for a moment

t's dressing plate by Tsharisse featuring Tarina Tarantino jewelry

This is a really fun website. I have seen it on some of the other blogs I love to visit (like this one http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/). And what they say is so true; this site is very absorbing! I could literally spend HOURS making different collages. I like it because I can appreciate fancy without having to go broke! (No matter, I can't afford dem fancy duds no way).


By the way, I am totally trying to get through this semester ( I am noticing that I spell this word incorrectly every time I type it). I literally can't wait until school is over. I mean the time I graduate from Graduate School. I have two more or three more semesters and it can't come quick enough.

Enough. I am so beat. I have been wanting to just get really creative and cook. I have been getting into buying cookbooks again-

I know it's a book of chinese cookery, but I like to try lots of new and different recipes. And, I will definitely post a dish from the book when I make a dish. I have browsed over some of the recipes already and they look absolutely doable. I found this book at the Barnes & Nobles bookstore on the CSI campus for very below retail at clearance. I love a cook book bargain!

And I had a wonderful birthday this 40th year in my life.

And a Martha Stewart Cupcakes cookbook

Thanks so much Poole-White Family!

Love ya

Wow time flies

I'm just stopping by. I've been working hard this semester (trying to) and things are nearly at the end and the BIG PUSH continues for grades and insight to learning the craft, which in my case is education. And after constantly reminding myself of the blog I have finally come to it. To write here and empty my brain a bit. Sometimes I feel guilty for taking this time to share here. I forget how truly nice this is to write in my blog space. I have lots to share and I have been deciding on the best way to present some pics I have been taking. A lot of it is food because cooking takes up a lot of my day. And then there is family because that is my life. Hope you all enjoy these.....

The walk

I took a walk to the post office one day and this is what I saw........

My Neighborhood

I am terribly defensive of it. I know that it's run down, but it has a special quality about it.

I mean each home has a story. The houses resemble to me the way life has its affect on us.

Some of us have been through a lot.

And we're strong but with some roughness and character, and that gives us a unique and distinct look. That is special.

The Fall semester begins next week for me

So,

Today I thought I would do something for the girls.

They love paper dolls, and I found this site after a quick search on google for paper dolls that are just as lovely as they can be.

I printed out the paper dolls for my girls and they spent the whole day cutting out the dolls and not once all day did I hear that they were bored or tired from all the cutting. They just kept saying how cute the dolls were and the outfits made the dolls even cuter! I even made holders for the dolls and their outfits by printing out a doll on cardstock and attaching a back to make a folder to hold each doll so their outfits can be kept together with them.

I go back to school next week and I am trying to do as many things to nurture my creative side and bring about less stress in my life. I am hoping these activities will encourage me to keep up this part of my life so that I can be less of a school stressed mom.

Putting yourself first and remembering to take time out to do the things that interest you or enhance you is important and I've have fallen away from this, but I am trying to get back on that ideal.

I Love the blog of Alicia Paulson, and I have decided to do a project
from that site. I ordered the pdf pattern and materials which I pickup at the post office tomorrow since this was the day my girls and I said we would stay in all day (I know it's summer but somethings needed to be done), therefore, I could not convince them that mom needed to go and pickup the materials at the post office right away because they wanted to stay at home and cut out the paper dolls. WOW!

I hope I can do a good job on the project and look forward to putting up pictures soon.











Rice Pudding, look for this vintage book for the recipe. I suggest you buy the book because it has the most authentic dishes from Puerto Rican cookery, if you love Hispanic food, like me.
This book was given to me by my mom and I have loved the book so much ever since. I have made a few changes to the rice pudding recipe. I add sweetened coconut and sometimes instead of raisins I add dried cranberries or other dried fruit and it tastes delicious. I also use sweetened condensed milk instead of the milk and sugar, it just makes it simpler.

RAIN

the girls

And the girls and I knit and crochet
And it pours

I love summer, even during the frighteningly rainy, thunder and lightning evenings when you pray you are safe indoors!