I seriously need a new job - that or a rich husband...

Come on, why do they make such fabulous shoes!?!?- Thanks to Jessica Sprague, I'm a constant stalker at fluevog.com




Ha! and this kills me! It's a blurb off a page of cute boots!

"I love you. I can't afford these shoes. But I absolutely have to have them. I'm giving up liquor for a bit. Katherine, Salt Lake City, Utah "

Check em out!
I think i'll audition for a period drama just so i can wear these..


And these ones- sigh... ( okay, the heel is a little funny for me, but hey.. nothing is entirely perfect huh?)

Shrimp Pasta Salad - Great Cook book

I've never been a fan of pasta salads because they are usually so bland, but yesterday motha made this and it was scrum-diddly-umptious!

Shrimp Pasta Salad with Lemon Garlic Dressing

1- 14 oz Cara Mia Artichoke hearts

1- 16 oz box bowtie noodles (cooked rinsed drained)

3- stalks of destringed, thinly sliced celery

1- Can sliced olives

1 pkg halved grape tomatoes

1 1.5 lb cooked salad shrimp

1 1 lb pkg imitation crab (cut small)

1 TBS finely chopped parsley

Prepare above listed items to bite sized pieces, and toss together in a bowl. Then add the below dressing, and toss lightly again.

Lemon Garlic Dressing

½ cup Walnut oil or Olive oil

1 TBS (heaping) of finely chopped basil or fresh paste

1 tsp of crushed/fine garlic

4 TBS white wine vinegar

1 TBS Balsamic vinegar

2 TBS artichoke heart marinade

Juice and Zest of lg lemon or two small

Fresh cracked salt and pepper to taste

Mix above ingredients together, the longer they sit mixed, the more flavorful! Pour over above salad.

Enjoy!

New Book!

I got this book from the library and you can bet i'll be gettin one as soon as i have to give it back. It's awesome, everything in it sounds so good, and she's my kind of baker- she uses real butter, lots of cream and all the good stuff.. no fakey substitutes. And my next experiment? Croissants!

Some New Fave pics - Kitchen Gadget

I finally burned our recipe swap CD’s so if you haven’t gotten yours, let me know…

Since I’m always a sucker for cool kitchen stuff, had to share this lil thingy I saw at someone’s house.


It’s a butterbell. You lift the lid off the crock and it has an inverted bowl on it. You fill it with butter and it keeps it soft in the cupboard without gathering up all the odors from the rest of the house. Yeah.. guess it’s been around for centuries, but who knew?

I was downloading my latest pics, and was excited to find this cute pic of Camilla --- I was also thrilled at how these pics from the park turned out... I think i need to get out more!

Dipped Gingersnaps- The Good Ones :)

Here’s the recipe for them yummo cookies I like to make cuz their good and look classy to boot!

Make these for your Holiday parties or give them away to your friends and neighbors- they’ll love ya forever!

Jaynez Dipped Gingersnaps

Ingredients

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups vegetable oil

2 eggs

1/2 cup molasses

4 1/4 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking soda

2 tablespoon ground ginger

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon cayenne

1/2 cup sugar

2 lbs. ‘Guittard apeels’ white dipping chocolate

Directions-

In a medium bowl, mix the 2 cups of sugar and oil. Add the eggs one at a time mixing after each. Stir in the molasses.

In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, and salt. Slowly add to the wet mixture and stir well.

Shape the dough into 3/4 inch balls and roll them in the 1/2 cup of sugar. Place the balls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. (Only do a dozen per sheet or they’ll run together and you’ll have square cookies.)

Bake at 350°F for 6 to 8 minutes, or until cracks start to form. (They look a little un-done, but they will be chewy.)

Cool 2 minutes on tray and then move to cool completely on smooth cotton towel.

Melt the white chips in a glass dish in the microwave. Stir every 30 seconds till melted.

Brush crumbs off the back of cookie and dip half of each cookie into the mixture, shaking off the extra chocolate.

Place on waxed paper on cold trays to harden.

**If not able to use “Guittard Apeels dipping chocolate” mix 3 parts Ghirardhelli white chips with 1 part white almond bark.

Go try em out and tell me how ya like em!

Last Minute Holiday Goodies - Holiday Fudge

This is fairly simple- takes just over half an hour to make, and I'm guessin it would freeze well. It's quite festive looking and is great for parties.






Cranberry Walnut White Fudge

1 cup Butter plus 2 tsp to grease pan
4 cups Sugar
1 ½ cup Sour Cream
2 pkg (10 to 12 oz) Ghirardhelli White chips (trust me- don't use cheap white chocolate)
2 jars (7 oz) Marshmallow Crème
2 tsp Vanilla
4 cups coarsely chopped Walnuts
2 cups Dried Cranberries, coarsely chopped
3 Tbls Orange peel (or from 2 oranges)



Line 9x13 pan with foil and butter the foil with 2 tsp of Butter , set aside.
In heavy saucepan melt sugar, butter, and sour cream over medium heat. Boil 15-20 minutes, or to soft ball stage. Mix in chocolate chips and marshmallow crème. Remove from heat, add vanilla. Mix till smooth. Add orange peel, craisins and nuts.
Pour into greased pan and cool. Lift fudge from pan on tinfoil. Cut in 1” squares and serve at room temp.

Hey.. check this out! this has got to be THE cutest lemonade jug on the planet....
and, guess what they're real and for SALE over at Madison Belle
Way cute huh? :P yumm

Meet my friend - Microsoft One Note

Did I ever tell ya how much I love Microsoft One Note? It comes with the 2007 Microsoft Office

check out the official page here:

And they'll even give you a 60 day free trial here:

This is THE coolest program ever. I used to copy all the cool stuff I wanted off the web onto a new word document, but then it sat there in a large pile of stuff jumbled together and went out of sight out of mind in the overly stuffed folders of mine.

Now, I make a new notebook, add tabs and have all your pages named , right off to the side. This is Awesome!!

I Started a new Notebook today becaus my tabbed list of Photography Tips was getting very large.

So now there’s an entire notebook dedicated to it with tabs like : composition, portraiture, children, landscapes, lighting, macro and then there’s my section for a collection of inspiring photos, with clever composition, or just great ideas. And the best thing about that is that I don’t have to save all the photos into a folder on my computer, and then try to remember what I wanted it for.

With one note it has a little screen clipping action, which also pastes in the sources address which is handy so you can always go back to the site you got it from. And then, you can clip ya little blurb of what ever you thot was cool about it.

My regular notebook has tabs such as these...

Music- Books

Cool stuff I wanna buy- -copy the links with the pic so you don’t lose the products you spent time researching

Recipes

Quotes

Typography/ Graphic Design

School

Allopathic Medicine

Natural Medicine

Home Décor

Old World

Dreamin- this one is ideas and products for my dream house :P

Antiques

Page Ideas

Digital Scrapbookin

Children’s Projects

Yeah...You get the picture...

Anyone that spends more than 5 minutes on the computer each day NEEDS This! Trust me, you'll fall instantly in love!