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Life 2011: Instagram Book

Thursday, January 26, 2012

I absolutely fell in love with the Instagram app when I got my iPhone last January.  I received notes from people on Facebook saying I was instagraming too much and I was harassed for my volume of instagrams at family meals, but I didn’t care.  I loved it and I was obsessed with capturing life, real life, not perfect life.  I’ve always said that the best camera is the one you’ve got with you, and I put my iPhone with instagram to the test.  I instagramed my way through Vegas and I instagramed my entire summer.  If there’s one thing I tell my clients it’s ”Whatever you do, don’t just keep digital files of photos, print them out to enjoy!”  But instagram isn’t really set up for that so I couldn’t figure out how to display all of the photos I loved from our daily life.  And then I got an e-mail from Blurb – they could now make a book with all of your instagram photos with just a click of a button – SOLD!  At the end of the year I logged in, linked to my instagram account and had a book in about 10 minutes.  And I LOVE it.  The photos aren’t perfect or technically precise, but it is an awesome way to look back over a year and see all of the things we did together, all of the trips we took, and all of the awesome food we ate.  It’s also possible that I have about 50 photos of the pups in the book – they’re just so freakin’ cute!

If you aren’t already addicted to instagram I highly recommend it.  And if you want a great and easy way to capture your life in yearly chunks I highly recommend instagram books on Blurb.  Super easy and it’s officially my new favorite book.:-)


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by Kelli

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January 27, 2012 - 2:07 pm

Tracy Woodger-Broz - Looks great! I’m definitely planning on doing this too but first I need to up my instagramming and develop my obsession. :)

January 26, 2012 - 5:23 pm

Lauren - I love this. I just found that book feature the other day and am totally doing it. I Instagram about eight pictures a day — of my baby and everything else. I’m addicted. I had to turn off the Facebook feature or everyone I know would unfriend me.

January 26, 2012 - 9:19 am

Asha - Awesome idea! I’ll have to do this with my instagram photos!

101 in 1,001: Learn to Knit

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Last Saturday I completed my first 101 in 1,001 goal.  I learned to knit.  My knitting instructor may disagree with that statement, but I’m going to use the term “learn” very broadly by saying that I can now cast on and complete a knit stitch.:-) She had to tell me at least twice that I should relax my hands and shoulders (knitting is apparently supposed to be calming, buy the cramp in my shoulder said otherwise).  She also got very frustrated by the fact that I kept asking what we were making.  I really thought we were there to make a wash cloth, I had no idea it would take longer than an hour and a half!  But either way, check and mark – I completed a goal.  I do have significant concerns about my ability to complete goals 28-30 (knit a scarf, knit a blanket and knit someone a Christmas present), but we’ll take it one day at a time.:-) Goal number 9 is complete!

I think this would make a great scarf for a baby hamster.  Hope he doesn’t get it caught in his hamster wheel, I don’t know how to bind off yet.  :-)
Shelby is obsessed with my new hobby – she just sits in the floor and stares at me.  It’s a little unnerving, and also really cute, all at the same time.:-) Maybe she wants me to knit her a scarf?


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January 24, 2012 - 8:49 am

Jessica Horton - YAY!!! Maybe you can help make scarves for the special olympics with me for next year!

Inspiration Monday – Olive Butterflies from Trader Joe’s

Monday, January 23, 2012

If there’s one thing that always rates at the top of my “fun things to do” list, it’s eating.  I just love eating.  New restaurants, new dishes, new places, with awesome friends – there are just so many things that make eating a fun activity.  Surprisingly though, I’m a super picky eater.  By super picky, I mean super picky.  I’m not vegetarian but I eat very little meat and no seafood.  I love almost anything covered in cheese or chocolate, and there aren’t many carbs I’ll turn down. Unfortunately, I’m not a cook – at all.  Unless you’re looking for an amazing bowl of Frosted Flakes you’d better hope my husband is cooking.  But the one thing that inspires me is cooking simple, tasty meals.  If it’s easy and it tastes good, then it’s for me.  For Christmas this year I got a copy of the “I heart Trader Joe’s Cookbook”, and I couldn’t wait to try something out.  I’ve never had anything that wasn’t amazingly awesome from Trader Joe’s so I was excited to bust out the pots and pans.

Last night we decided to make the “Olive Butterflies” recipe, and it couldn’t have possibly been easier or tastier.  Only 4 simple ingredients: 1 bag of Farfalle pasta, 5 oz of goat cheese, 1 jar of Green Olive Tapenade and cherry tomatoes.  Prep time is about 10 minutes including boiling the pasta – amazing!

You just cut the cherry tomatoes in half….
Boil the entire bag of pasta…
While your’e draining the pasta, you mix the entire can of Olive Tapenade with the entire block of goat cheese and stir them together until they become creamy, yummy goodness.
Then you dump the pasta back in the bowl, stir it all together and top with the halved tomatoes.  YUM!  When I tell someone that I’m mostly vegetarian and super picky and that my husband is mostly a meat eater and equally picky about veggies the first question they always ask is “How do y’all cook meals together at home?”  Well, to be honest, we don’t do it a lot.  Our evenings are pretty busy so it’s usually fend for yourself, but when we do cook together this is a great example of the types of things we make.  Chris doesn’t like tomatoes, so I added tomatoes on my plate only, and he needed some meat with his pasta so he grilled a chicken breast.  Same general base of a meal, but this is my plate…
And this is Chris’ plate.  We both LOVED this pasta, and the serving size is HUGE! (The entire bag of pasta is divided into 4 servings according to the recipe, so I’ll have lunch for 2 days)!  If you’re a fan of carbs or olives I highly recommend this recipe (and the I heart Trader Joe’s cookbook)!


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