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Weekly Menu: What to Cook Wednesday #100

May 15, 2013 By Shannah 1 Comment

Happy Wednesday!

I love that our Wednesdays here on the blog are filled with delicious recipes. Putting together a weekly menu is so much easier when you can find inspiration all around blog land. One of my favorite parts of the week is looking through all of the recipes I find and narrowing them down into a menu for the week. I guess that is how this little What to Cook Wednesday series has made it to 100!

Let’s see what the 100th edition brings us in terms of food…

Sunday: You can add prosciutto to just about anything and I am happy. That probably a big reason why chicken with prosciutto, argula and fontina caught my eye.

Monday: We don’t traditionally do pasta on Mondays but, as a meatless option, I fell in love with the idea of lemony spinach and goat cheese linguine.

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Shopping CB2 – Brasil Style #CB2NovogratzBrasilSweepstakes

May 14, 2013 By Shannah Leave a Comment

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of CB2 for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

CB2 is a one of those stores that is filled with high style and lots of design inspiration. Now, CB2 has partnered with Robert and Cortney Novogratz to bring the influence of Brasil into a new the new CB2 and Novogratz Collection.

The collection is filled with warm wood tones and pops of color. It brings in the fun of a vacation home in Brasil to your home. A few of my favorite items from the collection

I love the bright colors that are intermixed in the collection. It is just enough to really make the items fun but still fit well into any home. The Rouge Coffee Table is definitely my favorite item in the collection.

In addition to offering access to some high style inspried by Brasil through the new CB2 and Novogratz Collection, CB2 is offering a chance to win a trip of a lifetime in the CB2 and Novogratz Brasil Sweepstakes.

The grand prize winner and three friends will win a one week stay at the vacation home of CB2 collaborators Bob and Courtney Novogratz in gorgeous Trancoso, Brazil. In addition, 10 other lucky winners will receive $100 CB2 giftcards along with a personally signed copy of the book "Home by Novogratz".

Want to enter to win the trip of a lifetime? I know I do! Visit here between now and June 3rd for your chance to win one of the amazing prizes being offered from CB2.

I started following CB2 on Facebook to keep up with the sweepstakes {who knows, maybe I'll know the person who wins big…like you!} and other offerings from CB2.

Photo Glimpse: Mother’s Day!

May 14, 2013 By Shannah 5 Comments

Well, I hope all the moms out there had a great Mother’s Day! I was truly spoiled {as usual} by my family. As part of May’s photo glimpse, I thought I would share a little bit of my mother’s day with you!

My Mother’s Day really started on Friday when I was surprised with these beauties

And yes that is a potted plant in my cup holder. You don’t keep one there too?

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Organizing with Fabric Wrapped Binders

May 14, 2013 By Shannah 8 Comments

Back when school started {eons ago right?!}, our house was flooded with paperwork and I created artwork binders for each of our kids. Well, plain binders are pretty ugly and boring sitting on our a bookcases in the family room. So, I decided to turn them into fabric wrapped binders to blend in a little better while still offering the organizing I was looking for.

Kindly ignore the label still on one of them. H insisted that I leave it in there and it wasn’t a battle I was willing to fight.

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DIY Photo Backdrop Stand

May 13, 2013 By Shannah 39 Comments

A photo backdrop stand makes taking great pictures at parties, events or even for a blog, easy! Learn how to build a DIY photo backdrop stand of your own for around $16 using plumbing PVC pipes and this simple to follow, step-by-step tutorial!

These days a photo booth is all the rage for parties and life event. Create your own easy to make DIY photo backdrop stand using this simple to follow, step-by-step directions!

Anyone else see the irony in my posting about the importance of good blog pictures and then giving you this as my finishing product? The rest of the post pictures are better…pinky promise.

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Snap! Blog Conference – Lessons Learned

May 13, 2013 By Shannah 9 Comments

Are you tired of reading about Snap! Creative Conference yet? I hope not {fingers crossed} because I am back today to share some of the lessons learned from my visit to the blog conference. Each session I attended was so full of information but I wanted to share the top 2 tips I got from each one.

Google+

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1) Google+ has hashtags like twitter. Use them!
2) Google+ allows you to combine your social connections with your search results. So, when you search within google, it is going to show you results people you have in your Google+ circles higher than random searches.

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Pinworthy Projects Party #62

May 10, 2013 By Shannah 26 Comments

Happy Friday everyone! Are you ready to share your latest creation? I hope so because I love seeing new crafts, recipes and do it yourself pinworthy projects linked each and every week!

It is time to the party…

Just Us Four My Favorite Finds Atkinson Drive

That’s right, it is time to link up your newest projects and recipes from the last week! {Psst…while you are in a linking up mood, be sure to check out Let’s Connect Thursday where we are all linking up our Facebook pages!}…

Pinworthy Projects Party Features

May 9, 2013 By Shannah 13 Comments

Did you notice the subtle change to the week’s post line up? The party features, which usually run on Thursday mornings, have been moved to Thursday afternoons!

Why? Because Thursday mornings are now filled with an awesome social media link party! Be sure to visit and link up…this week we are focusing on Facebook pages!

Don’t worry…to make it up to you, I’ve added a new category of party features: the last link up. Now, you can randomly be featured just by when you link up!

Now, let’s take a look at some of the awesomeness you all linked up last week at the Pinworthy Projects Party!

Dipped Gold Leg Table from Bright Green Door

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Let’s Connect Thursday

May 9, 2013 By Shannah 17 Comments

Fresh off my trip from the Snap Creative Conference, I’ve teamed up with some awesome bloggers (5 to be exact!) to bring you a new weekly blog hop: Let’s Connect Thursday. Six different hosts means there are 6 sets of readers linking up. Greater exposure and a lot more link ups!

Meet the Hosts!

The Craft Nest //Designed Decor //Swish Printables //Creative Juice // Just Us Four //La Belle Parties

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Mother’s Day Gift in 30 Minutes: A Surprise Picnic

May 8, 2013 By Shannah 14 Comments

Mother’s Day is this weekend. Are you panicking or are you one of those people who’ve had your gift for weeks? Or are you still searching for the perfect Mother’s Day gift?

Mathlete is pretty awesome at a lot of things…including waiting until the last minute on gifts/holiday plans. In his honor {especially since this was his idea for last year because he knows I adore picnics}, I give you the Mother’s Day plan you can throw together in 30 minutes.

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