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Temporary Tattoos

July 25, 2007 by Tsoniki 4 Comments

I’ve wanted a tattoo for a long time – but then I end up changing my mind. I change where I want it or what it should be, even if it is just a tweak. Can you imagine getting a tattoo then wanting to tweak it? Yeah, that wouldn’t be cool! I do think I’ll get one someday – and who knows when someday will be here.

I’ve had my share of temporary airbrush tattoos though. They are usually at those small street fairs in towns and usually offer a wide variety of tattoos. Whenever I’ve seen them and had them done, I’ve always had to wait behind teenagers. I wonder if they ended up getting a tattoo once they were of age? I always liked how fast they could get done.

I remember when my best friend’s little brother was little (he’s a teenager now) and we told him that drawing on yourself with a pen was tattoos – in a short while he was covered and though we thought it was funny, their mom didn’t. I wonder if he’s interested in tattoos now? I’d definitely stick with airbrush until you know for sure what you want!

I’m probably going to draw up one, or talk to an artist friend to help with the drawing, before I do it.

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Online Meal Service

July 25, 2007 by Tsoniki Leave a Comment

Over the years I think I’ve turned into a fairly decent cook. We’ve gone from ramen noodles and hamburger helper to very rarely eating prepared meals like that. We make just about all of our meals from scratch – mashed potatoes from real potatoes, homemade mac and cheese, spaghetti and meatballs are a few favorites – and though somedays it is annoying to have to do, most of the time I enjoy it. And of course what also helps is Chris cooking some nights! Most of the time it is his days off and he does all the cooking on those days, which is a much needed and enjoyed break for me.

I have a shelf devoted to cookbooks – $1 Tupperware and Pampered Chef ones, the red checked really popular one, an LA Weightloss one, a couple of crock pot ones, a candy one from the 70s, a fat little farmers cookbook that was a gift to Chris from his Aunt – and what do we use? The farmers one and once in a while the red checked one. That’s it! It is a rare day in this house that we try something really new – I remember trying a Rachel Ray recipe one time and after frantically running around my kitchen (I swear her 30 minute meals are only 30 minutes because she cooks everything on high! Hahaha) we realized that the food just didn’t taste that good! I’m sure other recipes are good, but that meal certainly wasn’t.

Today I threw a roast in the crockpot and later I’ll make mashed potatoes and heat up a can of corn. Hard work right? Well no, but it is slightly boring!

I’ve also been looking for a freezer cooking cookbook – you know, where you make meals for like two weeks at a time and freeze them so they are ready? I know that the farther along I get the more I won’t be interested in cooking and if Chris has to go away for work, I really won’t be interested in cooking! It’s so easy to feed kids – especially mine, they’ll eat whatever you give them. If popping a pan in the oven is all I had to do, that would be ideal.

Anyway, over at AMomsReview.com they are giving away chances to win five free memberships to EMealsForYou.com! You do need to be a mom with a blog and be willing to try the service and then provide honest feedback about how to make it better. I’ve heard of other services but haven’t tried them out for fear of recipes we wouldn’t like! Head on over to enter, you have until August 3.

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Anyone Twitter’ing?

July 24, 2007 by Tsoniki 6 Comments

How many of my crafty girls are on Twitter?

Scroll done a touch and you’ll see a twitter badge – my picture along w/ my posts and my friends are in the badge. At the bottom is a twitter logo w/ “are you following me?” beneath that. So are you on Twitter?

It can be addictive! It’s very fun though – fast blogging, very fast, like a sentence or so. I was using a windows vista sidebar gadget but for some reason it wasn’t updating my timeline so I am trying out a few more applications. I have one open now but geez it is a *huge* window.  Another was okay but once I put my settings in, I couldn’t figure out how to change them! That’s never good.

So join me on twitter! If you click the twitter button below the timeline, it should take you directly to my page. Keep it open while you set up your own page and go back and add me as a friend. I’ve been on there for months now but changed my user name, which is why it says I joined just yesterday.

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Leaves Transformed

July 23, 2007 by Tsoniki 2 Comments

Check out this page showing step by step instructions of how to transform maple leaves into roses! How very cool is that! I particularly love the last picture showing all of the roses with leaves underneath them – what a beautiful centerpiece. I can so see those on a table for a fall wedding!

Hhmmm, ideas, ideas! I’ve been talking about us renewing our vows next year – but we haven’t settled on a date. Part of me wants the spring time and the other part wants it to be closer to our anniversary date. So it’s between April and December – weather wise what bad choices! South Dakota in December – under a blanket of snow. And there is a chance that could happen in April too! Really we have to go on Chris’ work schedule. But these roses made from leaves, great idea and they turn out so nice.

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Gifts that last

July 22, 2007 by Tsoniki 3 Comments

With the kids birthdays coming up in just a few weeks, I’ve been thinking about birthday gifts. My Mom visited in May and we went through the kids toys and stuffed animals and ended up donating about 1/3 of what we had plus throwing away broken ones. I felt a lot better after this happened because the kids were able to find what they liked to play with and then actually play with them!

But I’m not sure what to do about birthday presents. I mean what to get for them. We are having another combined birthday party – I’m sure I can get away with that until they are a bit older – and other then starting to think of what to have for food and where to get their pictures taken, gifts are at the back of my mind as well. They have done great with everything they do have – the Barbie computer that Santa brought for Christmas last year is still a very much played toy as is a tent, superhero matching game and a few other favorites. It’s hard to pick what to give them. We’ve been doing a lot of stamping and I wonder if I should put together a kit of kids stamping stuff for Alice? I am going to talk to them about what they would like, they are old enough to say.

I’d love to find another something that lasts as long as the Christmas gifts have! I haven’t looked at kids toys in months so maybe there is something out there that I just don’t know about!

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