Weekend Project

My bestie Michelle and I hung out yesterday for some much needed scrapbooking and girl time! We decided to create some new recipe books using hardback she discovered at a store nearby, so we ventured over to Spoons 'n Spice to pick up a recipe "album" for the project. The idea for the book was to make it over, in a way.  We chose some cute paper (I chose some to match my red kitchen :) ) and used mod podge to recover and seal the book. Then, we recovered the inserts that came with the album (because the colors were WAYYYY off from what I wanted) and, voila! A beautiful new recipe book, ready to use! Mine had some hiccups along the way...the paper on the edges kept tearing, so I tried covering it up with a better quality of paper.  It worked pretty well, but it's not perfect....meh, oh well!  Still looks cute! So glad Michelle found these!

Here's what the book looked like originally.  It was a little over the top for me:

And, here it is, all made over and red!  I found some really cute recipe cards to go with the color scheme.  Win! I'm still not finished decorating it, but it's a work-in-progress.

Blog Background Attempt...

So, I need to stop, stop, STOP changing the background of this blog!  But there are sooooo many that I love!  I'm attempting, at the moment, to create my own background and header....we'll see how it goes.  You guys will have to let me know what you think...The background is supposed to look like this:

Like I said, we'll see how it goes... :)

Deliciousness in a glass!!

I discovered something wonderful tonight! There is a coffee shop in Fashion Place mall outside of Nordstrom. They make the most fabulous drink! I cannot for the life of me, remember the name. It's "Sun"....something. Sunkiss? Sunbeam? Something like that. But, I watched how they made it, and promptly came home to try and recreate it! I think I figured it out, and I also made a slight change for another version. It is as follows:


1 part orange juice
2 parts iced tea (regular or lemon)
A splash of raspberry flavoring (to taste)


It's a fruity summer drink...Mix and enjoy!! 


I also altered the iced tea ingredient for an "Arnold Palmer" (half ice tea and half lemonade) and, it was delectable as well! TTFN!