How to Make Almond Milk

To be honest, I usually buy my almond milk…but I’m trying to make my own more often, because it’s fresh and I know exactly what goes into it. It’s pretty simple (only a couple ingredients) and pretty quick too. If you want to know why in the world people would drink “milk” made from almonds, check out my post Spotlight on Almonds. I plan to write something comparing cow’s milk to almond milk to soy milk (etc.) sometime soon…but that one’s taking a little extra energy.

Gimp Tutorial: How to Add a Vignette to your Photo

It’s so easy to have a heavy hand when you (when I) first learn a particular photo editing technique in Gimp. (GIMP is a free open source image editing alternate to Photoshop. My husband and I love it) When you learn how to do something, you really want to do it, right?! Well, I learned pretty quickly that with vignetting, subtlety is usually best if you still want to like the picture in a few days, not to mention a few years. Here’s a tutorial (with plenty of examples) on how to add a subtle vignette (darkening around the edges) to a photo.

How to Make a Candy Bouquet

Papercraft Ring Pop flower

This is obviously a bit of a detour from my usual health-crazed posts, as it’s all about candy, which some people think I never touch. But, I wanted to deliver a bouquet that was just a little bit different to a couple of much-loved cousins of mine (okay, they’re Tim’s cousins…but since Tim and I are “one” in marriage, that makes them MY cousins too, right? At least, that’s how I see it.) It’s really not so difficult to create; next time you want to give someone a bouquet, consider putting together something like this!

How to Add Texture to a Photo

My sister Katie was the photographer for Nick and Carrie’s wedding on July 12th. Tim and I were assistant photographers and the editors. I took a break from my regular editing to have a little bit of fun with textures. This post will give you full color instructions if you want to try it yourself! There are probably many other ways, but this is what I do. You can see more wedding pictures, and a slide-show in my post Nick and Carrie’s Wedding.

How to…Juice Wheatgrass in a Blender?

Generally, wheatgrass is juiced with a special juicer. Have you ever tried to put leafy greens in your regular (centrifugal) juicer? It just doesn’t work. Wheatgrass juicers are made to crush the juice out, not spin the juice out. If you don’t have one, you’ve got to get creative with what you’ve got. And that’s just what i did.