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Monday, January 11, 2010

{ day 11 }

by Michelle on January 11, 2010

in Uncategorized,project 365

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Yay! I’m so happy with myself that I’ve made 11 days into Project 365 withour missing a day or getting bored with it! In fact, it’s had the opposite effect… I can’t wait to go take a picture! I dream about photo ideas, I can’t stop thinking about photo ideas! This is just so much fun!

As you can probably tell from a lot of my photos, I love texture and playing around with processing in Photoshop! I don’t care if it doesn’t look “real.” What can I say… I’m an artist, I can’t stay in the box!

I’ve been sitting on an idea for a sparkle-y texture for a few months (since I love fantasy and fairies and stuff like that!) and a few weeks ago I decided to get to work on it. I wanted it to look all cute like pixie dust… but, I am not good at randomly placing things so they look good! My sister is though! She’s a graphic designer and is so good at that kind of stuff! So I roped her into helping me get my idea into reality! She created all the little dots for me and I finished it off with the texture and little “star” sparkles. I am so happy with the way it turned out! And I’m so thankful to Misti for helping me out! :)

I’m working on some more colors and variety, so keep your eyes open! They’ll be at OpenScrapbook sometime in the near future!

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Smoothies!

by Michelle on January 11, 2010

in Uncategorized,food

m2s_7329I love smoothies! I make them nearly every morning for breakfast and they are so fast and easy to make! And they are very healthy for you which is a big plus! A little over a year ago I bought a Vita-Mix blender and that is what is use to make my smoothies. It is such a neat thing! It pulverizes everything you put in it!

This is one of my favorite smoothie recipes. I basically just throw in whatever fruit I have on hand, some spinach and carrots, ground flax and honey. I didn’t have any spinach this morning, but if this smoothie had it in it would be a little darker in color.

This smoothie has:

  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 3 baby carrots
  • 1 whole lemon
  • 2 clementine oranges
  • 1 whole red delishious apple
  • 8 large strawberries (frozen)
  • 2 whole fresh prunes (not the dried ones. I bought fresh and then froze them)
  • 1/2 peach (frozen. I ususally throw in a whole one, but I’m almost out of my frozen stock so I’m rationing!)
  • a large drizzle of honey
  • 3 scoops (6 T) ground flax

Whiz it all up and enjoy! The flax blends right in and you can’t tell it’s in there. It doesn’t have any texture. Other things I’ll throw in when I have them are: bananas, pineapple, cantelope, blueberries, cranberries, pears, spinach, and there’s probably some I’ve forgotten about!

They are so yummy and SO very healthy for you! This amount makes enough for a large glass for me and two small glasses for Autumn and Summer. It’s so nice to have a bunch of your fruit and veggies eaten and out of the way for the day!

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