Business Collab with L'Amour Baking Company

Hello my sweets!

I'm super excited to announce that I've teamed up to do a business collaboration with L'Amour Baking Company, an adorable bakery here in Los Ranchos that specializes in French Macaroons.
And let me say - they are delicious!!!! <3 <3 <3

They are definitely my favorite bakery in town, although I may be a bit biased because I can walk to it from my house...

I have made them some polymer clay macaroon and cupcake jewelry to sell in their bakery.

Now customers can buy souvenir earrings, charms, and rings to remember their delicious pastries by.

Here is a pair of earrings that replicate their Red Velvet macaroons.

These clay pieces come complete with stainless steel ear hooks, clasps, and L'Amour heart charms.  

These ones are kiwi lime macaroons.

These charms come with lobster clasps so that you can hook them onto your bracelet, necklaces, zippers, keys, and more! 

These are Salted Caramel and Orange Dream macaroons.

The rings are adjustable and nickel free! 

Orange Dream cupcake earrings 

Now let me show you their baked goods <3

Gorgeous Red Velvet and Party Cake macaroons

Vanilla Bean and Just Chocolate macaroons 

My favorites!  Lavender and Pistachio macaroons 

My second favorites!  Salted Caramel and Lemonade macaroons

Chocolate Mint and Pecan Pie macaroons.  

Both are flavors of the month

Cappuccino and Pumpkin Pie macaroons 

Adorable and festive Autumn cupcakes 

In addition to delicious macaroons and cupcakes you can also order pumpkin pies, pecan pies, pumpkin rolls, and dinner rolls for your holiday parties.

Here's a photo of their Pumpkin Rolls.  Nom nom nom! 

Or how about a Salted Caramel Apple Tart? 

I didn't take a photo but they also offer DELICIOUS Quiches.

Now that I've tempted you with jewelry and pastries, I hope you'll make it out to their Thanks For Giving event.  They are collecting a variety of needed goods from November 10th-25th to help our community during the holiday.   Click HERE for a list of items to donate.  

With your donation you will receive 15% off your treats from L'Amour Baking Co!

All donations will benefit Albuquerque Heading Home and Joy Junction

Treat yo-self!
Love,
Myria

Favorite Photo Deco App

Hello cuties!

In one of my previous posts I raved about the Snapeee Photo Deco App.  It's like Instagram except includes tons of stickers, text, frames, effects, etc.  I still really like this app however I recently discovered one that I like EVEN BETTER!

It is called Cameran Collage and it is available on both the Android and Apple markets.

I like it because unlike the other photo deco apps that I've used, (Snapeee, Picute, Animal Face) it doesn't have ANY in-app purchase requirements to get the cool deco packs.  I believe that this is because this app is sponsored/produced by Japan's major fashion magazines and brands ("nonno","MORE", "BLENDA","LEE", "L'OCCITANE","MERCURYDUO", "deicy", "Afternoon Tea LIVING", "Mark's masté", "X-girl", "Cocoonist") so it is just free advertising for them.

When you open the app you will see this page.  

Tap on the Present icon on the bottom left to add deco packs

Once you're done adding sticker packs then scroll through the design themes and tap on the one that you want to use.  

There are pre-designed templates...

...or you can start from scratch.

Another thing that I really like about this app is that you can add photos from the albums on your phone, or you can add from other apps like Dropbox, Facebook, or search google for images!

When you're done with your design you just tap the Next icon on the upper right conner of the screen.  It will take you to this screen where you can save and share your photo to Facebook and Twitter with a comment, or you can share to Instagram, email, LINE, or other apps on your phone.

Here are some photos that I've decorated

I can't wait to print these out and put them in frames!  

I'm also very excited about printing some of these on my Polaroid ZIP so I can put photos in my planner.

Thanks for reading!

Love,

Myria

I'm Officially a #PlannerAddict

Howdy all!

In my previous post So I Bought A Planner I announced that I decided to buy a planner, and join the millions of women who are addicted to their planners.

Before I committed to a planner, I researched and researched and I finally selected the Websters Pages Color Crush.  The reason is that it comes with the most beautiful paper and dividers, and it was the least expensive.  No brainer!

On http://www.scrapbook.com the kit is priced at $34.99 however, I purchased mine from http://www.Amazon.com for $23.47.  The only one available was the orange one but I'm ok with that.  I look good in orange >.<

If you click here you can see the Websters Pages ad for the Color Crush planners.  But one thing I noticed is that there really weren't any good photos online of the contents of the Color Crush planners so I decided to share them with you here on my blog.

When you open the planner you see that the snap strap is longer to accommodate more stuff inside.  Plus there are pockets for your stickies, paperclips, stickers, etc.  In addition to that it comes with 3 clear plastic dashboards - very cool!

The 1st divider is labelled Write it Down and the pages in that section contain:  Thoughts, Ideas, and Dreams, plus a lot of space for writing.  Great for journaling or planning.

The second section is labeled Memory Keeping.  The pages in there say A Day In the Life, where you can write a brief description of what you did each day in that month.  

On the back of each of these pages there is a spot where you can paste a photo and you can write down what people said, or various things that happened that you want to remember.  

The next section is labeled Lists to Love and in there you can create monthly To Do lists and Menu plan.  I'm really looking forward to menu planning!  Now that I'm a stay at home mom I want to plan our dinners.  I think it will help motivate me to actually cook every day or every other day.

The next section is labeled Staying Inspired, and within that section they have placed GORGEOUS papers for you to use in your planning/journaling.  Plus if you have fancy paper, like I do, you can add in more pages here.

They are beautiful and inspiring

Am I right?

Love them

This is the divider for the calendar section - so pretty!  They all are really...

First you have your monthly calendars

Your "At A Glance" if you will...

And on the back page of each month they have a page titled "This & That, little notes and daily memories for a well planned life"  

So, that Recycle divider I added in myself and labeled it Weekly for my weekly planning because they didn't have a divider for that, which I thought was weird...but what-eves.

Then you have your weekly planner pages, which come with a top-tabbed divider so you can flip right to the current week when you open your planner.  It is labeled Right Now with gold lettering and gold polkadots. Cute!

I added this last divider in from a sympathy card that I thought was so pretty.

We end in joy.

Finally, at the back of the planner you will find a plastic pocket for added storage, a note pad, and another pocket!  Yes, another one.  Love it!

This planner comes with so many cute details, including this charm/keychain that says "laugh everyday".  I think each color of planner comes with a different message on these little keychains.

In addition to planners, Websters Pages sells the coordinating CraftMate Folio so you can take various art supplies with you to decorate your planner on the go.  These sell for $14.95 on http://www.scrapbook.com

I'm kinda broke right now so I decided to use this makeup bag that opens like a book instead.  

I'm so glad I had it!  I got it a Big Lots years ago in a makeup bag travel set.

I think it will be perfect

Not too shabby!

In my next post I will blog about DIY daily pages.

Thank you for reading!

Love,

Myria

So I Bought a Planner

Hello readers,

After much thought, and attempts to use the SNote on my Samsung Note 4 to journal/scrapbook, I've decided to go to paper.  My decision was primarily based on permanence of my art journal - with the SNote I could loose my journal if I didn't have it backed up properly.  Also, I have a TON of washi tape, fancy paper, embellishments, and stickies so it just made sense.

In anticipation of my planner's arrival, I got my little planner station ready.  I purchased this cute little craft caddy used for $7.  It is really practical!  I have all of my kawaii sticky notes in there, stamp pads, and my pink paper stitcher.

I purchased most of my washi tape, cute sticky notes, and this cute little stamp set from http://www.yozocraft.com

My bear basket is holding more items for me.

The back side of the craft caddy has a spot for fancy tape or ribbons

And I keep my 6-hole punch in the little drawer

In my next post I will reveal the planner that I selected.

Thank you for reading!
Love,
Myria