Ribbon Carousel and Totally Stampalicious Blog Hop

 

The Ribbon Carousel Crewmates are teaming up with the talented designers from Totally Stampalicious  to bring you a blog hop jam packed with crafty eye candy!  We will be helping to show off Totally Stampalicious' September release of stamps AND some ribbon and twine from the Ribbon carousel, of course! 

 

 

Totally Stampalicious was started over 3 years ago by two crazy Canadian crafters, Becky and Joycelyn!  They wanted to be able to transform their own sense of humour into stamp sets...all they needed were some hilarious characters to go with it! Enter Jodie Mackrell of Bugaboo Digi Stamps. Her funny, adorable, and sometimes downright sassy images, were just what Totally Stampalicious needed!  A partnership was born, and the rest as they say, is history! They also work with talented artists, Sylvia Zet, Dan Hale and Theo Cobb!

Today, Totally Stampalicious is home to over 85 hilarious and fun stamp sets for your crafting pleasure with many more to come! With the help of a very talented Design Team, Totally Stampalicious has become a successful, thriving and reputable stamp company!  Check them out at Totally Stampalicious.com... and get your giggle on!

Now, lets talk prizes!

The Ribbon Carousel will be giving away a $2o gift certificate to the Ribbon Carousel Store and Totally Stampallicious will be giving away their 4 newly release September stamp sets!  Enjoy the hop and be sure to leave some blog love along your way to be eligible for the prizes!  Winners will be announced Saturday night at 8:00 PM EST.

 

So for my card I used the Balloon Girl Brat Stamp set from Totally Stampallicious and the gorgeous Vintage Seam Binding in moss Green and vintage pink and some Devine Twine from Ribbon Carousel 

 

 

 

La Pashe Cards and Day 2 meals

First my La Pashe Cards from Create and Craft TV

Petite Sheets, I just love a Christmas Robin Card

Behind Closed Doors and Drawers Salvation Army, it just wouldn’t be Christmas without them.

Closed Doors

Open Doors, sorry the image caught the light but I took this in the Green Room and the sun was blazing through the window.

Pickles and Podge

Todays Meals

Breakfast

NutriGrain

Banana

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Lunch

Pastryless Quiche

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Dinner

Large gammon Steak (grilled)

New potatoes

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Green Beans

Peas and sweetcorn

Carrots.

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Snack

I’m going to have some melon

Mondays Menu and Recipe`s

I said I would journal what we were eating so here is my day for you.
Breakfast

Ok here is where I struggle on a work day,

If I'm off work I have porridge oats made in the microwave with skimmed milk then top it with a banana and either strawberry’s or raspberry’s.

When at work I have a banana and a Nutragrain breakfast bar.

Lunch

Today I have vegetable soup with a bun (bread is a novelty) I only had quarter of the bun as the veg soup was a chunky veg and I didn’t really need the bun.

I also had a packet of snackajacks but never ate them so they are in my drawer for tomorrow.

Dinner

On a Monday we have a creamy chicken and mushroom pasta (sounds naughty)

We used to make this with a full fat creamy mushroom Campbell's condensed soup, we now have the low fat version,

1 large lean chicken fillet diced and dry fried,

Chop 6 large mushrooms add to the pan with crushed garlic (optional) when cooked add chopped spring onions. Add cooked pasta of your choice and then pour over the low fat soup, once everything is heated add mozzarella stir well and serve. We also have some garlic pizza with this it is just a small one for Asda and is cut into 6 pieces of which we have 2 each.

Snacks

If we get hungry later in the evening we would have a piece of fruit.

So today isn’t the most slimming but it is a healthier option to what we were having.

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Tomorrows packed lunch

Pastryless Quiche

Take a large flan dish and line it with wafer thin ham, chop 1 large onion and cook in the microwave for 2 mins.

 

Slice 6 large mushroom then add both the onion and the mushrooms into the flan dish and spread out evenly on the base.

 

I use 2 measuring jugs (because they arn't big enough but you can use 1 if it is larger thean 1litre) and add 3 eggs into each and beat them, I then add 250g of Fat Free Cottage Cheese with Chives into each jug and mix it together with the eggs and add pepper to taste.

 

Pout this mixture into the flan dish covering the onions ad mushrooms, I then decorate with halved plum tomatoes and sprinkle 1 oz (28g) Low Low grated cheese on top.

 

Now bake in a preheated oven 190°C for 30mins. Until set and golden on top

This is a really large flan dish and the flan is cut into 4 it does 2 days lunches for both Chris and I.

Healthy Eating Inspiration.

I had a wonderful surprise yesterday and wanted to share it here for you. As most of you know I have been on a healthier choices mission, Not a Diet because that word just lines me up to fail.

I decided to make healthier choices in my foods and my husband Chris would join me in this. Like many out there I struggle with the what foods should I eat and what meals that are quick when you have been to work all day. I didn’t just want to eat salads.

Well all of this was well and good and I even tried to get active, no not going for jogs, gentle exercise on the Wii, all was fine and dandy and just my cutting fat content, leaner meat, low fat where possible, not buying biscuits stop going to the supermarket on a whim for chocolate or crisps each night but allowing them as a treat. The weight started to come off.

Of course it showed on Chris big time, it just dropped off him, my meds meant it took much longer but it was coming off. 1 1/2 stones worth.

Then my back took a turn for the worse, couldn’t exercise as such but Chris would take me for little walks and I could hold onto his hand and use him as my stick (love that man). So I stuck I felt totally fed up, I know the weight drop had stopped, I kept on with the eating healthier as doing it didn’t actually bother me. I watched Chris shrink before my eyes and I was so happy for him if not a tincy bit jealous that his was visually amazing comparing to mine.

So I stepped on the scales reluctantly knowing in my heart that I hadn’t lost and may well of gained. Well all I can say is that yesterday was a beautiful day and the sun shone on me as to my amazement I had lost another 10lb.

So the story here is don’t give in, just because you don’t feel that you are getting anyway does not mean that you aren’t.

If you would like me to list what we are eating I will, just let me know.

Cards from Create and Craft Tv Show

I nearly forgot to put on the cards from Create and Craft that I'd made, I have more to show next week but here are the first three.

Behind Closed Doors and Drawers

And inside

Pickles and Podge

Petite Sheets

 

Such easy cards, La Pashe makes card making easy.