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Blog posts December 2013

Nextissue.ca

 

I first heard of Nextissue.ca though social media and it was 'coming soon' to Canada.  From what I understood, it was some digital magazine subscription.  I'd viewed my Chatelaine magazine through my Android tablet a few times but I found I flipped through it so fast.

Fast forward a few mon…

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Winter preppin' the Kia

I recently volunteered my SUV to drive my team and I up to Whistler and when it was time to pack 4 suitcases + food into my trunk, we were a bit stuffed.  So then I got the bright idea of taking the floorboard off (revealing my hidden storage) and removing the non necessities.  My Boss was quite sho…

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2013 Review - 12 months of blessings

I am always forward thinking as a way to stay on top of my goals.  One exercise that I'd like to do this year is reflect on the past year and see how far I've come.   Thanks to Facebook, all I have to do is click on this link and it will show me my top posts from each month!

Here are the highligh…

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"Peanut Butter" & Jelly Cookies

I was so impressed with my batch of jelly I made for my polish donuts that I was craving to put it on something (I don't eat bread/toast anymore).  I ended up smearing it on a ninjabread head since Mason discarded it after licking off all the icing.  

The jelly + gingerbread was a delicious combo…

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Ninjabread Men cookie cutters

Ninja? Is that an autocorrect?  Nope!  When I first laid my eyes on this:

 

I immediately scoured the Internets trying to find where to purchase the kit in Canada.  No dice.  My second option was to see if I could get a friend to purchase it in the States and bring it over.  But as quickly as t…

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Ninjabread Cookies

Continued on from the cookie cutter project...

Gingerbread cookies

Recipe provided by Allrecipes.com

Original recipe makes 2 dozen cookies.  The ingredients below are the same but the preparation is different as I used only one mixer.
  • 3 cups flour
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamo…

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Peppermint Meltaway Cookies

Another Pinterest recipe picture that made me drool.  Weirdly enough some Pinterest pictures don't have recipes behind them so that's kind of annoying.  I found a few recipes on the net and tried to find one that looked good.

I found this recipe (how many times can I say recipe in one blog?!) on

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