Last Saturday the family and I went to The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. The kids had so much fun. If you haven't seen their dinosaur encounter show, I encourage you to go, the kids were amazed and loved it. Here's a link to a video of what it is if you haven't heard of it; video. It's basically these really cool lifelike dinosaur puppets that walk around and make noise, amazing.
They also had a pretty neat bug exhibit, we touched some Madagascar hissing cockroaches. There was a replica t-rex skeleton you could put together and a fossil "dig" site for the kids. We had a lot of fun.
I also wanted to mention some awesome perfume I bought from an etsy seller. The shop is called Wiggle Perfume and has the most amazing smelling perfumes. I bought myself 20 samples to figure out which one to buy in a large size. This didn't work out so great as I love them all and still don't know what to buy.
My husband was no help either. This man is insanely picky when it comes to smells and I have barely worn perfume in the past ten years because it's so hard to find something he likes. He loved all the perfumes I ordered, except for maybe two. I think I may have to just order them all and wear a different smell everyday.
I ordered some 27 Men's Fragrance for my hubby and he wants me to thank Wiggle for coming up with this intoxicating scent, since I can't stop sniffing him every time he puts on, which usually get's us all hot bothered and well I'm sure you can guess the rest.
Try out some of the perfumes, you'll love them, trust me.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
From My Kitchen
When my husband and I moved in together, seven years ago, and we were still boyfriend and girlfriend, we discovered a little problem, cooking. Well I thought it was a little problem, but it turned out to be a big problem.
Our first apartment was in Colorado, we're both native Californians. We moved out there mid June and just assumed we could BBQ all our meals, and make easy boxed sides. This worked fine until it started to snow hard, I mean really hard, we were literally buried in snow, and couldn't leave our apartment. It was so cold, when we actually braved the frigid weather and tried to BBQ on our tiny balcony, our pathetic BBQ froze and the flame continually went out, not to mention our lack of snow gear meant frozen everything. Have you ever walked out in 15 below weather with a 25 below wind chill and then touched a frozen BBQ? So not fun.
And there we were with a freezer full of meat we didn't know how to cook, not that we had very much to cook with. so for three days we lived on top ramen and steamed frozen vegetables. When we were finally able to leave and walked two blocks in thigh high snow drifts we found our grocery stores roof had caved in. We then had to slosh our way four more blocks to the next nearest store and stocked our pantry(really a box in the corner of the dining area) full of spices and vegetables.
Of course we wore tennis shoes on this walk(did I mention we're from California?) and had to thaw our feet in the store before walking home and repeating the thawing process. Then we stared at this pile of supplies we had braved the snow for and had no idea what to do with it. Thank goodness for the internet, our phones didn't work, but we still had internet and I watched a couple videos and made a pot roast, and a discovery, I love to cook.
That experience was the beginning of my culinary adventure and the last time I cooked something out of a box. My family calls me a food snob, but they love to eat the treats I bring. So here's my latest culinary experiment, marshmallows.
I love to watch Food Network and my favorite show is Good Eats with Alton Brown, so when I decided to make marshmallows I had to see if he had a recipe, he did and you can find it here.
These marshmallows came out awesome! So good, and light and fluffy with an amazing flavor, way better than any store bought marshmallows. I'm planning on giving these out at Christmas with some homemade instant hot cocoa.
On anither note, I finished up my new jens pind linkage wallet chain check it out here, and here's some pics
Our first apartment was in Colorado, we're both native Californians. We moved out there mid June and just assumed we could BBQ all our meals, and make easy boxed sides. This worked fine until it started to snow hard, I mean really hard, we were literally buried in snow, and couldn't leave our apartment. It was so cold, when we actually braved the frigid weather and tried to BBQ on our tiny balcony, our pathetic BBQ froze and the flame continually went out, not to mention our lack of snow gear meant frozen everything. Have you ever walked out in 15 below weather with a 25 below wind chill and then touched a frozen BBQ? So not fun.
And there we were with a freezer full of meat we didn't know how to cook, not that we had very much to cook with. so for three days we lived on top ramen and steamed frozen vegetables. When we were finally able to leave and walked two blocks in thigh high snow drifts we found our grocery stores roof had caved in. We then had to slosh our way four more blocks to the next nearest store and stocked our pantry(really a box in the corner of the dining area) full of spices and vegetables.
Of course we wore tennis shoes on this walk(did I mention we're from California?) and had to thaw our feet in the store before walking home and repeating the thawing process. Then we stared at this pile of supplies we had braved the snow for and had no idea what to do with it. Thank goodness for the internet, our phones didn't work, but we still had internet and I watched a couple videos and made a pot roast, and a discovery, I love to cook.
That experience was the beginning of my culinary adventure and the last time I cooked something out of a box. My family calls me a food snob, but they love to eat the treats I bring. So here's my latest culinary experiment, marshmallows.
I love to watch Food Network and my favorite show is Good Eats with Alton Brown, so when I decided to make marshmallows I had to see if he had a recipe, he did and you can find it here.
These marshmallows came out awesome! So good, and light and fluffy with an amazing flavor, way better than any store bought marshmallows. I'm planning on giving these out at Christmas with some homemade instant hot cocoa.
On anither note, I finished up my new jens pind linkage wallet chain check it out here, and here's some pics
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Sneak Peek
I'm working on a new wallet chain, since my full persian chain is doing so well. Right now I'm working on a jens pind linkage weave. Later I think I'll do a byzantine one, we'll see what I want to do next.
I'm also working on a chainmaille dining set, napkin rings, coasters and wine glass charms. Fun stuff ahead.
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