Hope you had an enjoyable Turkey Day and gave many thanks for all of the blessings in your lives. #1 – Decorating With . . . Dried apple slices and cinnamon sticks add a homey and fragrant touch to holiday wreaths, garlands, and potpourri, but how about decorating presents with them? Use brown postal wrapping [...]
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Friday’s Fresh Five (11/20/09)
Posted in Helping Others, In The Kitchen, inspiration, Kids, Organization, Parenting, Style and fashion, tagged blog, children, family, fashion, food, inspiration, Kids, Parenting, quotes, random thoughts, regional produce on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The crisp air and clear blue skies were enough to lure me outside to enjoy the fall weather. This past weekend my husband and I paid visits to two of our favorite local produce haunts. Struble Ranch has just opened for the season with a bumper crop of mandarins and is located on one of [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five (11/13/09)
Posted in In The Kitchen, inspiration, Records, Style and fashion, tagged blog, culture, fashion, food, inspiration, Recipes, shopping, style on November 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
#1 – Shop for Less Shopping in Asian markets is an experience for me. It’s amazing how much cheaper fruits, vegetables, bulk spices, and even meats are in these stores, not to mention the variety of goods available. For example, the Asian market I frequent sells medium-sized frozen prawns by the scoopful for $3.99 a [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five (10/30/09)
Posted in Art and Crafts, Creativity, Gardening, Gift Ideas, Helping Others, Recipes, Recycling, Style and fashion, tagged design, fashion, food, friends, inspiration, love, Recipes on October 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
#1 – Spooky Cake My Way! I have to say that biting into crunchy chocolate bits and creamy pockets of sweetness of the Oreo cookies hidden in this cake, was a spooktacular experience! Even though Maida Heatter’s (Spooky) Oreo Bundt Cake sounded good, I didn’t have all the ingredients for it and I was in [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five (10/23/09)
Posted in Art and Crafts, Creativity, Handcrafted Cards, In The Kitchen, Style and fashion, tagged birthday cards, blog, color, cooking, food, meat on October 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
#1 – Can You Guess Which Birthday My Husband Just Celebrated? Using paper punches and glue, I made this simple birthday card for my husband. I layered the hearts on top of the circles to create the symbol of five as they appear on dice. It’s an easy design that could be used with other [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five (10/16/09)
Posted in Helping Others, Recycling, Style and fashion, tagged fashion, good deeds, produce, quotes, random thoughts, Recycling, style on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The winds and rain blew through midweek. It’s foggy outside right now, but still looking to be a beautiful weekend. Here’s this week’s edition of Friday’s Fresh Five. # 1 – A Market Tip From Bob (my dad, a former supermarket owner) Eggplants come in a variety of colors such as ivory, white, lavender, variegated [...]
Friday’s Fresh Five (10/9/09)
Posted in Helping Others, Style and fashion, tagged blog, food, inspiration, people, photos, random thoughts, style on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Another week has gone by and it’s time for another Friday’s Fresh Five! #1 A Worthwhile Quote: Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Roman Emperor and Philosopher #2 A Market Tip from Bob (my dad) Although oranges are [...]
Friday’s Random Five
Posted in Helping Others, Recycling, Style and fashion, tagged Community, cooking, fashion, food, musings, quotes, random thoughts, Recycling on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello everyone! Thank you for taking the time to read my blog and for the positive feedback! If you like my blog you can subscribe to it by clicking on either “Posts” or “Comments” at the top right hand corner of my blog. A page will appear and there will be a section at the [...]
Wobbly Bits
Posted in About me, Aging, Kids, Style and fashion, tagged culture, fashion, marketing, media, shopping, women on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every woman has her Achilles’ heel, not just in the normal sense, but in terms of her body image. Renee Zellweger, in her movie role of Bridget Jones, provides a portrait of this insecurity as Bridget gets dressed under a blanket because she does not want her boyfriend to see her “wobbly bits.” Working in [...]
What About Wearing White After Labor Day?
Posted in Style and fashion, tagged Labor Day, wearing white on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not a fashion expert by any means, but dressing my Barbie Dolls until I was ten years-old and working in women’s retail clothing for over a year has taught me that almost every fashion rule we knew before can’t stand on a single frayed thread nowadays. Yes, we can now wear brown with black [...]
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