So it’s my birthday next week, and currently I keep thinking about what birthday cake to have. Perhaps I may be a bit strange but I prefer to make my own cake. It’s not that I don’t trust other people, I just love to bake and ice cakes! Currently, I am constantly pursuing pinterest to add to my birthday cake board. These are my current contenders: (P.S. I am not crazy, I would only make a one layer cake!)
While repainting a room, we noticed that the door had some tape that would not come off. It had been there for years and decided to try to stay there permanently. So out came the magic “goo be gone” stuff. The only problem was one swipe was not enough to get the tape to budge. Not even two swipes or three. So I got tired of swiping (I wonder if Swiper feels the same way with Dora? I swipe a door, he swipes a Dora, pretty similar if you ask me and mine got boring.) I had other things to do than sit there and hold the goo stuff to the door. So I used painters tape (since it won’t hurt paint) and taped those paper towels to the door. Then I spent about 5 minutes doing other things, and came back to check. Some only needed five minutes, some took about 10 or 15 minutes, but that was better than me sitting there the entire time.
Here’s a handy little tip for painting. I hate having to rinse my brushes in between coats, I feel like its just such a waste of time but until now I did not know to how keep my brushes wet. Well it turns out it is quiet simple, just wrap them in tin foil! Tin foil keeps them wet overnight even. The trick is to wrap them real tight in the foil, making sure there aren’t any spots for air to get in. Happy Painting!
I love going to Ikea; for me, it’s a creative minefield. There are just so many pretty things to look at and see. Plus, you get free measuring tapes and pencils! For the most part, the items tend to be quiet reasonable in price. Here are my tips to not get overwhelmed at Ikea:
1) Plan to spend about 2 to 3 hours there if you are just browsing for ideas.
2) Eat at the Restaurant. Seriously, its delicious and inexpensive. I recommend the veggie medallions. Actually, I haven’t had a bad thing there yet!
3) Touch everything! Well, kind of. Go through all the displays and look around. Sit in the chairs. Check out the floor plans. Make lists on the sheets they give you. Be amazed at how these people exist in such small spaces.
4) Check out some of the small things (like plates and such), they really are quiet cute and durable. They even have fabric!
5) The Swedish Market: it’s right after the cash register. It’s got some great stuff, including those veggie medallions and lignonberry jam. And of course, Swedish fish!
Good luck! Do you have any tips for Ikea? Are you just as overwhelmed as me each time?
I love throwing a good party, from Valentine’s crafternoons to Thanksgiving potlucks. The other weekend, Mom decided to throw a party in honor of my graduation and B’s adoption. She even made me come home from Miami to teach her how to pin things on pinterest because she kept seeing all these ideas and did not know what to do with them. At first the theme was food on sticks, because there are so many cute ideas out there. Then we realized not everything could be on a stick so we wanted mini things. Pinterest kept filling us with unrealistic expectations for how our party should be (Exhibit A and Exhibit B). All the bright colors made us realize that we wanted more color in our theme, so we went with rainbows. We did not have any actual rainbows just tons of rainbow colors. Later this week, I will show you how we made these delightful cheesecake sticks. They were a hit! Do your parties ever evolve like ours? They start off trying to be one thing and end up being something completely else?
P.S. It was not until halfway through the party, I managed to grab a few pictures, so excuse the half-eaten displays!
Our collection of colorful things purchased/repurposed for the party
So I know it looks like all I eat are unhealthy treats (exhibit A and exhibit B, both from last week) but I eat healthy things as well, like super healthy things. Currently, I am on a vegetarian kick with my mom. She likes to say “we are three meatballs short of being vegetarians”, well actually, its more like three meatballs and a piece of really good bacon, and a chicken sandwich, oops. Normally, we just have one “oops” per week, which isn’t tooooo bad. We had a friend come over the other day and teach us some super healthy cooking. This was the first thing we made and it was delicious! Do not knock it till you try it!
Ingredients:
Kale
Sea Salt
Olive Oil
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2)Cut out stems of Kale. Run a knife blade along both edges of the stem. Then tear kale into pieces. (About 2 inch sections)
3) In a bowl, coat lightly the kale with Olive oil. Then sprinkle on a bit of Sea Salt.
4) Place coated kale on cookie sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes. (I like mine crunchy but not yet burnt, its like making s’mores everyone has their own preferred level of crispyness)
5) Enjoy!
What’s your favorite healthy recipe? Do you try to balance things out? Everything in moderation, including moderation?
Posts
All Comments
