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Five People on one Guitar!

Remember a few weeks ago I posted about Gotye? You can read the post here. Anyway, I'm totally addicted to that song and look what I found: the coolest variation on that song EVER. There are FIVE people playing on ONE guitar. Super epic. The people in this world never cease to amaze me with their creativity and talent!

A Quick and Easy Dessert

This is really simple, fast, and very yummy. It's an easy one for the kids to make while you sit around and eats bon-bons with your feet up.

Microwave Apple Bread Pudding

Prep time: 5 minutes,  Microwave cooking time: 13 minutes

Ingredients

• 6 slices raisin bread
• 2 1/2 cups milk
• 1 pkg JELL-O Vanilla Pudding and & Pie Filling
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 2 medium apples, peeled and chopped
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions

• Cut bread into 1/2 inch cubes and set aside.
• Gradually whisk milk into pudding mix in a large microwavable bowl.
• Cook on HIGH power for 5 minutes, stirring twice. Add eggs, stirring well and continue to cook on HIGH power another 3 minutes, stirring once.
• Stir in raisin and apples. Cook 4 minutes more stirring once. Gently stir in bread cubes and cook another minute.
• Blend sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over pudding. Serve warm.

Your kids will love making it and eating it! Makes 6 to 8 servings.

Photo and recipe taken from the book "The Magic of JELL-O"

Change your Life!

January had an emotionally rough start for me this year. I always feel with the start of a new year that I must come up with a resolution or a list of goals for the up and coming year and normally I can do that. But not this year. I struggled when January came. I started the year off in a total blue funk of not knowing where I am headed and I hate that. I'm a person that thrives on goals and it saddened me that I didn't have any. That's so not how I roll.

You see, 2011 was the most amazing year I've ever had. I was still able to run Imagine Ink (my graphic design and print shop) but I allowed myself to pull back a bit and explore my personal art journey a little more during my work day. I started off by teaching art classes and then ventured even further into making and selling my own art. It was more of an experiment than anything, and guess what? It worked! I loved both things. Teaching art to kids and making my own art are two things that feed my soul. I know that now. Awesome. Plus, aside from those two things feeding my soul, they were profitable as well. Even more awesome.

So, when 2012 came, I knew it was time to decide what I wanted. I tried the experiment, and it was successful. So now what? That stressed me out a bit because I knew it was time to take all of what I learned in 2011 and apply that somehow to my life. But how?

After an astronomical amount of time spent on getting my brain and thoughts sorted out, I think I've come up with a mind-blowing-ly amazing plan. I'm not sure if I can pull it off yet but I'm more excited than I ever have been in my life and if anything, I'm getting high off the adrenaline and that is how I roll.  

A friend showed me this link. If you have twenty minutes, I would HIGHLY recommend that you watch this. It could be the motivating factor that you need to change your life dramatically. Worst case scenerio, you'll learn a thing or ten. I totally admire this woman because her philosophy is almost exactly like mine. She took the words right out of my mouth. 

Enjoy.

Word Cloud

This is so cool. You go to this website called Beautiful Word Clouds and punch in your URL for your blog and it will take the words from your blog and create a random creation using your own text. The reason I'm sharing is because look at the word that is biggest in my cloud. DOG. Frig. I wish the universe would just leave me alone on this dog thing. I am sooo over getting a dog.

Yes, that's right. I AM NOT GETTING A DOG!

Art Classes for Kids

Being an art teacher feeds my soul. Keiryn - top (age 8) and Reese - bottom (age 7) are two of the reasons why.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art.