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May 16 2010

“You think this is about SUSHI?” –Celia from Monsters Inc.

I’ve been wanting to make these since our trip to Victoria a year and a half ago. The boys visited the Victoria Bug Zoo — not sure how I got out of that one;) and were sent home with the recipe for BUG SUSHI! Everyone in our family loves sushi, even Noah, in spite of eating a large glob of wasabi one time thinking it was bubblegum! I don’t think he’ll make that mistake again…

Mock Sushi

1/4 cup butter 6 cups Rice Krispies

4 cups mini marshmallows Candy-swedish fish, sour strings, gummy worms….

1-2 boxes of fruit leather or fruit by the foot

Line baking sheet with wax paper. Melt butter in a large saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and stir in the rice krispies. Place plastic baggies on your hands and spread a thin layer on to baking sheet. Place a row of candy an inch from the edge. Roll marshmallow mixture over the worms just enough to encircle the candy. Stop and cut the log away from the rest of the mixture. Continue with this method to make as many logs as you can. Wrap each log with fruit roll up. Slice each log into 1 inch thick slices.

Tagged mock sushi, rice krispie sushi

May 14 2010

Keeping it real with Dr. Oz

While mom was here in New York we got tickets to go to a taping of the Dr. Oz show. I love going to show tapings…its so interesting to see the cameras, the set….the way the whole show comes together.

A few things I learned from Dr. Oz:
→The best day to go grocery shopping is Wednesday-all the new groceries are put out and old stuff on sale.
→Don’t keep your eggs in the door of the fridge AND don’t keep your potatoes & onions in the fridge.
→The best day to make a doctor appointment is on a Monday.
→Keeping a fern or spider plant in our living areas can purify and rejuvenate air within our homes. They also safeguard us all from side effects connected with toxins such as formaldehyde, ammonia and also benzene.

→Kamloops is in Saskatchewan….? um…well….he was close….kinda…? When he met mom, she mentioned that she was from Saskatchewan…he replied, ‘Ah yeah! I’ve been there, I’ve been to Kamloops!” haha….but Hey! Usually when you say Canada, they only know Toronto or Montreal-so I’ll give him that!

http://www.doctoroz.com/

Tagged Dr. Oz, NBC, New York, television taping

May 13 2010

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raining hearts

New Yorkers for ages have been telling me to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens….and well, its taken me 2 years….but I made it. ….and LOVED IT!

Gorgeous.

Peaceful.

Sigh…I couldn’t help but take pictures of everything I saw.

Just in time for the Cherry Blossom Festivals. It was like walking into a sky of pink fluff! Oh la la!

This plant looks like the guys from Monsters Inc…tee hee.

I love cacti…..love love love.

I love this plant/tree….its like its raining hearts! awww!

Tagged Brooklyn, Brooklyn Botanical gardens, flowers, New York

May 11 2010

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celebrities, smashin' fashion

André Leon Talley

“There are no rules in Fashion….as you can tell by what I’m wearing today.” Andre Leon Talley

I went to a fantastic talk at FIT with André Leon Talley….and wow! Impressed! This man has really taken his childhood dreams and made them into a reality. He said that as a child he would read through Vogue and post up the pictures on his walls. At a very young age he even announced, to his family’s dismay, that he wanted to be a fashion editor. He went to Brown University to become a french teacher and upon graduation was encouraged, by friends, to move to New York and persue his love for fashion. At one point he was poor, living at a YMCA (in his words, “living with the human and nonhuman
cockroaches”). He worked for Andy Warhol (yeah…THAT Andy) for fifty dollars a week! He kept at it, and was impeccable with his work and impressed the right people. For those of you who aren’t familiar
with Andrea-he is the former American editor-at-large for Vogue Magazine and currently a contributing editor as well as judge on America’s Next Top Model.

He had fabulous stories to tell about people in the fashion industry (his best friend-…uh…Karl Lagerfeld!!), advice to give about the fashion industry as well as his general opinions on fashion, art etc. Overall he was very well spoken, very funny and wasn’t afraid to poke fun at himself-which I loved!

PETA people protesting his talk.

Andre’s advice to young people…getting ahead in the business by using manners, etiquette and talent. He gets into it at the 55sec mark.

Tagged Andre Leon Talley, Fashion, FIT, New York City, Vogue

May 06 2010

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child's play, travel

In a state of Sunshine

So I’m a little slow at posting images from my spring vacation in Florida. Our plans consisted of spending the first week moving around to a few different locations. The second week we met up with David’s parents and sisters family. Here is the condensed version of our two-week vacation.

We flew out on Noah’s birthday so a few days later we treated him to Disney World. It wasn’t initially part of the plan until we heard about the ‘Give A Day, Get A Day’ program through Disney. Volunteer for a day through an approved agency and voila, free tickets to a Disney park! How great is that?

Auntie Jenn, you’re not the only one addicted to the blue fluffy stuff!

Daytona beach—home to Nascar, crazed spring breakers and vehicles driving on the beach. None of which I’m crazy about! This Nervous Nelly didn’t do much relaxing here! The sand was gorgeous though, so fine and squeaky.

By the end of the first week we were down in Fort Lauderdale skimming over the alligators! I’m telling you priorities change when you have little boys. Say goodbye to outlet malls and hello to holding baby alligators and iguanas!

Ahhhhhhh…..Palm Coast. We finally are going to stay in one spot for a week! This is where we met up with David’s family. Last time we’d seen our nephews was 3 years ago. We would spend our mornings down by the water hunting for treasures and the afternoons at the pool swimming and chewin’ the fat.

Coquina–our beach was made up of this wicked cool stuff. The only time I put my camera down was to load my pockets with it! It’s mainly composed of mineral calcite, often including some phosphate, in the form of seashells or coral. Blah, blah and blah…wikipedia gibberish…