weird and delicious.

Last weekend I was visiting my brother's house and ended up staying up later than everyone in the house (everyone being wifey and kids).  So I sat in front of the fancy television and searched for something fancy to watch.  Since I don't have cable at my place, I found it quite a luxury to surf through the waves and waves of digital channels.  I happened upon this weird show on IFC...

Food Party on IFC.

It was so odd I couldn't stop watching it.  I was so excited to go to the boyfriend's house and watch the newest episode this past Tuesday, but Tuesday came and my world crashed down when I found out that my boyfriend doesn't get IFC.  What?!?!  So I have resorted to watching old episodes and random clips on Youtube.  It gets me through the day.  Check this show out... it's wonderfully strange and magnificent.

meatless monday: pesto!

so I've missed the last few Mondays... but I'm back.  It was such a hit that I actually got a text message earlier today requesting that I blog about it.  So here it is...

this is someone else's pic... my pic looked too much like baby puke.

We put the pesto on some cheese tortellini and it was pretty tasty I must say.  Here's the recipe.

decoupage bird art.

I have been recently inspired to redecorate my apartment, but budget decorating takes time and a lot of creativity... so with a little bit of inspiration from the Color me Katie blog, some Pier One catalogs that keep getting mailed to my apartment, some black paint, and one large canvas I made this...

and a little more up close and personal...

painted plates.

I must admit that I got this idea from the Big-Ass Book of Crafts, which if you haven't taken a look at this book you really really must. It's packed with some fantastic ideas.

So I decided to try my hand at painting some plates (with the help of some printed images to guide me). Here's how I did it...

I purchased some clear plates, printed some silhouettes that I found on Google image search (I know, really original, Al), I taped the images face down on the top of the plate, then flipped it over and painted on top of the image. Then, I spray painted the plate on top of the image I just painted. Flip over, and voila! A pretty cool plate.

birds.

beatles.

black bean and corn salad.

It's just another meatless monday... I have to admit I was writing that to the tune of "Manic Monday" by the Bangles. I was thinking that I would share this a few weeks ago and it never happened... so here we go, a black bean and corn salad (with avocado! heck yes!)

not my recipe, but here's where I got it.

yoga makes me glow.

I have recently been introduced to this fantastic website called YogaGlo. It has many different styles and levels of yoga that you can download and practice. The site is very user friendly and I just love it. I've been recommending it to many of my friends who are interested in keeping a regular yoga practice but can't afford to go to a studio. At $18 per month, you just can't beat it!

broken.

my favorite sunglasses.

It was a good run. Thanks for the bug-eyed memories :(