*cupcakes for haiti*

 
 

i'm so excited to share with you all a way to.....

1. eat cupcakes

2. support haiti.

the house church that i am a part of, has come up with a way to raise money in an effort to get haitians clean water. we will be baking these yummy cupcakes to donate the procedes to deep springs international.

order your cupcakes at

www.cupcakesforhaiti.com

more raw

so i must admit, i'm struggling slighty with my mission to go raw. on a good day, i can do about 60% raw but a bad day is sometimes just 25%. it's hard to keep myself motivated when most recipes besides salad and protien shakes, can require hours of preparation (soaking seeds mostly) however i have gotten a few compliments on how clear my skin looks, which i am praying to attribute to all this raw food!

in an effort to try new recipes to keep me motivated, i did try some new recipes....

{onion bread}

this recipe was passed along to me by my good friend, dita. dita is also in the process of going raw and she has been so encouraging! my bread still needs a bit of tweeking, but i am sooo glad i tried it again! it's been really yummy with sliced avocado or on top of salads.

what's great about bread from the dehydrator is it still fits the raw bill. it is only made from raw seeds and vegtables. also dehydrators do not cook the ingridients so that they lose all their nutrional value!

onion purée and sunflower seeds

flax seeds

all mixed together....

in the dehydrator

yummy bread after 12 longgg hours!

{raw baklava}

this another great recipe that meets my sweet tooth's cravings!! i once saw a chef make something like this years ago on a morning show. i scoured raw websites to find the recipe, but never found anything. it's so simple that i just guessed at the exact ingridients.

thinly sliced apple inbetween the nutty filling. i pureed raw walnuts, honey, agave nectar and a dash of cinnamon. i would make this even if i wasn't worried about the nutrional value of my desserts!!

i feel like i should apologize for these raw posts, they may be putting you all to sleep! do any of you out there actually like the raw posts?!?

logan

my dear friends had a baby two days ago, logan. you may remember the hat a made for him long ago.

at just two days old, this beautiful baby is having surgery for part of his heart that is underdeveloped.

since he and his family are so far away, i feel lost on the best way to support them and show my love. so i made logan this mini tag blanket. it was the first one i made but my nephew gavin has a tag blanket that he seems to love, so i'm hoping logan likes his as well.






after cutting 4x4 inch fleece squares, then sewed them altogether. you can see that i didn't do the best job at matching them up. don't look too closely logan!






the solid brown side and a L stitched in.






i sewed the four corners with ribbons all around.

random acts of creativity

in no particular order.... ways i've been creative lately.

• headband •

i started with this plain headband.

 wrapped it with this fabric, hot gluing it along the way.

I didn't use any fray check, but i like that look.

using the same fabric, i twisted this long strip into a flower shape.

i cut a piece of circle felt and glued it to the inside of the headband.

then i glued the flower to the felt and headband.

and since one is good, isn't two better?

all done.

• necklace •

this is more than just a necklace i made. forever more this necklace will remind me of SEARCHING the floor of joann craft store for the my diamond in my engagement ring! i was just picking out some fabric and then headed to the bead aisle to make this very necklace. on my way home, i realized my diamond was gone. i started to cry, well sob is more like it. my husband came with me to retrace my steps and see if there was any possible way we could find my diamond.

have you ever looked on the floor of a craft store??? it has glitter and beads everywhere! we were almost done scouring the floor of each aisle i had been in, when we reached the bead aisle. my husband later told me he had just asked God to help us find the diamond when he looked down and spotted my diamond!

seriously, craziest story you've ever heard right????

• raw coconut brownies •

still going strong with my commitment to go raw, i was in dire need of something sweet! these are so yummy! i found this recipe at goneraw.com.

ingredients-

4 tbsp coconut oil, melted

3 c raw walnuts

½ c raw carob or cacao powder

¼ c agave nectar

¼ c raw honey

melt the coconut oil by nesting it in another container full of warm water. mix carob and coconut oil thoroughly. stir in agave nectar and blend well. process walnuts alone in a food processor until they become a buttery consistency. add oil/carob/agave/honey mixture and blend well. i choose to drop

them onto a greased plate instead of putting them in a square

baking dish, like traditional brownies.

new years resolution

i know we are 9 days into the new year already and i am just now making a new years resolution post... oppps.

my resolutions are all things i have been meaning to do, but have never actually started to do them. so here they are, in no particular order:

2010 resolutions

{1. go raw}

i've always wandered if humans were created to eat just plants, vegetables and fruit. did God intend us to kill another one of His creature's? i'm far from equipped to answer that, but i do believe that our bodies crave and thrive on raw food. i believe that it is good for my body on so many levels- mind, skin, energy, sleep, disease.....

i have tried to go 100% raw before, but i only made it a week before i quit. this time i plan on going in stages. for these first two months of 2010 i am eating 1/3 of my meals raw. by march move to 2/3 raw. i don't know that i will ever go the full 100%, but i would like to challenge my body to get there.

some attempts at eating more raw

this a nice little wrap i made with butter crunch lettuce,

 avocados, alfa sprouts and ginger

carrot, apple and ginger juice

this was my attempt to make raw bread. a horrible attempt.

 from now on i will leave it up to arnold's way.

{2. stop using products}

hair products

i have alllllll sorts of products. i am a total sucker for a cute little bottle that promises to transform my hair or skin. in fact i have 3 to 4 sets of shampoo and conditioner in my shower at all times. many of my products are made of natural ingredients but i still question the necessity of them. i've always wandered, if God created our skin and hair to manage itself. really....

*your hair has OIL in it = you strip away the OIL with shampoo = you put OIL back into it with conditioner.

* your face has OIL on it = you strip the OIL away with soap = you put lotion back on to your face with OIL.

does that seem crazy to anyone else?  well i know i'm not the only one out there. just google it and find out!

face products

well i guess thats it...sorry if this bored your face off.