Favorite Fonts

I adore fonts and I put together 15 of my favorite ones to share with you. You can download each of them for free at the links provided below.

pea ellie bellie

Love Letter

another typewriter

Wonderlust

things we said

Adler

My own topher

Pacifico

appleberry

1942 Report

Pharmacy

traveling typewriter

Florence

Underwood Champion

Matilde

Enjoy!

Until next time...

Lady by the Bay

Greek Kale Salad

My mother-in-law turned me on to kale in my salad and now I find that's all I ever want in my salads. It is so delicious! I've always loved Greek salad, and adding kale to it just sends it over the top for me.

I'd like to mention that I've tried a few different types of kale and the best one I've found is the curly kind. I don't know the technical name for it, but it has the curly edges like you see in the photo here of the salad. The reason I say this is the best kind is because the others I've tried have a harsh bitterness to them and this type doesn't. So I just wanted to point that out for when you go to select your kale for your salad. And here's how I make mine. :)

Ingredients:
1 bunch of curly kale, cleaned and trimmed from stem, dried off (if you don't know how to trim kale, here's a great tutorial)
6-8 Campari tomatoes, quartered (this is just the kind I love, but use whatever tomatoes you like)
Half of a small red onion, sliced
1 cucumber, sliced
1/3 cup Kalamata olives
1/4 cup sliced pepperoncinis
3-5 oz. crumbled feta cheese (depending on how much you like)

For the dressing:
2 lemons, juiced
1 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
1 garlic clove, very finely minced
1/2 Tbsp. Greek oregano
1/2 Tbsp. fresh mint, chopped
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
kosher salt
fresh ground pepper

Directions:
Add the kale to a large bowl. Drizzle half the lemon juice and half the olive oil over the kale. Gently massage the juice and oil into the kale with your hands for a minute or so. Doing this takes away any toughness and bitterness from the kale. Take a bite before and take a bite after and you'll see what I mean.

Add remaining vegetables to the bowl. Sprinkle kosher salt, pepper, oregano, minced garlic, and mint over the salad and gently toss together. Drizzle the vinegar and the rest of the olive oil and lemon juice over the salad and add the feta cheese. Toss gently and serve.

Until next time...

Lady by the Bay

Photo A Day - April 2013

Another month of the photo a day challenge is complete. I love challenging myself each day to capture the image for that day's prompt. If you don't already, you really should try it out. It's a lot of fun. I promise! :)

Until next time...

Lady by the Bay

Love

I'm finding that I really enjoy playing with flowers and making little messages like this. Here's another I did today.

I think I'm on to something and will continue making these, and possibly make them into prints to sell on Etsy. :) I'm excited!

Until next time...

Lady by the Bay

Hello

One of my very favorite things is coming up with a new photo each day for whatever the prompt may be for the FMS Photo A Day Challenge. I've been participating in this challenge for a year now and I adore it. It keeps my creative juices flowing on a daily basis, and today just happened to be a really creative day for me. Today's prompt was "Hello." I think about the next day's photo the evening before, so last night I thought this morning I will go out and take a photo of some phone wires/poles and hope to catch some birds lingering on the wires, but when I got up this morning I just wasn't feeling it. So instead I grabbed the cut up stems from the carnations I trimmed, and created this. The response was overwhelming; it really brightened people's days and made them happy. That's all I ever want, to share images that make people happy. I hope this makes you smile and brings some joy to you. :)

Until next time...

Lady by the Bay

Quick, Delicious and Healthy Lunch Salad

I made this salad for my lunch yesterday and it was so delicious (and pretty) that I had to take a photo of it and share it with you. It went together so quickly and was very satisfying. The perfect lunch!

Here's what went into my salad:
A couple handfuls of mixed greens
Some chopped cucumber (use how much you like)
Quarter of a green apple, sliced into thin pieces
3 radishes, sliced thin
A couple thin slices of red onion
2 campari tomatoes, quartered
2 slices roasted turkey sliced into bite-size pieces
A small handful of chopped walnuts

For the dressing:
1 1/2 tsp. balsamic vinegar
1 tsp. apple juice
2 Tbsp. olive oil

That's it! Super simple and incredibly yummy! Enjoy!

Until  next time...

Lady by the Bay

Knitted Honey Cowl

I recently learned to knit and went looking for an easy pattern to try my hand at. I found the Madelinetosh Honey Cowl pattern and fell in love. You can download it here for free. I must say it was very easy. It's a 4-row repeated pattern, so it's a great project that you don't have to think about and can watch TV while doing it. It's knitted on a circular needle, and there is a long version and a short version of it. I chose to knit the short version.

I used Madelintosh Pashmina yarn in the color Shoreline. This yarn is so super soft and very easy to work with. I love the shading of the yarn and how it all comes together so beautifully.

I will definitely be making more of these in some other colors.

 Until next time...

Lady by the Bay