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Pasta Night.

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So I did my grocery shopping earlier today in  Pioneer Centre . I bought some canned goods for my baon to the office, and some herbs, sea salt, low-salt soy sauce, etc, so I don't need to worry about what to eat during my lunch breaks or even breakfast. For dinner, I cooked some pasta, and tossed in some fresh lemon juice, basil, black olives, capers, onions, and garlic. Seasoned it with sea salt. And dinner is served! Here's the recipe, if you want to try it. *As a side note, this is my recipe, so if you want to change the quantity a bit for each ingredient, it's up to you. I love lots of garlic. I also love angel hair but I only had spaghetti. Extra virgin olive oil Dried Italian herbs *I use a mill Sea Salt to taste 2 heads of garlic (Taiwan garlic), pressed and chopped 2 medium onions, chopped Fresh Basil, chopped *I used some 30-35 leaves 100 grams of Capers in Vinegar, drained **I usually buy them by the small bottle (I heard that they have capers in sea s...

Johnny Air Cargo and Silhouette Portrait.

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So I have decided to scrapbook my life this 2013. I've spent many days making journal cards, looking at color combinations and trying to get the colors right, visiting great sites of crafty people all over the world for ideas, looking at Pinterest to check out free printables that I could use, and even getting re-acquainted with Photoshop and Picasa. I was particulary interested in getting layers, depth, and texture, to my pages so I wondered how people were able to thinly cut paper to make it as a embellishment for their pages - from michellewooderson.blogspot.com   from seriouslybrains.blogspot.com   I could cut the embellishments and the words but, knowing myself, I'd do a lousy job, and it wouldn't come out as nice as the ones above. So I did my research and voila - discovered Silhouette Portrait ! I read the reviews and comments from the different blogs I visit and knew that I had to have it. So on February 9, I ordered one from Amazon, and had it shippe...