem.
Make sure that it's not either of 1) she does it to avoid playing 2) a classmate is doing it
Add: and if nobody ever mentioned to her, don't handle the reed tip at all. Flexing the tip of a reed weakens it considerably and makes it prone to cracking.
