my 2 loves

do you know what they are?? cooking/baking and scrapbooking!

i have a a number of people ask about a fish taco recipe. so i'll share mine.



i used tilapia for this one. first i lightly salt and pepper my fish. i cut it into 1 1/2 inch cubes.

i made my batter with...

1 cup of whole wheat flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tbsp chilli powder
a pinch of chipotle powder
up to 1 cup of seltzer



i fried in canola oil until golden



placed on a wire rack over a tinfoil covered pan to drain.



i make a quick guac with 2 avocados, 1 lime juiced, 1 tsp salt, 3 tbsp hot salsa. halved grape tomatoes and add into the whole wheat wraps.



the potato's are easy. par boil diced potato's. mix with 2 tbsp canola oil, 1 tbsp chili powder, salt pepper and a pinch of chipotle if you want. and bake in a 425 oven util golden turning once.



i had a little quiet time last night and scrapped a page of lex having so much fun in the snow. i used some leftover feb wip valetines kit i added the jillibean polka dot paper, october after noon #'s and the pearls.

have a happy tuesday!

bitter sweet!

this is my last week as a member of the nuts about sketches dt!

i can't believe it has been 6 months already!!! it has been so wonderful working with all the girls and shawn i <3 you and your sketches!!!

i can't wait to see the work of the new dt!

so here is this weeks sketch!



i used the the right side for this one!



tfl!!

sketch sunday!

it's sunday!! yay we are thinking of what fun thing to do today, it being the kids last day of vacation. maybe m&m world and times square??

since it's sunday we have a new sketch and lot's of new inspiration at The Everyday Scrapper

we have a fun pagemaps sketch this week!



and here is my take. i used a past apron strings kit for it.



tfl!

the everyday scrapper & makemania

christine from The Everyday Scrapper asked me to come up with a fun project to post on makemania.




all the steps and supplies are posted on makemania, go check it out and make one of your own!

tfl!!

the everyday scrapper

the feb challenge is a white space challenge!

i used more jan wip for this one. also whipped out the qk for that cute tree!!



also the everyday scrapper is having a blog hop!!! be sure to check out the inspiration!!

tfl!

happy 3rd birthday wip!

if you have some sweet valentines to scrap! go get this kit while you can!!!

feb wip valentines kit

i still have some in my baggie, and here is all i created with just the 1 kit!

inspired

i was totally inspired by scrapscene today!!!


i used leftover ac letter stickers
i used the last bit of my gdt kit from scrapbook sussies
i painted over the stickers
composed my lo
then i sanded the painted letters

happy new year/valentines day!

does everyone have big plans for today? i'm making doughnut muffins for breakfast. we are celebrating chinese new years for lunch, then i am making german food for dinner!!

we made our valentines (see yesterdays post lol) and i have a little v-day prezzie for everyone. i love how the kids are so excited for every holiday!!

so here is my page for the everyday scrapper's sketch inspiration this week. it is an awesome sketch by mia!!

it is also my pile-it-on page who has an awesome sponsor this week! see that rockin flower?? it is from 62 cards. of couse i had to bling mine up!!!

the rest of the goodies o the page are from the jan 2010 wip kit! i was so excited to see my mini up on the wip blog!



i lifted the edges of the adorable flower and dipped it onto my glue pad (you know the glue ink pad), then dipped it in some martha stewart glitter!

i think for valentines (since dh didn't get me a gift hmmmm) i would like some scrap time!

tfl!

and enjoy your day!

last minute valentines!

here is what i made for dh and the kids!

you need...

glimmer mist
cs
glimmer screen or other stencil
zig squeeze and glue
glitter
embellishment (i used a qk butterfly)





here are the ones we made for friends...




i did a tutorial back in oct or nov on here on how to make the rosettes!



tfl!

snow day!!

happy snow all!!!

this gigantic snowman was made by my awesome neighbors!!!!



this one alexa made all by herself!! then my neighbor helped her decorate her!



and here is senor climber! oooh he is soooo bad! i can't even get into how he destroyed my blackberry and itouch! but look at how stinkin cute he is!!!!

yes this is the feb valentine wip kit!!!

this week nuts sketch

yup a 2 pager! check out this week nuts about sketches. the cute snowman paper was left from a 2009 tss kit.

can you see the cute "snowman soup" on the right?? that was from the sweetest gift from an amazing woman! i know (and so do you) how much i love wip kits! but let me tell you they are only half as awesome as trish (the amazing owner!!!) she is the best!!!




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sketch inspiration...

at the everyday scrapper

this is my first week with eds!

scrappy saturday!

here are 2 of the 4 pages i've done today. the other 2 i can't shar yet. sooon;)

this one is for the february white space challenge at the everyday scrapper



here is alexa with one of her favorite things in the world!! her project runway fashion design set.

bonus nuts sketch!

i'm not sure i've mentioned it lately, but i LOVE cosmo Cricket!!! and this nuts about sketches bonus sketch was screaming for some cute cc cb!!!




happy saturday!
tfl!!

i challenged myself to...

i challenged myself this week to try and use some stash!! i always just grab a kit(yes usually a wipkit lol) and get to business!! i have cropper hoppers overflowing!!! i have sterilite drawers i can't ope they are so over stuffed!!! i just purged a little early this week, and think i really need to sell a flat rate box full of stuff!!! (if you're interested it'll be cheap!!!

so these are the first 2 of my use my stash personal challenge! i used the same paper for both.




tfl!!

guest sussie part 2

here's one from the ki side of the kit. i love me some ki, and bright colors!

since the paper is so bright and bold, i went with a simple design. i used my qk to cut the purse, flower and emboss it.


another from the crate half. i may have gone a little rubon crazy??? maybe???

i used brads to embellish some of the rubons.


tfl!!

scrap for a cure!

check out diana's blog for an awesome kit giveaway!

two for tuesday

i cant believe my baby is almost 14 months old!!!! he was such a good boy for his first hair cut!
this lo is based on this weeks nuts about sketches sketch!

soooo hard to wrap my head around william being 5!!! he's really 5!!!!

sharing a little guest sussie!

i'm so excited to be the February guest designer for scrapbook sussies!!! yay guest sussie!!

here are just a couple pages i did with the kit (there are more i'll be sharing through the week:) )

i painted the thickers with rock candy crackle paint, then punched circles to layer them on. i used pop dots to adhere the letter in warm.

i thought this paper was a perfect match for the pics and for the subject of my page!!




i had so much fun with the rubons in this kit! you'll see more of that in another post :)

i cut the pic of my ds into a circle. then took the paper and found the perfect place to put it!
i used my apron lace punch on the top and bottom of the cs.
put the bird rubon o the brown cs, and placed the flower rubons to look as though the bird was tweeting flowers!



tfl, and stay tuned for more!

happy birthday peanut!!!!

my peanut princess turns 7 today!!! 7 years ago i was finally done with my 4 (yes i really mean 4 like 4 minute apart contractions for 4 days 4!!!!!) days of labor!! i was only at the end of my 27th week of my pregnancy and soooooo scared!!!!

finally she was here! all 15 inches 2 pounds 9 ounces of her!! she had bleeding in both sinuses of her brain, apnea, but was only on oxygen for 3 hours and the was on a cpap with room air!

it was a long 48 days, with parties with the night nurses when she would reach weight milestones. i remember her 4 pound party like it was yesterday, 8 more ounces and she came home!!!!

and now shes 7! in first grade with lots of friends, and such an amazing big sister, and such a sweet sweet loving daughter!

happy birthday peanut!
i love you!!!

birthday party cupcakes!






school birthday!