Where are the tea lovers????

 

Hey tea lovers! Check out the NEW Tea Time Flavours & A Brand New Look! I personally love all our current teas flavours and I 💗💗💗 that they source ingredients from female owned farms so am excited to try the two new ones when I place my next order!! 

Try our newest Tea Time flavours: Mint To Be and Moulin Rouge. Made with some of the best ingredients on Earth sourced from female-owned farms and sporting beautiful new packaging, this tea is exactly what you need to break in the new year.

Mint To Be is a nourishing, refreshing tea that will wake you up and revitalize the senses.

Moulin Rouge will equip you with endurance and vitality with its comforting scent and taste.

Your skin, hair, and nails can benefit from these Biotin-infused delicious teas full of vitamins and antioxidants.

Find it in the Specials & New Releases section of our website. Also available in the Tea Time category.

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Margaret 

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Self Regulation

So often we hold children to a higher standard of self regulation than many of us are capable of ourselves! 

There are times when we, as adults, become over tired and over stressed and suddenly hit our threshold of all we can take with demands on us and we act out towards a spouse or family member with unkind words or we may throw a little toddler tantrum ourselves! I know it happens cause I have seen it out and about in stores and service based businesses ;) 

Peopling is HARD and what children need in those moments what ANYONE needs where they cannot regulate themselves is for us to HELP them through co-regulation showing empathy and offering support vs tossing more stress into their spiral. 

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Mental health in the early years MATTERS! 

Margaret 

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Self Care on the Go

Guess that’s gonna be first and last time inside a Starbucks 🤣

Unlike the coffee scrub treatment you could technically do a GelMoment manicure while sipping your Starbucks - our Essentails kit LED lamp can plug into any USB slot including a power bank so you can treat yourself to some pampering just about ANYWHERE without people calling the cops on you 🙂 

Sitting in the waiting area for your kids extra curricular activities - use the time to pamper yourself! 

Watching from the picnic table as your crew burn off some energy at the local park - great time to pamper yourself! 

Stuck on the Go train for a long commute - use the time to pamper yourself! 

When could you squeeze in some pamper you time?

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Margaret

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Don’t get Rusty Waiting on the Gyms to reopen!

Who else is excited for the gyms to reopen?! 

Just over a week until the gyms can reopen I totally can’t wait to cannon ball into the pool I have missed it so much - in the meantime if you’re feeling the need to get moving at home here’s a few staples right from the comfort of your couch!! 

Keep moving! 

Margaret 

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Are you creating for YOU?

I often hear card makers expressing frustration that they worked for over an hour creating a card for someone in their life and the receiver tossed it aside like meh and moved on oblivious to the time, love and care that went into it. My response is that you are gonna burn yourself out and stop enjoying if your relying on others to validate your crafting! IMO the passion needs to be in the experience of the CREATING and all the benefits that gives YOU in the DOING of the things more so than any potential accolades the receiver might give in appreciation of your byproduct. 

Does it make me feel good when someone tells me they love the card or project I gift them? ABSOLUTELY! Seriously who doesn’t like positive reinforcement!  But that’s just an added bonus when that happens because I already got my return on investing and internal positive reinforcement in the  creating! In the lowered stress and calmness and energy that creating brings me! 

I create for ME and it’s an added bonus if I can pass my creations on to others and they get some joy too! 

Or that I make money from people who want to commission a project or attend a technique class cause they want to learn to create for themselves too! 

When the doing of something brings you peace, joy and energizes you it doesn’t matter if others care! And when you’re more focused on external validation it looses all those things and becomes “a chore” where your more worried about pleasing someone else than you are about enjoying the process of creating. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

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Game Day appy’s

Sunday means GAME day over here - where the boys get to enjoy some football and afternoon appy’s! Recipe credit 

JALAPEÑO PUFFS

INGREDIENTS

4 oz. Cream cheese, softened

1 ½ c. Shredded cheddar cheese

1 egg, beaten 

1/4 cup almond flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 Jalapeno peppers finely chopped

6 Slices of bacon, cooked crispy, crumbled

1 tbsp Ranch seasoning

 

Instructions:

In a small mixing bowl, whip the cream cheese until smooth. 

Mix egg into almond flour until well combined. 

Add Shredded cheddar cheese, jalapenos and ranch seasoning to the cream cheese, mix well. 

Stir in almond flour egg mixture until fully incorporated.

Crumble the bacon pieces and place them on a plate.

Form a tablespoon of the jalapeno mixture into a ball, and roll it in the crumbled bacon.

Place on cookie sheet, refrigerate 30 mins. 

Preheat oven to 425.   Bake 10 minutes or until golden and puffed. 

Allow to cool a few minutes before eating.

These are SO tasty - next time I’m gonna double the recipe cause I let the boys wanting more! 

 

Bon Appetite

Margaret 

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Tasty Thursday Recipe Review - Baked Boursin Chicken

Nom nom - saw this recipe on a Tik Tok so had to give it a try! I wish I had jotted down the creator so I could give a shout out but it was a 2am insomnia find and in my effort to read the ingredients on my phone clearly I zoomed in and accidentally cropped off the handle when I took the screenshot! So whoever you are - thank you kindly for this one it was a huge hit!

 

 This one got 6 thumbs around the table here and at least one this is a worthy mouth orgasm  - even the still developing his clean eating palette cleaned his plate! 

We had this with a spinach salad because we try to eat grain free - however if you can have grains it would be lovely over pasta. Next time I think I will try it over some sauteed Zucchini noodles to help with the delicious sauce having something to stick to - although its all good I got it up with a spoon this time so it did not go to waste!

 

Bon Appetite 

Margaret

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