Chicken Kabobs

Here is my day 1 blog entry for the 30 Days of Creativity.  Last night, I made chicken kabobs for dinner.  I thought cooking would be a great way to kick of my 30 days of creativity.  It's a learning experience for me, since I'm not the most creative person when it comes to making meals.  So I have a feeling this 30 day initiative is going to be filled with lots of cooking and baking and hopefully I will share some of the recipes with you.   

Okay, so on to last night's supper.  I decided to make kabobs and oven potatoes.  For the potatoes, I used some packaged seasoning mix that I had the pantry.  So I followed the recipe on the back of the packet.  I cut up four red potatoes into bite size pieces, added some olive oil and the seasoning packet.  I then spread the potatoes onto a baking sheet and baked for about 25 minutes.

While the potatoes were cooking, I cut up the chicken, tomatoes, peppers and onions.  There is no recipe for this, I just use whatever veggies and meat I have in the house.  I placed the meat and veggies onto bamboo skewers.  Once they were all assembled, I drizzled olive oil and crushed peppercorn and garlic seasoning from Pampered Chef.  I usually will marinate the chicken and veggies in Italian salad dressing, but since my husband was picking up the veggies on his way from work, I didn't have time to let the veggies sit in the dressing.  Then it was time for the grill.  My husband and I live in a condo and we can only have an electric outdoor grill...so it doesn't hold much but it does the trick when cooking for the two of us.

I left the kabobs on the grill for a good 15 minutes (I'm paranoid about undercooked food...so I probably could have taken everything off the grill in about 10 minutes). Once taken off the grill, it was time to eat!  I think kabobs are probably one of my favorite summer time meals.  They are simple to make, but such a great tasting meal.

Day 1 down...29 more to go.  Will I make it??  I sure hope so!

Amy's Baby Shower

My sister is expecting her first child in July, so that meant planning a baby shower for her!  Last Saturday, friends and family gathered for a lunch to honor the mom-to-be.  We kept it simple and cute.  She is having a girl, but I didn't want the shower to be over the top with pink and "it's a girl" plastered everywhere.  The theme was bumble bee/garden and we used green, pink, yellow and white colors to decorate.  I'm not going to describe every detail, but if you want to know where I got any of the decorations or how anything was made, just send me an email. 

30 Days of Creativity

I was going through all the blogs I follow on google read this morning, and something caught my eye (thanks Chris!)...a challenge to create something everyday for 30 days in the month of June.  I asked myself if this is something I could handle.  I admit, I'm lazy and a procrastinator and really the only time I ever 'create' is when I need a gift for someone or a party coming up.  When I think about creativity, I only think about sewing or scrapbooking, things like that.  So I looked up the meaning of creativity and I liked this one the best:

Creativity is when a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways.

I went on over to the 30 Days of Creativity blog.  30 Days of Creativity is described as a social initiative encouraging people to create stuff (anything) every day for 30 days in June.  I think I can handle that!  So I decided to take on this initiative and we'll see how it goes.  Check back to see how I spend the next 30 days creating.

Before the whole 30 days starts, a warm-up exercise was given.  And here it is (don't laugh!).  It's my picture with a thought bubble.  In the thought bubble, I put the words that I think make me creative and most likely the areas that I will be using to complete the 30-day initiative.

Another Handmade Gift Exchange!

I just signed up for the spring/summer gift exchange held by Linda of Craftaholics Anonymous.  This will be my second one.  I participated in Christmas gift exchange this past year, and it was so much fun!  I loved trying to come up with a cute, creative gift.  In return, I received a handmade gift as well (a personalized mug rug, some awesome fabric fat quarters, and pretty little magnets).  Can't wait to start working on a gift!

Pinterest!

I read about Pinterest a while back, but never signed up.  Then I read about it recently and decided to see what it's all about.  I was hooked!  I requested an invite and received the confirmation email this morning and started adding things to my boards.  Pinterest is a great way to organize, create and share all things that you love.  I set up several different boards to save recipes, sewing tutorials, gift ideas, and home decor styles.  Be sure to check out my boards and follow me!