Family Birthday Dinner, Stuff I Ate and Some Art

Hey everyone! I hope that you are all doing well. We made it through another week. I'm so exhausted, I'm looking forward to just relaxing a bit this weekend. I'll finally be able to catch up on your posts. I'm so sorry that I've been absent, it's just been so much happening at the same time. On the plus side, I have a lot to share with you, including some new art that I've made.

I chose a Turkish restaurant for our family dinner for my birthday and got these amazing veggie kebabs with some green salad. It was so delicious, I love this meal so much.

For my birthday treats I got a Rocky Road bar and an Cookies n Cream whoopee cookie. I have been enjoying those for the past few days!

I don't know why I forgot about avocado toast but I did. I had some this week on sourdough bread with some strawberries and it was a quick and delicious breakfast!

There was a lot of quick snacky stuff going on because I've just been feeling off. I enjoyed these veggie chips so much!

We are getting into apple season and I loved my first honeycrisps of the season! I had a root canal done on a tooth a few weeks ago so I'm going to hold off on biting into an apple until I get the post and permanent filling so I cut this beauty up and brought it to work with me.

This is how I love my baked oatmeal! I will either heat it up and eat almost like a dessert or I'll add some almond milk and heat it and turn it back into regular oatmeal. Either way it's so damn good.

And now onto some art! I have been playing with inks and stamps lately and I am LOVING the aesthetic. This is very much me and my style and I'm going to be working on a lot of pieces like this to start selling!

I made a few pieces as little gifts as well. They were personalized for each recipient.

This piece is my favorite piece I've ever created. I love the message, the imagery, the colors and composition. I'm so proud of this piece and I think it really captures who I am as a human being.

This is just a close up of the sentiment and the fucking amazing moth. I love it so much,

So that's what I have for you today. I'll make sure to catch up on your blogs this weekend and I'll be back with a new post on Tuesday. Have a great weekend my friends 💚

Stuff I Ate and Daiso!

Hey everyone! I hope that all is well and that you had a nice weekend and were able to stay cool. I don't know about you and where you are but it was FUCKING HOT here on Saturday and Sunday. I worked on Saturday so I was inside and ok but holy crap Sunday was insane. That was the day I was out with my friends and it wasn't bad at all because we were inside most of the time but it was even warm in that mall because it probably just would take too much power too cool it down and more. Plus there were a lot of people there so it probably also made it more difficult to cool down. I hope you all got through the heat wave ok and were able to have a great weekend.

For today's post I have some stuff I ate, a mini Daiso haul (like super mini) and my newest art piece. I am SO PROUD of this piece, it is probably my new favorite. It's unique and I just love it.

For dinner one night I had my last Aldi burger with the last tiny bit of Daiya Mozzarella shreds, some chips and some cherries. I love adding a little fruit to my meals because it just super refreshing.

I ran to the deli next door to grab lunch one day and they had these delicious roasted potatoes which I paired with some broccoli and cauliflower.

As I mentioned, my friends and I went to Daiso on Sunday and it was a very fun store! It is a Japanese dollar store (although here everything is priced at $1.99 and some items were more expensive) and they have the CUTEST stuff. I showed a whole lot of self control since my budget is tight and I was planning on splurging on art supplies that I "need" so I decided that I just need to save my pennies where I can. I did pick up a few items that I thought would be adorable to use in some projects so I grabbed these heart and star clips and these little flower embellishments. I definitely had to restrain myself in the stationery section, it was SO CUTE!

We walked around the mall a little bit and found the Japanese market that was there and decided to look around there too. I wanted SO MUCH STUFF but it was so hot that we just felt it wouldn't be a good idea to get stuff because it probably wouldn't make it. We already decided that when they come back into town and it's cooler out we are going to go back and get some cool stuff.

After the mall we went to a Turkish restaurant to grab some lunch. I've been to this place a lot and I actually went with them back in December so we knew we'd enjoy our meal and it was also a lot lighter than the other food options we could think of and it was too hot to eat a heavy meal.

We started with hummus and OMG THEY MAKE THE BEST HUMMUS. 

I got the Veggie Kebabs which comes with rice and salad and pickled cabbage. It was delicious, I always enjoy this meal!

Finally, here is my latest piece! I had the thought of going for an "industrial bubble" vibe and I didn't even know what it meant when I sat down to work on this piece. I really freaking love how it came out. I love that people think that I used metal in this piece because there is no metal at all, it's all cardboard, cabochons and beads! I love the darker vibe (that is closer to my overall aesthetic than the "pretty" florals) and I love that I pushed myself way out of my comfort zone. I'm really proud of this piece.

I'm also really excited to say that someone approached me to do my first custom piece and the concept that they wanted IS SO FREAKING AWESOME and right up my alley! I'm going to keep the details to myself for now but I really can't wait to share it with you. I have really been enjoying working on my art and it's something I want to pursue further. I'm also planning on setting up a YouTube channel because I have had SO MANY requests for tutorials and so many questions asking how I make these. I just need to figure out logistics! I'll keep you posted on the progress!

So that is all I have for you today. I hope that you all have a wonderful week and I'll be back on Friday to catch up with you again! 💚

This and That

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. I don't know about you but we have had a ton of rain lately (some crazy storms!!) and it has helped cool off the area a bit and I couldn't be happier. It has been high 70s over the past few days and it has been wonderful. This is my favorite type of weather. I had a great weekend and while I don't have tons of meals to show you, I do have some random bits and bobs to share. These kinds of posts can be fun so I'm excited to share some randomness with you!

First up, I do have some food to share:

This was one of the most random meals I've ever thrown together. I had some tempura cauliflower from Trader Joe's left in the freezer so I had that (sans sauce) and some refreshing watermelon on the side. It was actually really great despite being an odd combination.

One Sunday I went to late lunch with my mom and my brother at a Turkish restaurant and had the most wonderful meal!

I started with some Shepherd's salad and it was so yummy. I added some hummus to the plate when it came to the table but I had already started eating so I didn't take a pic. 

OMG you guys. I normally get falafel but I didn't want to eat fried food and have that heaviness in my tummy so I went for the veggie kebabs and you guys. Check out this feast for $12!!! It came with pickled cabbage, salad, bulgur, rice and two huge skewers of grilled veggies. It comes with eggplant, red and white onions, tomato and mushrooms (and peppers but I asked for no peppers). It was delicious and perfectly cooked. The eggplant was so tender and amazing. I am so glad I chose this!

I was out running some errands with my mom Sunday morning and we stopped at 7-Eleven for some coffee for my mom. I noticed that they had the Silk Vanilla Almond Creamer so I partook as well!! It is always so exciting to find vegan options popping up everywhere!

After trying and enjoying the almond creamer I found out there is a Hazelnut flavor and you better believe I went and got some! I like it a lot. It's not my favorite hazelnut flavor but it is really good and I'm glad I found it!

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When I saw the double whammy of a hilarious meme and the cutest puppies of life I knew I had to share this here. I absolutely can not deal with this and their faces. They are too much!!! 

I mentioned that it has been raining like crazy lately but I saw the most beautiful rainbow! I was stopped at a red light (and kind of pulled over) so I snapped a super quick pic of it. I don't know about you guys but I love storms (although not driving in them) and seeing a rainbow after is the icing on the cake.

So that's all the random stuff I have to share with you today! I hope that you are all doing well, had a great weekend and have had a great start to your week. I'll see you on Friday!!

What I'm Eating

Hey everyone! As promised, I'm here today with some pictures of things I've been eating over the past week. I don't have as many pictures as I'd like because I ended up eating a lot of the same thing (you'll see) but I do have plans for more variety next week. The weather has gone back to being cold and gray so my plans for delicious smoothies are bumped again. I just can't do smoothies when it is cold… it takes so long for me to warm up again after!

Here's some yummy stuff I ate this week!

I finally made my udon noodle stir fry! I used two servings of udon, half a block of tofu and lots of veggies (broccoli, Chinese eggplant and green onion) and got three meals out of it. I freaking love the texture of udon noodles. This was so delicious. I used the Soyaki sauce from Trader Joe's as a quick stir  fry sauce. It was nice and garlicky but I think a bit salty for my liking. I'll finish the bottle but I'll probably go back to my soy sauce (or coconut amines)/hoisin/garlic combo.

For lunch the next day I had some leftover stir fry and some fresh fruit in my bento box. Seriously love this thing. The grapes were amazing by the way.

This is an old picture but we went to a Turkish Restaurant for my mom's birthday and I had Shepherd's salad and hummus with bread for dinner. It was really dark so I couldn't get great pictures so I just pulled this one up. It was the same thing. Sorry for the recycled pic but the salad was so good I wanted to show it.

For breakfast this morning I got a plain "Flagel" (bagel that has been flattened before it is baked - I like these once in a while) with plain Tofu cream cheese. Way too much cream cheese to be honest. I had to take some off. So good though.

So that's some of the stuff I've been eating this week. I hope that you have all been having a great week! I'll be back Tuesday with another grocery haul and hopefully a few more meals to show you as well. I hope that you enjoy the rest of your weekend!