Just Another Day

by mb on 09/02/2010

When I started my blog almost 2 years ago I had so many ideas I wanted to share ~ creative ideas, crafts, recipes, free downloads, decorating, girl talk…somehow I was SURE that I had the time or would make the time… and I have tried {and will continue to do so}, but {I so hate excuses}, working full time, homeschooling, keeping house…ugh argh and grrrrr…. all things I AM SO THANKFUL for…leave little time for much of anything else. Would you believe that for almost all of the last two years I have had every intention of getting a header {like this…. Velvet Strawberries or this…..The Feathered Nest or this……Bake It Pretty or like the other 100 blogs I love} for this little project…every intention I tell you…and yet when I look at it…it is still just pink and wordy…another argh.  I even picked the Thesis Theme just so I could customize the bejeebers out my little blog…ummm….looking around….blowing the dust off the theme… haven’t really done that either.

Just venting and hoping that somehow my urge to create doesn’t just create a volcanic eruption in me {hopefully, if it does my camera will be handy…who wants to see pictures????!!!!}

I’m hoping…fingers crossed really, really, tightly and eyes crossed {it is SO hard to type like this} that I can do a giveaway for my 2nd Anniversary…. check back mid September for details…

sniffly {been sick for 3 weeks} and coughy {the noisy kind…not the Starbuck’s kind} hugs, {wearing a mask of course so I don’t spread germs} mb

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Baked Tilapia ~~So Easy

by mb on 08/30/2010

Baked tilapia is such an easy, quick and delicious meal and this is one of my favorite tilapia recipes by far.

Easy Baked Tilapia

8 {4 ounce} tilapia fillets

2 tablespoons butter

seasoning – choose whichever are your favorites~garlic salt, pepper {fresh ground is best} ~ I used Weber Canadian Steak Seasoning

1 lemon, sliced thin

1.  Preheat oven to 400.

2.  Place the fish fillets in a baking dish ~ I like to line mine with aluminum foil to minimize clean up.  Spray pan or foil lined pan with cooking spray.

3.  Sprinkle seasoning on fillets, cut butter into thin slices and pat the tops of the fillets, add lemon slices.

4.  Bake for 25 minutes until fish flakes easily with a fork.

I am posting this recipe at Blessed With Grace for Tempt My Tummy Tuesdays this week-be sure to stop over there for lots of great recipes!

Tempt my Tummy Tuesdays

hugs, mb


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Old-Fashioned Bulls-Eyes

August 29, 2010

Goetze’s “Original” Caramel Creams, Old-Fashioned Bulls-Eyes…that is quite a mouthful of a name for candy but I am so glad I ‘found’ these {again}.  I remember having these when I was a kid and a few months ago while at the drug store with my husband we came across these little gooey chewy gems so [...]

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Kids Toy Metal Shopping Cart

August 21, 2010

A real metal shopping cart for kids!?! I had no idea a real shopping cart existed for kids to play with.  I always thought how cool it would be if there were one as an alternative to the little rinky dink plastic ones and lo and behold…one definitely exists…and … it isn’t expensive at all. [...]

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Cupcake Recipe for CUPCAKE Day!

August 18, 2010

It’s Cupcake Day!!!  I have an easy and delicious cupcake recipe for you that is moist and yummy. Cupcake Day Cupcakes Ingredients 3/4 cup salted butter, softened 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar 4 tbsp. vegetable oil 3 eggs 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 3/4 cup sour cream 2 [...]

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Cupcake Aprons

August 15, 2010

Cupcakes and Aprons ~ a combination of two of my favorite things! In honor of Cupcake Day ~ August 18th ~ I am doing a week of cupcake posts… a mish mash of all things cupcake including a new recipe on the 18th.  I am kicking off the week with cupcake aprons.  I love aprons….always [...]

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Mini Butterfly Garden

August 14, 2010

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.  ~Rabindranath Tagore May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To bring you luck, happiness and riches Today, tomorrow and beyond. ~Irish Blessing Butterflies are self propelled flowers.  ~R.H. Heinlein If nothing ever changed, there’d be [...]

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Elle Decor Magazine ~ 1 year for $5.39

August 12, 2010

Elle Decor Magazine is Best Deal Magazines Deal of the Day….get 1 year {9 issues} for $5.39.  This deal is available until midnight EST August 12th {today}! The cover price for this is $90.00 so at $5.39 it really is a Deal of the Day! decorating hugs, mb

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Body Sculpting Skinny Pants

August 11, 2010

Body sculpting skinny pants…woot! A few weeks ago I went shopping for the sole purpose of finding some new boot cut/yoga pants…pants that I could wear while exercising or while sitting around the house or while running to the grocery store and still look fashionable and not “messy”…boy, did I score!!!!! I had never heard [...]

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Open Sky ~ A Minor Delay

August 10, 2010

Sometimes when you are traveling by air you hear the dreaded words “there will be a minor delay” … well, even though they aren’t dreaded in this case (thankfully!), the opening of my Open Sky store has been delayed {add muffled sigh}.  Hopefully, it will be up and running next week so please check back.  [...]

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