Weekend Creativity Challenge #3

Happy FriYAY! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples ability to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another installment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

 

 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorite way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L003 in this case but I will change the number with each new prompt. 

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group here from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Need some inspiration to get you going? Here are a few motivational word mandalas from Pinterest to print off and colour of paint! 

 

 

 

 

Come join us for more Self care, motivation and clean living fun and tips as well! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

 

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Weekend Creativity Challenge #2

Happy FriYAY! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L002 in this case but I will change the number with each new prompt. 

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group here from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Need some inspiration to get you going? Here are a few butterfly mandalas from Pinterest to print off and colour of paint! 

Come join us for more Self care, motivation and clean living fun and tips as well! 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Weekend Creativity Challenge

 Happy FRIYAY and a long weekend to boot!

I had done a poll up a while ago to try to come up with ideas to help improve engagement in the group for members by posting more meaningful and inspiring content to help with promoting health and wellness and one of the things was ways to help with supporting peoples creativity! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So introducing the new Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt, like below, that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

Colouring 

Mixed media / Painting

Papercrafting

Fun Nail designs

Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in our Facebook Community by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Here is my creation using inspiration from the colours in the photo.

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt image  and your own entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L001 in this case but I will change the number with each new prompt and have it in the prompt to help remember it. 

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group here from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Happy creating! 

Margaret

Love, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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It’s National Vitamin C Day!

In the spirit of National Vitamin C Day here’s a tasty little dessert option to try! 

Keto Lemon Bars 

Recipe credit

Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 3/4 cups almond flour
1/2 tsp. Vanilla 
1 cup powdered erythritol
3 medium lemons
3 large eggs

Instructions
Mix butter, 1 cup almond flour, 1/4 cup erythritol, vanilla and a pinch of salt. Press evenly into an 8x8" parchment paper-lined baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F. Then, let cool for 10 minutes.

Into a bowl, zest one of the lemons, then juice all 3 lemons, add the eggs, 3/4 cup erythritol, 3/4 cup almond flour & pinch of salt. Combine to make filling.

Pour the filling onto the crust & bake for 25 minutes.

Serve with lemon slices and a sprinkle of powdered erythritol.

Bon Appetite

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life  

dōTERRA Mālama Blend

Celebrate Mother’s Day this year with our new dōTERRA Mālama Blend. 🤍

Like the breathtaking beauty and vibrant culture of the Hawaiian Islands, Mālama Nurturing blend is a sparkling combination of bright citrus, enchanting floral, and centering wood aromas. 🌿

Mālama means to care for, tend, preserve, and protect. Much like mother figures tend to us, we are committed to preserving Hawaii’s native trees. dōTERRA has partnered with the Kealakekua Mountain Reserve, home to the largest reforestation effort in Hawaii’s history and 238,000 native trees have been planted to date. 🤎

Join us in celebrating mother figures everywhere this month with the Mālama Nurturing Blend.

✨Shop for this new blend at the link below!

www.mydoterra.com/totallyawake4life 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Buffalo Spaghetti Squash Casserole

 Buffalo Spaghetti Squash Casserole.

Video Credit 

Ingredients 
* 2 cups pre-cooked chicken breast, shredded
* 1 large (or 2 small) spaghetti squash, baked in “rings”
* 2 tbsp olive oil
* 1 large egg
* 1/2 cup (or more) buffalo sauce
* Optional: add some ranch seasoning from Epicure
* Sea Salt (to taste)
* 1/2 cup celery/chopped/sliced
* Green onion (for sprinkling)

Instructions
SPAGHETTI SQUASH:
* Preheat oven to 400°F. Slice ends off the squash, then cut into rings.
* Use a spoon to scrape out the seeds.
* Place squash on lined baking sheet. Use hands to coat each ring w/ a little olive oil/salt/pepper.
* Bake for 30-40 minutes, flipping rings about half way. I love doing these in my Air Fryer helps with some caramelization of the squash - nom nom!  
* Allow to cool for about 15 minutes, then peel the skin away and separate the strands into long spaghetti noodles using a fork.

CHICKEN:
* While spaghetti squash is cooking, make shredded chicken. Pan fry on stove, cook in instant pot, or buy rotisserie chicken - once cooked shred/pull apart with forks or hand mixer.

CASSEROLE:
* In a medium bowl, mix together olive oil, egg, buffalo sauce of choice until well incorporated.
* In a large bowl, add cooked spaghetti squash, shredded chicken + buffalo sauce mixture until well combined. Stir in celery or any other add-ins.
* Pour contents in a greased 8×8 glass baking dish. Bake at 400 for ~25 minutes or until starting to lightly brown on the edges. You can broil at the end to get crispy if you want!

This is also tasty with some extra old Balderson cheese shredded on top. 

Bon Appetite

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Breakfast Pizza

 Happy FriYAY! 

Looking for a fun brunch item for the weekend? This breakfast/dessert pizza doesn’t disappoint! 

KETO FRUIT PIZZA 

CRUST::
•1 1/2 c Almond Flour
•2 TBS Sweetener
•1 stick Melted Butter
• Dash of Vanilla Extract

FROSTING::
•Full block of softened Cream Cheese
•2 TBS Heavy Whipping Cream
•2 TBS Almond Milk
•1/4 c Sweetener of choice
• 1 TSP Vanilla Extract

• Epicure Summer Berry seasoning (optional)

TOPPINGS: 
•Blueberries
•Strawberries (quartered)
•Raspberries 
•Blackberries
DIRECTIONS:
• Preheat Oven to 350F
• Combine all CRUST ingredients well
• Bake for 6-7 minutes
• Let cool, begin mixing all FROSTING ingredients
• Spread frosting on top of cooked crust
• Top with berries of your choice
ENJOY!!!

Bon Appetite  

Margaret
Live, Laugh, Love 
Be Totallyawake4-life