Twine Pears Tutorial

I love a good three step anything! Recipe, craft, you name it. This is pretty self explanatory, and you can't really go wrong with it. As you can see my twine was not wrapped perfectly around my light bulbs, but that's okay! Pears don't have a perfect shape anyway. It helps them look less like a light bulb wrapped in twine!

Try something new! Let me know how it goes! I would love to hear from you! I'm always looking for new tips and tricks for decorating on a budget.

Enjoy!

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Best Photo Free Editing Software (And Review)

Fotor - Photo Editor

So I've been trying to find the best photo editing software out there that is (of course) free.  Fotor.com is the best one I've found thus far. It has all the great features that I look for, basic editing like croping, fine-tuning, and it has advanced options (that are still free) like blemish fixes, red-eye remover, [it even has lip tinting  mascara, eye shadow, wrinkle remover, smoothing, reshaping, and so much more, still free] all while having an easy to use, clean cut interface.

What really caught my attention was the "try it first" demo/thing. When I first went to the page it didn't bombard me with popups making me sign up or anything like that, I could just go and try the website and see how I liked it (which made it helpful because this wasn't the first website I went to) It gave me some of their pictures in the 'basket' for me to try out on the canvas. It didn't take me long to scan all the features before I stopped my search. This was the one. Plus, you can upload photos from your computer, dropbox, facebook, picassa, flickr, webcam or the web. 

The program also has a free app for your smartphone that you can download and edit from there as well! They still have some great features available (all free) [not as many on the web, but that can be expected]

Here is a photo I edited from the smartphone app!

(After)

(Before)

Enjoy!

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Weekend Beach Date!

Our Day at the Beach!

 We had such an amazing day at the beach yesterday! It was great to have a day all to ourselves and enjoy some relaxation by the ocean.

Breakfast

They day started off by making some fresh banana muffins for breakfast. They were just too good! Along with our muffins we made some eggs and sausage. 

(Click the photo to see how we made these muffins!)

Ready to Jump in!

I had everything all packed (Towels, blanket, dry clothes, a zipper pouch to hold sunscreen, lip balm, etc, and a bag for wet suits all in one big bag [a Thirty-One Large Utility Tote- I highly recommend]). My honey likes to say the women in my family like their bags, totes and 'containers for containers'.  I like it. Organization is a good time! We also packed a thermal tote with some fresh fruit, veggies and sandwiches and made sure it would stay cool with frozen water bottles (Those came in handy with the warm weather!)
Once we got to the beach we laid out our blanket and headed right for the water. We had an excellent time swimming (even though my bathing suit bottoms kept falling off me!) [Oh well- gives me an excuse to buy a new one with the Real Women Lane Bryant Dollars I earned last shopping trip! Oh and I can't wait for more of the T3 Capris!- I'll make sure to post my curvy girl shopping experience with you all! I know sometimes shopping can be a bit of a pain..]
After we were done swimming we went back to our blanket and enjoyed some nice cold fresh fruit and laid out in the sun for a bit. We even had some time for my honey to fly her kite! It was such a beautiful day!

Can't wait for our next Weekend Beach Date!

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Strawberries everywhere!

We're getting back into being healthy and what a perfect way to do it than with some fresh summer fruit. Mmmm. Home grown are so much tastier! We've put them in smoothies, and cereal, and munched on some for snacks. Her first smoothie was fresh strawberries, ice, and greek yogurt. That's it. And she said it was super tasty! I made one (not pictured) with strawberries, kiwi, banana ice and lime flavored sparkling water. Mine was kind of a slushy rather than smoothie but mmmm it was good too! Just tonight for a snack while I work I had some corn flakes and a little bit of dark chocolate granola with sliced strawberries on top. (No milk, yuck! Also why there was no yogurt or milk in my "smoothie") I even measured the cereal by suggested serving size. So proud! Anyway... Hope this post was inspirational! All you gotta do is try something!