Tasty Tuesday - A Round Up

There is nothing more satisfying than using the pin that you pinned on pinterest. It's right up there with a cold drink on a hot day and your vacuum head perfecting fitting between two pieces of furniture - a great feeling.

So, in not wanting to steal from my fellow bloggers I would like to send some traffic their way over the next little while as I use my pins and try out ttheir yummy recipes. Rather than reblog the recipe here I will simply link the recipe I've used. That's good blogging etiquitte (for any blogging newbies (:).

Over the last little while we've been chomping on...

Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken

Cheesy Smoked Sausage Skillet

Better-than-crack Brownies

I've just embarked on a more healthy lifestyle to help out with one of my 30 in 30 goals.  I do plan to have a cheat meal each weekend, but you should see a lot more mains and perhaps less treats in the next wee while. I'm trying to cook up (hah!) an idea where I can still bake my goodies and get them out to people. We'll see how that goes.

Enjoy xox

Zip Lock Painting

Another great pinterest idea came to fruition today on a stunning Waitangi day at home with my favourite people.

This one is pimpsqueak easy - paint, zip lock bag and duct tape.

I know this is very blurry but had to show you that dolly also got a turn.

Then we got out some cotton buds to try drawing and writing in the paint. That was great fun too!

Totally recommend. We'll be doing it again.

Two for one!

Day 15:  Your favourite tumblers

I need to start my saying that to write this post I began to look through pinterest as I sort of follow tumblrs vicariously through it.  And in my usual fashion of doing 1001 things at once I accidentally deleted one of my boards - the one with all my favourite quotes on it.  It was like I almost died, like a little part of me is now lost forever.  Back button didn't work.  I gasped and said a very quiet because the baby is sleeping "noooooooooooooooo!".  Horrific.  Anywho, my pinterest followers are going to see a tonne of quotes coming through as I need to replace this little part of me. Grrr, stupid stupid stupid.

Anywaay... I don't necessarily follow tumblrs as such.  Like I said above I follow them through what others have posted on pinterest.  There are a couple of good fitness ones that I frequent and I love bookfessions because it speaks to me. These sorts always make me giggle as they're so true.  One of my 101 challenges is to do the 30 day drawing challenge and I think I ay use tumblr to accumulate these in one place.

Day 16: Your views on mainstream music

I must say, I needed to do this before I began writing this...

Not because I necessarily needed a definition, I know what is meant by 'mainstream music' as such but I wonder what would constitute as not 'mainstream' nowadays with the boom of the internet and pretty much being able to get into whatever music you want with a bunch of others who like it too.

My question returned with this little gem from wikipedia;
"Mainstream music denotes music that is familiar and unthreatening to the masses".
PS:  What did we do before google?  Oh that's right, 'ask jeeves' *shudder*.

So... my thoughts on music that is familiar and unthreatening to the masses?  Great!  Can't really complain about nice, clean boppy little tunes can I. Of course - there's always something to offend someone nowadays.  Something like Katy Perry for example that I would find fairly unthreatening is quite offensive to some who say that a role model for young girls should not be dressing in such skimpy clothes or having some of the lyrics she has. And don't get me started on the video for the new LMFAO song.... disturbing I'm sure to those who know that many children would see this video, and probably enjoy the melody etc. But fairly unthreatening to me.

In conclusion.  I like a vast range of music, mainstream included and to give you a short sharp view:  on the whole, I like it!