All About Me And A Bag Of Chips!

Foodie Friday has arrived!!

Ya, it is the end of the week, how excited am I!! We actually have a somewhat busy weekend coming up, tomorrow we have to go and do a bit of shopping, plus my daughter has a birthday party to attend. Then Sunday we all have to attend another birthday party for my best friends son, so busy busy!!

I have THE coolest kitchen "gadget" for you today! When I ran across this gorgeous little number I about died dead away. lol Seriously though, I simply MUST own one of these, in fact, truth me told, I simply must own pretty much everything on the site...

Large food storage cabinet cream

This fantastic, wooden, painted, dry food and spice storage cabinet with 12 aluminum scoops and 9 bottles is what every parent and food lover should have in their kitchen!

It is mouse proof and with the transparent front you can see how much food you have left.

The Scoops take the equivalent of a 2 lb bag of flour.  Filled with oats, flour, sugar, pulses and dried fruit, this hand painted storage unit will leave space in your cupboard for the important stuff such as plates and glasses!  The bottles with their half turn aluminum lids are great for spices.

Is that not just gorgeous!! It is insanely expensive though, so I am going to have a look around Denmark and see if I can't find me one for a tad bit cheaper..how I wish I was rich though..LOL

That brings us to this week's menu..a pretty nice menu if I do say so myself. I have been on a bit of a Rachael Ray spree the last couple weeks and pretty much all of them have been good (except for last weeks chicken goulash thing, blech, it was pretty bad!!). My daughter wants to invite her best friend over this coming Wednesday, so I had to plan a "kid friendly" meal. Usually I just cook whatever I want to and the kids eat it or don't, most of the time they like it, but I don't want to force someone else's kid into being my culinary guinea pig, so kid friendly it is! lol

Menu for the week of Feb 28th until March 6th.

• Sat- Homemade Sushi - Edamame.
• Sun- Party to attend, so take out I guess.
• Mon- Salsa Stoup With Avocado Smash And Double-Decker Baked Quesadillas.
• Tues- Leftovers.
• Wed-   Hamburgers - French Fries - Cut Up Veggies.
• Thurs- Penne Alla Vodka - Salad.
• Fri- Hazelnut Crusted Chicken with Gorgonzola Sauce -Roasted Root Veggies.

With that I will wrap things up for another week. I hope you have a fabulous weekend and until next time..TATA!!

A New Layout To Show Off!!

It's all about scrapbooking here today! I have a new LO to show off and a sale you won't want to miss, to let you know about! ;)

First the LO! I used the *NEW* very cool kit It's Child's Play by Cre Bisontine that will be available for JUST 2 dollars tomorrow at Shabby Pickle Designs!!



Ok onto the sale news!



Is that not a great sale or what!

That is it for today folks, short and sweet! I have to put together our weekly shopping list today, fold and wash more laundry, clean the bathroom and oh so many wonderful domestic pleasures! LOL Have a great day and until next time..TATA!!

Middle of the week ramblings....

I actually really don't have anything interesting to blog about today. Life is just moving along this week. My daughter has a special outing with her after school place today, so I don't have to go pick her up until 5. I also need to get to the fish store and buy some tuna and salmon for sushi we plan on making Saturday and to the Chinese store for edamame. Other then that, I am just chilling as they say! lol

Recently I have found myself getting more involved with the expatriate community here. I always knew there were special places around and groups that meet, but never ventured out or looked into them, but a couple weeks ago I was asked to do an interview for a place that posts experiences from expats living all over the world and shortly after that I received an email inviting me to join a board for foreigners living in Denmark. It has been really fun and eye opening and interesting to see Denmark through the eyes of others that have moved here to live.

I have also been pondering lately what I'd like to do when my youngest starts school in a couple years. I may go back to my graphic design stuff, but I am just not sure. I am toying with the idea of maybe going back to school for something or looking for a job in a book store. DH  and I talked about this in length before we had kids and we decided that I would be a stay at home until the kids started school at age 6, then I could if I want continue being the stay at home mom/domestic goddess or pursue other options, it was totally up to me. I think my job prospects are going to be pretty slim, I mean who wants to hire a 38 (in two years) year old who has been out of the workforce for 13 years and really doesn't have that many special skills. Sigh..anyways..at least I have a couple years to figure something out!!

On that note I am going to wrap things up for today. I hope you have a fabulous day and until next time...TATA!!

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm........

Before I start my "Hmmm" post I want to thank everyone who left me a sweet comment and everyone who offered me help in getting data of our dead drive. As luck would have it DH spoke with a guy he works with that use to do data recovery and he is going to try and give it a go, so again thanks for all the offers they really meant a lot and I'll keep everyone updated!!

OK, so onto today's post "things that make you go Hmmm" I ran across some vintage postcards and stuff yesterday and knew I JUST had to share some of them with you! ;)

This one I like to call "SHOW ME YOUR PICKLE, LOVE!"



The next one I am simply calling "DAMIAN"



This one is titled "LOOK MA, THE EASTER DINO LEFT ME AN EGG!!"



I don't know about you, but I think Little Polly Flinder's mom has more to worry about then her kids clothes getting dirty. Like, I don't know... A DAUGHTER WHO STARTS RAGING CAMP FIRES IN THEIR LIVING ROOM!!



Oh George you are so naughty, I know Martha.. SPANK ME, SPANK ME LONG TIME....



and last but not least.. words cannot describe how creeped out I am with this one "ADULTS ONLY....FEATURING TOBY THE DONKEY" Indeed things that make you go HMmmmmmmm.....



With that I will wrap things up for this lovely Tuesday, the sun is shining and it is shaping up to be a good day! I hope you have a great day and until next time...TATA!!

Ohy what a weekend!!

Good Monday morning peeps! I hope you all enjoyed a fabulous relaxing weekend. Ours was pretty busy, but nice. Alas, here it is Monday and I am still in mourning. Friday we discovered that our brand new, not even a couple months old, terabyte external harddrive for our media center died, taking with it home movies of the kids, all our movie collection, all the kids movie collection, all our TV show collection. :( I am the most upset about the kids home movies, we had *just* moved the stuff over a couple weeks ago and had meant to make a back up, but then life got in the way, and as they say, the rest is history..sigh. I need to dig around here and see if I can find the receipt and get a new hardrive...

Anyways, Saturday we had company over, so it was nice to get my mind off our loss and just hang with friends and relax. It was my daughters turn for bringing home one of the class mascots, so we had the bear with us all weekend and had to write about what we did. Sunday of course was Fastelavn so we handed out some candy and since we actually still had snow (it was melting fast though and is all but gone today) DH took the kids out sledding whilst I got some time to do some scrapbooking.....



and here is my scrapbook layout to show off! I used Traci Reeds new *HIP TO BE* kit from over at Sweet Shoppe Designs....



I think I forgot to mention also that my daughter has lost two more teeth in the past week. Her second right front tooth and the one right beside it, that she apparently swallowed down with lunch at school. LOL Today is the big Fastelavn parties at her school and after school place, so she is dressed to the nine's in her costume and I snapped a few photos before she left. The lighting was kind of crappy since it was early morning, so I played a little with them..enjoy!!







That will wrap thing up for this Monday, I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Bring on the Foodie Friday!!

It is that day of the week again, the day where all things food is the star of the show! Let's get started with a very cool website I came across the other day. It is called DESIGNBOOM and has some pretty cool stuff on it, so be sure to check it out. The most interesting part of the site was the COMPETITIONS section. They have a sub category in there called DINING IN 2015. So many innovative and cool ideas!! One of my favorite designs and today's "gadget" of the day are these very cool glass herb terrariums by Kandice Levero.



"designer's own words: These mold blown glass terrariums keep small herbs warm and moist all winter. They will be great for apartment living to put on a windowsill. Many of us will still be living in an apartment with no backyard wishing we had a little herb garden. This is an herb garden solution for 2015."

How cool are those! Living in an apartment I especially love to see designs that I can use to get the most out of my living space and I use fresh herbs so much, that these would be right up my alley!

Alrighty then, on to this weeks menu plan! As usual I have a few old stand bys and a couple new recipes to try out, so enjoy!

Menu for the week of Feb 21st until 27th.

• Sat- Meatballs Subs - Chips- Cut up veggies.
• Sun- Chicken and Mushroom Goulash with Penne - Salad.
• Mon- Salmon with Pico de gallo Couscous.
• Tues- Sandwiches (Ballet Night).
• Wed- Chili Sweet Potato Hash with Fried Eggs and Fresh Tomato Salsa.
• Thurs- Stuffed Peppers.
• Fri- Chef Salads - Whole Wheat Rolls.

So that will wrap things up for another week here in the land of the Vikings. I hope you have a fabulous weekend and I'll be back Monday with new wild and crazy stories (ok boring stories), so until next time TATA!!

Fastelavn

"Fastelavn is the name for carnival in Denmark. Fastelavn evolved from the Roman Catholic tradition of celebrating in the days before Lent, but after Denmark became a Protestant nation, the holiday became less specifically religious. This holiday occurs seven weeks before Easter Sunday and is sometimes described as a Nordic Halloween with children dressing up in costumes and gathering treats for the Fastelavn feast. The holiday is generally considered to be a time for children's fun and family games. The term "Fastelavn" is a Low Saxon loanword imported from Northern Germany: Fastelavend [ˈfastl̩.ˌɒːvm̩t], Fastelabend [ˈfastl̩.ˌɒːbm̩t] and Fastlaam (also spelled Fastlom) [ˈfastl̩ɒːm], related to Low Saxon Vastelaovend in the eastern parts of the Netherlands and to Dutch Vastenavond."

More about Fastelavn festivities HERE (<---click on link)

Fastelavn is Denmark's equivalent to Halloween I guess (though Halloween has started to catch on here the last few years). Kids dress up and some go door to door for treats and sing the "Fastelavn song" Truth be told I think I've had one group of kids come to my door one year in all my years here. I think it is more of a party type festival. Anyways, with my daughter being in school this year she will be attending two Fastelavn parties, one at school and one at her after school place. We went out last week and picked up the needed costume (Tinkerbell) and I'll have to grab some candy just in case some one decides to show up at my door on Sunday. lol

This is really the first year we have really pay any attention to the festival, well except for the yummy pastries that they make this time of year in honor on it. I have a rather large weakness for the things. lol

Just look at these yummies....



My favorite ones are the middle ones, Mmmm now I want some. LOL Anyways, time to wrap things up for today. I have a ton of domestic duties to attend to, plus make a grocery list for shopping tomorrow. I hope you have a fabulous Thursday and until next time..TATA!!

Middle of the week ramblings....

I don't know what it is this week, but I have been feeling extra restless all week. Maybe it is because there finally has been sun shining and the days are getting longer again. It's so nice not to send your kid off to school in the pitch black and go pick her up in the pitch black. Anyways, because of said restlessness I haven't been on the computer as much, instead spending the time outside (briefly because it is still flippin cold as a witch's...you know what out!!) and yesterday I decided I was going to watch some TV. I rarely turn the TV on during the day and if it is on it is because Luca is watching Disney Channel, but I sat down coffee cup in one hand, remote in the other and started to flip.

I came across a new Danish show I have been meaning to catch called Hospitalet. It is a reality show where they follow DR's, nurses and ambulance attendants. It was pretty interesting, then I continued on and ran across Dr. Quin Medicine Woman. I watched that for about ten minutes and continued on with the flipping. In my journey through daytime TV land I discovered a whole world of new viewing possibilities. Scrubs was on, Bones was on, Cold Case, Numb3rs, NCIS, Dr. Phil, Desperate Housewives, MASH, the list went on and on..BUT one very special show stopped me in my tracks. A show that warms my heart and sends me back into my days of yore (lol I crack myself up). Little House On The Prairie, Oh how I love thee, with cute little Pa Ingalls and half pint. I have such fond memories of watching this show as a kid and when I moved here almost 11 years ago and all we had was a crappy 14 inch TV and two TV channels, I use to watch it every afternoon. lol Yesterday's episode was the one where Mary goes to a different town for her first teaching job and there is this lady (Miss Peel) that the whole town thinks is a witch and she hates reading and calls Mary a *gasp* Jezebel. lol Seriously though, by the end of the episode I was bawling like a baby. Now this is a normal occurrence for me when watching this show and being the lover of conspiracy theories that I am, I am convinced that they have added some subliminal messages to the show that makes a person dissolve into a sobbing mess as the credits roll. (I am just kidding in case any one feels the need to call the men in the white suits! lol)

Anyways, enough about my couch potato habits of yesterday, earlier in the week I finished up another LO with Gina's new kit HUGS N KISSES over at Weeds And Wildflowers and though I'd show it off here....



Well that will wrap things up for another day here. Believe it or not the sun is actually shining again today, I think this may be a record!! I hope you have a fabulous day and until next time..TATA!!

Techie Tuesday!! (SpringPad)

I haven't had a "Techie Tuesday" in awhile, so I thought I'd feature a new free and FABULOUS site I found a couple weeks ago!

If you remember a few weeks back I was looking for a program or site that worked across platforms and where I could put in my "To Do" tasks, menus, shopping list, ideas and well just about anything I could think of jotting down. I use Do-Organizer here on my desktop and really like it so I wanted something along those lines. Anyways, I was doing my daily blog hopping a bit ago and came across something that looked very interesting...

SPRINGPADIT.COM (<--- link)



"SpringPad is a web-based life organizer built around a system of virtual notebooks. These notebooks, or springpads as they are referred to, are highly interactive. You can create task lists, add and edit notes, create calendar events, and tag every item for easy searching and list generation. Everything in SpringPad can be dragged and moved both within and between the notebooks. Accessing related but scattered data is easy. For example, if you tag items that need to be purchased for your various projects within their special notebooks you can pull all the items tagged as purchases together into a master shopping list. Intelligent use of tags is one of SpringPad's strong points, allowing you a higher level of interaction with your data than most traditional task managers." (Little blurb about it from LifeHacker)

I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am over this site! It's like my Birthday and Christmas all rolled into one. I know, I know, I am a total geek getting so excited, but seriously SpringPad has everything I wanted in an organizer and it's FREE, can't beat the free!!

SpringPad comes with a bunch of already pre made springpad templates for things like weekly menu planning, date night planning, medical tracker, shopping lists, favorite recipes, receipt tracker, budget, gift trackers and SO much more. You can also make you own and add them to your springpad. One of the best features is when I add a task or an appointment or anything really SpringPad automatically adds the tasks into a calendar that you can then refer to online or print them out if you wish.

Honestly I could go on for days about how rawking SpringPad is, but you really need to go check it out for yourself, but I am sure you will be as blown away as I am!!

Well that will wrap things up for this Tuesday, I hope you have a fabulous day and until next time...TATA!!

Weekend recap and a new LO!!

Good Monday morning peeps! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely weekend. My daughter is headed back to school today, so I had to drag my tired butt out of bed at 6 am, that was terribly fun. We did get more of the white stuff overnight though, not sure how long this batch will stick around, but I will enjoy it wile it is here!!

So how did you make out on Valentine's Day? I have to brag a little on my hubby he is such a sweetie pie! Saturday morning he headed downtown with my son, he said he had to "do something" Ok, so he is not the subtle type, but I thought that "do something" meant maybe a rose. They arrived back home a couple hours later with a rose for my daughter, a bouquet of gorgeous flowers for me, some yummy and ubber expensive chocolates and cake from my favorite and also ubber expensive bakery downtown. It was so sweet. I have to admit though that a cringed a little inside since that little gift basically cost the same as a week of groceries. Anyways, that didn't stop me from enjoying the heck out it! lol For my part I made a yummy dinner of Pasta alla Vodka, Cesar Salad and Garlic Bread...yummo!

Sunday we just chilled and I made a batch of yummy chicken lemon soup and I got to do a little scrapping! Gina over at Weeds And Wildflowers has a new gorgeous collection out called HUGS N KISSES perfect for those Valentine photos. I was lucky enough to get a chance to play with it and finished up a LO.



Well that will wrap things up for this Monday. DH just called and said he was heading out to the dentist. He has had a tooth bothering him for a few days now and I guess he needs to go have it looked at. Hopefully it isn't going to cost a small fortune, anyways, enjoy your day and until next time..TATA!!