more crackle nails

my favorite pasta salad

I made this yummy pasta salad for dinner a few days ago; the recipe was given to my mom by a family friend and I modified it slightly. This salad always reminds me of summer, picnics, and canoeing trips with my family.

Macaroni Tuna Salad

4 cups macaroni

1 can tuna

3/4 cup dill pickles, chopped

1/2 cup onion, chopped

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon celery seed

1/2 cup lemon juice

1 1/4 cup dill pickle juice

1/4 cup vegetable oil

2 tablespoons mustard

1/4 cup mayonnaise

Cook macaroni. Mix cooked macaroni, tuna, pickles, onion, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Combine lemon juice, dill juice, and vegetable oil. Pour over macaroni mixture. Chill several hours. Drain moderately if desired. Blend mustard and mayonnaise and add to macaroni mixture.

butterflies

The Holocaust Museum Houston is creating an exhibit consisting of handmade butterflies to honor the 1,500,000 children that died in the Holocaust. Information can be found at this website: http://www.hmh.org/ed_butterfly1.shtml. Here are four butterflies that I made to contribute to the exhibition.

I used watercolor, colored pencil, a page from a dictionary, and magazine cutouts.

Macgyvering it up

On Sunday, I was Macgyver for a couple minutes. The ribbons on my dress are supposed to meet in the middle in a bow, but one ribbon fell off so I wove the other one to the side and tie a bow there. It worked pretty well!

crackle nails

This week I tried out my new crackle nail polish. I've been wanting to try crackle polish pretty much ever since it became the new thing last year, but never got around to it. (story of my life....) I love the way it turned out! I used a pretty teal shade for the base coat and I painted my toenails with the same teal polish.

glittery nails

favorite things

I discovered wordle today. So of course I had to try it out.... ;) So this is the result of my homework procrastination... :P