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Mailing Address: The David and Carrie Franzwa Family TIPS of Oregon (Parent Company) 59 Eaton Street, Ste. B Lebanon, Oregon 97355 Email: TIPSofOregon [ -at- ] centurytel.net (add @ symbol, remove spaces and brackets) Phone: 541-259-6617

On Newstands Everywhere! (Someday)

The Better Homes and Gardens website has a new cover maker tool you can dream with! I made a mock cover to imagine myself rich and famous Too fun!

How Thanksgiving Time Travel Got Started

After 20+ years of daily cooking – a chore I do not relish – I finally decided in 2007 that I hated the Thanksgiving holiday, and it was time to go on some sort-of a strike! I just had to do something totally different ‘cause the holiday was boring me to tears. As I had [...]

Privacy Policy

Well, the IdeasThanksgiving.com privacy policy is a whole mess of legal mumbo jumbo, and I didn’t want three pages worth of mumbo jumbo here, so we’ve put it in a pdf for tidiness. To open the pdf document for reading, just click on this link: Privacy-Policy pdf

IdeasThanksgiving.com Mission Statement

The Ideas Thanksgiving .com mission is to create a Reality Thanksgiving Revolution which will end Thanksgiving stereotypes and boredom, give American Indian people recognition and voice, and help turn the tide of  public opinion that history study is “boring and irrelevant.” We accomplish these objectives by:  a)  informing Americans about the devastating impact which traditionalist [...]

Business Links

HorseVector.com Horse vectors and clipart graphics. Even offers beautiful horse crest designs and ornaments suitable for t-shirts and tattoos! MiniCollectiblePuzzles.com Puzlet Gem miniature 1930′s-style collectible puzzles in wood. Free instructions for making any Puzlet into a Christmas tree ornament.

About Carrie

I have enjoyed the life callings of career homemaker, artist, parent, foster parent, and home school educator K-8.   My darling husband, David, and I moved our family into a lovely, big old fixer-upper home in the small town of Lebanon, Oregon in ‘99.   We’re still here, and loving it.  The only thing that could move [...]