SHUTTERBEAN + MINTED GIVEAWAY!

Reminder Alert: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.

This year I decided to doing something a little different; I’m making personalized journals from Minted!

When I was at Alt last week, I spied these cute/custom journals at the Minted booth. Top-notch paper & print quality, customization options, with a fantastic assortment of designs? COUNT ME IN!

A few days ago, I made six personalized journals yesterday for a few of my friends & family. Each journal contains 40 pages of lined/unlined paper. I made the executive decision and chose lined paper for each journal and I customized each one of them with a few personal touches. Here’s what my journals will look like:

This is a journal for my Valentine. That’s me & Casey. Although I think I’ll be the one using this notebook 😉

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January 28, 2012

My Everyday Life: Week 4

Here’s what this week looked like:

THOUSAND seed muffins coming at ya next week!

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January 27, 2012

I love lists, Friday!

(that’s me & my friend Jenny at the Alt Summit! Thank you Smilebooth! I’m kind of obsessed with you!)

This is such a good idea! Confetti shooters!
My friend Becky got me hooked on this website.
48 Things to Be Grateful for When you Need to Shift Your Focus
Pantry Porn! Truly Madly Deeply.
Bloody Mary. Number 1 item on my TO DO LIST.
If only I had enough hair for a sock bun.
This was one of the most valuable panels I attended at Alt Summit this year!
Cooper needs one of these. I’m sure of it.
Sh*t Liz Lemon Says (thank you Nicole!)
You Should Read These Blogs!
Beautiful photos, Beautiful soup!
Chipper Things!! This blog is adorabuns!
How to Give Compliments & How to Take Them!
I have major love for pinterest.
Proud to be letter S in this post! xoxo to Lisa!
Thinking of going Sugar Free? Danielle is doing it. I wanna do it!
This needs to be an audio book!

Episode #35 of the Joy the Baker Podcast is up! It’s called My Legs are Not Candy. This week, we talk about The Bachelor (I totally watched it) Glee, Jamie Oliver, Lists & LISPS. We also share two musical play lists that get us motivated! Lotta giggles. Hope you enjoy!

MY ORGANIZING GOALS FOR 2012 are up on High Straightenence! I’m putting it all out there. Let’s get organized together!

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January 25, 2012

Raw Chocolate Milk

Brace yourselves. Your minds are about to be blown. You ready? You braced? Good.

What if I was to tell you that you can easily make chocolate milk that tastes like a frothy chocolate malt without using malt or dairy?

(Omg. This is starting to sound like an infomercial! Crap! I need a big screen projector behind me!)

Well, YOU CAN. You can make delicious chocolate milk with your blender!

(this is not an infomercial for a Vitamix cuz I don’t have one. I want one though! Like really really bad.)

So this is raw chocolate milk. What makes it raw? So glad you asked! It’s made with cashews that have been soaked in water! There’s also cocoa nibs up in this mix which makes things extra fancy in my book. Looking to make plain vanilla cashew milk? Just omit the cocoa nibs and reduce the agave syrup. This recipe is a game changer & approved by my picky 3 year old. Winning!

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January 24, 2012

Disney Cruisin’ Part 2: Adult Time

The nice thing about going on a Disney Cruise is that with the help of on board activities & camps for kids, you’re able to sneak in some adult time! The camp that Cooper went to ran from 9am-midnight with open drop-in hours. During nap time and at night, Casey and I traded Cooper duty so we could both be apart of some memorable ADULT TIME activities.

So in those brief moments of adult time, this is what happened: