The New Word Verification

Hi everyone. I have just a little rant. Nothing major but it may affect some of you. I see that blogger has a new word verification thingy. I also seem to get the ones that are all jumbled together so I can’t see the letters properly and end up sitting there way longer than I had anticipation trying to leave a comment. Time is precious as it is but with this new verification thing I just don’t have the patience to try and figure out the scrambled letters.

With that said I won’t be leaving comments for people with the word verification set up. Will I still read your blog? Of course, but you just won’t know it. I’m VERY sorry but it’s soooo frustrating for me.

The spam filter that blogger has is very good. You can also set your preference for your comments to be approved before they are published that way you can weed out comments you don’t want. The only spam I usually get is on older posts and they never get published but blogger sends them directly to me for approval/disapproval etc.

Ultimately you have to do what you feel comfortable doing.

Well there it is. My little rant.

STILL LOVE ME?

Have a FANTABULOUS day my friends!

Eww, Seriously, So Gross!

I know we are all trying to lose a few pounds this year and we need all the help we can get. Thanks to an unlikely source, I believe I have found the perfect solution for all of us.

Enjoy!

My Art Journal!

One thing you may or may not know about me is that I like to draw. I used to draw all the time when I was a teenager but then life got busy and I put it aside, until recently.

Life is still busy but the way I’m doing this, it really doesn’t take a lot of commitment or time to do. That’s why I started it in the first place. I knew I’d be able to actually do it.

I stink at keeping a journal, but yet I want to document a little bit of life around here, so this was the perfect solution.

I bought my art journal at Hobby Lobby. Yes, they actually make a journal specifically for drawing and painting and such. Who knew? I sure didn’t. But now I do and you do to. You’re welcome.

Now I just started this this year so I only have 2 entries so far. I decided to only do one per month as not to overwhelm my brain. Because obviously my brain can get easily overwhelmed.

I chose to use watercolor pencils. Why? Well because I draw better than I paint so I thought I would be able to combine the two.

For January I drew/painted this picture.

Then after you use a wet paint brush on it, it looks something like this.

The story behind this picture is this. We have a maple tree in our backyard and it held onto this one last leaf until the very last day of January. We watched as the wind blew and that leaf held on for dear life. It was such a fun memory for us that I decided that it would be my subject for my art journal. Are you starting to see how this works?

Here is the tree in question.

 

For February I of course decided to to more of a lovely dovey type of picture.

I first drew it with the pencils.

Then I blended it together.

Then this time I decided to add some stickers and scrapbook hearts.

  

On the back of each picture I write a little something something to sum up the month and what all went on. It’s so much fun. I hope this inspires you to give it a try. The only limit is your imagination. 

HAVE A CREATIVE DAY MY FRIENDS!

The Week of LOVE!

This past week was a busy week. 

These are our best friends and it was that silly fella’s birthday there on the left. We celebrated with them the Saturday before Valentine’s.

It was so much fun. I always look forward to this day because it’s just the 4 of us and we get to just hang out and be silly and have a YUMMY dinner that my BFF makes.

She goes all out with a beautiful table and….

delicious dessert!

Then of course on Valentine’s Day I did a little something for my family!

I love to set a pretty table for them. They deserve to have pretty too.

 

Everyone made some really cute Valentine’s for each other.

 

The people of the world, or at least the people on our street were greeted with a little Valentine’s Day love.

 

Having worked up an appetite, we came in and had a yummy dinner of marinated wild salmon, fresh from our garden brussels sprouts and brown rice.

And for dessert I made a coconut flour cake with a raspberry sauce and the most delicious dark chocolate raspberry truffles.

And then last but not least, my hubby and I celebrated our anniversary on Friday. You’re going to love this. The only picture I took the WHOLE night was of the super delicious dessert I made. LOL! Yes folks, I have my priorities. 

I tweaked a recipe and came up with this and it was DELICIOUS!! But now I have to make it again so I can write down the amounts I used. Darn it! It was a Dark Chocolate Mousse. A “healthier” version. Not low fat mind you, just “healthier”.

But yes, this is sadly the only picture I took of the whole night. But I did make us a romantic dinner and then blah blah blah and yada yada yada.

Anyway, that was our week.

I hope you had a fun one as well!

Have a lovely day my friends!