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My window box obsession

Some of my new artwork is inspired from the window boxes I see wandering around my city.

All these prints are available in my shop

Simple Grilled Asparagus

Three ingredients :  fresh asparagus, sea salt, olive oil

Take the asparagus coat with olive oil and sprinkle sea salt. You can, grill, bake, or broil these.  Just cook until they look a little dehydrated and the ends are crispy. They are great with BBQ  or add them to you favorite dish like quiche.  Note:  Fresh Green Beans are great  this way too!

Thinking Purple

1. yumiyumi 2. AmyPerrotti 3. BlueClara 4. stephaniecorfee

Summer Love

1. leapinggazelle 2. Raceytay 3. heatherkingdesigns 4. maryvican

Farmer’s Market Love

I have to say my favorite part of summer is the Farmer’s Market.

I encourage everyone to find their local farmer market, or local farm.  Here is a link to Local Harvest.org to find the closest  Farmer Market .

I will be posting some of my simple recipes I create with my farmer’s market purchases this summer and fall.

Vieira Girl Closeout Sale…

I have decided to move Vieira Girl into a new direction. So I am having a closeout Sale!

Shop here and get your favorite post before July 4th

Photography Love

1. kariherer 2. honeytree  3. urbandesign 4. UrbanPinkPhotography

My Love List

1.My new desk chair-  I am getting this chair for my birthday in a few weeks. I am really excited because I have been using  a dining room chair from Ikea  as a desk chair, and after about 30mins it become really uncomfortable.  So needless to say my creativity has gone down due to bad seating. So I am hoping this chair will  the answer to my problem. I am getting it in black,  I don’t dare get it in white, since white things never stay white too long in my home. I will post pictures of my work space in a few weeks.  Here is the link to the chair

2.  Library card- I have to say I really never used my library card for Boston Public library, mostly because the place was so huge and there are isolated parts that never really feel safe (Don’t get me wrong I love to sit in the old part of the library and just be amazed at the knowledge and the history the place holds).  Since I moved to Salem I got a library card and I am really excited.  I guess I will have to start reading more books.  One of the reason for getting a library card is to get access to New England historical information libraries, and since I have been working on my family tree it is useful to look up  extra information on them especially the ones from Salem and the Mayflower’s.

3.  Victoria Secrets Semi Annual Sale- mostly because I need new bra’s and underwear and a girl always love a sale.

4. Sex and the City 2  Movie- I havent seen it but I plan to and the previews look amazing. I am still in love with Sex and the City all these years later.

Handmade Love List

1. KristinFriesen 2. janethillstudio  3. imeondesign 4. alicebgardens

Paper Flowers

 

I bought this Mini Magnolia kit from Paper Source .  I thought they would be nice to attached to presents. I decided to use some of them in my bathroom.  The Kit come with everything except for glue and scissors. I just used Elmer’s glue.

I didn’t like the leaves so I left them out but I did think it was a nice little project and was not hard to do. I have another package of them I will make for future presents.  I have a few other of the flower kits I will try and review soon. You can buy the kits here for $14.00

Do you want to be a featured artist on Living a Handmade ?

I will soon be starting a new feature every week where I will be interviewing a handmade artist. You must have an online shop and sell handmade items.

If you would like to be considered please send me an email with a link to your shop, and blog if you have one.

Please email me at livinghandmade[at]gmail dot com

Teri