Gnome for the Holidays

Today I am guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds! Today I am playing with a card kit called "Gnome for the Holidays" from Photoplay.

 

 

It is such an adorable little kit! You get everything you need to make 8 adorable cards with an instruction sheet!  PLUS 3 extra sheets of each paper to create your own cards just add different embellishments!  

 These are the 8 cards I made using the instructions - cannot wait to create some more outside the box with the left overs and other stamps from my stash!

 

 

Happy Stampin'

Margaret 

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Loaded ‘Cheese, Chives & Bacon Baked Potato’ salad - low carb version

 Who loves potato salad? It is the one comfort 'grain' based food that I miss but thankfully there is always ways to adapt one's favorite recipes to a healthier low carb alternative! 

Meet the 'Faux' Loaded Cheese, Chives and Bacon Baked Potato!

Now the original recipe I found that inspired this said to 'steam' the cauliflower however I found the texture of that method less than desirable - not a fan of steamed cauliflower! 

So I roast mine! Cut them into bite size pieces. Toss with some extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and black pepper and roast for 20-30 minutes on 400F until they are tender and start to get some caramelized edges. Let cool.

While the cauliflower is cooling chop up your favorite veggies - either traditional potato salad veggies or I like a lot of colour so to mine I have added 1/4 cup each of onion, chives, celery, shredded carrots, red pepper from my garden and radish. I have also chopped up 4 slices of crispy bacon!

Now for my potato salad sauce I love the quick and easy spice blend from Epicure ...just need 2 tablespoons and add in 1/2 cup of mayo and 1/2 cup of plain Greek Yogurt! Mix well!

It looks and tastes AMAZING!!!! And swapping out the Potatoes for Cauliflower lowers the carb count and insulin reaction considerable so I can enjoy this tonight with a nice BBQ pork chop guilty free!

 

Come on over to our Facebook community for more conversations about healthy eating, living and self care!

Bon Appetite 

Margaret 

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Lizard manicure! Yes please!

 How cool is this nail art??? 

 

I am so enjoying my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' It! journey so far! Come join me on Facebook if you are into pretty nails and nail art cause I am so addicted myself! 

Ebony created a really cool tutorial video for it! I cannot wait to try this out! 

 

 Want to buy the supplies to create cool nails like this - shop online here!

Happy creating - if you recreate this look please come join my nail community and share!

Take Care

Margaret

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Keeping Your Glass top clean

 Ok I cannot be the only one who has members of the household who do not wipe the glass top down before turning it on? Or they attempt to wipe it down but do not use a clean cloth so end up leaving it like this with nasty watermarks baked into it?

 Thank goodness for Enjo and the smallest of elbow grease! The awesomeness of Enjo is that the fibres do most of the work so you just need to provide the motion for them cause they have yet to develop a self cleaning Enjo fibre - but one can hope! Wet your Kitchen scrub with water, scoop out some marble paste because this is baked on mess so a little helper is needed, and than spray the surface with extra water and than swirl around the paste adding more as needed! Water is the magic ingredient here if you feel somethings stuck add more spritzs of water!

When you are confident all the mess is loose and ready to be wiped up switch over to the green fibre side and wash off all the marble paste with cool water - rinse as needed until stove top is clear. Dry behind with your kitchen Enjofil and whola!

 It works amazing! Shiny mess free glass top again!

 

Happy cleaning! If you need an Enjo representative please contact Lynn she is amazingly knowledgeable!

Margaret

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