Guest Post At The Fresh Fridge

Check out my guest post over at The Fresh Fridge today! Here's the link.

Plantable Wedding Favors

Last year when I was wedding planning (Mr. and I got married in September of 2010) I wanted to give my guests a wedding favor that was unique and something somewhat useful. I looked and looked at all of the options out there and really liked plant-able seed paper.

I am a DIY kind of girl and searched for a way to make seed paper myself.

My mom and I made all of the seed paper hearts that we used as wedding favors at our wedding by collecting a lot of news paper, blending the newspaper in a blender with water to make a paper pulp and pressing the pulp onto a screen. Then we sprinkled the wet paper with wildflower seeds and let it dry in the sun. Then we cut the dried seed paper into hearts, added a ribbon, and a note that said "Love Grows Plant this Heart and Watch Wildflowers Grow!" Then we put the date of our wedding on there too.

Guests could then plant the heart and wildflowers would grow!

It was a very affordable and fun favor in my opinion! Also, seed paper is very easy to make as long as you don't mind getting a little dirty and have the time to do it!

Thoughts on Voicemail

I changed my voicemail message today to say, "I'm sorry I missed your call but I will call you back as soon as I can," instead of "If you leave your name, number, and a message I will call you back as soon as I can," because I feel like it is a given that people will leave their name and number.... I mean, we've all been calling people and leaving voicemails for a while now so I don't think anybody really needs specific direction anymore. I feel like the personal message before you are allowed to leave a voicemail should be a friendly hello, and reassurance that I will call you back.

But, we shall see if all of my voicemails from unknown callers just says "Hey, I'll be waiting for your call back" without leaving any call back info, then that will teach me to be more specific in my message.

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Do you get annoyed when you need to leave a voicemail and the message before you are able to leave your message is super long? I do.

The other silly thing that I think the phone companies should do away with is the lady after the personal message of the person you are calling that says, "To leave a call back number press 1, to ......" you know what I'm talking about. All I'm waiting for is the beep. I find myself rolling my eyes at this part of the voice mail leaving process because I have never left a call back number and I know that after the beep, I can speak, that's all I really want to do here.

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Maybe all of this direction from people while trying to leave a voicemail is necessary, maybe people need to be told exactly how to leave a voicemail... but I'm not so sure.

Any thoughts on this topic or am I the only one that feels this way?

What's for Lunch This Week

As the weather gets cold outside, I feel more like eating warm soup for lunch. This week I've been enjoying Trader Joe's Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper soup and a whole wheat English Muffin with a slice of smoked salmon on top.

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This lunch is super satisfying and tastes so good. The soup is outstanding, really. It is so flavorful and good!! If you have ever had the Tomato Basil Soup from La Madeline, it is similar in taste but without all the cream and fat, major plus!

While I tend to eat the same lunch everyday in a week, I don't usually eat the same thing for lunch every week. I like to change things up from week to week. Do you have any good ideas for lunch food this week?