Thursday evening driving home from work; sunlight and the start to my weekend.

My new MacBook Pro sleeve/case arrived in the mail so I gave it a try; a perfect fit!  I'm pretty excited as now I can take my laptop with me when I go somewhere.  This is an 'Incase' sleeve, like the ones they sell at the Apple store but I purchased mine off eBay, brand new, for half the price.  It was shipping from the US so it took less than a week to arrive, which was awesome.



On Friday morning I put my culinary skills to the test and whipped up this awesome breakfast inspired by LoveMaegan's breakfast post. 

This was my first time making poached eggs and they turned out pretty well.  I also substituted asparagus and threw in some turkey bacon & whole grain toast (this is my boyfriend's plate, I only had half of a slice of toast; read about my Gluten-free diet/lifestyle ish HERE).

I'm a big fan of using Soundcloud to stream my favourite music so I figured there must be a way to create a playlist that is separate from my favourites...and whadyaknow, there is!  

I've compiled a bunch of tracks that I currently have on repeat and that have been pumping since the warm weather arrived.  Some I'm almost sick of because I tend to kill tracks and some simply remind me of this season already.  Hope you enjoy.

On Friday night, I met my family for dinner at Score's.  If you're not familiar with the chain, it's a soup-salad bar restaurant with main courses to order.  This was my helping from the salad bar: cucumbers, cottage cheese, beats & mushrooms.

Saturday was the day my Mom & I threw my little sister a baby shower.  I wore my new dress from Forever 21 & a necklace from The Bay.

We worked so hard to put together a beautiful (pinterest-inspired) table-scape for the party.  The invitation (seen above in the frame) was in chocolate brown and green so we colour coordinated in those shades.  We used green/white polka dot napkins, ribbons & balloons along with plain green cups and plates.  We tied ribbon the sweets cups (which were filled with green jube-jubes & chocolate covered almonds) and used a green table cloth which worked perfectly with my Mom's chocolate brown curtains in behind the table.  The diaper cake was my Mom's creation and in the same colours and turned out great.  We topped the cupcakes with little green/white polka dot butterfly scrapbook shapes that we stuck onto toothpicks.  And of course the watermelon carriage filled with fruit and a nectarine with a face drawn on it to resemble a baby.

My sister is due on July 24th but (did you know) is already full term.  It could be any day that I get to meet my (first!) nephew.

Saturday night I went to a cottage (party) which was totally impromptu and last minute.  I honestly just wanted to have a quiet evening, but my boyfriend convinced me this was going to be a ton of fun...and it was.  Can you believe this is the only picture I captured of the evening?  Haha, it was that much fun.

The next day we left just before noon to head back to the city.

Outfit deets (hardly worthy):  Maison Scotch tee, Joshua Perets pants & American Eagle for Payless flip flops.

We were starving after so grabbed protein shakes at the gym and take-out on the way home.  I had a chicken ceasar salad with half dressing and omitted the croutons.

HAPPY MONDAY!

Since going gluten-free (ish), I've become quite creative with a few of my recipes.  I haven't made crepes in many months, but was slightly missing them and figured there must be an alternative to my original whole wheat flour.  Enter oatmeal, which I ground up to make a flour and presto chango, these crepes were born!

Ingredients:

  yields 2 crepes (double the recipe for more)
* 1/2C Oatmeal ground up (I used my Magic Bullet)

* 1 Egg

* 1/2C Milk (I used almond milk)

* 1/2C Water

* 1 scoop of your fave protein (or omit this step altogether if you're not into that sort of thang)

* A pinch of salt (if you want)

Directions:

1.  In a medium bowl, mix together oatmeal flour & eggs (& protein)

2.  Add in milk & water which will make it thick

3.  Using a balled up papertowel, I like to dip it in coconut oil and coat my pan.  It shouldn't be dripping with oil, just a light coating so it's non-stick (think the amount of cooking spray would give you)

4.  Pour your batter in the pan and moving the pan ensure it coats the entire bottom

5.  Do not walk away!  This will cook in under a minute and you often don't need to flip it.

6.  Slide onto a plate, spread with your favourite jam or peanut butter, or just load with berries, fold up & enjoy!

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