Healthy Salad

Just sharing a healthy salad I made for myself recently, that would be 2 vegetable servings for me for the day!

Scribble Picnic - Hearts

Welcome to Scribble Picnic kindly hosted by Michael. The current theme is 'hearts'. Here is my piece, a greeting card on pink card stock (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") in permanent marker. My inspiration for hearts was in the jewelry I designed, haha.

Autoshow 2019

Lego Bugatti

Son K and I went to the Autoshow which is now on in downtown Toronto, we go every year. One of the highlights this year is this Bugatti contructed out of a million pieces of Lego. It took a year to build and required a whole team of people and one designer.

Wonderful Gifts

Lissa sent me these wonderful gifts last week, I was the winner of a birthday contest she ran on her blog as a way of celebrating her own birthday. I chose a couple of books that I am enjoying reading. Thanks again Lissa, you are beyond generous, a sweet friend.

On Mothers

dinosaur baby

I know this 89 year old woman whose son recently had some kidney stones removed.  She was so worried about how he was doing and the fact that it is a very painful condition.  It is not life threatening but it made me realize that a mother will always worry about her children no matter what.

It would have been my mother's 81st birthday today, I do miss her. I realized I took her for granted as she was always there for me and my siblings.  She wasn't perfect mind you, but none of us are, we just try to do our best.

Some good nutrition info

I got some good, current nutrition information, a diet sheet, from one of our doctors and wanted to share it with you today:

It advises avoiding breads and grains as much as possible.  Use sugars rarely and in small amounts.  Surprisingly it says to avoid canola oil, margarine, vegetable oil and recommends olive oil, coconut oil, butter, animal fats. It advises drinking water, coffee, tea  (no sugar, cream is fine).  Avoid regular and diet soda and fruit juice.  It advises eating full fat plain yogurt, full fat milk and avoiding skim milk and low fat dairy.  There are lots of surprises, have a look.

This page deals with added/hidden sugars:

A tablespoon of ketchup has a teaspoon of sugar added. I knew that a can of regular soda had 10 teaspoons of sugar added. It advises against using artificial sweeteners they may impact insulin, worsen cravings and stall weight loss. Diabetics should check their blood sugar response when using any artificial sweeteners.

Paint Party Friday - Deer

Welcome to Paint Party Friday! I did a greeting card on textured pink cardstock (4 1/2" x 1/2") in acrylic of a deer based on a photo Jenn took and posted on her blog.