ruffle curtains

It’s ruffle curtains for you!  One of my besties for life, BABIL!, gave me a bunch of curtains before she moved far away to Vancouver.  The curtains were cream and brown/grey.  I thought they would look cool ruffled and in our bedroom.  I saw a bunch of ruffle curtain tutorials on Pinterest and I think the best one you can get online is at a boy, a girl & a pug.  The blogger gives you a run down of measurements, detailed instructions, and plenty of pictures; I want to be this blogger when I grow up!   

Here’s the short and dirty of the project: cut curtains into strips, alternate the strips, sew them onto a panel, sew a black out curtain liner behind the panel.  You can use an old bed skirt for the panel and get black out liner from Fabricland.  Black out liner makes your room dark and it’s noise reducing!  Basically, our bedroom is a womb/sensory deprivation tank.  Great for sleep or torturing someone for information. 

Any sleep tips out there?  I need a stress free day and a womb-like environment.  I have a few friends that need a good hit for over-the-counter melatonin. 

Filipino Students’ Association

Wedding, say what?!  During cocktail hour, the Filipino Students’ Association from UofC performed two dances- pandanggo sa ilaw and tinikling.  In the tinikling, the dancers step/hop/jump over bamboo sticks.  In the pandanggo sa ilaw, dancers balance candles on their hands and heads.  It was beautiful and the guests were speechless.  For me, I got super excited!  When, we were tweens, my mom had Kelsey and I do Filipino traditional dances with family friends.  HOLLA, BAGAYS!!  I loved watching the dancers for the following reasons:

1. They had grace, so much grace.  It was lovely. 

2. Jumping over clapping bamboo is hard.  If you don’t do it right, you’ll bruise and get blisters. 

3. Balancing fire in glass is hard and dangerous.  If you don’t do it right, you might step on broken glass.  Oh, also you might set yourself on fire. 

If anyone is looking for Filipino traditional dancers in Calgary and area, look up ‘UCFSA’ on Facebook!  They’re entertaining, professional, and they aren’t afraid of a little danger. 

juice

I got a juicer!  I bought it because I wanted more veggies in my life.  I got a Magic Bullet Juicer, the poor man’s juicer, from Canadian Tire.  Gotta love those infomercials.  As soon as I got home, I made a drink that was loaded with veggies- kale, cucumber, celery, spinach.  Oh boy, the taste was quite tolerable.  Quite tolerable, indeed.  I'm not going to lie and say it was delicious.  It wasn’t bad and it wasn’t good.  I looked some recipes up and a simple solution was to add some fruit.  The next drink I made had a bunch of greens with sweet fruits- apples and pineapple.  Now that was good stuff!  Here’s the recipe for my hulk juice. 

1 green apple

1 handful of spinach

1/2 cucumber

1/4 pineapple

1/2 cup of coconut water

1 heaping tbsp of ground flax

There was so much pulp left over, I’m going to start composting.  Katie/Kade/Jatie suggested I use carrot pulp in my muffins!!!  Genius.  Her ideas blow my mind sometimes. 

What do you like in your juice or smoothies?

MAC, we're breaking up

Dear MAC,

I'm sad. You aren't who I thought you were. A year ago, you stopped being cruelty free. I had to find out from another blogger?! Check out Logical Harmony's post here. I thought we had the same standards. You're off the PETA "Don't Test" list too. How could you do this to me? How could you do this to us?? I'm not a vegan (though I am considering it), but I do have standards when it comes to cosmetics. MAC, you were the only brand I bought. Every major life event, I wore you- graduations, birthdays, weddings. You and my EcoTools brushes worked so well together. I can no longer purchase your products until you change your ways.

No longer yours truly,
Jade

I sent MAC a less dramatic email with my concerns. I wonder if they will get back to me.

Any vegetarian or vegan readers out there? I was eating a delicious Easter Sunday meal with my family yesterday and thought I could still enjoy the meal without the meat. Maybe I could enjoy every meal without the meat? I tried being a vegetarian for a month last year. I felt good and like I was doing good, make sense?

reception

I’m getting back into the wedding posts schedule!  Our reception was at The Wedding Pavillion.

The venue kinda looked like a house from the outside, which I loved.  It had the feel of an estate home, with the back area surrounded by trees.  There was a large double staircase for a fancy pants entrance, two private rooms to go for some alone time, large dining area, outdoor dance floor under a massive tent, garden in the backyard- the look of it was gorgeous! 


The food was delish, or so I hear!  I wish I could comment more on the food, but I was so nervous and active that I didn’t get to eat much.  The few bites I ate were lovely!  We had a sit down dinner indoors and our guests chose between chicken and beef.  Kaitlyn set it up so that guests could make their pick online at our wedding website.  Click here, if you haven’t seen that post! 
Unfortunately, there were things that I didn’t like about the venue, mostly to do with staff organization and customer service.  I won’t get into it…sadly, I cannot give the venue a shining review!  If I could pick another location, I probably would have gone with a golf course or hotel venue. 

Any of you have wedding regrets? 

massive muffin tops

I actually made muffins today!!!  Like for real, just like my website. No more false advertising here, no sir.  I used a recipe off allrecipies.com and doubled it! I like it when my muffins burst through the pan with a ferocious oomph. Like Beyonce during a concert (just saw Life is but a Dream today. She is my queen). OR like this guy (UFC head bump).  Remember that shit? That was nasty. Very unlike my muffins, but kinda like them with the bursting forth and all. Here's a link to the recipe! Remember to double it!! I added chocolate chips to half of them for me; the plain ones are for Chris!

Chocolate chip muffins are my fave.  What’s your favorite kind of muffin?

Ruined hubby's shirt=New vest for the wife

So, my February was busy.  To sum it up, I was fitness crazed, I went on vacation, and I got sick as fuck.  I haven't crafted in a long time and my blog has suffered!  Which means I also haven't checked comments in a long time!  My sincere apologies, readers.  You deserve prompt replies and crafty material!!  On with the post…

I ruined my hubby’s shirt with bleach :(  There were stains all over the arms of that mutha. 

What was a girl to do?  Except cut the sleeves off and make a new dress/vest. 

I think it works!!  Yay or nay?