Lighting Bug

I saw these at the garden center 

last weekend and I thought, 

Hmmm, wonder if I can make one of those...

Turns out I can.

Just another good reason to keep that big box

of dead lightbulbs.

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Nothin' but cheeks.

Wine Bottle Planter

Lory and I had no visual when Kelly

invited us to join her at a workshop

to make

wine bottle planters.

But Kelly knows Lory and me,

if it has to do with wine we are probably interested

and if Kelly came up with it, it's probably fun.

The hardest part of this project would be cutting the

bottom off the wine bottle.

Good news is they had them pre-cut.

So the project really just entailed us

shoving a plant up the bottle

and stringing it with fishing line.

Well, the fishing line may be 

up there with cutting glass.

But the funnest part of this day was roaming around

Blumen Gardens...

and the margaritas at the end.

Only way it could have been better

would have been if we had to drink

the wine to empty out the bottles.

Oh well, you can't have everything.

http://www.blumengardens.com/

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 I'm not the only one.

These two a professional did.

 There are many caption possibilities with this next one.

 I'll leave you to your own devices.

But this child was 

MADE

for Disney ears!

Transporting Cupcakes

Found this little idea on

Pinterest.

Pretty self-explanitory.

What I'm not so sure about is how they got them 

out of there. 

Cannellini Couscous Salad

In an effort to reduce my cholesterol
and come up with dinners that don't involve the oven,
I have *created* this.
I say *created* because I did start with a
recipe but I think I've changed enough
ingredients that it has become a new thing.

It's:
pearl couscous
red onion
cucumber
grape tomatoes
cannellini beans
tuna fish
fresh corn
jicama
sweet peppers
basil
all tossed together
and dressed with
1 T. olive oil
2T. balsamic
1 T. lime juice.

It was better after it sat for a while.

Also, when chopping multiple ingredients
I think it's always a good idea to make
everything about the same size.
So for this everything was between
 the size of a grain of couscous and a bean.

It will be lunch today.
Along with this:

It's Margarita Friday!

Oh, and I asked the doc about Margaritas.
He says they won't impact my cholesterol numbers.
Besides, he said, you need some vices in order
to give something up.
I told him, more like to have
something to lie to him about.

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Her father did this one.