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a NEW favorite strawberry lemonade recipe…cuz it’s soooo EASY!

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strawlemonade

Check out how easy this yummy strawberry lemonade recipe is!  We recently had guests over for a BBQ and I made this…and everyone loved it!

Place the following in blender and blend until smooth:

1/2 lb strawberries (1 1/2 cups), trimmed and halved, and

1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (from about 5 lemons)

After liquefied, add:

1 to 1 1/2 cups sugar and 3 cups cold water

Serve over ice!  EASY!!!  But yummy!  It’s my NEW favorite!  Have a great day! Do or learn something NEW!

 

playing on the freeway…a NEW experience

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blueangels1

I don’t recall anyone ever telling me “Oh, why don’t you go play on the freeway!?!” :o)…but that’s what we did last week.  The highway patrol closed off the I-90 bridge in Seattle and we sat on camp chairs and enjoyed the air show.  It was very cool!

Have a great day!  Do or learn something NEW!

 

 

a NEW artsy pastime

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firstzentangle

Hi everyone!  So I recently learned that there’s actually a name for this type of artwork… {I’m a little slow}!   It’s called Zentangle.   AND I’ve found that it’s pretty fun and easy to do.  This is my first attempt and I plan to fill up my sketchbook with zentangle creations.  There are tons of YouTube tutorials on how to draw different patterns etc.  Some of them are pretty cool.  As you can see, I started with the very, very basic stuff!  Some of the videos said they were ‘Zentangling Tutorials’; however according to tanglepatterns.com

Creating a Zentangle is known as tangling.
There is no such thing as “Zentangling”.

The cool thing is, I can do this pretty much whenever and wherever I want.  There is really no special materials needed.  I’m looking forward to learning how to draw more designs.  Please let me know if you’ve tried this!  Any tips and tricks would be appreciated!  Have a great day!  Do something NEW!

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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nanasrules

Happy Monday!

Well, what’s NEW with you?  I have a few great NEW items to share with you:

1) The ‘Nana’s Rules’ plaque above is a gift I made for a friend recently.  She has a VERY CUTE grandkids play room, and when I saw a similar ‘Grandma & Grandpa’s Rules’ sign, I KNEW I had to tweak the words a bit and make one for her.  What do you think?

wonder

2) a NEW book review.  I read “Wonder” this last week.  I really enjoyed it.  It was a very easy-to-read, didactic novel about a little boy with birth defects.  My good friend mentioned that she thought it should be required reading in all middle schools.  :o)  Highly recommended!  Leave a comment if you’ve read it and let me know what you thought of it!

3) a NEW (to me) article: 5 Creative Ways to Find NEW locations to photograph.  I liked this article and hope to use some of its suggestions while traveling in the next little while.

Have a GREAT MONDAY!  Do or Learn something NEW!