59 - photo diary

My photo diary for 4/8 - 4/14.

From March 29 - April 4 I did the 10 day Master Cleanse. After not eating for 10 days I had many recipes ready to go once I weaned myself back to eating again. My Instagram has been an overload of FOOD! Here are my good eats.

• fresh homemade salsa

• almond-oat energy bites

• fresh homemade green juice - granny smith apples, spinach, kale, celery, lemon, ginger

• kale salad (store bought) with avocado
• Latin Mediterranean salad = quinoa, brown rice, chick peas, tomato, cucumber, cilantro, lime

• cauliflower pizza - This was the 1st time I tried this recipe. I felt that the recipe called for too much oregano. And the crust was too cheesy and didn't get crispy.

• tofu with southwest kale hash (kale, balck beans, sweet potato) - My husband whipped this one up.

• crispy parmesan edamame - This was the 1st time I tried this recipe. They didn't turn out crispy.

HAPPY HEALTHY EATING!

throwback Thursday - packaging past

All over the Internet it's throwback Thursday today. So I'm going to go back into packaging design past.

Remember those pantyhose packaged in plastic eggs?!?

Reminds me so much of my mom back in the day. I remember going with her to Walgreens and seeing the rows and rows of eggs like candy.

What genius branding. Legs with two G's, which spells eggs, and the packaging being an egg. What came first? The pantyhose or the egg?

L'eggs is a popular brand of pantyhose introduced in 1969 by Hanes. The L'eggs name, package and logo were created by designer Roger Ferriter. He realized that "egg" rhymes with "leg," and then incorporated the L' (French for "the" when followed by a vowel such as the "e" of eggs). The L'eggs egg became the star to the brand.

However, packaging the hosiery in the hard plastic containers did not withstand the secondary uses by crafters, artists, and hobbyists. The plastic eggs were seen as an example of wastefulness and discontinued.

I didn't even know that you could still purchase the L'eggs brand! Maybe they should of kept the eggs...

See more of my packaging eye candy on my Pinterest.

frosting for my body

Jasmine of The Beauty Bake Shop was so kind to send me over some intense moisture butter cream back in February. Although winter here in Miami is really spring in my book, I was suffering from some dry itchy skin. The butter cream is made with a lot of shea butter and coconut oil, two things that my skin loves!

"My son has eczema and it has helped his skin severely. It was made for really dry skin or people who have skin that reacts badly to harsh winter weather," Jasmine says.

I love how thick and whipped it is! Just like frosting for my body. It smells so delicious and yummy too. But it's a light quality butter cream scent, and not a cheap kiddie artificial scent.

It blends in well with great coverage and no residue. And after four weeks of use my dry skin is gone! I continue to use it my daily routine because it works great and I smell so good all day.

Thanks so much Jasmine for sending your mosturizer my way to improve my skin and sharing with Dirty Laundry readers!

This is a sponsored post. My opinions are my own.

58 - photo diary

My photo diary, 4/1 - 4/7.

Here are some Instagram pics of beautiful Miami. I'm so grateful it's my home now.

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!

102 - gray is great

It's Sunday. That means it's gray is great time! As I was trolling Pinterest this week I came across some beautiful gray cakes.

1. gray ombre polka dot cake

2. lovely gray cake

3. gray polka dot cake

4. gray pleated-petal cake

 Have a GRAY-T SUNDAY!