{where from again? shirt & pants: misha lulu; short sleeve jacket: vintage; socks: target; shoes: vintage; bow: made by mom.}
Her favorite class at school is Spanish. Ben was home and I tried talking to her in Spanish, I don’t know the language at all, but I was trying. After I said something, she went to Ben and whispered into his ear, “Mommy, does not know Spanish.” Hey! I tried! I wish I knew how to speak it.
I love our family meals. It takes work to plan, but the result is great. We really do enjoy eating together more.
Monday, Ben worked late, so we had leftovers, but Tuesday I made Crunchy Turkey Tacos…
It’s one of the few things I make from memory. When Ben and I started dating, he would make me a lot of tacos when we were just hanging out at his house. I expected them to be the crunchy shell kind because that’s what I had growing up, but they were always just corn tortilla warmed up with fillings. I learned to love tacos in warmed up corn tortillas, but I am partial to the crunchy shell kind when it comes to ground turkey tacos. According to Ben, those crunchy shells aren’t authentic Mexican food.
Another yummy tofu dish. My changes to the recipe was to add cayenne pepper to the breading that went on the tofu for Ben and me. Told you we like that spice. I wasn’t generous with the oil like the recipe says because we were try to practice moderation. And I didn’t use garlic powder, but instead sauteed the spinach in minced garlic. This is another definitely making again soon dish. We all loved it.
The dishes I choose and make have all been pretty easy and have not taken more than 30-40 minutes of active prep time. Trust me, I am a busy mama and I don’t have all day to be in the kitchen.
We have enough leftovers to last the rest of the week and actually I won’t be here for dinner tomorrow because I will be at the Daily Buzz Style event at the Madewell in Century City tomorrow. If anyone local bloggers want to attend, send your RSVP to [email protected]. The event is a private party from 7-9pm Thursday night! If you go, let me know as it would be fun to meet you!!!
Flowers are blooming again, which means every time the girls go outside, they are out picking them. We have little flowers, petals, and rocks strewn all over the carpet, all the time and they keep gifting me tiny bouquets. It gets kinda messy when their collections get quite large, but it’s cute nonetheless. I like watching them pick the flowers outside. It reminds me of a funny story when I was a little girl…
I was in first grade and it was recess. My friends and I were behind the bushes picking flowers and leaves. The other girls were doing the talking and I was just listening. I used to be kinda shy back then, kinda like True, but not as extreme. They were talking about catching their parents doing you know what. Well, I had never heard of this stuff before, so I was kind of surprised. Mind you, this is just first grade and I was just six years old. There weren’t details, but they just talked about catching their parents, yada yada…
Well, fast forward a few days later when I am home watching a movie with my parents and a kissing scene comes on… they immediately cover my head with a pillow and then I blurt out, “Why?!! Cause they’re having sex?!!” My parents were dumbfounded. They turned off the movie and we had a little talk.
All this to say… I wonder what my girls are talking about when they’re picking flowers. I am pretty sure it is just all about She-ra and My Little Pony. At least, I hope.
Besides being a bridesmaid, I also did the flowers for my friend’swedding this past weekend. I love doing flowers and sometimes miss doing them for weddings, but it is a lot of work. This job was especially fun though because the bride had amassed vintage tins and they were all so uniquely pretty. I secretly wanted to sneak one and keep it to my self. Which one from the tins above is your favorite?
Do you love color? I do! And to have a bit of some St. Patty’s Day fun, Modcloth asked me, along with 5 other lovely ladies, to style a pretty dress from one color of the rainbow. I chose yellow and I am totally in love with it!
Once I got my pretty yellow dress, I knew it would go perfect with this vintage blazer Ben had bought for me so long ago when we were dating. It is such a bold blazer and doesn’t get much use, but it went perfect with the dress. I also opted to switch out the fabric belt for a brown one. I think it gives it a nice contrast. What do you think?
What I’m wearing… daffodil centerpiece dress, c/o modcloth. blazer, vintage. belt, thrifted. shoes, seychelles (gifted from my parents, but can get here).
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I have a large growing pile of fabric scraps. I refuse to throw them away because I am sure they can be used for something. I have been seeing different types of interesting necklaces made of buttons, beads, and fabric. Then, I figured why not make one out of my scraps...
I think it made my white shirt a little less boring. This was so quick and easy to make.
How to make a recycled scraps necklace (which is very similar to the straps on my braided tablecloth bag):
1. Take your scrap fabric, I cut a .5''-1'' snip and tear the rest of the fabric down for a nice frayed edge. Used 3 different fabrics for each strand.
2. Take 3 of the torn pieces and tie the ends together with a rubber band.
3. Braid the 3 pieces together and tie ends together with rubber band when done.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for more strands. Remember you can make the strands any length you want, if run out of fabric, just weave more into the braid.
5. Once all the strands you want are braided, gather one end of each strand together and straight stitch together with sewing machine. Repeat for the other ends of the strands. Snip off any excess.
6. Gather ends of the necklace and sew together (snip excess) or a ribbon can be sewn at the ends to be able to tie the necklace closed, but I just sewed both ends together.
7. Voila! A nice way to make use of all your lovely scraps.
Sorry if the directions get you a little lost, but it really is easy. I promise. Maybe I should put some in the shop. Please share any other good ideas you may have of things that can be made with scraps. I would love to hear (read) them!
