healthy fruit and nut bars

i love this recipe and plan on making some more this week.  three layers of goodness.  you can find it here.  i had no idea dates were so tasty.

confession no. 6

i'm kinda a control freak.

i made this

i finished this during my first week home from school.  i painted the canvas background at a class at the international quilt festival five years ago and never did anything with it until now.  i just dove in one day and finished it.  YES...i realize i spelled "disappear" wrong, but i have a creative license, right?  i used alphabet stamps and then colored the letters in to make them darker.  i'm happy with the result and think i will hang it up in my room at school.

i truly believe we are all made of little pieces...the pieces come and go.  i feel like i have pieces of me that are dead through all the normalcy, but once they are fed or triggered they just explode and flourish for quite some time.  i go through phases of being inspired and driven to routine where i just go through the motions until the inspiration strikes me upside the head.

someone asked me, "what's it worth to you, being inspired by someone?"  it took me by surprise, this question and i had to think.  it's a good question to find out what drives your inner creative being. 
this was my reply, "if someone can get at my core and truly inspire me to create or think or come alive, it cannot be numbered.  it gets into my blood and stays there until i do something about it."


i feel indebted to people who inspire me and draw me out of ruts.  people who ask the tough questions that help me understand the inner networks of my mind.  all the pieces are there, i just never asked the questions that helped me put them all together.  and i don't manifest all the pieces on my own...they come and go along the way from who i meet and what i experience.  i just hope i can keep them coming alive without letting too many die off before i'm ready.

thursday quote

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

—	Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

gpoyw

birks.  grandma's belt.  new urban outfitters dress.
happy wednesday....take a photo of yourself.

green machine

so my latest obsessions are green machine smoothies and my ninja blender.  bright green deliciousness.  i drink them after a hard lift and feel refreshed to start my day.

recipe:
1 c. skim milk
1-2 c. fresh spinach
1 tbs ground flaxseed
1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder (from trader joe's)
1 frozen banana
1/2 c. frozen pineapple
1/2 c. frozen cantaloupe

father's day

early morning talk.  brunch.  exploring empty buildings.  leisure walking.  simple.  perfect.