I've been playing in the craft attic again... this time I pulled out my Studio Calico Story Hour kit and add-ons, used a sketch from Kelly Purkey's Sketchpad class and did one of the assignments from my stamping class on 2 Peas. Any wonder it took a while for this to come together? I think I may have tried too hard... lol. In the end, it turned out pretty cute, I think!
I couldn't resist scrapping this picture of Adorable-Niece-Eraleigh. It's pretty typical... nose in a book and oblivious to everything else. (She got lost in Wegman's at Christmas because she was so absorbed in a Dr. Seuss book she found that she couldn't look up long enough to watch where she was walking. Sigh.)
The cardstock and patterend paper, border strip, chevron, book, date and alphabet stamps are from the kit. So are the green sparklies, brads, sticker and the "real" tags.
I added some Basic Grey opaline flowers, Prima flowers and stamped various Hero Arts stamps onto the punched white circles. The glitter tape and ribbon are American Crafts from the stash.
The chevron tag is actually digital paper from Gennifer Bursett's Sweet Child of Mine - Baby Boy kit. I printed a section of it and cut it into a tag. The scalloped circle under the flower is from the Grandma's Easter Bonnet kit, and the journaling tag is from her new Check It Journaling Cards kit (currently on sale for $1! It's a steal.)
And I think Eraleigh is all of those things, but adorable was for this particular layout :)
I also got crazy... I got on a bit of a hand stitching kick with my Happy Little Moments book, and back-stitched a border with sequins all the way around the page. A bit time consuming, but kind of relaxing too. I won't do it on every layout, but I liked the effect.
And now for something very important. Food.
I tried a new recipe this week - it's a Date and Walnut Wheat Berry Salad with arugula and an orange vinaigrette. The vinaigrette recipe alone was awesome, and I adore wheat berries. This was super yummy. 10 points plus on Weight Watchers, though... so I added fruit and greens and backed off on the wheat berries, walnuts and dressing to make it fit a little better into my day.
It also has some goat cheese crumbled on top. The recipe called for regular, but the store had a fig flavored one that I thought would go well with the other flavors. It's subtle, but works great.
Tonight, I had leftovers and did a little remix on the salad... this time instead of an orange, I added nectarine slices and blueberries and then halved the arugula and added some butter lettuce. Super yum.
I've still got a few servings left... we'll see what I do next! I have another nectarine, so I might do that again - it was really delicious.
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