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Interview Questions
- What is unique about your cookbooks?
- Are the recipes difficult?
- What inspired you to write two cookbooks?
- What makes the second book literally “Cooking 101?”
- Do you plan a third?
- Tell me how you have incorporated technology into the first cookbook!
- Why do you feel entertaining in the home is so important?
- Is it a good idea to prepare the entire meal, appetizers through desserts, on the day of the dinner party?
- Did your mother teach you how to cook?
Professional Organizations
- CIPA – Colorado Independent Publishers Association, member from 2014 – 2019
- Toastmasters of Highlands Ranch, CO, member June 2014 to March 2017
- Colorado Market Maker/Colorado Proud, member 2014
- Highlands Ranch Chamber of Commerce, member October 2014-October 2017
- Denver Samoyed Association, Member – December 2014 – Present
- CIPA EVVY Awards Judge, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Toastmasters of Highlands Ranch Officer, Sergeant at Arms, July 2015 – March 2017
- SMDRA (South Metro Denver Realtor Association) Affiliate Member, June 2015 – September 2016
- CIPA Board member October 2016 – May 2017
- CIPA EVVY Awards Coordinator February – August 2017
- CAL (Colorado Authors’ League) Member – February 2017-Present
- CAL Banquet Coordinator for their annual awards banquet in May – January 2018 – June 30, 2019
- CAL Board member – January 2018 – June 30, 2019
- SCA (Samoyed Club of America) Member July 2022 – Present
Awards
- Allgood Provisions Best Recipe contest, November 2012, Cranberry Crostini (page 23 in Eclectic Entertaining-Complete Dinner Party Menus)
- “Best Speaker” award from Toastmasters 6-25-14 entitled “If You Can Read You Can Cook!”
- 3rd Place CIPA EVVY Award for Book Cover Design, 8-23-2014
- 2nd Place CIPA EVVY Award for Cookbook, 8-23-2014
- “Best Speaker” award from Toastmasters 6-24-15 entitled “The Best Closing Gift Ever!”
- “Best Speaker” award from Toastmasters Highlands Ranch December 2015 entitled “The 90 Second Elevator Pitch”
- “Best Speaker” award from Toastmasters 5-11-16 entitled “The Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth”
- Starred Review by Blue Ink Review, their highest rating, February 2017
- 1st Place CIPA EVVY Award for Cooking, 8-19-2017
- 1st Place CIPA EVVY Award for Cover Design, 8-19-2017
- 1st Place CIPA EVVY Award for eBooks, 8-19-2017
Interesting Bits and Pieces
Continue to donate blood, platelets and plasma to Vitalant (formerly Bonfils Blood Center) and have reached 6+ gallons!
Auditioned for Master Chef’s Best Home Cook, Los Angeles, October 18, 2014, Signature dish: Lemon Lavender Burrata
Began filming YouTube cooking videos February 2015. Search “Eclectic Entertaining” on YouTube to find over 35 of them! Easy and yummy recipes await as do fabulous cooking tips to make your life easier. “2 Minute Delicious” videos are fast, fun and informative.
Have taught many cooking classes in cooking shops, 1 private for 29 guests at a neighborhood community center and 1 private for a Cancer fundraiser silent auction gift basket entitled “Small Plates for 8 in Your Home.”
Earned my “Competent Communicator Award” in Toastmasters – March 2017
Have run forty-eight 5k races, five 7k races and one 10k race as of January 2024, Grand total: 54! You should see my awesome t-shirt collection! Race #49 was for a great cause – #SaveTheSeaTurtles. Shoot, they are all good causes! In race #30, The Make a Wish Foundation, I won my division! I even won my division in the May 2017 Race for Shelter 5k and came in 3rd (in my division) in the October 2017 Make a Wish 5k! In the Shamrock Stampede March 2019, I came in 2nd in my division. Turning 60 has its advantages! These races always benefit wonderful causes and are lots of fun. Give them a try! Back to the 7k races….who has ever heard of a “7k?” Welllllll, these are Bronco runs downtown Denver. I’ll assume it is because John Elway was #7. I am SO glad he was not #18 like Peyton Manning! Whew! This race benefits disabled athletes, another noble cause.
Marked my 40th year as a Dental Hygienist as of May 2023!
You Tube Interview for CIPA (Colorado Independent Publishers’ Association) February 2019
Tips on throwing your book launch party in your home
The Goat Writers’ Talk Radio Interview, KYGT 102.7 Idaho Springs, CO
November 2016 with Jerry Fabyonic
Radio Spotlights
Dining at KZYR The Beaver Creek Experience
Feb 13. 2014
Highlands Ranch Herald – December 2016
“My Name Is”
In The News KMIR TV-March 2015
Foodie Friday: Eclectic Entertaining Spotlight
KMIR TV – Feb. 2015
Vail Daily: Author Barbara Stafford Returns to Beaver Creek
KMIR TV – Feb. 2015
Foodie Friday: Barbara Stafford prepares appetizers
KMIR TV – Mar. 2014
The Beaver Creek Experience
KZYR Radio – Feb. 2014
Cookbook author visits Beaver Creek Saturday
Vail Daily – Feb. 2014
Palm Springs native to bring back the art of entertaining
Desert Sun Online – Feb. 2014
‘Eclectic Entertaining’ author to autograph books in Edwards
Vail Daily – Dec. 2013
Recipes from Books, Bites and Brews
Douglas County Libraries – Nov. 2013
Books, Bites and Brews with Douglas County Libraries
Castle Rock Magazine – Nov. 2013
Eclectic Entertaining Book Signing Event
Vail Daily – Aug. 2013
Eclectic Entertaining featured on the Everyday Show
Everyday Show | KDVR FOX 31 – June 2013
Book Signing Fun in Edwards
Vail Daily – Apr. 2013
The locally penned reading list
Sneak Peak Vail – Apr. 2013
Local love for Vail Valley authors
Vail Daily – Apr. 2013
Local Author Showcase slated for Friday at The Bookworm of Edwards
Vail Daily – Apr. 2013
Denver author in town for double book signing today
Vail Daily – Mar. 2013
Book Signing Event at Karin’s Today
Vail Daily – Feb. 2013
Dinners without Distress
Highlands Ranch Herald – Nov. 2012
