A light spring dinner!

Tonight I made a really nice light spring dinner.  The salad was mixed greens with some pickled beets, light soft goat cheese and spray balsamic vinegar (5 weight watchers points, if you're interested).  I steamed the green beans were steamed in my veggie steamer, and garnished with some kosher salt and spray butter (1 WW point for the butter).  Finally, the fish is tilapia.  I dipped it in an egg white, and then dregged it through a mix of whole wheat bread crumbs, kosher salt, black pepper and garlic powder.  Then put it on a cookie sheet covered in foil.  Drizzle it with a bit of lemon juice, and spray with a bit of butter spray.  Broil for like 5 minutes.  (4 WW points)

Overall an inexpensive dinner, lots of healthy protein and fiber, and low in calories and fat.

A nice glass of pinot grigio was the perfect companion to this dinner. 

Breaded tilapia & steamed green beans

My favorite salad - mixed greens, goat cheese and beets!  SO GOOD

Mmmmmm such a great dinner to end the weekend.

Fun Spring Nesting Boxes

I saw this set of plain nesting boxes at Wal-mart for about $5.  I knew I needed them!  I work from home, and so my office is really a great place for me to personalize, but at the same time, I can't stand to be disorganized.  Nesting boxes will be a great addition to my office for both purposes.

This project cost about $10 between the boxes and some craft paints.

As a note, I've started buying some Martha Stewart craft paints, they are really good!  The colors are really nice, and she has glitter, satin and opalescent options as well.  They are still under $2 a bottle, so they're definitely worth it, even just for the accent color.  In this project, the green and beige colors were both Martha paints.

Fun Stripes!

Gotta love a little argyle

Polka dots are always fun - hand drawn so they are not perfect circles, but I like that it makes it look more personalized

I am a little bird obsessed of late - and the colors are so springy that it just works!

The final product!!

Pre-Mastectomy Party

One of my very dear friends learned she has the breast cancer genetic mutation.  She made the tough decision to take control and have a double mastectomy.  She was returning to her home state to have the surgery.  I wanted her to leave knowing how much we love her!  Soooo, we had a good-bye party for her breasts!  There were a couple of games, such as "boob or no boob" (we would name an actress, and the players had to say if the actress had ever been topless in a movie) and "Name that rack"  (Match the celeb cleavage picture to her name).

None of these things were expensive at all.  The flowers were a big hit but they are soooo cheap!  You need 8 sheets of tissue paper and some floral wire or thin wire.  

Strawberry flavoured "boob" cupcakes

What a rack!

Sugar cookies with white chocolate drizzle

All kinds of pink candies

Funfetti cupcakes with pink icing, dipped in sparkle sugar with pink chocolate breast cancer ribbons

Tissue paper flowers

Painted Pumpkins

I love fall crafts.  Unlike so many other seasonal crafts, they stick around for several week.  I like to start doing them in September, and then they can be on display until U.S. Thanksgiving.  I celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving (same weekend as Columbus Day) so I like to have my house decorated and ready by early October.

This past year, my good friend Katie and I got the idea to paint some pumpkins and gourds.  We went to Trader Joes, and got some great shaped pumpkins and gourds.  Then on to Michael's for some paints.  Below are some pictures of our results.  Two things to note - #1 Katie painted some of them, so I have to give credit where credit is due!  #2 These lasted between 6 and 10 weeks.  You just have to push a bit on them every few days, and make sure they aren't getting squishy!

This project cost about $12 (about $8 for a pumpkin and 6 gourds) and $4 for craft paints.

The Start of Something New!

Hello internet!

I haven't had a blog in years, not since I was sad and emo and needed to share my feelings.  Now I need to share my crafts, food and home decor!  Seems like a much better read than my teenage self loathing! 

I'm looking forward to adding pics, recipes and ideas!