Wednesday, May 25, 2011
College Summer Rule No.1--See your friends as much as possible
So in accordance with my own rule, I'm headin' off to Grand Rapids to see two of my best friends in the world.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
I was so worked up over the whole eBay debacle that I decided the only thing in the entire world that would make it better was chocolate covered strawberries. Turns out, they're actually quite simple to make. Take fresh strawberries:
Instant pick me up. Enjoy!
wash them and dry them completely. Then heat up 6 oz (about a cup) of dark chocolate, or semi-sweet chocolate chips, by putting it in a ceramic dish in a hot pot of water on the stove. Stir it until it is smooth (I added a little milk). Then dip each strawberry into the chocolatey goodness and lay out onto a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Let cool (or speed up the whole cooling process by putting it into the fridge) and you get this!:
Broke College Girl Tip No. 1
Sell stuff. Over Christmas break I took a bunch of clothes to Plato’s Closet and even though they only took half of it since the rest was in ‘poor condition’, I still walked out with ninety bucks!
So a couple days ago I raided my closet again and found this old purse:
that I don’t find particularly attractive now, but trust me it was the height of fashion back in seventh grade. So I decided to brave the Internet and list it on eBay. Two days later, I was fifty bucks richer. Fair warning: woe betide you if you actually try and get the money from a PayPal account to your bank account. Especially if your sixth grade self had created a PayPal account linked to your eBay email and listed with a credit card that could not be verified since it no longer existed. MOST FRUSTRATING TWO HOURS OF MY LIFE.
the granola that makes breakfast worth getting up for
And I’m making homemade granola! I love being back home with my spacious, familiar kitchen. Dorm kitchens are maybe my least favorite part of college. Anyway, I found this recipe on this adorable cooking/life blog my friend sent me and I decided to try it out.
The final product:
I changed the recipe a little, adding some cinnamon and milk and not pulling in flax seed on account of not knowing what is was. Also, here’s the link:inthelittleredhouse.blogspot.com
I aspire to be this lady. Such good recipes, all healthy and all will inspire you to start your own organic garden.
DIY
Since going to college and being broke, I’ve started to tone down my aversion to ‘cheapness’. I’m trying thrifting, reworking old clothes (inspired by EmK), and making food instead of buying it. Here goes nothing!
*This is a headband I made out of one of my mom’s old scarves. Basically, cut it into six pieces and sew the ends of three sets of two together. Sew all six together across the top, then braid it 3/4 of the way down. Knot the end. Take the beginning and work the excess fabric into a loop for the other end to slide through.
Or, just staple it. I seriously considered it when I hit the third set of strips to sew together.
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Whenever its gray and drizzly, I make hot chocolate for breakfast. In Normandy we would go to this restaurant across the bridge from our hotel that looked out over the beaches. Everything was quiet there and we would just sit and order cocoa in croissants in very broken French. Things are just cooler abroad. They brought you steamed milk, dark cocoa, and sugar and then you made your own hot chocolate exactly the way you wanted it.
I aspire to someday live in Europe so I can do this all the time.
New Start
Well, basically, here's the story. At the end of high school and through my freshman year I had a tumblr account. Several of my friends had them and its been great for keeping up with each other. But as my blog evolved, it became less about passive aggressive angst-filled journaling and more about...i don't know, granola recipes, for example. So I decided to import the more recent parts of my blog onto this one and start fresh. Here we go again!
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