Inspirations
We love sweets, but sometimes our favorite pastries are not easy to find.
Valentine’s Day has always been the day to spend with everyone we love and care about and our gifts usually include chocolate, Flowers and small gifts that are needed.
Today we baked eclairs since our entire family is in LOVE with this not easy to make pastry.
We hope you get the chance to spend time with your loved ones🌹
it’s a delicious way of getting fluid into our body each day, and teas can help protect our teeth and our heart, as well as possibly even helping us to battle cancer.
All non-herbal teas are made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant how much process they go through determines if we are having green, black or oolong tea.
Tea has antioxidants. Drinking tea can help with losing weight, also help with keeping our heart healthy, and has less caffeine so it helps to calm our nerves.
We are putting together a pot of tea using loose leaf earl grey, and exotic sweets and sweetners to make it fun.
Lemon slices
Orange slices
Cinnamon sticks
Crystallized ginger
Cardamom powder
Condensed milk
Breakfast is our most favorite meal of the day, and for Valentine’s Day we have decided to give our family a big pink delicious breakfast. ❤️
We are thinking maybe …..
1- french toast casserole
2- pancakes with walnuts & strawberries
3- yougurt, honey & berries
4- oatmeal w dates & berries
5- scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, spinach
And of course a valentine’s Cookie hidden in the lunch box, and the iPad case for after lunch.
Keeping beautiful books close by is our main purpose for decorating every room with layers and stacks of books. Rare titles or the ones we have collected while traveling.
5 Most important facts for healthy looking skin in cold temperatures.
1- lock in moisture:
Pamper your skin by using honey, buttermilk, avocado, yogurt, olive and jojoba oils, almond oil, bananas and aloe.
2- Stay hydrated :
Hydrate with a humidifier, or by drinking water.
3- Eat your vegtables, celery, and cucumbers for high water content, and omega3 fats like salmon, olive oil and walnuts.
4- Choose natural soaps to avoid the alcohol and chemicals that cause dryness.
5- Exfoliate to wash away the dead skin and reveal the glowing skin.
We started our new year with decluttrring and organizing, and in the process we learned a few good tips for cleaning.
Laundry
For those impossible stains from butter, salad dressing, cooking oil, use white chalk or corn starch on the spot. Let it absorb the oil and launder as usual.
Bathroom
Remove stubborn stains around the faucet with vinegar. Soak paper towel or cloth in vinegar and wrap it around the stained faucet. Let it stand for several hours and rinse. Or with a tooth brush use a paste of vinegar and baking soda around the faucet.
Smelly helmets
Place it in a large ziplock bag and leave it in the freezer. The subzero temperature will kill the bacteria causing the smell.
Table linens with candle wax
place them in the freezer, when the wax spot gets hard just scrape it off.
Musty smell
Leave a box of open baking soda in the linen closet.
So sweet and delicious these beautiful fruits originally from China are in season from October to February.
More than 100 varieties we are only familiar with two. The fuyu and hachiya persimmons. The fuyu variety the flat and round shape is full of flavor when they are just soft to the touch, but the acorn shape the hachiya needs to be perfectly rip, very soft to touch before it is sweet and flavorful.
Loaded with vitamins, persimmons are good for our heart, immune system, and are an excellent source of powerful antioxidants like carotenoids and flavonoids.
Easiest way to enjoy a hachiya persimmon :
We are aiming for a year of super organize, discipline, and well informed .
These are the reasons why:
It is a fact that less clutter in our living and work space will help with,
1- Lowering stress, we start feeling like we can breath better
2- Creating a safer home, less chance of bumping into things
3- Spreading less germs, easier to clean thoroughly
4- Reducing allergy and asthma symptoms (less dust ..)
5- Lowering anxiety, easier to find things
6- Discouraging insects to stay around, with more space we do better job of cleaning
7- less junk food purchase when we keep an organized kitchen
8- Less clutter, more open space, in the closet, kitchen, and bathrooms
9- Easier time to clean
10- Less chance of wasting money on things we don’t need
Plan on :
Each day for few minutes put things away before leaving the house. It will help to stay organize, and less chance of starting the clutter habit. Start the mind set of, getting things done.
Keep in mind if we purchase something new, it is time to give away something you have not looked at for a while.
If you are mailing gifts to friends & family you know how much everyone loves a box of sweets and chocolaty treats as a holiday gift.
Hete are some ideas:
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