I live in the mountains of Utah. Yes, I am also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints I love hot pink, XC skiing, running, hot chocolate, yoga, romance novels,traveling for fun, volunteering and, of course, origami. I am a woman, a mom, a wife and a daughter of God. I believe that everything tastes better with a little bacon or a little chocolate but not both.
In the winter months, I really like to make soup. But I making roasted red pepper crab soup didn’t happen until this winter. I normally make a pot of some kind of soup at least every week, and usually 2 times. Aside from the ease of soup, it’s a big recipe with leftovers. I can […]
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You know you want it, a Disney recipe. A grey stuff recipe. You, like me, have seen all the new things out about the Beauty and the Beast live action movie and what is the most quoted line from the movie? (after, “Gaston, you are positively primeval”) “Try the gray stuff, it’s delicious. Don’t believe
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This is such an easy money origami shirt. You could use any bill, seriously all rectangular currency works. I use a $5 US bill because 1. I am in the US, so it’s readily available and 2. when the whole thing is finished the design looks like a crazy shirt out of the 80s. —
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As money origami is my preferred genre, I wanted to share a few of my favorite resources. Used when I am not making my own models. Now these books range from the beginner to advanced. But these all have great model directions. That can often be the most frustrating things about an origami book, poor
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My family has been to Universal Orlando twice and each time we have stayed in the same place. There are some unique reasons Loew’s Royal Pacific Universal Orlando is where we have choosen to stay. And choosing a hotel when you travel to Orlando can be a daunting task at best and an absolute confusion
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This chocolate chip bundt cake was made because a terrible injustice has occurred in my family. My son’s birthday for multiple years in a row occurred during our annual extended family Lake Powell Trip. We’d have grandma and grandpa and cousins and aunts and uncles all around to help him blow out candles and wish
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You probably have a zillion of Grandma’s homemade {insert delicious food here}. Well, this is a recipe for you to make whole wheat pancakes with GRANDPA. For us these are part of the now famous and religiously attended, GRANDPA’s Breakfast. I emphasize the “Grandpa” part, because this is very much grandpa’s tradition. You hear all
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An origami business card holder is probably the most practical (bordering on dull) origami I could ever share with you. But…… I am pragmatic like that. In anticipation of attending a conference (for bloggers naturally), I wanted to carry my business cards around in something that felt like me. This would be the only
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So you wanna do origami? You totally can! Seriously, I love it because I am strictly a “if-it-takes-mad-skills-I-am-not-doing-it” kind of gal. You’ll just need to look at the basic origami folding symbols before you get started. These are meant to help not confuse Throughout all my origami tutorials I will add arrows and information to
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I have an “About Page,” but wanted for my first post to share a bit more of my origami story. I discovered it when I was in the seventh grade (that was after the invention of fire, but before Google). Our school took on the ambition of having every student make a crane in honor
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