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  My morning breakfast is a smoothie using Thrive freeze-dried food!  It is the simplest way to prepare a simple but nutritious breakfast in the morning,  It’s mess free, cuts down the preparation time, and zero waste!  I have a pantry full of mangoes, apricots, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, apples, pineapple, peach slices, red seedless grapes, that are freeze-dried.  They just added cherries in a pantry size can, which I can’t wait to try out!!  The advantage is that when they aren’t open, shelf life can be up to 25-30 years!!!  Once open shelf life, 18 months-2 years!   My routine breakfast: any variety of 1/4 cup of all the fruit (I just listed) with a few pinches of spinach. Rehydrate by putting some water on top of the fruit for 3-5 minutes. I’m getting my fiber!  Then I put in my blendtec (best blender ever!!) a little bit of yogurt, and 1/2 scoop of vanilla protein powder.   Push the smoothie button, and less than 2 minutes a yummy delicious filling breakfast!  I can vary the taste, by adding more or fewer types of fruits I like! There is also bananas…I haven’t gotten those yet.   In Canada, we can’t yet order the flavored yogurt bites, but I can’t wait to try them ou, when dairy and meats gets added into the line!!  Next time, I will have to post a picture, as of right now, I have just the empty glass, beside me..which I should rinse out soon, as the natural sugars will adhere to it.   Then I go over to Etsy, and look at how my shop is doing. www.precioussadies.etsy.com    I’m in the process of adding hair accessories this week.   I have so many things to list, it’s overwhelming on most days, so slowly I’ll get everything up! Keep checking in!  Christina

The places to check out, as I try to continue to list items almost daily is  www.precioussadies.etsy.com  and www.precioussadies.zaybia.com  Zaybia is a “Made in Canada only” website like Etsy, but only features Canadian artists.  I just have a few things there listed.

I fell off the bandwagon doing my 365 project.  Fall, just gets so busy, with fulfilling my inventory for jewelry sales, and I didn’t want to compromise on putting up pictures that didn’t meet my standards.  This fall, I also introduced my line of photography cards to sell at shows, they are available online:

Now, that 2012 is here! I have had some time to open up my studio lights, and start taking pictures of children, and will venture a little on to this path.  I love taking pictures of them, it is so fun! I have put some of my pictures up on www.viewbug.com, a fun site that has a lot of contests to keep my creative juices flowing, and have won a few awards there!

I also started in the fall, another blog, www.thrivewithchristina.wordpress.com  It helps one to get better prepared, and help to also promote, http://www.c-parker.canada.shelfreliance.com  a freeze dried product, that promotes zero % waste, with no preservatives, and additives.  Thrive was just launched Dec 1st, 2011 in Canada.  Something right up my alley.

Anyways, Stay tuned!

I didn’t want to not put up quality pictures.  I do miss taking a picture each day!

Sat. Nov 5 FFCA High school Annual Business & Craft Fair 1919 – 76 Ave SE (Ogden) 10 am – 3 pm -Introducing my photography wildflower and garden greeting cards will be available with a special gift!

Fri . Nov 11 Fort Calgary’s Artisan’s Fair 750 – 9th Avenue SE 11:30 am – 5 pm Sat. Nov 12 Silver Springs Crafter’s Market 520 Silver Ridge Dr. NW. 10 am – 4 pm Sat.

Nov 19 Blessed Cardinal Newman School 16201 McKenzie Lake Blvd SE 10am – 4 pm Sat.

Nov 26 Dalhouise Christmas Artisan Fair 5432 Dalhart Rd. NW 10 am – 3 pm Sat. Dec 10

Douglasdale Craft Fair & Mini Market MONSIGNOR J.S. Smith School 2919 Douglasdale Blvd SE 9 – 3 pm

Store is renovating, I assume.  Not wanting to disappoint, or to lose customers, they have set up this temporary shop outside!  It’s a novel idea, why don’t they go mobile, and have the stores come to office locations! This trailer, had a line up of 3 people deep inside.  Tim Horton’s is Canadian Legend, known for their coffee and donut shop, as well as there fresh bagels, bakery, and fresh soups, and sandwiches!

Funny, how once the water balloons are all gone, then the container of what the water balloons were in, comes next!

“Children from like 8 and even up to the college age – Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark – they process information so quickly and it’s not because of attention deficit or short attention span. ” ~Thomas Haden Church

I really don’t like taking pictures of spiders, but I do seem to take a lot of them.  In charge of a group of  8 -10 year old boys in the cub program, on a scavenger hunt in Fish Creek Parker, they  found this 8 legged creature and looking it up, I realize it could just be…..Look a what I found online, … a female Juvenile black widow spiders start white, molting to dark brown to black exoskeletons with white, yellow, orange and red stripes and/or dots on their backs.

However, juvenile widows (female) spend a large quantity of time in search of an optimal environment. Once an optimal location is found, adult female widows often times spend their entire lives in one place. However, because juvenile females must first find this optimal location, they bear brightly colored marks upon their backs, so that they may be seen by predators when the widow is travelling upon its legs. Males bear similar marks to the females to serve as warning while they are searching for mates, however, the marks are not as prominent (not as brightly colored, or as large). … Does anyone know about what type of spider, this might be ?

“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider himself my master.  I want the full menu of rights.”. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu

My mom recently had a knee replacement surgery, she is doing quite well,  and the swelling of her affected  leg, and the bruising, is on the way of being healed.  Needless to say, I’m getting behind on my daily photo projects, as there are more important things to do, while I’m helping my mother.