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FitBit Giveaway PackageJanuary 24, 2015 By Kristen Leave a Comment
I’ve got a fun giveaway for you today!! If you have been at all observant recently, you’ve probably seen every other person you know wearing little colorful bracelets on their arm. No, these aren’t the new “Livestrong Band” replacements… they are FitBit’s! The most recent innovation in health and fitness wearable exercise tracking!
If you aren’t familar with what a FitBit does, it’s a bracelet that can track your daily steps and your overall activity level. It can also monitor your sleep, which I love. When you pair it with the handy FitBit smart phone app, you get a screenshot of your days activity and your sleep snapshot… so you can see exactly why you might be exhausted in the morning. Maybe you thought you were sleeping when really you had an incredibly restless night. It’s a great little device, I tell ya!…
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Kitchen Essentials and How to Achieve Omelet PerfectionJanuary 23, 2015 By Kristen 2 CommentsAre you looking to achieve fluffy omelet making perfection? Well, I have a few tips and tricks to help you along with an awesome veggie omelet recipe. Plus I’m sharing some of my favorite Kitchen Essentials from the store, Tuesday Morning!
When I was first learning to cook and stocking my own first kitchen, I thought that in order to be a great cook I needed all the gizmos and gadgets out there. If I saw it at a store or on the Food Network, I needed it. It was obviously the missing link between the great cooks on TV and me, right? Wrong. I soon discovered that it isn’t all the gizmos and gadgets that make you a great cook. It’s lots of practice and knowing how to use certain essential tools the right way that make you a great cook.
I remember attempting to make omelets for the first time and failing miserably. I bought a special omelet pan thinking that would help, and it didn’t at all. My omelet turned out to be an over stuffed, torn up, nasty mess.
I’ve since wised up to the fact that a well stocked kitchen doesn’t mean I need every gadget in the land. In fact, if you came into my kitchen today you would notice that aside from a few small appliances, I have very few gadgets. My kitchen is stocked with the most efficient, multi use essentials necessary. If it’s a one purpose product, I doubt you’ll find it here. Investing in some quality tools is what’s most important. You can head over to the Tuesday Morning blog to see what I consider to be some of the most essential things in my kitchen – some of these things I couldn’t live without!…
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Hallmark – Replaying Childhood FriendshipsThoughts of my own childhood friends seep out through the layers of memories as I watch my own kids and their best friends. This is a Hallmark