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{what’s in my refrigerator}

on sundays i like to do my meal-prepping for the week. i have lots of containers and jars for storing my dry goods as well as my make-ahead meals.

here’s what i created to eat last week :

raw spinach salad
hard-boiled eggs
sautéed veggies for an asian-inspired dish
blanched broccoli
citrus baked salmon
roasted garlic israeli cous-cous
my famous mashed potatoes
raw celery sticks
curried lentils with ham and veggies
sauerkraut (not homemade)
garlic dill pickles (homegrown and homemade)
roasted tomato soup
homemade beef bone broth
potstickers (to go with asian dish)
turmeric tea w/ coconut milk

do you like to make your meals ahead of time? batch-cooking has been something i’ve adopted into my lifestyle over the last few years and it’s really helped me save money and keep my diet in check.

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i made soap for christmas gifts last year. it’s so fun to make! the soap block, which i got from michaels, was made with mango and shea butter – super moisturizing! these soaps create a nice, rich lather. they would also be perfect for a bubble bath!

i made a few different kinds :

fragrance-free oatmeal
orange cinammon w/ rose petal flakes
lavender oatmeal
lavender rose
orange peppermint

people go nuts over the soap whenever i give it as a gift. 🙂

have you ever made your own soap?!

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{snowy tessellation}

19 Jan

i remember this being an assignment in one of my classes during college… creating a photographic tessellation.

at the time, it seemed so difficult… but today i have a different understanding of the digital composite images. when i was a photography student, the digital / social media world had not yet become what it is today… and a lot of my colleagues and i were not too keen on the idea of switching from film photography to digital photography. we were purists in love with the romance of black and white film photography and ansel adams’ zone system… and we also thought it was lame and pointless to do anything digital. it took a lot of convincing from my professors to get me to invest in a digital camera… but i finally {begrudgingly} bought one just before graduation. another hilarious truth – when i purchased my first apple laptop, they asked if i wanted to add built-in wifi and i remember being like, “ppffttt, why would i need that?!”

ha! – it’s wild to think about how much has changed in such a short time.

anyway, i think this snowy tessellation turned out pretty cool – what say you?!