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05/18/2015 20:54 #60002

Thank you! Buffalove Pre-Wedding Celebration
Category: wedding
We had an amazing weekend... luxurious time with my bff, a PERFECT party, and then an unexpectedly lovely Sunday Funday with brunch, bocce, twerking on the front porch, Cards Against Humanity, and finally sky lanterns! Photos by Moneissa, (e:xandra), Greg and me.

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02/22/2015 14:37 #59858

Recipe - Baked Veggies
Category: food
In a big bowl, mix
3/8 c. olive, sesame or peanut oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 c. panko
paprika, salt & pepper to taste

Then mix in
1 zucchini - quartered, chopped into large pieces
some broccoli crowns, chopped into large pieces
4 med. potatoes, chopped into large pieces
1 med. red bell pepper
1 can chick peas, rinsed & drained

Put in 9x13 baking pan. Bake for 50 min at 400 degrees F.

heidi - 02/22/15 21:17
I think that would work pretty well.
tinypliny - 02/22/15 18:45
Can masa harina (cooked corn flour) substitute panko?

01/05/2015 20:40 #59723

e:Terry has succumbed
Category: tech

to the computer lab.

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01/04/2015 19:53 #59719

Salt dough ornaments
Category: holiday
(e:Dianne) likes painting ceramics, so I thought she'd enjoy making salt dough ornaments. They're much more free-form artsy yet employ all the same techniques.

First, we made the dough - 1:1 flour:salt + enough water to make it like dough. This was almost a cup of water with one cup each flour & salt. We had also made chocolate chip cookie dough, molasses cookies and sour cream sugar cookie dough that day, so we put it in the fridge to cut & bake later.

The next day, Tanya helped us roll out the cookies and cut them. Then we baked them for nearly two hours, turning halfway through.

They sat for a few days while we finished up the other cookie baking and gathered paints, glitter, mod-podge, brushes, and pretty paper. (A filled loyalty punch card at Hyatt's gets you at $20 gift card!!)

Christmas Eve, Tanya came over and we started the decorating process. We sanded first - definitely recommend this step, it was surprisingly helpful to have smooth(er) surfaces to work with. We painted, decoupaged, glittered and otherwise manipulated the ornaments. Having lots of ornament hooks handy was very helpful as we painted both sides. Paint - dry - paint - dry - modpodge - dry - glitter glue - dry ... Note: mod-podge THEN glitter glue! We got quite a few started and nearly complete.

Christmas Day we hosted the afterparty from Brena's Misfit Christmas Brunch and people created more interesting ornaments. The lady with the dress is from that session.

We went to NYC Saturday to late late Tuesday night, so we couldn't finish until yesterday. I was still tying string on ornaments today. I like nylon invisible thread, and we also used some really nice stretchy gold string. We ended up throwing some unpainted ones away because we just couldn't keep occupying the kitchen table with this project.

Here's the entire set. As much work as they took, I keep expecting there to be more of them!

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heidi - 01/05/15 12:36
(e:Paul), they're intended to be long-lasting - the mod podge is supposed to seal them. They're about as fragile as glass ball ornaments but they superglue back together nicely. (e:mike) - I wish you weren't kitty allergic cuz you coulda brought GLITTER! "Have glitter, will travel"?? Thank for the adorable xmas card!
mike - 01/04/15 23:35
so cute! love them!
paul - 01/04/15 22:58
Cute, I never saw these before. Do you use them for mutiple years or is it a one season thing? Do they break easy?

11/12/2014 15:01 #59573

My office
Category: work

So pretty!

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tinypliny - 11/12/14 23:42
I LOVE those floors!!!