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COURAGE

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At the beginning of the year, I did a blog post about my word for 2013. I’m really glad that I chose this word- it’s been a good reminder these last few weeks to take heart and find courage.

As I was laying in bed the other day, I started to jot down notes about my word. Since I try to be open and transparent with you all, I thought I would share some of the ways I plan on being courageous this year.

Courage to believe in myself
Courage to fulfill my goals
Courage to face my health issues
Courage to be optimistic about the future
Courage to have faith during difficult times
Courage to have big dreams in all aspects of my life
Courage to believe in people
Courage to take my blog to an even higher level
Courage to believe God has a plan in everything

Many of you have shared some of you words for 2013- change, trust, hope, faith, joy, strength, patience, loving- all of those are fantastic. If you didn’t share you word earlier, I would LOVE to hear it! Or if you did share it, I would love to hear how you plan on putting your word to action.

I’m thrilled that many of you have taken on different challenges with me. Whether it be to better yourself personally, saving for the future or creating a better atmosphere for those around us. I honestly LOVE hearing about you and your journeys and the things you’re learning and how you’re growing. Thank you for sharing your lives with me. You all mean so much to me. Truly.

Cards | Craft Dash

Sweet Birdhouses

I just came from leaving comments on the latest 10 Minute Craft Dash #10 entries. I am so excited to see many new names already popping up for this challenge. It’s a dream of mine to bring together creativity and people from all across the globe and I’m thrilled that my challenge is doing this. If you haven’t entered this challenge yet, don’t worry, you have until Saturday!

Since I love these colors so much, I wanted to play with them again. I pulled out my Wplus9 sets, Folk Art Florals and The Birds & The Bees. Both must-haves in my book!

CD_10_2a Time it took to create: 9 minutes 19 seconds

This color combination is so fresh and versatile. Since I created a Valentine’s card last time, I thought I would go for an everyday card this time around. This year I’ve been trying to be better about sending out cards to friends, so stocking up on my everyday cards has been helpful.

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I’ve been a busy little bee prepping for the announcement of the first DT for the 10 Minute Craft Dash and getting details finalized for some upcoming sponsorships and giveaways. If you don’t already, be sure to sign up for email updates so you don’t miss any posts!

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I’m so glad that you stopped by today. Have a wonderful start to your week!

Random Loves

Random Loves for January

I hope you all are having a great weekend so far. After a long doctors visit yesterday, I’m ready to rest up and hopefully get lots of crafting done. All of these ideas are flowing in this brain of mine and I’m hoping they turn out like I envision. I suppose I’ll need to actually TRY them and see if they do!

If you have followed my blog, you know that each month I host a Random Loves post here on the blog. These posts are filled with random items I’m loving that month. It’s been so much fun to see YOUR lists over these months and check out the items you are listing. I’ve been introduced to many new things thanks to your suggestions!

Let’s get started on this month’s feature….

washi tape can be found here

How have I not mentioned this in a previous Random Loves post?! I am utterly in love with washi tape. I have been using it on all sorts of projects and can’t seem to get enough. Dozens of designs and colors and I’m still adding some to my collection! If you haven’t purchased your first roll, you must. Stat.

bowl can be found here

In my effort to organize my bedroom, I got some new shelving and some new decor. This pretty bowl was one of my recent finds at Target and I absolutely love it. I love how it’s modern, artistic and most of all, it’s a pretty place to store things.

lotion can be found here

I have loved the Victoria’s Secret Love Spell scent even since I was 16. Not matter how many years pass, I don’t seem to get tired of this scene. Recently while I was doing some cleaning, I stumbled across more items I had and couldn’t help but spray some on myself. Love this stuff!

necklace can be found here

It’s no secret that I enjoy sparkly jewelry pieces. On a recent trip to Nordstrom I saw this beautiful necklace and was eying it with my sister. Since I was supposed to be buying gifts, I passed on it and didn’t think anything of it. Imagine my surprise when my sister gave it to me for Christmas. I absolutely love it! The color is so pretty and I’m surprised at how many outfits it works with.

savings chart can be found here

I did a blog post earlier this week on the 2013 savings chart I’m following. It makes me so excited to hear that many of you will be doing it with me! I have already put extra money into my jar and love seeing it add up already! If you want to have an extra $1300 at the end of the year, I’d highly suggest following this chart! Be sure to leave a comment on my earlier post and let me know you’ll be doing it, too! :)

What are a few of YOUR favorite things at the moment? It can be drinks, shows, clothing, movies, etc…. it just might introduce me (and others) to some new things! I can’t wait to see your lists!

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Red Velvet Mini Donuts

I’m so glad that you liked my first post on the DIY Gumball Machine. Paulina has keeping me informed on the comments and has passed along the news that many of you have created one. It makes me happy to hear you tried it out!

Valentine’s day is coming soon… so I have a delicious and easy recipe for mini donuts that you can make for special someone! It’s so easy to make, Paulina can make it! :)

Red Velvet Mini Donuts

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: Krista Nakamura

Serves: 2 dozen

Ingredients

12oz. All-purpose Flour
10oz. Granulated Sugar
3/4 oz. Baking Powder
1/8 cup Cocoa Powder
1T Salt
9.5oz. Buttermilk
3oz. Melted Butter
1T Vanilla
3 Eggs
1 Yolk
Red Food Coloring

Instructions

Mix all dry ingredients together in a metal bowl
Mix all wet ingredients together (excluding the food coloring) using a mixer
Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Add food coloring to desired redness.
After combined, roll out dough onto a cutting board (that is dusted with flour) to a 1/2″ thickness
Cut to desired shape (using a cookie cutter)
Heat fryer at 375 degrees. Fry mini donuts for 3 minutes per side
Allow to cool. Dust with powdered sugar, granulated sugar, or sugar glaze (recipe above).

Sugar Glaze

1 cup Powdered Sugar

2T Water

1T Lemon Juice

Mix all dry ingredients together in a metal bowl

Mix all wet ingredients together (excluding the food coloring) using a mixer

Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients. Add food coloring to desired redness.

After combined, roll out dough onto a cutting board (that is dusted with flour) to a 1/2″ thickness

Cut to desired shape(using a cookie cutter)

Heat fryer at 375 degrees. Fry mini donuts for 3 minutes per side

Allow to cool. Dust with powdered sugar, granulated sugar, or sugar glaze (recipe above).

I hope you enjoyed these little nuggets of tastiness! If you try them out or are planning to, post a comment! I thrive on comments… no seriously, I do! ;)

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10 Minute Craft Dash #10

Ready for a brand new 10 Minute Craft Dash? I am so glad that you joined me today- not only is this the first challenge of 2013, it’s also the color palette that a previous 10 Minute Craft Dash winner picked!

Seeing as we are less than a month away from Valentine’s Day, I thought I would create a lovey dovey card with these colors. I just love how versatile these colors are together! I could see all sorts of cards being made with these colors- birthday, thinking of you, wedding, baby….. the list could go on and on!

Time it took to create: 8 minutes 43 seconds

I’m so thrilled to have WPlus9 Design Studio sponsoring a prize. Not only that, I also have a lot of the WPlus9 DT joining in this challenge! These gals blow me away with their talent and I’m glad that you were able to join along today!

Dawn Woleslagle (owner)

Cristina Kowalczyk

Elise Durenberger

Jinny Newlin

Kerrianne Gwin

Sarah Martina Parker

Savitri Wilder

Now onto the fun prize! Dawn has graciously offered up a $20 gift certificate to the WPlus9 website. With a large assortment of stamp sets, dies and different accessories, you will have so much fun shopping!

How to Play

Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes using the color palette above
Post the time it took to create
Be sure to include the challenge graphic in your post and link to the challenge
You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.
Challenge ends January 26, 2013 at 11:59pm, PST.

You can pull out your supplies before your timer starts!

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Exclusive Look at Craft Dash #10

Are you ready? TOMORROW will start the first 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge of 2013! Do you remember back in December when a lucky winner had the opportunity to pick an upcoming color palette? This will be the challenge where you can see the colors she chose! Not only that, I have a fantastic sponsor, along with quite a few special guests AND rumor has it there may be a video somewhere in the mix.

If you are interested in getting a head start on your project, I have the colors that will be featured on the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page. This is EXCLUSIVE to those who like my page. If you go there and click on “exclusives”, you get to see the next 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge colors a day early!

I hope that you all will join me for the challenge tomorrow. After a little break for the challenge, it’ll be so awesome to get back into a normal routine again!

Misc. | My Life

Saving Money in 2013

It’s not a secret to those around me that I like to spend money. One of my love languages is gift giving, which can include presents for holidays, unexpected gifts or buying a coffee or meal for someone I’m meeting with. None of these are bad things, but it’s also not great when these things prevent you from saving for your future.

I was talking with my sister recently and she asked if I wanted to do a money challenge with her. I hesitantly asked what exactly she was talking about. She said she had found a chart on Pinterest about a “new” way to save and by the end of the year, you would have over $1300. I was interested, for sure.

Back story: my sister has ALWAYS been good about saving money, even growing up. She lived minimally and this has helped her as she recently got married. On the other hand, if I were to get married tomorrow {don’t worry, I’m not}, I would be in trouble.

I took a look at my sister’s pin, but unfortunately, it doesn’t link to the original person who started this. Upon looking all over Google, I still wasn’t able to find the direct source. I did, however, find the less busy chart below.

Since I enjoy sharing the different aspects of my life, I thought I would share this with you. Yes, I do have a savings account and I will still be setting funds aside there. However, I love the idea of having another place for savings that involves small increments each week.

We are on the third week in 2013, so I have $6 in my savings jar. It makes me excited to see those little dollars bills adding up and knowing I’ll have accumulated more than $1300 by the end of the year.

Want to take on this challenge with me? With a new year in full gear, let’s make it a year of GOOD habits and bettering ourselves. :)

Blog Hop | Cards

Wonderful Washi Blog Hop

Good morning!

It’s time for the DeNami Design monthly blog hop. If you have started the hop from the beginning, you should be coming from Diana’s blog. You definitely want to be sure you visit all 19 stops; there’s bound to be lots of amazing washi tape inspiration!

I know that many of my readers are familiar with washi tape- it’s the hottest thing in blogging land right now! It took me a little while to dip my feet into this bandwagon, but now I am obsessed with it. Dozens of designs and colors and yet I’m still always on the lookout for new ones!

With Valentine’s Day coming up quickly, I thought I would create a card all about this sweet day. I have an abundance of red washi tape, so I decided to put them to use and create a washi tape heart. It’s SUPER easy to do, too! I placed stripes of washi tape on white paper, used a heart die cut and voila!

Did you happen to notice the red doily in the background? I first tried using a standard white one and it didn’t pop as much as I liked. Enter in a red ink pad and I immediately had a matching RED doily!

It’s time to head off to the next stop on the blog hop- Barbara Murphy’s blog! Barb is such a sweetie pie who is always so supportive and has great ideas- I can’t wait to see what she creates using washi tape!

Have fun with the rest of the hop, I hope you were inspired by my card. Don’t forget to leave comments on each stop for your highest chance of snagging one of the $20 gift certificates!

Hugs & Kisses	Elegant Square Frame	Teeny Heart Background	White cardstock	Red cardstock	Red Stripes Washi Tape	Lg. Red Hearts Washi Tape
Red Graph Washi Tape	Red/ White Hearts Washi Tape	White/ Red Dots Washi Tape	Satin Red Versafine	Sea Breeze Versamagic	Rich Cocoa Momento	EK Dotted Scallop border

InLinkz.com NOT LISTED: aqua paper & pearls, doily

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Last Call for DT Applications!

Hi all!

I wanted to send out a little reminder about the 10 Minute Craft Dash DT call. While I’ve received enough entries to last me quite a while, I didn’t want to leave anyone out. If YOU would like to submit your application, the deadline to submit is TOMORROW, January 13th, 12 pm PST!

Remember, those who are accepted will get to be a part of the very FIRST DT for the 10 Minute Craft Dash. How fun would that look on your design resume?

Thank you to everyone who has applied so far. I have a special folder for all of my applications and I must say, it’s packed FULL of beautiful creations. This is going to be a tough decision and I’ll definitely have to call in for reinforcements to help me make the final decision.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below, or send me an email! I’m looking forward to seeing YOUR application soon!