Fashion Designer Dresses

Love fashion dresses? Prefer the gowns designed by famous designers? I guess every girl may say yes, of course! In fact, designer dresses are always welcomed due to the creative and unique design elements!

Like famous dresses fashion designer, Jovani dresses brand, Chanel, Vera Wang, and Max Mara and so on. The dresses from these brands are so hot and followed by the super stars or rich people! They can be called luxury brand if you so say! Take a look at the collection below, find which style you like.

Jovani dresses

Jovani dresses

 

Jovani dresses

Vera Wang Gowns

Chanel Dresses

Chanel short Dresses

Janice's Louisiana Style Eggplant

Excellent low calorie and super healthy way to enjoy eggplant! The nutrition facts can be found at Calorie Count!

Louisiana Style Eggplant

Ingredients:

1 eggplant
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
1 (15 ounce) canned crushed tomatoes
8 oz water or veggie stock
2 bay leaves
1 red bell pepper, chopped 

1 stalk celery, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1/2 t fresh cracked black pepper
1/2 cup grated white cheddar or Swiss cheese
1/2 cup bread crumbs

optional - if the pre-baked mixture is too thin, add some prepared or instant roux

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cut eggplant in cubes (no need to peel) and boil for eight minutes. Drain into a colander. 

In a large skillet, saute bay leaves, red bell pepper, celery and onion until softened. Put the sauteed mix in a bowl. Wipe the skillet with a paper towel so it can be used for the next step.

Melt the butter over medium heat in the wiped clean skillet, when bubbly, add the flour and stir well until incorporated. Add canned or fresh tomatoes and water or stock; stir to incorporate. Add the sauteed mix. Taste and adjust seasonings. Add roux if needed. I like to use Tony Chacheres Instant Roux. The roux also has some seasonings so taste the liquid after the roux incorporates. You may want to add some of your favorite Louisiana seasoning at this point too - it all depends on if you are a spice person or prefer to let the veggies shine.
 

After the sauce thickens, stir in the eggplant. Pour into a Pam sprayed or non-stick casserole and sprinkle with cheese and bread crumbs.

Bake for 1/2 hour at 350 degrees

Serve with brown rice!

Christian Louboutin Shoes

Christian Louboutin Brand can be the most favored shoes brand this year. How exactly stylish shoes designed by Christian Louboutin are! Take a careful look at these shoes I collect for you below:

Christian Louboutin Shoes

 

 

Christian Louboutin Shoes

 See? Christian Louboutin Shoes are so creative and amazing! So many Hollywood stars love this brand very much!

Christian Louboutin Shoes have been one of the most welcomed shoes brands now!

Candle & Tile Sets

One of my tile sets was featured over at Kristen's Creations. Thank you so much Kristen. I hope you will all go over and see the gorgeous creations Kristen creates Ÿ

This is a candle set I made for Terry's granddaughter Parker. You can click on any of the photos to see larger version.

Hello everyone and thanks so much for stopping by. First off I want to say that I am sharing this project on the blogs listed to the left of my blog and I hope you will visit some of them and see all the neat projects so many others are sharing.

Do you remember when everyone was making these candle and tile sets? About 5 yrs. ago, lol, and I'm just now trying my hand at them. Oh well... better late than never Ÿ Anyway, the picture above shows the items I used to make these. They are so super simple, inexpensive, fast and best of all CUTE. I made these for Christmas gifts. We mostly give money to our grands, but that alone is so impersonal so I always try to make them something special.

I bought the tiles at Home Depot for about 45¢ each. I used candles that are flameless for some of the sets that I purchased at Dollar Tree. They use 3 triple A batteries. Some I used the real 3x6 inch pillar candles purchased at Hobby Lobby for 1/2 off. Terry drilled a shallow hole in the top and I placed a tea light in the hole. That way you can burn your tea light and not damage the real candle Ü

This one is one of my favorites. I love the pretty lady and the saying. I made this one for my grandson's girlfriend. A private joke between us, lol.

This one is my favorite because of the fleur de lis. I might just keep this set for myself. For this one I used word art I had made on the computer and I used the tissue paper and heat gun method to apply the graphic to my candle. For the tile I printed out what I wanted on sticky back paper, ran it through my laminator and then applied it to my tiles.

This set I made for my granddaughter. She loves shopping so I thought this one would make her laugh. She certainly does make shopping look easy, lol.

This set I made for Terry's daughter, Kristi. She is the biggest LSU fan. I make her things all the time for her LSU collection. I made sure to make a batter operated candle for her so she can cut it on and leave it on her collection shelf.

I hope these little sets will encourage you to try your hand at them. If you have any questions just post a comment and I will get back to you.

Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you like the sets. Let me know. Hugz, Diane

Ninav on How to Turn Zucchini into Pasta!

Instead of pasta, my friend Ninav from Calorie Count loves to substitute zucchini! Her method is so simple and accessible that it is a fantastic way to make a lovely work night meal. Zucchini has only 20 calories per cup, a lot fewer calories than pasta -so enjoy this as often as you like!

How to Turn Zucchini into Pasta

Use either a julienne peeler or a vegetable peeler and make wide strips of "noodles".

Lightly sprinkle with salt and let it sit for 10 min.

Then rinse, squeeze off the excess water.

Eat it raw, microwave, or sauté it for a few minutes to heat it up.

Try it! You'll be surprised!

Alexander McQueen Stylish Shoes

No more to introduce. We all know this brand Alexander McQueen! His dresses which amazed you all the time, his designer shoes, the one you can not miss out!

You may love Alexander McQueen fashion dresses, and meanwhile, you notice that shoes designed by him also attract you deeply. Yeah, it is Alexander McQueen charm! What he brought us this season 2011? Let see together!

 

 

Alexander McQueen Stylish Shoes

 That is so fantastic!

Janette's Vegan Chocolate Cake

Chocolate is extremely healthy. Those are my favorite words to say to myself when sampling a delicious moist cake such as this one. Enjoy a slice this weekend!

Vegan Chocolate Cake

This recipe yields either 12 cupcakes, or 3 six-inch diameter cakes.


Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. (I used a convection oven.)

Dry Ingredients:

Mix the following dry ingredients in a bowl:
3/4 cup white whole wheat flour (I use King Arthur brand.)
1/2 cup Ghirardelli brownie mix (Well, I wasn't about to throw it away!)
2 Tablespoons corn starch
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/3 cup natural Demerara sugar
1/2 cup Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips

Wet Ingredients:

Mix the following wet ingredients in a separate bowl:
1 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons maple flavor Agave nectar, or 2 teaspoons Vanilla extract (I used the maple flavor Agave nectar)
1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Directions:

Combine wet and dry ingredients and pour immediately into prepared cake pans, or a muffin pan with 12 cupcake papers. It will take approximately 20 to 25 minutes for cupcakes, and 30 to 35 minutes for cakes. Insert a toothpick in the middle to make sure they are done. Do not try to turn them out of the cake pans and put them on a cooling rack, unless you want a disaster. Allow to cool slightly before cutting. They taste wonderful when the chocolate chips are still melted!