Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Muffins

I’m back on the healthy bandwagon.  For the last like, week. I’ve been exercising and eating better.  I still have time to fulfill my Fit by Forty proclamation.  No, I haven’t updated it for about a month.  I had some leftover brown bananas, so I decided to try this recipe from My Whole Food Life.    …

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Spring Centerpiece with Tissue Paper Blossoms

Early spring in New England is not the gorgeous, green, lush, blooming landscape that I imagine other warm climes enjoy.  It’s muddy and brown and rainy and there is even dirty snow still left on the ground.  But, that doesn’t mean you can’t adorn your table with pretty, delicate blooms. You literally need three things …

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Kielbasa & Cabbage – Gluten Free Dinner

This is a hard time of year for making dinner.  I don’t want winter food, and it’s too cold for salads and grilling (yes, it snowed all day Saturday here).  This Kielbasa and Cabbage skillet dinner hit the spot. The hardest part of making this meal is cutting up the cabbage.  Who knew?  I should …

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10 Things to Buy At Urban Outfitters

      Mini Geo Terrarium – $18 Cat Magnet – $14   Plum & Bow Swan Ring Holder – $12   African Market Baskets – Sold out 🙁 Arrows and Feathers Sticky Note Set – $10.99 Magical Thinking Geo Diamond Mirror – $98 Rachel Miller Woven Banner Wall Art – $74 Crescent Moon Catch …

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DIY Simple Spring Wreath

I have a first to announce.  This is the first craft project I have done that I had sore muscles from.  But it was totally worth it!     The sore muscles were my shoulders and they were sore from the repetitive motion of wrapping yarn around the wreath form.  For like 40 minutes.  Not …

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DIY Felt Flowers

Look what I made! Wanna make some, too? Here’s what you need: Materials: Felt – a color of your choosing and then something that would work for the inside part of flower, like yellow Glue Gun Scissors Ruler Step 1: The first thing you have to do to make these lovely flowers is to cut …

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I Bought a New Mattress

The last time I bought myself a mattress, I was very pregnant with my daughter who is turning 11 this year.  It was time for a new mattress.  Funny side story, I was petrified that my new mattress would be ruined if my water broke while I was sleeping, so I put a plastic shower …

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Stuffed Pepper Casserole

I have not cooked in a L-O-N-G time.  I broke that streak tonight with a recipe I found on Pinterest for a Stuffed Pepper Casserole.  You can find the recipe on From the Garden Table. I made mine gluten free with one substitute, the bread crumbs.  I just used gluten free bread crumbs.  You could …

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