Brunch for One: The Waffle Craving Edition

Wheat Bran-Flax Waffles with Cranberry Blueberry Sauce and Toasted Pecans

Waffles: Basic waffle recipe but I added 1/4 c of wheat bran, a 1/4 c of milled flax seed, and a touch of vanilla from Mexico

Sauce: Cranberries and blueberries with honey

And, devour!

The best part about making waffles for just myself, is that the leftovers can be frozen and popped into the toaster when I want to eat them again.

Brunch for One: The What Can I Make Without Leaving the Apartment Edition

Stuffed Blueberry French Toast with Blueberry Sauce

French Toast: multigrain Thin Buns stuffed with 1/3 less fat cream cheese, 2% plain Chobani, and organic no sugar added blueberry jam

Blueberry Sauce: blueberries, honey, a splash of R.W. Knudsen organic sparkling pear juice

...And devour!

Ooops...

It's been almost a year since I posted on here. I just thought to come here today, and then realized that my background was still appropriate for the upcoming holiday.

Ooops!

I can't promise that I'll remember to post, or even have time for that matter. But hopefully I can post some pictures at the very least.

-K.

Valentine's Day Prizes

Here are some pictures of the Valentine's Day cards and wrapped candy bars that I made.

"You Dazzle Me"

Wrapped Candy Bar

"Whoo Loves Ya?"

"Fangs or Fur?" Twilight themed card for my sister

I was pretty happy with how they turned out. :)

Love Always,

Kaitlin

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Flowers from Nate

And fancy chocolates from Nate
The banner I made to surprise him in the morning
Heart-shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's for dinner

Hope everyone had a love-filled day.

Love Always,

Kaitlin

Yoga 101

Well, here we go again. I haven't done yoga since my freshman year of college at Hamline. And I had quit for a reason: IT HURT!

But, Groupon had a 5-class pass for the Yoga Eight studio, so I thought I'd give it another shot. I went to the beginner class last night. I was pleasantly surprised! The owner/instructor taught a very good beginner class. I actually felt good afterwards, especially my neck, which for my old lady neck is awesome.

Downward facing dog is still giving me problems, but it'll just have to be a work in progress, as will shavasana. For the life of me, I can't quiet my mind. "Acknowledge your thought and move on," the instructor said. Yeah...sure, I'll work on that. Maybe if I had a mantra to repeat it would help. I felt like Elizabeth in Eat Pray Love, yelling at her mind.

Try again next Tuesday!

O Christmas Tree

It's December 1st, and I have, therefore, lifted the Christmas music ban.

We put up the tree, and lights on the deck. I subjected the furry children to wearing their sweaters. Insert death stares.

And now it's past my bed time.

Love Always,

Kaitlin

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Recent Project

Halloween is upon us...

...and I have new listings on my Etsy site!

Love Always,

Kaitlin

CSA: For the Win!

I'm going to be a canning fiend tomorrow! I'm making salsa and basil garlic pasta sauce. We got 10 pounds of tomatoes included with our CSA share, so we went to the farm this afternoon and picked them. We also had 4 pounds of tomatoes in our share from Saturday, plus the ones we've gotten in the last couple weeks' shares (I blanched and froze them). There is a ridiculous amount of tomatoes on our counter! I had to buy most of the peppers at the grocery store, but I'll be using a few pepperoncinis, a few serranos, and one jalapeno from our deck plants. For the pasta sauce, I didn't have enough basil, so we had to buy some, but about a third of it is from our deck. This will be my first solo canning experience, so wish me luck!

Love Always,

Kaitlin

Calfed Out

After a hard day of playing with Jinx

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Jinx & The Nameless Kitty

So sweet, Jinx is bathing lil kitty.

Or is he tenderizing her?

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Kitteh Love

I think it's more confusion than love on Jinx's part!

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She's Here!

And now she needs a name...Suggestions?

On another note, Jinx is not very happy. She just wants to be friends.

I've been doing a lot of crafting these days. A couple gifts, a couple orders for Dragonfly Designs, but I've been slacking on posting pictures. I'll work on that. I promise.

Enough for now, I better go check on little kitty!

Love Always,

Kaitlin

P.S. My new phone, the Droid Incredible, has a better camera on it than my actual camera. Sad.

Slacker

Yep, that's me. I've seriously been slacking on this whole blogging thing. So, quickly, let's catch up!

1) We're getting a new kitty in the next couple weeks once she's big enough.

2) I've been working on a couple orders for Dragonfly Designs by KRJ.

3) Mexico was AMAZING! See pictures here.

That's all for now!

Love Always,

Kaitlin

Hi! Just a short post... We're in the process of moving right now to our new home. We'll finish the move this weekend when my parents come down with the truck, so we can move the big things that my CR-V can't handle. Cross your fingers we can move in between the scattered showers on Friday.

Jinx is wiped after a day of spazzing out. He has so much room to run around now that two-thirds of the apartment is moved to the new place. And yes, his mouth is open.
Get a free shelf for the craft room, and the cat claims it as his new perch. Typical.

Love Always,

Kaitlin

In Love

I'm absolutely in love with our new apartment. We picked up the keys on Friday, I packed up a bunch of stuff Friday night, and we've been moving stuff over ever since. Jinx even got to take a trip over there today. I think he was starting to get used to the new place, but the transfers were tramautic events...oh, the howling. He's now curled up in my lap.

Speaking of Jinx, he is a murderer. I let him out on the upstairs deck to prowl around. He's been just obsessed with the birds. So, I'm downstairs making dinner, and I hear a big thud. Thinking that he fell or something, I run up there to discover that he had himself up on the ledge with a smashed bird egg next to him. The mama bird is giving him the death stare. I don't know how he did it. The bird's nest was quite a leap from the ledge. Our kitty is a murderer of the unborn.

I love the flowers blooming, but I'm really hating this allergy crap. Hopefully these drugs will start working in a couple days like the pharmacist said. This sinus headache sucks. Come on antihistamines!

I'll post pictures of the new place once we get some stuff put away!

Love Always,

Kaitlin

Treadmills are Hard!

In the words of a friend's wife,"Treadmills are Satan's form of torture." And I fully agree. I think I did a little better tonight than my sad, pathetic attempt on Monday night.

• 5 minute warm-up, roughly .25 miles
• 12 minute run, 1 mile
• 5 minute cool down, roughly .25 miles

I don't think running more than a mile on the treadmill is going to happen. I need to get outside. And somewhere without a lot of hills, 'cuz the area near where our apartment is has too many hills. And a pedometer would be nice too. Oh, and something to hold my iPod.

Must.win.lottery.

Love Always,

Kaitlin

P.S. Jinx, the kitty, is twitterpated. He goes nuts when the patio doors are open.

Go Me!

I just ran 3.3 miles! I was aiming to run a 5k, but I couldn't remember if it was 3.1 miles or 3.3, so I ran over a 5k. Now I just need to work on how long it took me to do it, 44 minutes. I'd like to do a race this summer. We shall see!

Make sure to check out my business blog and Etsy site in the next couple days for new items!

Love Always,

Kaitlin

Hola!

I'm watching "How to Make an American Quilt" right now. I don't think I've watched this in probably 10 years. And now I remember why I love it so much. And why I love NetFlix with the XBox. Can we say, instant queue!

It's snowing right now. And I am sooo not happy about this. It's not accumulating, but still. Mother Nature can be rather mean sometimes!

I'm doing a Biggest Loser challenge with some of my girlfriends, and so far so good! I'd like to lose 10lbs by Mexico (May 22nd-28th). At the rate I'm going, I think it's possible. I've been doing the Couch to 5k program, as well. I think I'd like to actually run a 5k race this summer.