Crazy for Coral!

{top, l to r: Sally Hansen Coral Reef #405; Maybelline Peachy Scene #525; Revlon Orange Flip #710. Bottom: Maybelline Coral Glow~I think, label's too small for my vision!}

This season I have been drawn to all the beautiful shades of coral, peaches and and soft apricots. This is highly unusual since I've always been drawn to pinks and roses and berries, feeling that they best set off my naturally pale coloring.

A girl can change her mind...right?

{top, l to r: Chico's blouse; close up of detailing on blouse; bottom: still obsessed with "accent nails" Ulta peach nail polish~can't find the bottle to get the true name/: & OPI Nicole Love your Life on ring finger}

{Revlon Orange Flip on lips; the Ulta brand peach colored nail polish. I am SOOOO impressed with Ulta's polish! Lasts for days with minimal chipping and wear!}

Crack Pie

{crack pie}

While listening to the radio one day, I heard mention of this pie. That it was soooo good, you just wouldn't be able to stop eating it. Now, I could probably say that about a lot of foods since I tend to have addictive tendencies when it comes to sweets especially. Dare I tempt myself? Yes, I did.

And while it was pretty darned good, luckily my family didn't find me passed out in a corner with an empty pie plate and the dog licking crumbs from my face.

Behold the Lowly Dishcloth

I crochet and knit. But I am only at a beginners level. I have made many, of what I am sure is a beginners project, dishcloths. I found that most patterns that I have tried create a dishcloth in a size that, when wet, becomes heavier than is comfortable for my hand strength and just larger than I can comfortably deal with in general. So I decided just to make myself some smaller, nothing fancy, dishcloths. They work for me. (:

{The larger cloth was one of my first dishcloths made from a pattern}

{the smaller dishcloths were "freestyle"}

Carrot Pie

After being faced with almost three pounds of organic baby carrots that my daughter said she didn't care for (I keep them around for her lunches), I knew that meant only one thing: they weren't going to get eaten any time soon and I'd better figure out something to to with them before they ended up in the trash.

{my trusty Ninja}

So, I remembered a little recipe card that has been languishing in my recipe files for years. And it had been years since I made it. (Only because I go through periods of wanting absolutely nothing to do with anything having to do with the kitchen and cooking or baking.)

{I had just run out of my sea salt so substituted kosher salt instead.}

{many times I use dried milk in my baking and cooking}

*Not pictured is the homemade whipped cream I made to top the slices of warm pie ):

**I find I prefer the pie better after it has been chilled in the fridge for a while.

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Multitasking

Each morning, after getting the family off to work and school, I come home and immediately head for the office to take care of emails and other "necessary" online tasks. I thought I would add a little spaaahhhh treatment to the business at hand.

*It's completely coincidental that my polish matches the yoga toes (replica) thingy and not so coincidental that they are in dire need of a redo.

Today's Green Smoothie was Red

Today's smoothie contained beet, which I'm not normally a fan of. But mixed in with other sweet things I do like, I couldn't detect the normally dirt like taste that I associate with eating the red bulbous roots. The results were actually quite good and I will be eating...ahem, drinking my beets more often.

Ingredients: 1/3 of a large beet + the green & red tops, kale, frozen banana, frozen pear (from our tree in the backyard that I froze a couple of years ago), frozen figs (again from the tree in our back yard, frozen two summers ago-I LOVE my Food Saver!) and wulong (oolong) tea.