Happy New Year ~ 2015
01 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Personal
01 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Personal
25 Thursday Dec 2014
Merry Christmas!
These last few weeks have been spent hustling and bustling throughout the holiday season. However, I managed to squeeze in some baking with a recipe that I got from Pinterest! I love My Pinterest! This time I made Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins and discovered the MASSIVE difference in baking when using a Kitchen-Aid mixer!
A few weeks ago I took the mixer out from storage to make Sweet Hawaiian Bread, but that didn’t work out because I did something wrong with the yeast. Hmm… maybe that’s why it was in storage in the first place.
Thankfully, I left the mixer on the counter and this baking escapade led me to making these Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins using the mixer and the difference was truly AMAZING. I could not believe the consistency the mixer mixed the batter compared to me doing it by hand. Now, I am so excited to try something else!
This recipe came from Princess Pinky Girl and it was delicious and a hit with my Christmas guests! Thank you for your scrumptious recipe because it is now a staple in my book!
Hoping everyone had a fabulous Christmas!
01 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in Design, Fashion, Giving Back, Holidays, Inspiration, Life, Style
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design, fabrics, fashion, inspiration, style, The Catrinka Project
Catrinka bags and accessories make great gifts! Priced from $8 to $250 there is something for everyone (except the guys – they are working on that) and as an added incentive Catrinka would like you to enjoy 10% off this holiday season. Go to Catrinka and use code ‘AJ10’ for your savings from now through the end of the year.
Catrinka is an ethical fashion brand dedicated to investing in women and girls. They design fabulous bags that are all made by women, and a share of the proceeds goes to educating girls in the places where they work. With every purchase you make, you invest in a woman and in a girl who will invest in the next generation – multiplying your impact and helping to break the cycle of poverty. Catrinka invests in women because women invest twice as much of our income in our families as men. And because women’s work is beautiful, and they love to celebrate it.
Last year Catrinka provided over 1,500 days of fair work to women in 11 countries, and supported 129 secondary school girls in 4 countries for a year. This year they’ve already provided almost 3,000 days of fair work to women in 3 countries, and will be directing their proceeds to a pilot program that provides peer mentors to teen girls in Guatemala – a country where 14% of girls start secondary school, 3% graduate, and 1 in 10,000 goes to university.
This year give a gift to the women in your life and at the same time give the gift of a lifetime and support women across the globe!
29 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Art and Expression, DIY, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Pinterest
We had a Trunk or Treat at my little guy’s school last Sunday. Thanks to Pinterest I was able to get some ideas for what to do with our trunk – I love My Pinterest!
I decided upon the theme I wanted to use, something relatively easy, and found two pictures for my inspiration – These are the two pictures and the blogs they came from…

A) Manda’s Mommy Mayhem B) The Dating Divas
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Here is what you are going to need for my version –
3 large white poster boards
2 boxes of cereal
1 black trash bag
1 black vinyl table cover
1 red roll of wrapping paper

I cut each poster board vertically making 6 pieces. Two pieces for each row of teeth and one piece cut in half for the eyes – leaving one extra. I cut the garbage bag in half and used each half to cover the cereal boxes. I taped the eye cutouts, which can be cut in any shape you want, to the covered cereal boxes. The red wrapping paper is rounded at the tip to make it look like a tongue. For the “throat” I used the black vinyl tablecloth, which you could always use more trash bags instead and clear box tape to adhere it all.
Another hit from Pinterest – I love it!
27 Monday Oct 2014
Posted in Art and Expression, Inspiration, Life, Monday Motivation, Personal