CALIFORNIA LIVING, CANADIAN MADE
My biggest giveaway yet, with and insane 354 entries. It’s time to draw the name. The winner of the It All Starts With Yes challenge is…
Congratulations Melanie. I have your e-mail address so I will be e-mailing you shortly to get your contact information so I can mail off your $50 worth of Procter & Gamble products!
I thought I’d participate in What I Ate Wednesday going around on the blogs that I’ve been reading lately. I woke up extra early because I had a special treat delivered to me at work yesterday; a lunch bag full of Chobani! Yum! Thanks Emily.
The past few weeks I’ve been waking up an hour earlier than usual. I like having the extra time to sit around and relax in the mornings. Especially when it comes to Alfie pup cuddles!
Wednesday’s are the longer days at work, because we have to go into work a half hour earlier than usual. But this morning didn’t stop me from surprising my Boyfriend with a Big Breakfast in bed!
I cooked all the hot stuff first, of course. Then I decided to make a greek yogurt parfait with the chobani. What flavor to pick though? Can you guess which one I went with?
I added strawberries on the bottom, strawberry chobani, and granola from the Blue Menu box from Zehrs. Soo good with yogurt. It’s one of my go-to breakfasts in the summer time. Nice and cool.
Those hashbrowns were cut up from real potatoes from our household. We ran out of them over the weekend and I decided to make my own. They were a little undercooked, whoops.
Everything all finished and ready to bring into slumbering Scott. Can you believe I woke up at 6:15 am this morning to do that? I don’t think I’ve ever done this for someone. Maybe 2012 is my year for being a morning person. He must be a pretty special guy if you ask me.
My breakfast was smaller since I don’t like sausages, so I had my “big breakfast” with a banana.
Mid-morning I drank a … spot ‘o tea to warm up my insides.
Lunch time was super quick with back to my unhealthy regimen consisting of a frozen dinner and a barq’s root beer. Mmm mouth watering. Seriously though, I love this stuff. I had to go back to Sephora after being there yesterday to return my new Laura Mercier foundation. They re-formulated the moisturizing foundation and the colors are way off. When applied on the face it’s cakey, greasy and orange. Not the look I was going for. Laura Mercier replaced the moisturizing foundation with this moisture supreme orange foundation which got a million and one rants on the rating part of Sephora’s website. Now I’m back on the hunt for another Holy Grail foundation. Bummer.
Schhhnackin’s cause I’m a candy eater. I ate … a lot of these. Come to Canada and this is what our currency looks like. This is a loonie, or $1.00.
Supper — my most favorite meal of the entire day. I’m not a big breakfast person, more of a indulge in supper kinda gal. This is one of my by-far favorite meals I make. I actually got my brother to write his recipe down when I was in Newfoundland back in October, and now it’s staple in our household. Yum yum! Lemon pepper chicken stir fry.
So there you have it — a What I ate Wednesday blog post. Do you like these sort of posts? Want me to keep doing them? Hoo boy, this blog posts takes a lot of work taking photos and inserting them and talking about each and every food photo. It’s hard being a food blogger for a day!
I was supplied the chobani free of charge, but it was so tasty I couldn’t help blog about it. Did you know that you can cook with it too? Here are some recipes I found on their site.
Before I flew down to San Diego to attend BlogHer in August 2011 I knew that I wanted some social media business cards to hand out to companies, or new friends I was going to meet. I wanted something much more different than the usual business cards or the popular miniature business cards by moo cards.
(image from Moo)
As a Graphic Designer, I’m constantly having to think outside the box, to better myself and the company I work for. Especially if I want to create new and exciting campaigns.
Which is what I did for my business cards that have my e-mail, website and twitter handle.
I had the design in my head for a while and ended up designing it in an afternoon. I love simple, clean and classic looks. I’ve been told I have a very corporate sense of style with my designs. Which I think are classic and timeless. Sure I do from time-to-time break out of my regime and go for something trendy with designs. But for my business cards, I wanted it to stand out, but be classy. Know what I mean?
I was always so hesitant on sharing my buttons anywhere on the internet for fear of people stealing the idea of business cards on buttons. But I received a ton of positive feedback when handing it out to people. I noticed that when others were putting their business cards in for a draw, or handing it to someone after speaking with them. They never glanced at it. When I handed mine to someone, it never went ignored. People looked at it, felt it, turned it over and gave me a compliment at how eye catching and different it was.
So here it is. My business card button that I made on Six Cent Press, it cost forty bucks for 100 one inch buttons. It wasn’t that expensive either, when you think about it. I think I heard about the URL from my old Graphic Design classmate, and wonderful designer Geri.