Ceviche & More!

My poor blog has been lonely.

I've been in a funk and have
been working hard on getting
myself back to normal happy me.
This week hasn't made it easy!
Let's just say my car won't start,
mom lent me hers and it ended up with
a flat, and our garge door spring snapped.
Lucky us my car is at the shop, the flat
has been fixed on mom's, our garge door
is fixed and they delieved a new stove Friday.

Friday we had a lazy day, finally!
We made Ceviche! Yummmy!
Mom & I Love the ceviche they serve
at our local mexican seafood place.
We used the new Tupperware Steamer
and Chop & Prep, which btw both are AWESOME!
The ceviche was very yummy!

We had a recipe but didn't use it much :)!

Ingredients:
2lbs Shrimp Chopped
1/2 lb Fish Filet Chopped
4 Tomatoes Seeded & Chopped
1 Cup Cilantro Chopped
1 Cucumber Chopped
1/2 Onion Chopped
3 tbs Tomato Sauce
Salt to Taste
3 Limes
1 Lemons Juiced
1 Avacado Chopped (Used as a garnish)

Directions:
Season Shrimp & Fish with 1 Lemon Juiced and 2 Limes Juiced. Sprinkle with Salt. We used the TW Steamer and Steamed 1 lb at a time for 8 minutes. Same for the Fish. Once shrimp is cooked peel & de-tail, then chop. Chop fish as well. All chopped ingedients except should be mixed. Add & mix 1 juiced Lime and Tomato Sauce. Serve Cold with tortilla Chips. YUMMMM...

Hope you all have wonderful Holiday Weekend!

Craftastic Challenge #17 (9/3-10/1)

*****ATTENTION!*****
I am no longer able to send packages
to international countries.
Participants must be in the US.

Are you ready for challenges?
Here's the details:

Below you'll find 4 challenges.
2 LO Challenges, 1 Card Challenge and 1 Altered Item Challenge.
You are not being asked to do all challenges, though.
For each Challenge you submit to me your name will be
entered into a "raffle" for the monthly RAK.
So if you do one challenge you will be entered once, do 4
then you'll be entered 4 times.
This is just a way to Challenge you and give you the chance
to try new techniques.
If you have suggestions on RAKs or Challenges let me know
and I'll be more than happy to try to incorporate them.

Layout Sketch
For this one just follow the sketch and make it your own at the same time.
This Sketch is brought to you Scrapbook Etc.

Layout Shopping List
Use at least 3 of the following items in a LO.
~ 2 Wallet Size Photo
~ 5+ Buttons
~ Poka-Dots
~ Color Orange
~ Lace
~ Decorative Border
~ Ink
~ Bling
~ Dry Embossing
~ Staple(s)
~ 2 types of Patter Paper
~ Handmade Embellishment

(If you combine LO Challenges 1 & 2 your name will be entered an extra time, so instead of 2 chance to win the RAK it'll be 3.)

Card Sketch
Follow the sketch and make it your own at the same time.
This Sketch is brought to you by the talented Becky Fleck of www.Pagemaps.com.


Outta the Box
Daily house hold items are not normally thought
of to alter, but this round I'd like to see you
alter either binder clips or clothes pins!
Both are clever little photo holders.
Add magnets to the back of the clothes pins
to make them document holders for the fridge!
So many possibilities.

You can Find the Tutorial HERE!

Submitting your work is easy,
either post a comment here with the
link or email me a photo @ craftasticlife@hotmail.com.
Just make sure to put in the Subject Line
"Craftastic Challenge #17"
and the Title(s) of your project(s).
Multiple entries for a challenge are welcomed!
Challenge ends September 30, 2010.

*****ATTENTION!*****
I am no longer able to send packages
to international countries.
Participants must be in the US.

Now for goodies!!
As of this month, I'll be adding a mini
album to all RAKs when there are more
than 10 entries for the Challenge.
Here is the Prize:



Have fun ladies and I can't
wait to see what you create!!

Craftastic Challenge #16 Winner

Hello friends!

It's that time again to select a Challenge Winner!
We had just a few entries, but all wonderful!

Our Winner for Challenge #16 is:
JENNIFER

Here's Jennifer's Lo.

Congrats Jennifer!
Since Jennifer is local she was
able to pick out her own prize :)!
So this means that this month's prize
will be posted for a future Challenge!

As always thank you all for playing along!

Inspiration!

My honey and I went up to the
mountains this morning, an adventure
we haven't done in quite some time.
It's monsoon season here in AZ
and Justin's schedule hasn't
allowed much time for play.
We actually drove all the way to the top today!
We've never done that.
Dogs were not invited on this
adventure so it could alone time :0).
We took quite a few photos like this one:

and I took this one of Justin's SUV.

The color stuck with me and tada use
of a new stamp and the color
inspiration means a full project!
Now this a definite feat since the last real
project I did took me nearly 2 weeks to complete.
(I'll take photos of it and post later this week.)


Tiles are from Lowes and are Tumble Marble.
The Stamp is from KaiserCraft "Tea at Elsie's."
Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful week!

Challenge Info & More!

Hello Friends.

A new Craftastic Challenge
will be up starting September 1st.
This will be the new schedule for Challenges.
Challenges will run from the first of the month
to the last day of the month at midnight.
Hopefully this challenge will allow me to catch up a bit.

I've been quite a rut lately and it seems my
Mojo has run off, but I have accomplished a few
projects which I'll be post over the next week.
For now I'd like to share with you my latest LO.

LO was for Tally Scapper's
"So you think you can scrap" challenge.
The beautiful woman in the photo is my aunt in 1969.
She's going through a rough patch and I thought
the song Smile sung by Nat King Cole was a
beautiful song to help her through.
I'll be putting the LO in a shadow box to give to her.




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