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Posting from my iPod

Maddie — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:45:07 +0000

I just upgraded to the new iPod touch and I’m officially in love. I’m posting to the blog from it right now :) Gotta love apps!

Homemade Apple Cider Recipe

Maddie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:01:44 +0000

Ingredients

* 8-10 apples (use Gala Apples for a less tart or intense taste)
* 1/2-1 cup sugar
* 4 tablespoons cinnamon (or 4 cinnamon sticks)
* 4 tablespoons allspice

Directions

1. Quarter your apples (no need to remove peel or seeds).

2. In a large stock pot add your apples and fill with water–just enough to cover the apples.

3. Add your sugar.

4. Wrap your cinnamon and allspice in a doubled up cheese cloth and tie, and add this to the apples and water.

5. Boil on high for one hour (uncovered) checking on it frequently.

6. Turn down heat and let simmer for two hours (covered).

7. Take off the heat after two hours of simmering and let cool.

8. Remove spices and mash up the apples to a pulp like consistency (a potato masher works well for this).

9. Once cool pour into a strainer over a large bowl. When most of the juice has drained away, put the remainder of the pulp into a doubled up cheese cloth and squeeze over the bowl until no more juice comes out.

10. (At this point you can either restrain the juice to get out the little bits of pulp that remain with a cheese cloth draped inside the strainer to catch them or just leave it like I do).

11. You can store in an air tight container in your refrigerator for up to a week or you can freeze it for later use if you like.

12. Reheat in the microwave or on the stove and enjoy either plain or you can add caramel syrup or caramels, whipped topping with cinnamon or, like my neighbors did if you like it really sweet, with marshmallows or marshmallow creme.

Recipe courtesy crazy crafter at RecipeZaar

Captain Obvious

Maddie — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:41:42 +0000

Did a little sprucing up and brightened up the colors a bit. Been bored for a while with the layout, but since I don’t have time to do an overhaul right now, this will have to do!

Help Wanted :)

Maddie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:51:14 +0000

I’ve been really slacking with the freebies lately. I know, I suck. But, I do have a few scrapped design concepts that would make cute freebies. Anyone want to take a stab at creating some freemade blogger templates / WP Themes out of them? I’d be glad to collaborate with you! Just drop me an email or fill out the contact form and I’ll get back to you asap.

News to me

Maddie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:26:14 +0000

This might be something everyone on earth has talked about already for all I know, but I’m just coming across this website for the very first time and I gotta say, it’s pretty friggin’ awesome. It’s called The Way Back Machine and it allows you to view websites the way they originally appeared back in the day. I spent way too much time looking through google’s archives. You should check it out if you haven’t done so already :)

Props

Maddie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:33:54 +0000

Looking over my web stats today and noticed a bunch of people coming to Better in Pink through this link… turns out someone gave this site a little props over at CSS Divine :) Coolness!

Might be R.I.P.ing my work computer

Maddie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:11:46 +0000

As of right now my work computer is either dead or doing a very, very good impression of a dead computer. Thankfully, I regularly back up my client files so I have everything, I just don’t have access to my programs (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc) I used my serial number to activate the second copy of photoshop on this new computer after my old laptop spazzed out on me and now I have no way of installing photoshop on another computer unless I purchase the program again. Which I planned on doing, but didn’t think it would be this way :( Anywhoo, what this means is that for the next few days (hopefully not more than a week!) I won’t be on chat as often (I’m currently using my daughter’s laptop) because I have to send out my computer to be diagnosed and hopefully repaired. If you’re a client of mine and you break the internet or something and need immediate access to me please feel free to call my work number (585)542-4872.

Happy Mothers’ Day

Maddie — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:41:00 +0000

I hope you are all too busy being pampered and worshiped to read this!

xoxo,
Madeline & Maritza

Scorpio

Maddie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:38:55 +0000

You might feel like indulging your impulses a bit today. And if you’ve been toying at all with the idea of doing something creative or artistic, this might be a good time to really start doing something about it. If you find yourself starting to feel a little frustrated with your sense of progress, it would probably be a good idea to try to start putting some of your plans into action right now.

mmhmm.

Teaser Video for Shopify

Maddie — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:43:13 +0000

I’ve talked about how much I love Shopify before for it’s clean interface, ease of use for my clients. Here are just some of the features:

Shopify Features

Well, now they’ve come up with a teaser video on how easy it is to use. Check it out here:

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