"Goin to the Chapel"

No I'm not going to the chapel of love and getting married. BUT my friend is. She's getting married at the end of March and hasn't found a dress yet {eek, we all know let's not stress her out more}. Until I beheld this beauty from the 1950's at a little Boutique in Downtown Belleville. Let's just say Belleville has some perks. Such as this adorable store and GLORIOUS dress for the low price of 350.00 with a matching little jacket! How Cute!

She's going to try it on this weekend...fingers crossed it fits :D

Close your eyes and picture this with me. Hair done in lose curls pinned to the side in a ponytail with beautiful teardrop pearl earrings. Breath taking.

a few undertakings

So I have a few tasks ahead of me this summer. One is to learn html, so I can make a prettier blog and just for pure interest sake.

Another, at some pt is to recover my cushions. However, I am fresh out of ideas. I want something that says "summery fresh" for now and then I will make different covers for the fall/winter. So I have taken a few shots and would love some feedback.

Also this futon is not mine. It's a friends who is storing it here while they moved. BUT the couch I do have, I plan on covering in a similar colour. Thus why I took a pic of the futon against my light green walls.





Another undertaking is my Kitchen. I am thinking a fun window covering would do (as opposed to the awful brown plaid one it came with). Most of the things in my kitchen have a bright yellow, dark green or milk chocolate base. So keeping those colours in mind and noting my off white walls, what would you suggest?




Thanks for your input!

Tried, Tested and True

Hungry yet?
So this past Christmas one of the things I got was a book to record recipes in.
I thought at first it was kinda funny as for the most part my recipes either come from:
a) online (blog, foodnetwork, allrecipes..etc)
b) from a recipe book
c) from one female to another (via email or binders filled with photo-copied recipes)

So I thought at first between my computer and some binders I don't really need somewhere to store MORE recipes!
Then the light bulb went on.

I decided that this book is ONLY for recipes that are "Tried, Tested and True"
Not one of those "well someday when I have these things in my pantry I would like to try this..."
These guys are defaults, so on a day when I need something I know is yummy, I have record of them.

Tonight, it happened to be the soup shown above. I think I actually got it down pat tonight. Thus making sure I wrote it down EXACTLY how it was made.

Now to put that potato soup recipe in there that I made the other night! DELISH ;D

Kick that winter flu...in the butt!

So these past few days (as some of you may know). I have been trying to kick a stomach flu. I haven't puked yet (here's hoping I don't) but have had a really upset tummy and feeling awfully weak.

Today I thought I was on the verge of getting better, but a wee bit into the morning my stomach started its business...again!

Thankfully I don't work today so I am going to spend another day in bed, reading, sleeping, listening to sermons, eating lots of homemade soup and drinking lots of tea and gingerale...great diet huh?

So desperate for some homemade soup I ran to the kitchen to see what I had on hand to throw into a pot. I always admired people who could make something out of nothing.

So I opened the fridge and pulled out a carrot, fresh basil, zucchini
Put a pot of water on the stove
Added a dash of oregano, a few packs of chicken bouilon, some fresh basil and an a few bay leaves
let that boil while I chopped up the carrot and zucchini
added the carrot, zucchini and some pasta swirls
then remembered I had a can of stewed tomatoes, in they went
Let that sit on the stove and simmer
Got out some bread and popped it in the toaster
By the time my bread was done my soup was almost ready (those perfect moments never happen for me haha)
So I chatted with my housemate for a few minutes, got some gingerale
And then...my soup was ready to go!
So tasty for something just thrown together too!
Yay throw together foods :D
Off to read and enjoy my grub!

reduce, reuse, recycle

On a limited budget, its hard to fill those "desperate for creativity moments".
However, last week I was able to make something with things lying around the house.
I must say, I was quite pleased with how I recycled everything to make a friends b-day gift :)

So what did I do you ask? Well I made some homemade mac and cheese (yum!) and put it in a mason jar, labelled it, glued newspaper on the lid and tied a ribbon around it:



Kinda hard to see I know! But you get the idea :)

But my real thrill was how the gift bag turned out!
I took an Aerie bag and covered the name with my friends and used newspaper as tissue paper:




Yay for cheap creativity!