hand-made

My brother Greg gave me some wonderful yarn for christmas; I used one of them to make an Infinity Scarf for these few cold days we've been having down here in San Diego.

New Shoes

Just got these bad boys! Oh so excited to finally have a pair of Converse's that fit! (My last pair I bought in Jr. High, when I was in the mindset that I HAD to buy my shoes a size to big so that I could grow into them and continue to wear them as a adult... little did I know that your supposed to buy Converse 2 sizes too small, so my size 6 feet ended up tripping over size 9 shoes...) 

oh Lana

Mini Simmons

My friend Jon Arman is in the process of making a 6 minute web movie of his friends surfing some Mini Simmons boards. These boards have been spotted more and more out at point breaks or breaks with slower waves. Here is the teaser Jon made for the movies; this definitely makes me want to try this board out!

Homemade Granola Bars

This past year, I've gotten really into cooking. I received a great cookbook last summer called The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone (yes.. the same Alicia Silverstone who starred in the great 90's film Clueless). That cookbook launched my need for creating in the kitchen. I found this Granola Bar recipe in my latest addition to my cookbook collection, Peas and Thank You Cookbook. I tweaked a few ingredients (such as replacing sugar with stevia), and viola! I successfully made a great grab-n-go snack! I managed to snag a picture of what was left after the first batch

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons of ground flaxseeds, 1/4 cup plus 2 tbls water, 2 cups of old fashioned oats, 1/2 cup whole wheat flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 cup stevia, 1,4 cup dried fruit (I used cranberries, blueberries, and pomegranate seeds), 1/4 cup choco chips, 1/3 cup maple syrup, 1/2 cup nut butter of your choice (I used almond butter).

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flaxseeds and water and set aside. 

Combine oats, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, dried fruit and choco chips.

                                         

(I didn't have cooking spray on me, so I used coconut oil as my non-stick 

formula.. it actually worked well!)

In a separate bowl, comine maple syrup and nut butter and mix until smooth.

Add flaxseed and water mix, then add to the dry ingredients bowl. Stir well, 

the mixture will seem dry, but keep stirring until fully integrated.

Press the mixture in an 8x8 inch pan, and bake for about 15 minutes! Enjoy!

Im back in action.

As luck would have it, my old macbook went to Apple heaven the week after I decided to start this blog. Now, a little less then a year later I have been able to get a new laptop and now have a means to try to meet my new years resolution for updating this online journal of mine more than once a week! On a side note, I found this little ditty on a tumblr today, felt that it pretty accurately described my life as of late..