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{Link Party} Friday Favorites #114 & Features

Happy Friday!
Please link up and/or visit the links and check out our features from last week.

 

 

Features from last week:

Our Second Hand House shows these diy floating shelves she found over at On Bliss Road.

 

Kim from Made In a Day shared her Darth Vader Sharpie Mug & Free Printables, perfect for the Star Wars loving dad!

Shannon at Heart Captured painted this Do It Yourself: City Skyline in her son's super hero bedroom. You really need to check out the entire room!

Behind the Seams Sewing created this festive American Flag Pillow. She includes a pillow cover tutorial if you want to make one yourself!

Ramblings of a Small Town Girl made this corn casserole dish

Stephanie's favorite is this awesome DIY rope wall art by Laurie from My Husband Has too Many Hobbies. This is such a versatile project as it can be changed to meet any color scheme and made in a variety of ways simply by adjusting the size of the circles.

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Nordstrom Finds For Summer

It's not all thrift shopping all the time for me (though I do love a great buy at the thrift store!)

Nordstrom had their annual summer sale recently and I scooped up a few deals for summer.

This woven swing tank by Frenchi had been recommended by a few different fashion blogs and had really good reviews (4.5 out of 5 stars). The price dropped down to $15.90 so I bought it in three colors.  

Basic black for Miss High School.

This pretty color, Teal Angel for me.

And Rose Water that ended up going to College Girl who looked way better in this color than either of us did.

Miss High School loves maxi skirts but it pretty particular about them.  I ordered her two of the Sun & Shadow Print Woven Maxi Skirts and she loved them both.  This color is black royal ethnic print.

This one is teal border.  They are a summer wardrobe staple for her.

I got this Soprano Print Halter Maxi Dress in multi/orange for myself and I've already worn it two events (yes, they were on the same day but it worked for both!). I think I can dress it up or down.

I love Nordstrom's free shipping and free return policy. It makes shopping with them so much easier.

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{Recipe} Quinoa Tacos

Tacos are a weeknight staple around here.  

These quick and easy Quinoa Tacos have become an instant favorite.

I cheated a little and used prepared guacamole to make it even easier.

Ingredients:

1 head of Romaine lettuce

1/2 cup dry quinoa  + 1 tsp chili powder(I used 1/2 tsp)

Guacamole

Additional {optional}chopped toppings: tomatoes, tortilla chips, slices of lime, hot sauce, salsa, cheese

Wash and dry Romaine lettuce leaves.

Rinse quinoa and cook with chili powder according to package directions. I used red quinoa, isn't it pretty?

The quinoa takes about 15 minutes to cook and you know it's done when the kernels look like they've popped open.

Serve family style.  Lay out the lettuce leaves and add the cooked quinoa, topping with guacamole.

Add any additional toppings you like and enjoy!

What's your favorite kind of taco?

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Summer Faves

It's felt like summer for me for a few weeks around here but now that the calendar says it's actually summer, I'm sharing a few of my (and hopefully your) summer favorites from the archives...

Wow your friends and family with this fun Watermelon Fountain!

This Summer Vegetable Cobbler is summer comfort food at its best.

I could go for some of this Chocolate Hazelnut Gelato right now.

This Frozen Lemonade Ice Cream Dessert is one I definitely need to re visit!

This Vintage Picnic Graduation Party was probably my favorite party of all time.

Maybe a smaller scale party is more your style.  Host a Wine Tasting and Pairing get together with a few friends like this one.

If you're looking for an easy craft, how about some Chalk Painted Mason Jars?

How about some Summer Chalk Art, I free handed this one in 2013.

If you have a few hundred wine corks hanging around, why not make Pool Noodle Wine Cork Wreath? I still love mine!
Happy (almost) Summer!!

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