Peanut Butter Quinoa Cookies

There is nothing better than a home baked treat on your birthday. 

I usually try to bake birthday treats that cater to someone's taste. One of my co-workers is very health conscious and loves everything quinoa so I figured, why not try some quinoa cookies. After a little research I found this recipe for Peanut Butter Quinoa cookies...here goes nothing.

{I know what you're thinking "really, quinoa?"...I was skeptical as well}

{cooked quinoa and rolled oats}

{mmm, honey}

{make sure to mix everything really well so there aren't clumps of peanut butter}

{don't forget to flatten the cookies before baking...I forgot, oops}

{finished cookie!}

These cookies were pretty tasty, especially for being so healthy. But I'm not going to lie, I still love me some butter and sugar in my cookies!

Smells like flowers...paper flowers

I just recently went to my 10 year high school reunion in Miami (CRAZY!). 

Since I don't actually have the ability to say "no" when asked by a friend to help out with something, I was suckered into doing all of the decorations. (Ok, I wasn't suckered into it...I may have offered my services. Yes, I'm just that nice of a person.) 

Because there wasn't a huge budget for the reunion, I had to figure out how to make the room look good, while spending close to nothing. I decided to re-use all of the glasses and jars that were used for the floral arrangements for my sister's wedding, and instead of real flowers I made paper flowers out of newspaper. I think it was fairly successful, minus being up all night making 100 flowers the night before the reunion. Oh the things I do to myself...

Materials:

Newspaper

Scissors

Tape

Wire

Floral Tape

First, cut the newspaper into petal shapes. Then wrap the wires with floral tape, this will help the newspaper and tape to stay attached to the wire.

Take each paper petal and wrap the bottom around the wire. With a small piece of tape, tape the petal down.

The flowers look great even with as little as 3 petals...

{they definitely look better in a cluster!}

{all set up!}

I'm sure the room would have looked a lot better if I had time to make more flowers...oh well, next time! 

The Wall Grid

And we're back...

with a new apt, new roommates, and a new computer! What can I say, it's already been a busy month.

As I was unpacking and figuring out where to hang all of my art, I realized that I was a little bored of the pieces I typically hang in my room. I came across this blog post on one of my favorite blogs, DesignLoveFest, and thought...hey, that's a great idea. So...I decided to make a photo grid for my wall with fun origami mattes and some of my photos.

{origami paper collaged with metallic mesh}

{best part about cutting the squares in the mattes...mini stationary!}

{ta-dah...photo grid wall!}