Bad Bad World

I have told you before how much I love Guster and with the recent release of their new album Easy Wonderful (it's aaaaMAZiiiiiiiiiing! You have to yell it like Oprah....) that love has grown stronger. For their song Bad Bad World they held a contest for fans to make the official music video and here is the winner. You can go check out the honorable mentions here and I definitely would, er, did. Because it's a warm and fuzzy feel good video I thought I'd share it with you, I hope it makes you feel good.



Bad Bad World from Guster on Vimeo.

Share A Meal Monday

I made this meal on Friday and I kinda forgot how much I love it. It's done in the crockpot which right away is alright with me. Raise your hand if you love throwing a bunch of things in one pot, walking away for hours and coming back to a warm and delicious meal!!

Also, I've added a SAMM link on the side bar over there ------> so we can easily access all the SAMM recipes. Click on it and you'll be taken to all the SAMM posts where you can get back to the recipe links.  Well that was kinda redundant.

Cream Cheese Chicken

4-6 chicken breasts (I usually cube mine)

2 cans cream of chicken soup

1/2 pkg cream cheese

1/2 pkg dry Italian dressing mix

* The original recipe uses a whole brick of cream cheese and a whole pkg of dressing mix but I prefer using half, it's too rich for me the other way.*

Mix cream cheese, soup and dressing mix in a bowl. Pour over chicken in the crockpot. Cook on high for 3 hours, until chicken is cooked. Serve over rice.

this is random

When do you switch from baby shampoo/soap to regular shampoo/conditioner and soap? I just realized tonight that Porter is almost three and I am still using Johnson's Head-to-Toe Baby Wash on him. Am I stunting his growth? When should he graduate to the other stuff? 




Also. I searched Johnson's Head-to-Toe in Google Images and this came up.

Makes perfect sense right?

silly Google

Share A Meal Monday

Do you love curry?! I love curry. I don't love smelling curry in my house for a week after I've made it though. That's the only downside.

This is a very simple curry recipe, it's like curry for beginners. If you're not sure how you feel about curry give this a try, it's simple and mild but very tasty. 

Chicken Curry

2 Tbsps margarine

1 tsp curry powder (I add more - we like it a lot)

1 onion chopped

2 cups cut up chicken

1/2 cup apricot jam

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 soup can of milk

Melt margarine. Cook curry powder and onion in margarine. Add chicken and cook. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer until hot. Serve over rice or potatoes.

The verdict is in

Alright dudes, I'm doing it. She's going under the knife. She's getting some lipo, a boob job, a tummy tuck and a face lift. Well, maybe not all of that but she is getting painted an amazing shade of mustard yellow. Thank you for your input and opinions. I think we've made a good decision.

sewing kit turned jewelry box

When I found this baby in a thrift shop in Surrey I didn't think I'd be able to get her home for a make over any time soon. I thought I'd have to wait until we drove out there or until my parents drove this way. I was wrong. With my momma finding the perfect box and my dad doing an incredible packing job I sent this gem home on the plane with me. I couldn't wait to get it taken apart and glammed up a bit.

I used a screwdriver to take it all apart - my dad informed me a butter knife is not an acceptable tool for such jobs. Whaaa? When she was all in pieces I lightly sanded the whole thing, primed it with spray primer and began the spray painting.

When I placed it all back together I noticed that the tops of the boxes -where I purposely didn't paint- were showing and it looked really terrible.

I didn't have any spray paint left so I considered my options. I could either go buy another can of paint, carefully tape it off and spray the edges or I could run to Michaels and try and find a craft paint that matched. I chose the latter and couldn't believe the amazing match I found. It's EXACTLY the same color.I carefully painted the edges and then had my brother in law understudy husband replace the hinges.

When everything was good and dry I put it all back together (with a screwdriver) and attached the adorable knobs I bought from The Jasmine Room.

I am so thrilled with how it turned out. I think it's adorable and much prettier than the drab box I purchased.

 And because we all love a before and after:

WIWW Sisters Edition

As I mentioned I was out on the coast last week and THAT means I got to see my sissy!! I LOVE this girl. We are 2 peas in a pod, 2 pigs in a blanket, 2 fish out of water, 2... however the saying goes, we love each other. I asked her to join my WIWW cause she makes everything cuter. Here is what she and I wore the week we got to spend every. day. together. If we could always be so lucky.

I'm not going to break down the outfits for you but I'll tell you that a lot of Sharon's wardrobe comes from this awesome consignment store called Labels and when we went together we definitely did some damage. I'm a little jealous I don't have one here at home. Here's our WIWWSE!

**Oh, and uh, I may really like my new red belt!**

Friday
My awesome thrift store find - read about the tag :)

Our cute glittery toes

Saturday

Sharon made her cute top. So, she's adorable and talented. Thanks for leaving some good genes for me....

(although she did make me a shirt, I'll post about it later)

Sunday

Monday

We were lucky enough to have my BFF Sharlee join us for Thanksgiving so we made her get in the picture too. Oh if you could hear girls talk: "I didn't know I was going to have my picture taken!" "It's raining, I would have done my hair curly had I known." "I wouldn't have worn these shoes if I knew we were going to do pictures outside." You get the idea...

Tuesday

Sharon found these shoes at the thrift store that day. Score! 

And a little WIWW with our dear Granny. She's almost "eighty bloomin' five." Still looks great huh!

Wednesday

And I got to wear this beauty a little later heading out on my daddy's bike.

Aaaaaaand this is what Neil got to wear!!  Bahaa!

What a great week and thanks sister (and Shar!)  for joining in my WIWW! 

I'm linking up with the other gals at the Pleated Poppy. 

Have a great week!

Am I missing something?

 I am seeing a trend that I just don't understand. It comes in the form of this

 and this

and this

What is it about creasing a pillow right down the middle that I am totally missing? Someone fill me in here. I see it all over the place so I trust that it's the thing to do but don't you think a full fluffed pillow looks so nice? When I look at this all I see are rabbit ears or like really pointy cups on a bra. Well?!

I'm clearly missing something.

SAMM

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving last week (for my Canadians...) and obviously I was thinking more about EATING good food than writing about good food because I completely forgot to do a SAMM. Here we are back again!

I know I started this linky to share MEAL ideas because really I'm a terribly uncreative cook buuut if I do say so myself I am an awesome treat maker. I have recipes and recipes of delicious goodies that are tasty and fattening. I love making goodies and usually have something sitting in a pan on the counter. I've already talked it over with my thighs and we're cool. So although this recipe isn't for a meal it's something I couldn't call myself a true friend unless I shared. I got this recipe from a friend back in tha day and it's really one of my favorites. I made it last week after not making it for over a year *gasp* and trust me that won't happen again. It's fast and simple but it is quite the work out for your arm, although then you don't have to feel so bad about your thighs. :)

HOMEMADE EATMORE BARS

1 cup honey

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1 cup milk chocolate chips

1/2 cup peanut butter

2 cups chopped peanuts

1/2 cup coconut

1/2 cup wheat germ

Melt honey and chocolate. Slowly mix in peanut butter. Add remaining ingredients and mix well. Smooth onto a greased cookie sheet (I usually grease my fingers as well as I press it down.) Refrigerate. Cut into squares or strips and ENJOY. And oh, you will.

Would you dare?!!

I am having a little inner turmoil here and I need your opinion.

This dresser sits in my front room. 

 ( please ignore the cords and the PS3 paraphernalia, she's acting as a TV stand while my basement is sick.)

It belonged (belonged? is that right!?) to my mom and she used it for her clothes her whole life growing up. Apparently it sat for years in our basement until a family friend took it and refinished it. He brought it to me a couple years ago as he didn't want to house it any longer and he felt it should stay in my family. I have enjoyed the piece but feel it doesn't do much to liven up the room.

Here's where the turmoil begins - I see all these great furniture re-dos and think this would be a perfect piece to make over. I have dreams (and maybe even the name of the paint...) of turning it a beautiful mustard yellow (trust me on this) and adding pillows to my couches to tie it all together. NOW - do you think I would have to be absolutely deranged to mess with this piece, especially given it's history OR do you think yes, it's a nice piece but if it's sitting in the middle of your living room you've got to love it, make her over! I'm a little torn, I'm not gonna lie. There's definitely something to be said about leaving an antique alone (not that I consider this an antique, love you mom!) but there's also something to be said about making a piece something you actually love. I just don't know which I feel stronger.

Someone just tell me what to do.