NewlyWife Likes #42

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1: Steal your dude’s style! Well, at least steal his shirt to try these styles. I was surprised at how good these looks were. Warning: the model’s not exactly modest in this video.

2: Matt: What website are you looking at? Me: whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com. Matt: You’ve been laughing for more than 30 minutes straight. Me: Yeah, it’s probably the best tumblr ever.

3: You sit on a throne of lies, restaurants! If you’ve had kobe beef in the States, turns out it’s because someone just wants your money.

4: Paper towels are the secret to a smooth buttercream frosting job. Who knew?

Planting in Pots

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A few months ago, I found this amazing pin on Pinterest…

Carrots in Pots from Vegetable Garden Guide via NewlyWife on Pinterest

Carrots in pots? How awesome, right? I had a few large pots in the backyard that were sitting vacant — now I knew exactly what to do with them! I Googled planting in pots and realized that I could grow lettuce in a pot as well.

For the lettuce I filled the entire pot with potting soil and then made six little holes with my finger. I dropped two or three seeds in each indentation and then covered with soil. A week later we had this…

They are a little bigger now, but I forgot to get a picture when it was light out. Blogger fail, I know.

The carrot pin (above) said to fill the pot with potting soil and then sprinkle seeds all around. Then cover with another quarter inch of soil. I did that and it worked alright. About half of the seeds sprouted, so I put in another batch of seeds this week. This is what it looked like after a week…

I know, you can barely see the seedlings above. They are bigger now, so I really need to get a good picture! Hopefully this actually works and I can get an awesome picture like the pin for you. This would be an excellent way to garden in an apartment or with a tiny yard. Have you ever grown carrots or lettuce in a pot?

Chocolate Roasted Almonds

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For most of my life I was convinced that I didn’t like almonds. I blame this mostly on the disappointment upon eating a chocolate candy to all of a sudden bite into a nut. Why take up valuable chocolate space, little almond? (Don’t even get me started on tiny chopped up walnuts in brownies!)

Thankfully, over time, I realized that almonds were not the enemy and were actually quite good. (I’m not that far yet with walnuts, however…) I hear often that people like to eat almonds as a healthy snack and I figured I’d lure myself into it gradually with chocolate roasted ones. I’ve had the prepackaged ones, but they taste so much like fake sugar that I have a hard time enjoying them. As it would turn out, they’ve very easy to make!

Chocolate Roasted Almonds

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Chocolate Roasted Almonds
Serves 2-4
Prep time 3 minutes
Cook time 8 minutes
Total time 11 minutes
Allergy Tree Nuts
Dietary Vegan, Vegetarian
Meal type Snack

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cups Raw Almonds
  • 1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 tablespoon Water
  • Sugar (sprinkled to taste)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with foil.
2. Combine ingredients in a plastic bag and shake. Cut the corner for a clean way to get the almonds on the cookie sheet. Spread evenly.
3. Bake for 8 minutes. Make sure they don't burn! Let stand to cool before eating.

I’ll be grabbing these at work instead of heading down to the candy jar. It’s the little things that add up when you’re wanting to eat better! Smart snacking is also going to help you on track throughout the day. Go ahead, give them a try!

On Loving My Children

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Ironic title, seeing as we don’t have any kids, right?! Haha. Better than last week’s original title though (On Honoring My Husband, but I almost left out the “honoring”… whoops)! Now, back to this week’s resolution…

I will demonstrate to my children how to love God with all their hearts, minds, and strength, and will train them to respect authority and live responsibly.

This is going to be a great resolution when we actually have kids! For now, we can practice demonstrating loving God to each other.

My friend Jen with our friend's newborn. One day she will be training up little ones of her own and bonking their noses too!

Today I want to ask those of you who have kids how you practice this? How does it work out practically for you? What advice would you give to others about demonstrating loving God and training up children? Let us know in the comments!

And a picture of me with Baby O, for good measure!

We may not have kids yet, but I can practice being an example around our friends children. Our home church is mostly married couples with children, I looked around the other day to realize that Matt and I are the “cool adults” who the kids are comfortable around and can joke with, but we still have an opportunity to get serious with them. They are a bit more open with us than the older adults, and Matt and I have tried to use that to our advantage. We can be a positive influence, but I also know they are watching my every move. Just last week my parent’s friends child (who’s now a teen) said “I remember going to your parents Bible study when I was a kid. I wanted to be just like you when I grew up.” Whoa. That’s a lot of influence. I can only hope that I did, and still do use that power wisely. If you don’t have children yet, how do you influence the children around you?

99 Dresses: Free Online Dress Swap

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I’ve been on a fashion kick lately — first with my StitchFix review, sharing my favorite fashion inspirations and then my overall goal to boost my style profile — and now it’s taken a fun turn upon discovering 99 Dresses. Matt actually found out about this dress swap website from a TechCrunch article. I think he liked the idea of me cleaning out my closet and getting new clothes for free, but he insists that isn’t the case. :)

The concept came from the dress conundrum. You buy a dress, wear it a couple times and for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to thrill you like it once did. Some dresses I wear a lot to work, but special occasion dresses especially seem to have a limited closet life. Yet if you were to go to a friend’s closet and find her seemingly lackluster dress collection, you’d be excited to borrow them because they’re new to you.

This website is a free service that essentially opens up the floodgates closets of the world to you. To start, you take pictures of dresses you don’t want anymore and upload them to the site and assign a value to it. The people at 99 Dresses will make the photo look good and assign a “button” value. The above dress was $55, which they say is valued at $22 buttons, the site’s currency. You can earn button credits when you “sell” your dress and you can also buy them for $1 each.

I listed three dresses within three days of signing up to take advantage of getting 15 bonus buttons. The first one “sold” two days later and I was credited 32 buttons for the sale once it was received, meaning I now have 47 buttons to spend. Most dresses run about 15-30 buttons, so I’m excited to go shopping. The only fee that is incurred is shipping the dresses to the person, but it evens out when you have a dress shipped to you. And, if it doesn’t fit, just relist it!

I’m hoping that the dresses I get will be good. Think you’ll try out this service?

 

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