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Friday, January 27, 2017

Best Banish Winter Blues (& Whites!) With Colorful Bohemian Brights!

January 27, 2017  , , , , , , , ,  

Who says wintertime has to last a whiteout?

Why non rank your wintertime decor a bold outburst of fun color that volition non exclusively brighten 
your living environment, only volition brighten your spirits too? We already know that the
seasons tin straight touching on our moods in addition to emotions. Lots of folks complain of winter
blues and seasonal affective disorder (aka SAD or wintertime depression) during the winter
months. Believe it or not, or therefore folks advise that part of the motion of these winter 
blues is due to the decrease inwards daylight from the wintertime days beingness shorter. I think
I accept to concur amongst that! I anxiously await summer. 

Whether yous prefer to larn for bold brights or rich gem tones, I believe that adding 
pops of unexpected color - particularly if they comprise unique patterns in addition to luxurious textures - tin aid plough your mood around. Check it out!




Create a spring-like environs amongst green





Lively tangerine brightens whatever room





Make the around of sunny windows amongst sheer curtains to brighten your rooms
image past times Livingetc.





Add a brightly painted showpiece. icon from casual classic home





Cozy Bohemian gem tones rank a feeling of warmth & luxury





Create a vivid spot: decoupage cloth onto panels in addition to and therefore add together plates. from emagDECO





This wall was created amongst wallpaper. from BHG

This post was originally published Jan 9, 2014


What create yous think?

I promise yous accept a cracking week 
Love, Laura


My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Best Creative Ideas For Valentine's Day

January 26, 2017  ,  



Personalized birch bark woods vase via Etsy
Check out these sugariness ideas to pose a piddling fleck (or a whole lot!) of inventiveness inwards your Valentine's Day! 


Craft upward roughly paper roses (via Pinterest)


Make a DIY stick fine art heart. from Ellens Daily heArt
Share a cotton wool candy bouquet similar this i from Inspire Blog


Create a heartfull quilt similar this i - Pieces of my Heart quilt yesteryear Wendy Williams. Photo yesteryear PatchworknPlay: Workshop With Wendy Williams



Make roughly Conversation Heart Art! (see to a greater extent than ideas here!)
(Valentine's Hurricane vases yesteryear AmandaJaneBrown)


Craft upward a Yarn fine art pump - DIY from Repeat Crafter Me

Like to piece of occupation amongst wood? Create some Red lips


More creative Valentine's Day Ideas here!

(Lovely Valentine pump yesteryear Linda Albrecht via Simple Things)


Which is your favorite?

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Best Creamy Chicken Corn Chowder amongst Potato Gnocchi & Cheddar

January 26, 2017  , , , ,  


This, my friends, is the ultimate comfort chowder. I created this recipe past times combining my favorite flavors as well as textures - from the creamy chicken broth to the soft murphy gnocchi, this chowder is a consummate repast inside itself. 

 My 14-year-old miss forthwith calls this her "favorite soup inwards the entire world" as well as I accept to nation that I agree! Definitely non for the dieter, this chowder is a delicious rich as well as creamy luxury. Here it is inwards all it's glory. 

Creamy Chicken Corn Chowder amongst Potato Gnocchi & Cheddar

You volition need:
8 Tablespoons butter (2 for cooking chicken, vi for making roux)
2 boneless chicken thorax cutting into bite-size pieces
1/2 medium-sized onion, chopped
2-3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1/4 loving cup all purpose flour
1 - 32 oz. box chicken broth (or 3 - xiv oz. cans)
1 loving cup heavy cream 
1 loving cup whole milk or one-half as well as half
One large murphy peeled as well as chopped (about 1 cup)
3/4 loving cup of peeled chopped carrots
6 ounces extra sudden white cheddar cheese, shredded
1/4 teaspoon Thyme
Salt as well as fresh solid soil dark pepper
16 oz. packet of refrigerated murphy gnocchi 

Instructions:
Melt 2 tablespoons of butter inwards a large soup pot.
Cut 2 chicken breasts into bite-size pieces, add together to soup pot as well as sauté until completely cooked. Season lightly amongst common salt as well as pepper.

Add i one-half chopped onion.
Add 3 crushed cloves of garlic.
Cover as well as gain over depression heat, stirring occasionally.

In a split medium soup pot melt vi tablespoons of butter over medium oestrus until bubbly. Add 1/4 loving cup of flour as well as whisk until brownish creating a roux. Continue to whisk over medium-high oestrus until roux is golden brown.


Once roux is golden brown, whisk inwards entire box of chicken broth, heavy cream as well as milk (or one-half as well as half). Bring to a simmer, stirring constantly.

Add broth as well as cream/milk mixture to large soup pot containing the cooked chicken.

Add i large peeled, chopped potato
Add 3/4 loving cup chopped carrots
Add shredded cheddar cheese (6oz) 
Add 1 purse (about 2 cups) frozen sweetness corn
Add common salt as well as solid soil dark pepper to taste 
Add thyme

Stir, select to a simmer, as well as therefore lower oestrus to medium as well as cover, cooking until potatoes as well as carrots are nearly fork-soft, nearly 7 minutes. 

Add murphy gnocchi. 

 Stir as well as simmer until gnocchi is cooked, nearly 2 minutes. Serve hot. Enjoy!

 Variations: Note - This recipe is easily adjustable - hither are a few dissimilar ways that I accept made it:
You tin add together some other chicken thorax if you lot similar it amongst to a greater extent than chicken.
You tin add together to a greater extent than or less cheese depending on your tastes.
You tin exercise 2 potatoes instead of one, or omit them completely if you lot prefer. I accept constitute that i large i plant well. 
To instruct inwards super-decadent, exercise 2 cups of heavy cream as well as omit the milk. This variation is super rich as well as delicious but of course of written report has to a greater extent than fatty as well as calories. I similar it on the rich side therefore I've constitute that 1 loving cup heavy cream as well as 1 loving cup of one-half as well as one-half is my preferred agency to brand it. Season to taste!

I'd dear to know - what's your favorite homemade chowder or soup?


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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Best Heart Shaped Jewelry For Valentine's Day!

January 25, 2017  ,  




Hi friends! I promise your twelvemonth has been off to a cracking start! I accept been super-busy making lots of novel jewelry. After all, Valentine's Day is correct to a greater extent than or less the corner. That agency lots together with lots of see shaped necklace pendants.

New china patterns that I merely listed inward my store include imperial pansy chintz amongst a soft yellowish background (pictured below) made from vintage porcelain, antique pinkish or cherry-red willow china (shown inward a higher house together with available amongst together with without the cherry-red Swarovski crystal - pendant too available inward a foursquare shape), equally good equally some beautiful vintage rose patterns.




The beautiful rose pattern below is a 1 of a form - pregnant I won't accept whatever to a greater extent than 1 time this 1 is gone. The roses are merely beautiful, but the pattern is too unique because of the blueish bubble background behind the roses. I've never seen a china pattern similar this before. And I've seen a lot of china patterns! 







I've too listed quite a few Flow Blue hearts inward a few unlike patterns. They are together with then beautiful! Be certain to check them out inward my Etsy shop! 






Valentine's Day is coming soon! All items shown are available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns


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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Best How To Inspire Your Kids To Be Creative

January 19, 2017  , , , , , ,  


Are nosotros born creative? I intend nosotros are. I intend most children appear to convey a natural knack for creativity. Isn't it funny then, that when nosotros grow upward together with perish adults, nosotros oft plow to children for our ain inspiration to last creative? I also intend that sometimes children await to adults for some reassurance when exploring their creativity. 

What a neat chance to learn together with exhibit your kid how much fun it is to explore their imaginations together with last creative. After all, it's non exactly nature that determines creativity, but nurture too. Think of it every bit beingness born alongside a spark that if nurtured, turns into a flame.

Why encourage your kid to last creative? 
We know that inventiveness tin terminate last healing. It tin terminate last a soft house to autumn when needed. And on a side-note, when I verbalize virtually inventiveness - from the standpoint of this weblog inwards full general - I'm unremarkably referring to inventiveness inwards the arts, but inventiveness tin terminate last manifested across whatever dependent whether it last science, engineering, math, cooking, etc. For the sake of this article I'm non talking virtually inventiveness every bit pertaining to whatever specific discipline, but exactly every bit the mightiness together with the receive to intend exterior the box, work our imagination, together with experiment alongside beingness innovative.

Here are exactly a few ways that y'all tin terminate deal your child's inventiveness blossom.


1. Provide your kid alongside fine art supplies together with plow over them fourth dimension to work them. They don't convey to last expensive or fancy, or come upward from whatever special fine art store. Crayons, colored pencils, cheap watercolor paints together with pigment brushes, together with some drawing pads are all neat examples. As good every bit the supplies, brand certain your kid has some relaxing fourth dimension gear upward aside to explore these supplies. 

2. Offer encouragement together with praise. Sometimes these ii things tin terminate last exactly the matter that your kid needs to boost his or her confidence degree so that they are comfortable plenty to exhibit the basis their talents.


3. Set an example. Show your kid that it's fun to explore the basis some them. If they meet y'all doing something, they volition most oft desire to bring together in. Remember, children are neat imitators, so plow over them something neat to imitate! You don't convey to last peculiarly talented inwards whatever 1 expanse - it's your enthusiasm towards doing something interesting or novel that y'all desire them to witness.

4. Read to your child. Reading opens the imagination. Explore a broad multifariousness of dissimilar types of books, making certain to endeavor out novel things together with non ever stick to the same theme.             
    
5. Spend fourth dimension inwards nature. There's nil to a greater extent than inspiring than the beauty of nature. 

6. Ease up. It's difficult to exercise when you're nether pressure. Give your kids infinite to last creative, together with plow over them the liberty to exercise things the agency they desire to. Give your kids the liberty they require to last creative!

7. Offer your kid age-appropriate colorful painting exhibit books past times talented illustrators. Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals together with Richard Scary's What Do People Do All Day are ii of my real favorites. Both were a huge inspiration to me when I was little. Most libraries convey these books. 




8. Take your kids to age-appropriate museums. Most museums convey gratuitous or discount days, together with many also convey activities for kids. While museums may last a fleck every bit good much for minor children (lots of walking, no touching, tranquillity environment) they're perfect for older kids.

There so many ways that y'all tin terminate inspire your kids to last creative. Expose them to dissimilar types of art, books, music, endeavor dissimilar types of food, explore dissimilar cultures, together with scout their imaginations bloom. 

 Give your children the liberty to explore together with exercise on their own. Most importantly, encourage them without beingness pushy, together with praise them without beingness overly critical. Best of luck inwards your creative adventures!

 How exercise y'all deal inspire your kids to last creative? In what ways exercise your kids inspire y'all to last creative?  Please exit a comment below!



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