Favorite Things Friday:

Here are a few of my newest favorite things:

My Cool Acer Aspire!

My Cool Acer Aspire! Isn't it such a fun size?

My Blue Bayou Skin on my 'lil Lappy!

My Blue Bayou Skin on my 'lil Lappy~ Had to personalize, lol!

My Choco-Strawberry Looming Bag!

My Choco-Strawberry Looming Bag! Just perfect for those small projects on the go... got it at Michaels Crafts 😉

We just got back from our fabulous Spring Break vacation in Bend, OR  and loved everybit of it!  I’ll be sharing fun pics from our trip soon… have to get the pics edited, etc. 😉

Hope you have a fantabulous Friday!

Bethany~

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Happy First day of Spring!

Rain Cloud

Heheeheee…this is what it is for us around the PacNW.  Trying to dodge the rainclouds, and in some cases snow flakes!  But we still muster the strength to have hope that spring weather will be ours to enjoy soon… and flowers will bloom, and birds will churp, and babies will coo.

lil-deer

 

I think the deer that have been lately making camp around our place have really been enjoying the first tiny shoots of spring.  A little bit ago, my daughter and I came home from school to find one of them munching the new growth from a bush deer-in-the-back-yardin our front yard!  By the time I was able to snatch my camera from the house, it had moved off to join the rest of its family in the field next to ours.  There were 2 does and 2 young’uns.  So sweet!

early-morning-beauty

 

The other morning, I looked outside to see such wonderful coloring, and a dusting of snow…so lovely!  I just had to grab my camera and try to capture the moment.  I’m not so great at getting something captured in my camera just the way I see it in reality.  I give it my best try, though, and this is what I came up with.

morning-serenityI’m enrolled in a Digital Photography course next quarter!  I can’t wait!  🙂  I have this completely wonderful camera, yet I don’t know two-thirds of what it can actually do.  Maybe with this class, I’ll learn to actually be able to bring to film what I feel in my heart when I look at something I want to preserve forever…a bit of the emotions of the moment that can be re-lived everytime it’s viewed, no matter how much time has passed.  *sigh…I’m crossing my fingers…*

Well…I hope you have a wonderful first day of Spring, even if it doesn’t exactly look or feel like spring yet.  It is coming, I promise!

Bethany~

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St Patty’s Day Surprise!

Hello, my good loomy friends!  😀  I hope you’re enjoying a wonderfully terrific St Patty’s Day…filled with lots of green and visions of the land o’ fairies.

I’ve been bogged down with the wrapping up of the Winter Quarter of college, and trying to get things all completed, studied for, turned in, and aced…hence the long span of no updates.  😛

But, since you’ve been so patient, and it’s a fun holiday today, I thought I’d share with you one of my projects for my Health and Fitness class.  apricot-porkjust-look-at-that-beautyIt contains a very healthy meal with scrumdidliumptious recipes!  How’s this for starters…Apricot Stuffed Pork Loin…Sauteed Green Bean and Black Bean side dish…Cherry/Strawberry Crisp…  Mmmmmm. I’ve got your mouths watering haven’t I, lol?

Well…feel free to download in PDF format all the luscious details.  🙂

Have a happy St Patrick’s Day…keep thinking GREEN!

Bethany~

PS: If you’re interested in the book that I mention in the project above, and where to get those great recipes (it has a ton of excellent ones!) you can check it out here:  http://tinyurl.com/dz828p

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