tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13582997315410646172024-02-19T00:54:40.986-08:00the pink couchTara Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374484947015212068noreply@blogger.comBlogger416125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1358299731541064617.post-8591360672903819732015-07-18T11:44:00.002-07:002015-07-18T11:46:19.286-07:00walking before midnight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Last week while scrolling through the sea of facebook updates, I found one that made me wish that I was a tad closer demographically to my good friend <a href="http://www.scrumdillydilly.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jessica</a>. She wanted to know if anyone would like to join her for an early morning walk on the beach. Of course, I sat there on my barstool in front of my own computer screen waving my hand in the air: "me!! me, I want (need!) to go for a walk on the beach! pick me!!!!" No walk on the beach for this desert girl but it did spark an idea: a virtual <a href="http://scrumdillydilly.blogspot.com/2015/07/walking-before-midnight.html" target="_blank">blog-hop walk</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">because sometimes you just need to escape, to be outside surrounded by nothing more than the warm desert light of summer and towering cactus plants. Ironically, I find myself craving the outdoor scenery more so in the summer months here, likely due to needing to spend so much time indoors because of the heat. There is an art however to venturing outside in the desert during summer months though that makes the 100+ temps bearable - I've learned to move slowly through the desert and in doing so I'm rewarded with the time to take in and observe the smallest of details in the landscape around me. Taking a walk outdoors in the evening also means that there are far less people to share the surrounding areas with, you're often left with sprawling landscapes all to yourself, void of any other person but filled with wildlife that comes alive as the sun starts its slow journey towards the horizon. It may not be the ocean but the contrast between this harsh environment and the details in the cactus, the colors of the blooming summer flowers and vastness of the terrain is what makes Phoenix so beautiful during this time of year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">xo ~ Tara</span></div>
Tara Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374484947015212068noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1358299731541064617.post-63133154562753219212015-06-16T11:02:00.000-07:002015-06-16T11:02:38.981-07:00Gossamer Blue and Etsy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> It's super hard to believe but an entire year has already gone by and my time as a designer for Gossamer Blue has come to an end. With my final kit, I decided to create a few things that went along with the kids' final month of school. So, a couple of cute teacher gifts were put together. I seriously love gift wrapping. The little layers of fun paper things mixed with random unexpected objects; painted feathers, sequins, those cute word bobby pins! These little gift wrap boxes actually inspired a couple of new ideas for the etsy shop as well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Since the kids are on summer break, I've signed both of them up for a summer reading program through the local library. As an incentive for reading, I made them these little reading log books with Popsicle book marks. The reading logs are made with a PL 3x4 card and then filled with index cards cut down to size. It's such a fun way to encourage the littles to read more! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> and finally the Etsy part! I am reopening up my little shop tomorrow. Now that my obligations have slowed in time for summer, I'm hoping to have lots of extra time to devote to my own collections! This first update is called: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Thanks for stopping in today! I look forward to being able to post a little more regularly as well. I've come to love summers and the extra time that comes along with the warm season! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's hard to believe but this week is the kids' last week of school. We made it and I'm not sure who is more excited about the impending last day of school but it may just be this mommy! I imagine without the constant stack of homework and projects every night to help with, I will have more time to create and photograph - something that I miss doing throughout the year!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> and the end of the school year means Graduations to celebrate and lots of teacher appreciation gifts to hand out - which leads to lots of creative gift wrapping since I'm a huge fan of gift cards. It takes a little imagination to make a gift card feel like a well thought out gift and it's achievable if you spend a little more time with the gift wrap process - it's all about the layers! So this month with the help of some <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue kits</a> I wanted to focus on some creative ways to wrap up those tiny presents! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is still one my project to share with Gossamer this month, a fun little travel journal that you can quickly create for your summer road trips! These were made with the May main kit! I plan on making a few extra of these, I think they'll come in handy to take along with us on our traveling adventures this summer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Have a wonderful weekend friends! The family has plans to visit a ranch this weekend (and I'm super excited to be bringing along my camera, I've been wanting to break in a new camera lens - just needed the right setting!) The rest of the weekend will be spent preparing my Etsy shop again - so looking forward to summer and all the of the possibilities! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If I had to choose between all of the kits over at <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue</a> I would pick the Bits & Pieces kit - every time! I always find that I look forward to sorting through that kit the most each month and the May kit Bits & Pieces kit is one of my all time favs! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Welcome to the GB May Blog Hop friends! I knew I wanted to save this kit to use for a project after Mother's Day. We took the kids down to Schnepf Farms for their annual Peach Festival on Mother's Day and spent the afternoon picking peaches, riding carnival rides and eating a bit too much kettle corn. It was a wonderful sunny afternoon here in the desert - which is where I decided to draw the creative inspiration for this tiny mini album named appropriately: Desert Peach!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The first page in this album is simply a little stack of vintage papers all stacked and stapled to a cardstock page. It's like having a notebook to fill out, a narrative about a day well spent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Since this book is so incredibly tiny, each page is only 3x3 inches, I knew I needed to keep the individual pages simple and as flat as possible. My love of embellishing would have to take a back seat to the simple approach this time around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I cheated a little and used a few older photos of my Mom's garden. California peaches are slightly prettier than the desert grown ones - in my opinion of course. Even Chase was convinced that we were picking mango's instead of peaches. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Even though it was warm May Sunday it never really seemed to phase the kids much. It was like an Easter Egg hunt looking for peaches that were ripe enough to pick and we came home with a bag full of sweet smelling fruit! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you enjoyed my mini album post and don't forget to check out these girls' blogs for more super cute Gossamer Blue projects! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This past summer was really a turning point for me as I implemented a whole new healthy goal complete with a diet overhaul and a rigorous daily workout plan. Tired of feeling tired and ran down, I sat outside in the front yard one evening with some other neighborhood moms, chatting while our kids played together. I was playing with the idea of purchasing a juicer but still not convinced about the price or if I would even like blending my fruits and veggies together, so I was interested in others opinions. It seems as though everyone owns a juicer these days - but it also seems that not everyone likes to use it. I had to wonder why. I made a mental note, a promise really to use mine (once I picked one out) more than just once before I banished it to the appliance graveyard - that cabinet in everyone's kitchen full of once loved barely used appliances that were purchased with good intentions or while watching a tv infomercial. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I finished the summer almost 30 pounds lighter, (it took me about 3 months) and in the best shape I'd ever been in. I'll compare it to being 15 again and running track everyday. I felt great and had lots of extra energy - something being a mom doesn't always allow for and </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I did it all the old fashioned way - just a green diet (I ate 3 meals, snacks and juice everyday, I didn't do just a juice diet) and exercise and to think it started with one simple <a href="http://thepinkcouch.blogspot.in/2014/10/green-breakfast-smoothie-menu-plan.html" target="_blank">green juice recipe</a>! As time has gone on, I've created a note book full of scribbled down recipes and notes for different juice recipes. Sometimes they work out and some are just undrinkable. Trial and error! It's interesting when you find something that works, everyone wants to know how you're doing it and I must have sent out at least 50 emails full of recipes and my workout schedule. But I like the idea of adding the recipes to my blog and then I'll pinned them all to a board on Pinterest, that way I'll just direct people to one spot. Easy-peasy! (Plus I like to see a photo of each one, I judge recipes by the photo :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1/2 a peeled cucumber</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2-3 cups spinach leaves</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 apple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 sprig mint </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">juice from half a lime </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 guava</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 cup pineapple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1 inch peeled piece of ginger</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Add all ingredients to a juicer and enjoy! This amount of fruit and veggies will make 1 serving of juice, or 1 full mason jar. If you dilute it with some green tea you could make 2 servings! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">*I know what your're probably thinking the ingredients were doable until you read broccoli. Here's the thing though, I add broccoli to almost every green juice I make because it's super healthy for you - high in vitamins A, K and D. Vitamin D is especially important for me as I tend to tow the line of a deficit. There is a trick though for drinking broccoli: make sure you have the freshest broccoli possible, it should be firm and not have a strong smell. I find that the firmer/fresher it is I won't be able to taste or smell it. Also, the fruit you choose for your juice will cover the taste, usually pineapple or apples will do the trick to cover the taste of broccoli. Still not convinced? Add one small piece at a time and then try your juice to see if it's something you will like. There's nothing worse than making a whole glass of juice only to taste it and not want to drink it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now that it's almost summer time again and school is starting to wrap up, I'm preparing to submerse myself back into a daily gym routine and I'll admit I'm actually kind of excited about it! Living in the desert during the summer when temps can reach 120 limits the possibility of doing anything outdoors during the day. There's really nothing to do but spend the afternoons in the gym - at least it's air-conditioned! Plus it just feels good to work so hard and be able to see results - it's vain but true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Do you have a favorite green juice recipe? I plan to hopefully add a new one maybe each week to the blog and I'd love to try yours or at least hear what you think is a winning combination of fruit and vegetables! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">xo~ Tara</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Since Mother's Day is almost upon us, I wanted to get started making a few quick gifts for the Grandma's this year. I decided on the idea of making small mini album of the kids' photos from this past year. I love small albums!!! - they fit in your hand and they are super convenient to take along with you (in case Grandma wants to show off photos of the grandkids :) and you can make them in a matter of hours! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I made one for Chase too using lots of Basic Grey products. I tried to photograph his book but I didn't like the photos even after editing them. Using the same simple page construction as Alaina's book, Chase's book has a total of 12 pages with every other page as a photo page. I think his book took a little longer to make, I had arrange and then rearrange lots of little embellishments until they were just right!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope you have a fantastic afternoon! We have plans to visit an outdoor museum today. I've managed to keep it a secret from the kids as I know they've been wanting to go and visit this Rock Garden. Adventure #2 this week - here we come! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I think one of the best parts of Arizona is it's history and I'm not one to pass up the chance to share it with the kids. On Easter, instead of having a big family event, we decided to fill some backpacks with water and snacks and head out to explore. Turns out just up the road is the site of a 900 year old Hohokom Indian ruin - 5 buildings of 40 rooms plus the courtyards. Unfortunately I left my smaller lens behind in favor of the larger one that I own so I wasn't able to capture the full lengths and dimensions of the rooms. (I'll be returning to photograph again later this week!) It's definitely worth taking another trip back to explore the surrounding desert again! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> These are pieces of red clay pottery left behind.</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I explained to the kids again why it's important to respect the history of the land and to leave it alone so that others are able to see the same things we do. Luckily, they seem to both understand and are careful to not disrupt the area around them and luckily the people who explored this area before us must have felt the same way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Notice the person to the left of this huge rock! I've read some varying theories about this rock, all of which I plan to investigate a little closer when I go back. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Most of this trail is rock or gravel which makes for an easy but slippery hike in some places. At this time of year the trail is over grown with wild flowers and flowering cacti which makes for some beautiful landscape photography. I was really impressed with this site and the kids give it a lot of thumbs up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope you enjoyed the photos of our afternoon hike! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love the first of the month when I update my gallery over at <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue</a>! It's fun to see lots of little projects all come together. This month's kit include lots of Elles Studio paper and Simply Stories chipboard embellishments. The add-on kits though came with a variety of Crate Paper - Craft Market products - which are my personal favorite!(How could you go wrong with that much gold glitter!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here's a super cute idea for Easter (there's still a little time!) Easter Bunny wands! I found a printable template and used the template to trace out a 'chocolate' bunny shape onto some scrapbook paper. I cut out the shapes, mine are backed with colored card stock paper, and then sewed almost all the way around the bunny leaving just enough room for a small wooden dowel. I used some extra chipboard embellishments to decorate the bunnies and I'll add a name tag to each bunny with the kids' name on them. (I wanted to make a few pink paper Peeps as well, I think they would be perfect in a vase with some flowers for our Easter brunch table!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have a Pablo Picasso class to teach later on today so I 'm off to review notes and make sure I have all of my class samples ready to go! I hope you have a fun day planned as well and thanks so much for popping in this afternoon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hi all!</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's amazing how fast time flies by when you're sitting at your sewing table sewing little pieces of fabric and before you know it the clock reads a little after 10pm! Spring has ushered in a bunch of new project ideas that have begged to be started on and let's be honest - who could say no to a couple of spare hours and boxes of new craft supplies! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, first things first, thank you so much for all of the sweet comments! These mid month blog hops have become a favorite of mine! </span></div>
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<dt class="comment-author " id="c8529377512514169874" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 1.5em; border-top-color: rgb(133, 133, 133); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 1px; font-size: 14.7200002670288px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.6079998016357px; margin-left: -45px; padding-left: 45px; padding-top: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04252395527373270265" rel="nofollow" style="color: #858585; text-decoration: none;">jamie vanskiver</a> said...</span></dt>
<dd class="comment-body" id="Blog1_cmt-8529377512514169874" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.7200002670288px; line-height: 20.6079998016357px; margin: 0.5em 25px 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I LOVE all the yummy goodness in your Easter basket:) The photos you take are amazing! Thank you so much for a chance to win your beautiful garland! It's gorgeous:)</span></dd><dd class="comment-footer" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.7200002670288px; line-height: 20.6079998016357px; margin: 0.5em 25px 1.5em 0px;"><span class="comment-timestamp"><a href="http://thepinkcouch.blogspot.com/2015/03/gossamer-blue-blog-hop-giveaway.html?showComment=1426450266945#c8529377512514169874" style="color: #858585; text-decoration: none;" title="comment permalink"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">15.3.15</span></a></span></dd><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jamie, please send me you contact info to rosas07@msn.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I also wanted to mention the name of this paper I used for the Papertrey Ink post because Kellyann asked for it! :) This is an older Crate Paper line called On Trend (#680082) It was one of my favorite collections that they created which is why I've yet to bring myself to cut into it. Why do we as paper artists do that? It's so ironic! I actually have an entire stack of paper in my craft room that I've deemed to pretty to use. Think Chatterbox, KI Memories and Basic Grey Black Tie, Hambly Screen Prints - oh yes, I have a quite collection of the original greats and I cannot use them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Good night everyone, hope you all had a splendid day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">xo ~ Tara</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Welcome to the <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue</a> blog hop! This month left me rather stumped on an idea to feature. I thought about Spring, and Spring vacation and all of the craft projects I have on the agenda and then I remembered that Easter is just a few weeks away! </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The kids always want to know why the Easter bunny doesn't bring the grown-ups a basket so, ra</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">ther than a traditional Easter themed project I wanted to take a traditional idea and put my own twist on it. The Easter Basket! Sounds simple enough - usually filled with bright green plastic grass, candy and little toys but what would your Easter Basket look like now that you're all grown up? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, there's the inspiration: to create an Easter Basket filled with the things that I love right now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The kids and I stopped into a local gallery over the weekend, this particular one is filled with rocks and glass works. (I now realize that anytime you take small children into a place with the word 'rare' in the title that it will induce a near panic attack!) The rocks were incredible - lots of cut and polished crystals to see. I thought it would be fun to make a small collection of cards using some of the left over paper that I had leftover from the March main kit. I cut the pieces into geometric shapes to mimic the quart spears we had seen in the gallery and sewed them along in a row. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These cute coffee stamps can be found in the <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/product/march-2015-life-pages-kit/" target="_blank">March life Pages kit</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm giving away one of the sewn fabric garlands! I used lots of little pieces of fabric - some found and collected, some new and a few vintage, all in pretty Spring colors. If you would like a chance to win the fabric garland that I made for these photos, leave a comment below on this post. I'll choose a winner at random on Tuesday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Hi all!</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm finally getting to share this post</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and super excited to</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">tell you about the Papertrey Ink - <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/moments-inked/moments-inked-2015-memory-planner/" target="_blank">Moments Inked - Memory Planner</a>! I got a chance to play with the sizeable planner last month and there are some incredible components hidden within. If you are currently creating a Project Life or scrapbooking by day or week this planner is the perfect edition to help you stay on track. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm not scrapbooking in that capacity so I chose to use it as an actual day planner (more so for the kids' school schedule) and utilized many of the stamps and diecuts to personalize it for my own needs. If you're a die-hard list fanatic like myself, the <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/moments-inked/papertrey-ink-moments-inked-basic-pages-die/" target="_blank">Basic Pages</a> dies are going to work wonders to help keep you organized! I love that they fit right into the planner too - no more sifting through stacks of scratch paper to see where the scribbled list is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To highlight special events and dates there are a number of various stamp and diecut sets to choose from. These little word <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/moments-inked/moments-inked-planner-banners-stamp-set/" target="_blank">stamps</a> combined with the <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/moments-inked/papertrey-ink-moments-inked-planner-banners-die/" target="_blank">Planner Banner die cuts</a> will keep all of your important dates organized! I spent some time cutting the tiny banners out of bright cardstock and collected them all into a glass jar for easy access. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I tend to make a lot of the same type of lists on a daily basis and weekly; menu outlines, grocery lists, to-do and possible craft ideas to make. Having a special way to create lists and to keep them organized was a really big deal for me. No more sorting through a stack of scratch paper looking for my little handwritten to-do list. Now, not only do my lists look pretty because they are all the same size, but they easily fit into the binding of the planner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I thought it would be fun to create a color combination for your banners and list titles each month using <a href="https://www.papertreyink.com/paper/2012-perfect-match-cardstock-sampler-74-sheets/" target="_blank">this collection of paper</a>. I love the bright colored cardstock! I also added a few extras, handmade fabric paper clips to hold my place and I cut a note card pages using my stash of extra papers! (I love any project that helps to use up my paper stash!) </span><br />
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Tara Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12374484947015212068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1358299731541064617.post-11200310027810417522015-03-10T18:37:00.000-07:002015-03-10T18:37:20.909-07:00March with Gossamer Blue! <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hi all! There are many new things in the works around here which partly explains my absence. Not all creative and craft related but I'm slowing getting use to the idea of transitioning my time else where - and with school and teaching winding down in the next 2 months, it seems time to welcome some new challenges! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But first I have the March <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue</a> kit to share! I have to say that the collection of papers in the main kit, while not the typical sought after colors of Spring, are quite sweet and cute. Lot's of bold black and white graphics with grey and pink florals blended in. It's not an over the top pastel Spring kit but rather a more grown up polished Spring kit! I loved the paper and wanted to make a few small projects like these embellished handmade envelopes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The kids are all set for Spring break next week and I thought it might be a cute idea to give the teachers a gift of little envelopes containing packets of seeds to plant over their break. We chose easy to grow seeds packets and a few packets of flowers and then made these super easy sewn envelopes with some graph paper. Add a chalk board marker and assemble a few tags together and you have a thoughtful gift! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> and because</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">it's not Spring unless there are a few flowers!</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've had this vintage embroidery hoop tucked away in my craft closet for years and recently found it while doing some Spring cleaning. Alaina got a peek of this petite wreath while I was assembling it and promptly claimed it as hers. I have a sneaking suspicion that the kids hang out with me towards the end of the month, to see what they can stake their claim on while I create projects with each of the kits! I'm really loving the black and white with a dainty flowers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hello, hello! This month seems to be flying by - both a blessing and a bit of a pain as I rush to finish studying, projects and classes! I do love seeing that to-do checklist shrink little by little with each passing day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today Gossamer Blue is holding an inspiration bloghop in honor of the January kits. Since we're just a few weeks away from Valentines Day, I decided to get a head start on scrapbooking and put together a quick color wire for the occasion! My challenge for the month was to create various projects for Valentines Day without using the color red. This color palette is one of my favorites, I think it's such a pretty combination for scrapbooking, especially if you have black and white photos to use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It feels like forever since I've been scrapbooking. I took over teaching a few art history classes this year, and it's taken up much of my creative time. So, any extra *extra time I have I try to slip into my messy little studio to create something. (That doesn't involve oil, acrylics paints or pastels. :)) These mini projects and pages in a 6x6 size are perfect right now - they come together quickly and I get to feel like I actually accomplished something! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hi everyone! So this year instead of buying a bunch of gifts - I'm planning on making them! At least some of them! I've been jotting down different ideas this past month and gathering up supplies to make the kids and friends more personalized gifts that I think they will like. This way, I use up things in my craft room that have just been sitting for way too long and hopefully gift-giving will be a little more meaningful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today I'm making a few Embroidered makeup bags, or clutches - they can be used for almost anything! In the Gossamer Blues </span><a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/product/december-2014-bits-pieces-kit/" target="_blank">Bits & Pieces kit</a> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">you'll find</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the Amy Tangerine accent Embroidery Stencil Kit and that's what I'll be using along with the gold and silver zippered bags - found at the Dollar Tree store for only.... $1 each! (I love that store, you can always find little things to DIY!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here is one more idea that kind of goes along with this DIY gift! I always seem to have a few left-over brads, buttons, little embellishments etc. from the kits I work with, and instead of just tossing them into my 'loose junk bin' I decided I was going to give them a new purpose. I used a package of bobby pin forms (purchased for $1.30 for 6) and a dab of craft glue and just added a little embellishment to each bobby pin. I think Alaina will these, they are dainty and perfect for a little girl who loves adding pretty things to her hair! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope you enjoyed my first project! I have a whole bunch of DIY gift ideas to share this month as I make them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so inspiring ... u can make anything look pretty ... can u pl tell us which camera you use ?? - whitelink </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, my trusty camera right now is a Nikon D3100. I use a couple of kit lenses and sometimes the Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens. I live in AZ which pretty much guarantees me sunny skies year round which are optimal for good lighting in photos, especially if you're like me and love the way natural light looks. In the rare event that it's cloudy I have some light umbrellas that can assist in adding light but they tend to cast a weird blueish light. So, stick to natural light, pull a small table in front of a window and try to photograph during mid afternoon time. Hope that helps! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Part of Gossamer Blues <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/product/december-2014-life-pages-themed-add-on/" target="_blank">Life Pages themed add-on kit</a> include tags and cardstock embellishments from <span style="color: #4b4b4b;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Pink Paislee. I combined both to create these embellished gift tags. We are going with a silver and gold color theme again this year! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This one is such a simple idea, but we're trying to move and lists right now are saving my sanity! So many things to try and remember to write down and keep track of that I thought having a few magnetic notepads around would help to keep my thoughts in order. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well hello there and happy last day of November to you all! Since December will officially be upon us tomorrow, it's time to get your scrapbooking/crafting stash organized and ready! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This year I'll be using the Gossamer Blue <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/product-category/december-memories/" target="_blank">December Memories</a> album kit. The album itself is a fun mix of pocket pages - perfect for extra fast scrapbooking (at least in my opinion!) and the kit is full of PL cards, embellishments, stickers and stamps to make scrapbooking your December a breeze! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Getting organized is as simple as finding a large container (a box or a basket as I did) and filling it with smaller containers. I love the idea of an open-air basket. I can move it from room to room as need be, and I find that I need to be able to see everything I have to work with - if I can't see it chances are I won't remember to use it. Using a variety of different sized containers, milk glass dishes, a plastic berry box and a muffin tin will help to keep all of the embellishments neatly organized. I also added a small dish of handmade embellishments that I've collected - just a few little things that I want to incorporate alongside new products. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and since it's almost December that means new scrapbooking projects to share as well as some ideas for the month. It's going to be a very crafty month around here! Thanks so much for stopping by today and be sure to keep checking out these blogs for more ideas and inspiration! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.bckueser.com/bckueser/">Beshka Kueser</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://magdamizera.blogspot.com/">Magda Mizera</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The concept however, is one that I love. A clean Southwest feel with lots of pretty pastels and tiny potted cactus plants! Keep scrolling down to see what I came up with this month for <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'll start with my favorite project first! This past weekend our friends daughter turned one and had a little birthday party to celebrate. I always like to show up with at least one gift that is hand made. (I think people might expect it to) but it makes gift giving seem a little more personal. So, I took a photo album that I've had stashed away for years and decided that I would make a simple photo book. Just a place where mom could add photos to, but not necessarily have to scrapbook them. Quick and easy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This month's kits use lots of Maggie Holmes products like these cute embellished tags! I pre cut about 20 small pages and embellished half of them with tags, typed sayings, a few journal cards and a couple of sewn sequin packets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I let the kids each pick out a gift for Kinsey as well. True to form, Chase went with a toy and Alaina chose little girl clothes for her. (I forgot how cute baby girl clothes are!) Wrapping the clothes was as easy as finding a box and I wanted the gift wrap to match: light muted colors and simply embellished. Just some vintage lace, a few tags and a pair of feathers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and the tiny birthday card I made </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">More Maggie Holmes stuff! I love brads and if you break the prongs off of the backs, you can glue them to almost anything! I made a little memory board using one of my favorite color combos right now: coral-navy blue-gold and turned the brads into push-pins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There are still a few more projects to post but they'll have to wait until mid-month. I also want to do a few Fall craft tutorials throughout the month in a similar style. I was telling a friend of mine that I think I'll finally embrace of Southwest Fall season (or lack of one) and add a twist to all of the traditional themed crafts. Kind of excited about seeing all these ideas I've been scribbling down coming to life this month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's back!</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My color wire that is. It's been quite some time since I've put one together but last month I started playing around with some color ideas and decided to put together some different combinations. Ultimately this is the one I would use and one that inspired a collection of new products for my etsy shop: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/citronfaire?ref=hdr_shop_menu" target="_blank">Citron Faire</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">black raspberry ~ peach sand ~</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">carnation pink ~ army green ~ spiced gingerbread</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thank you so much for stopping in today! Hope you had a wonderful Halloween and enjoy your weekend! ~ Tara</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, an idea was presented at Gossamer Blue last month, where the entire design team would do a mid-month blog-hop sharing something that we made from this month's October kits. Since most of you know me and my love of tiny paperish things (and photos), I planned my post around a small collection of handmade Fall gift tags! Plus, this blog-hop idea also gave me an excuse play around out in the desert with some fun props. Kind of the best of both worlds for me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I used remnants of the <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Main Kit</a> as well as some things from my own collection; rhinestones, tags, fabric. I think the process of collecting little things to add to the tags is maybe the best part! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I've made about 10 of these stuffed pumpkins, they are so much fun to make! I knew last year that I really wanted to make a few of them and so I saved all of the stems off of our pumpkins. Just leave them out to air-dry and then store them in a safe place for making some of your own pumpkins! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It must be said: October is one of my favorite months! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For this month's blog post over at Gossamer Blue I knew I wanted to do something Halloween themed. The problem was just deciding what I was going to make.</span> :) <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I played</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">with a few ideas but kept coming back to crepe paper rosettes, and the idea of making them into vintage inspired award ribbons just seemed like the right fit! Plus I would get to pull out all of my decorations and set up the front entry table! (It's so exciting to see all of your stuff again after being packed away for 11 months!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Since Alaina is now in 5th grade, she's no longed able to participate in the Halloween parade at school, but as I suspect, she'll still want to wear something special for the Holiday.</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We have plans to pin a very large award ribbon to her for the day, and I whipped up a few extras for friends. She chose the largest one of course, the Wicked Witch! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I posted a tutorial for how to create the rosettes on the <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/vintage-inspired-halloween-ribbons/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue blog</a>. It's really simple and the rest of the award ribbon will come together quickly using things that are probably already in your stash of scrapbook supplies! I made my rosettes from crepe paper, book pages and clothing pattern tissue. The tutorial is super basic and hopefully easy to follow and once you've made one you're going to want to make more! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I made Peter drop me off at the Dollar Store so I could run in a pick up a few crows for my table. At only a $1 each, they are the perfect little starting point for a Halloween DIY! I made tiny fringed party hats (made with the left over book paper from the rosettes) and then added a little rhinestone necklace and flower. I think a whole group of dressed up crows would be super cute especially if they were perched in some cut tree branches! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Have you started to decorate for Halloween? I know Chase and Alaina are ready, we're just waiting for the rain to let up and then we'll set out to create a pretty Halloween porch! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Alaina</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">celebrated her 10th birthday </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">this past month</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> and I wanted to make her, her own little album to hold some of the birthday photos we took. I used </span><a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue's</a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> main kit for October, which was perfect, with the neutral black and white papers mixed with some handmade embellishments - for a chic girls mini book! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanks for stopping by today! I have plans to spend the rest of the afternoon in the garage building a photo back ground. Wood is already cut and now I get to paint! Enjoy your day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">However for the past 9 weeks now, I get up every morning, grab some</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> coffee and get to work making this smoothie. It's a good start to the morning and depending on how ripe your fruit is, it can be rather sour (which may help to wake you up!) or it can be really sweet. In the case that it's too sweet, I either cut back on the over-ripe fruit or I'll add grapefruit juice to mine. I've also recently become a big fan of flavored green tea, so I'll add a glass of it to each smoothie or juice that I make. I love Lipton's Green Tea Superfruit brands, the Dragon Fruit Melon and Blackberry Pomegranate are my two favorites! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><u>Pineapple Orange Spinach smoothie</u> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- 2 handfuls of spinach or about 2 1/2 cups </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- 1 small mango peeled or 1/2 of a large mango (peeled) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- 2 sprigs of mint leaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">- 1/4 of a carton of wheat grass or about a 1/4 cup</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Add</span> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">all ingredients into the blender, leaving out the orange juice. I have a smoothie setting on my blender, but you'll just want to blend everything until it is smooth. Once your smoothie is... smooth (no chunks left behind!) pour in the orange juice (and grapefruit juice if using) and stir to blend. I pour mine over ice in a very large glass add a straw and enjoy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've made a few variations of this smoothie like using a 1/2 head of romaine lettuce to replace the kale and spinach, or replacing the pineapple with peeled guavas. You could also add ground flax seeds or ground chia seeds to this smoothie too! This is now Peter's favorite drink in the morning, it grows on you after awhile. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pulled Pork tacos with shredded cabbage and mango-avocado salsa, Honeydew</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Honey Sesame Chicken Thighs (slow-cooked) coconut brown rice, sauteed green peas and green beans (grilled tofu for me) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Grilled garlic butter Salmon, Pinenut Couscous, Roasted Strawberry Spinach salad </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Southwest bbq salad with grilled shrimp (tomato, avocado, black beans, corn, cilantro, green onion, red onion, with a Bbq ranch yogurt dressing) watermelon </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Grandma's Sopes (and lots of leftovers!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pumpkin butter (for lattes and oatmeal) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pumpkin pie oatmeal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">zucchini-carrot-wheat coffee cake muffins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Turkey mushroom breakfast burritos </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope your week gets off to a wonderful start! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">xo ~ Tara</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wouldn't that be a spectacular name for a series of posts! The Embellished Box ~ simple and elegant at the same time. I was sitting in my craft room this past weekend finishing up a birthday album for Alaina using the kit from Gossamer Blue when I realized how much extra stuff I had left over. Just little bits and pieces, snips of paper and random left-over stickers, extra diecut shapes. Now, I'm not one to throw out even the smallest scrap, so the idea of embellishing tiny gift boxes sounds like the perfect end-of-the-month project! </span></div>
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I have more projects to share, it was a busy month for me over at Gossamer Blue! Stay tuned! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You can always add more or less spices if you like or substitute chicken broth for veggie broth, or even add in some shredded cooked turkey/chicken. This is such an simple soup recipe and it's easy to adapt it to your own tastes! I haven't tried yet to freeze any portion of it, honestly we always end up eating it all throughout the week so there's never been a reason to freeze any. I assume it will freeze well, but I can't be positive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now time to get back to that menu plan! xo~ Tara </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> Hello there again! and pardon me while I dust the cobwebs from this place - it's been a while since I've visited. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After taking a bit of a break from the scrapbooking world, I've joined the design team over at <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/" target="_blank">Gossamer Blue</a> as a project designer. I've made a few new personal goals for this year and finishing an album for a certain little boy is high priority on that list! Aside from that, it feels really good to be creative and taking photos again. I've always enjoyed it, but sometimes I think taking a break from things that weigh you down can be a positive as it forces you to find new things that make you happy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My very first post on the Gossamer Blue <a href="http://www.gossamerblue.com/back-to-school-projects/" target="_blank">blog</a> went up yesterday (you can read a little about each project over there) think school supplies and makeovers. I was actually a little nervous when I first saw it in the am,... I guess it really has been some time since I've been designing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have a whole day of fun stuff planned, the gym, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning up that mess of a craft room I call home :) so, I will leave you all with just the photos of my latest projects. Enjoy your day! ~ T</span></div>
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