New Affiliate - Zulily

I'm now an affiliate for Zulily!! They always have the cutest stuff for kids, but it is always changing. So when you see something to you have to act quickly or else it's gone. Come check it out!

Recipe of the Week - Broccoli Salad

Now that it's getting warmer I'm not so inclined to cook in the kitchen. So I made a super yummy broccoli salad and paired it with a rotissarie chicken from the grocery store. Here is the recipe, it's really easy.

Ingredients:
- broccoli cut into florets (as many as you need to feed your family)
- halved cashews
- bacon bits
- chopped red onion (to taste)
- poppy seed dressing

Mix everything together and you get a yummy salad.

Enjoy!!

Cricut Project - Tags

At work we had an event in which I was given the task, because I have a fun cutting machine the Cricut, to make super cute tags for our participation candy bags. I was totally excited to do this little project!! So I set out to make sample tags that I had available from my Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. I narrowed it down to my favorite one and set out to design. I had to cut them out of 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper, that's what was given to me. Here is how I laid them out.

I laid them out to cut on my 12x24 mat, much faster to cut muliple items. I won't lie, I did hit a couple of snags with a couple sheets of paper, laid out on the wrong lines. Ooops!! Easy fix and then I was back in business. I think that they turned out pretty good!

Then we glued our fun little phrase that coorelated to our event and tied them to the candy bags. Overall I think that they turned out super cute when it was all put together!!

All Thing Pretty Flash Sale Sneak Peak

As you all know I have an online jewelry boutique called All Things Pretty through Kitsy Lane. It's just for fun. Well tomorrow is a Flash Sale and I will be featuring some really pretty bracelets and cuffs. Here are a couple items that are listed in the flash sale.

Vanna Silver

Ceri Cuff

You don't want to miss this Sale!!! Happy shopping!

New Product Sneak Peak - Beaded Pacifier Clip

I've currently closed my shop temporairly to revamp my listings and to add new ones. Well here is a sneak peak of what is to come. Since having my baby I've loved making her cute accessories. The most recent and by recent I mean since Sunday is a brandy new pacifier clip. She has really grown an attchement to the pacifier that we got at the hospital and I found that Avent makes them as well in different colors too. But I found that there are no pacifier clips on the market to hold this kind of pacifier b/c there are 2 small wholes on either side. So I thought that I would make some cute beaded ones. My baby is my tested and I went through a couple of test trials with her to find out the best way to make them sturdy so that they won't break easily. So here is a sneak peak of the ones that I have made.

this one is my baby's but wanted to show how it would clip on.

There will be more to come in my shop so stay tuned!

Cricut Promotion

Good morning friends! I hope that you all had a good weekend and for those of you who are LDS I hoped that you all enjoyed the talks that were given during our General Conference and had an uplifting and spiritual weekend.

This week Cricut has a promotion of 15% off your entire order and 15% off everything!!





Recipe - Spinach Feta Quinoa Cakes

Okay, so as you know I've mentioned that we are trying to eat not as much meat and more veggies and grains. Well I've been pinning a bunch of meatless meal recipes so that I have ideas of what to make. Yes I actually make what I pin. Crazy I know! haha Well I had pinned a quinoa recipe and actually made it for dinner Monday night.

This is my first time cooking with quinoa and I was impressed at how well it turned out. If you don't know what quinoa is it is a small seed like grain that is very high in protein.


White Quinoa



Red Quinoa

You can cook it just like rice, so I used my rice cooker. It is very bitter grain so you want to make sure that you wash it first before you cook it. When I cooked it I used 1 cup water and 1 cup chicken broth for added flavor, for 1 cup of quinoa.

Okay now on to the recipe I found. (sorry I forgot to take a picture of what I made, we were starving and it smelled so good that we just gobbled it up, haha) As I said before I found the recipe on pinterest but I did a little modification to it.

Quinoa Cakes

Ingredients:


1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup finely chopped onion {i used a red onion}
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped {1tsp of already minced from jar}
5 ounces chopped baby spinach
2 large eggs, beaten
1 1/4 cups cooked quinoa {to make bigger cakes I used 2 1/2 cups}
2 ounces crumbled feta cheese
1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill
1/4 teaspoon grated lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup bread crumbs {i used Italian flavored bread crumbs}


Directions:


Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 4 minutes. Add the spinach and cook, stirring often, until wilted, about 3 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a medium-size bowl.

Add the eggs, quinoa, feta, dill, lemon zest, and black pepper and mix well. Mix in the bread crumbs and let the mixture sit for a few minutes to allow the bread crumbs to absorb some of the moisture.

Heat the panini press to medium-high heat.

Form quinoa patties about 5 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. Place the patties on the grill, in batches if necessary, and close the lid. Grill the patties until they’re cooked through and browned on the outside, 4 to 5 minutes. Serve warm. (the Italized size is how I made mine)

*the girl that made this recipe serves a yogurt dill sauce with it and you can find the recipe here. She also makes them smaller but I made mine bigger.*

We had ours with avacado and salsa and it was super yummy!