Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Amazing paper art

I really like these paper art, they are so creative, delicate, elegant. In a word, amazing. I wish I could make one.








Friday, October 18, 2013

Simple, fast, healthy and yummy breakfast - Flax seed mulffin

Use one Coffee Mug, add

1/4 cup (=4 tbsp) flax seed meal (I bought from Costco)

or

2tbsp flax seed + 2tbsp Almond flour meal (I bought from Trader Joe)

+ 1/2tsp Baking powder

+ 1tsp Cinnamon

+ 1 egg

+ 1 tsp olive oil

+ 3 pack of Stevia powder (1g/pack)

+ tossed some chopped pecan or walnuts or sunflower seeds (optional)

mix them all together well, Microwave high power for 1 min. Done!

Eat with coffee or tea, not only healthy but also taste pretty good!



Monday, October 14, 2013

DIY home project: Converting the laundry room to laundry / mudroom

We didn't have a mudroom in our house. I hated seeing the shoes scattered in the living room. I tried using a shoe rack but that didn't work out really well. So we decided to turn the laundry room to a laundry/mud room. The laundry room had a lot of cabinets that had little usage. It looked small with the cabinets. So the first thing we did was to remove the cabinets.

Before: Already took down 2 cabinet doors.

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Tearing down the cabinets. Not too bad. Me and my husband did that in about 3 hours.
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The floor under the bottom cabinet & sink was not tiled. Luckily, we had some similar leftover tiles from when the house was built. So the next step was to tile this part of the floor.
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The floor was done!
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This was the hard part. We couldn't do it ourselves. We hired a plumber to move the plumbing from this wall to the next wall and he also helped to stack up our washer dryer. The cost: $200
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My husband built the shoe shelves and stained them to match the color of the exiting cabinets. This was the 2nd shelf he built. He wasn't really happy with the first one and it ended it up in our garage. Then we put up the coat hangers. The upper one is for adults, the bottom one is for our 2 kids. Cost: <$200
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We had cut the counter top of the sink and kept half of the cabinet, discard another half. Finish look.
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