So sorry to not update lately but my goodness have things been busy. This always happens in the summertime though, right?
I want to tell you about a. Awesome blog I recently found and was featured on. Eighteen25.blogspot.com! You have to go check it out! The girls over at 18/25 are amazing. If your like me then you like to try new ideas and crafts, and this is just the blog for you. I could literally spend hours just reading and dreaming of someday having a tenth of their awesomeness.
Things at AstoriaLane have been really busy lately. I recently hit 300 sales, woohoo! Also I have been busy creating new lines of bookmarks. Some upcoming ones are from the Nantucket line, I just love the northeastern motif in these. Also some new bookmarks with a lil extra pizazz on them ;)
Well until next time.................
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Newest project
So here is my newest project I was working on! Let me know what you think.
It is an old window frame that I turned into a memo board with magnetic chalkboard and covered corkboard.
Hope you enjoy!!!!
It is an old window frame that I turned into a memo board with magnetic chalkboard and covered corkboard.
Hope you enjoy!!!!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Pantry Experiment - Day 1
Okay so here it is. One week no grocery shopping only make meals from ingredients that are already found in my home or garden. Sounds easy right? Wrong! It can't be a meal you have cooked before and it can't follow a recipe.
So in my household my mother does all the grocery shopping and she takes a certain pride in doing it because just by this one afternoon spent shopping she is insuring her familys survival for another week because they will be well fed and properly taken care of. So every Monday you will see her in this order Target (household products), Walmart (canned goods), Publix (meats and perishables). Every week without missing a beat. She seriously has to be on deaths door to not go grocery shopping.
Problem is if you go to the store every Monday you will start to accumalate ingredients that you will most likely NEVER use again. You know that one recipe you just had to try because well it just looked so delicious whenever your favorite Food Network chef prepared it and so simple to boot. Five hours later the recipe is not as delicious as your imagined smell-a-vision had led you to believe and you have now come to the realization you are NEVER going to make that blasted not so simple recipe again. So now I am looking at all these random ingredients and thinking there must be a use for these.
Now cooking for me has always been enjoyable and something that my mom taught me from a very early age. I mean I could cook spaghetti before I even went to school for the first time. Another good thing I have to my advantage is that now I am older and I enjoy the different taste of foods (I was an extremely picky kid) and I like to experiment with flavors to see what I can come up with (something else my mom has lovingly handed down to me). True I am not probably re-inventing the wheel here but it is cool to see what my brain comes up with and then see my familys reaction to the meal whether good, bad and or the ugly.
So tonight the first night of my experiment my little mess in the kitchen was..............................
TACO SOUP
Ingredients:
So until tomorrows mess................
So in my household my mother does all the grocery shopping and she takes a certain pride in doing it because just by this one afternoon spent shopping she is insuring her familys survival for another week because they will be well fed and properly taken care of. So every Monday you will see her in this order Target (household products), Walmart (canned goods), Publix (meats and perishables). Every week without missing a beat. She seriously has to be on deaths door to not go grocery shopping.
Problem is if you go to the store every Monday you will start to accumalate ingredients that you will most likely NEVER use again. You know that one recipe you just had to try because well it just looked so delicious whenever your favorite Food Network chef prepared it and so simple to boot. Five hours later the recipe is not as delicious as your imagined smell-a-vision had led you to believe and you have now come to the realization you are NEVER going to make that blasted not so simple recipe again. So now I am looking at all these random ingredients and thinking there must be a use for these.
Now cooking for me has always been enjoyable and something that my mom taught me from a very early age. I mean I could cook spaghetti before I even went to school for the first time. Another good thing I have to my advantage is that now I am older and I enjoy the different taste of foods (I was an extremely picky kid) and I like to experiment with flavors to see what I can come up with (something else my mom has lovingly handed down to me). True I am not probably re-inventing the wheel here but it is cool to see what my brain comes up with and then see my familys reaction to the meal whether good, bad and or the ugly.
So tonight the first night of my experiment my little mess in the kitchen was..............................
TACO SOUP
Ingredients:
- Beef
- Tofu "beef" - shh don't tell mom she doesn't know it was in there cause she wouldn't have liked the soup then.
- Onion
- Taco Seasoning
- Ranch dressing powder
- Black Beans
- Corn
- Canned Tomatoes (Rotel - Mild & Hot, Regular Diced)
So until tomorrows mess................
Friday, January 14, 2011
Here Goes!
So I have never had a blog hopefully I have something interesting to offer. We'll see.
I chose "A day in the life of a......." because everyday has something different to offer. Examples would be that on any given day I could be any of the following: nanny, housekeeper, interpreter, artist, chef, scrapbooker, fashionista and well you get the picture. I have alot of different hats to wear!
So to keep track of what kind of messes I get myself into I have started this blog.
Upcoming messes would be:
Designing my "LOVE" line on etsy (previews will be coming after I have it completed)
Pantry experiment (more on that later)
Hoping and wishing more of my items sell in eBay and etsy
Expanding my invitation line (figured out I have a little interest in this so I want to pursue it and see where it goes)
So here I go and I hope you enjoy reading about all my little messes and the like.
I chose "A day in the life of a......." because everyday has something different to offer. Examples would be that on any given day I could be any of the following: nanny, housekeeper, interpreter, artist, chef, scrapbooker, fashionista and well you get the picture. I have alot of different hats to wear!
So to keep track of what kind of messes I get myself into I have started this blog.
Upcoming messes would be:
Designing my "LOVE" line on etsy (previews will be coming after I have it completed)
Pantry experiment (more on that later)
Hoping and wishing more of my items sell in eBay and etsy
Expanding my invitation line (figured out I have a little interest in this so I want to pursue it and see where it goes)
So here I go and I hope you enjoy reading about all my little messes and the like.
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