UPrinting Giveaway Winner: Let's try this again

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This first winner never came forward so we are trying this again!

Thank you everyone who entered!  I hope to have a giveaway at least once a month, so keep checking for the next one.

The winner for the UPrinting Letterhead is....

patricia

I work with kids with special needs. I would use the stationary for notes home to parents

August 21, 2011 10:11 AM

 Congrats Patricia!
Please contact me via email within 24 hours or a new winner will be chosen.

Recipe: Spenser's Sloppy Toms

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This one comes from the Neely's on Food Network, and is a family favorite.  I usually add a little extra spice cos that's the way my family likes it, but it is an excellent recipe just the way it is, so I will give it to you exactly how it is written on Food Network.

This picture is from the Food Network website (all others are mine)

Spenser's Sloppy Joes

Recipe courtesy The Neelys

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 25 min

Level: Easy

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 pounds lean ground beef
• 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 cup barbecue sauce
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
• 4 hamburger buns, split
• Barbecue sauce, for topping

Directions

Heat oil in a large skillet with straight sides. Add the bell peppers and garlic. Saute until tender, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the ground beef to the vegetables. Stir and cook about 8 minutes, until the meat is no longer pink and fully cooked.

Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, barbecue sauce, Worcestershire, and hot sauce into the skillet. Stir. Simmer until thickened, about 10 minutes. Serve on hamburger bun with extra sauce.

Freebies: Kids' Fluids Chart

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After a recent check-up at the doctor's office we decided we needed a way to make sure Big Sister is getting enough fluids.  She drinks milk in/with breakfast, but drinks water the rest of the day.   I've never figured out a way to get her to drink more milk until I had the doctor tell her she needs to be drinking 3 glasses a day.  We worked out a chart to be sure she's getting enough of all the right fluids- 3 glasses of milk, 2 glasses of water, and one glass of juice.


Here's what we do:
Milk- one in/with breakfast, one with her afternoon snack, and one with dinner.
Water- at school- she takes a small bottle with her to school and refills it once she has finished it.
Juice- I make her popsicles from juice using the Tupperware popsicle mold.  Now, I know this is only 2 oz, but she usually gets a little juice at some point in her day, so I am not so worried about it.  She enjoys the popsicle treat, and I am happy it's not completely loaded with sugar.

Here's a chart I made to help Big Sister remember what she has had already.  I gave her an off on Sunday since we are usually pretty busy that day.

Fluids Chart


Enjoy!

Free Printable Art Print Inspired by Justin Bieber

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Happy 2013, friends! I’m back at my desk after a much needed holiday break, trip to Disneyland and a fun New Year’s Eve celebration! I love the feeling and buzz of the beginning of January when anything is possible for the upcoming year! I am so excited to start dreaming up some new goals for The TomKat Studio, as well as goals for me personally. I am loving the “one little word” challenge that so many of my blogging friends (like becki, lindsey, shelley) are writing about this week and I have a few words that come to mind that I am still deciding on. In the meantime, I thought I would share this art print I have been wanting to design forever. Every time I hear the Justin Bieber song, “Born to be Somebody”, I always think how perfect this line is. I hope you like it, print it and hang it up to remind you that you can do anything you put your mind to!

Click here to download!

Cheers to 2013!
xoxo, Kim

Happy New Year! {Vintage New Year's Cards}

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Here's wishing you all the best for the new year with two New Year's cards from my vintage greeting card collection.



Inside: Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
Imprinted: The Boilinis, Bob, Evie, Judy and Roberta
Marked: M 154 Made in USA


Inside: Just around the corner, a new year waits for you,And here's hoping that it brings you worldsOf joy and gladness, too.Signed: Dina MetropulosMarked: Slim Jims by Hallmark15 NY 1-1Made in USA
This post comes very late on New Year's Day. I have a new foster puppy that we are welcoming into our home with lots of time and attention. Posts may be light until a forever home can be found for her. I promise to share her picture soon!
Happy New Year!

DIY Printable – Christmas Gifttags

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I can hardly believe that it's almost Christmas. If you're anything like me you have a few (or all!) of your presents left to wrap. So for today's Font Friday I've chosen two fonts that are perfect for a fun, casual Christmas and I  made them into some Christmas hangtags, free for you to download. (Yay!)
The first font is Blackout from The League of Movable Type which looks like letters cut out from construction paper. There are three versions - Midnight, 2AM and Sunrise. I'd love to try cutting out these letters out and make a garland. The second font is Cubano from Lost Type Co-Op, a rounded, chunky sans-serif, not unlike one Mr. Clause. 




Cut out the hangtags using scissors or an exacto knife. To attach to you gift, you can either punch a hole in the circle at the top of the tag and tie it on or you could tape the tag onto the gift using decorative washi tape as seen above.

Download the gifttags here.
I hope you enjoy these. Merry Christmas!!!
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UPrinting Giveaway Winner: Let's try this again

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This first winner never came forward so we are trying this again!

Thank you everyone who entered!  I hope to have a giveaway at least once a month, so keep checking for the next one.

The winner for the UPrinting Letterhead is....

patricia

I work with kids with special needs. I would use the stationary for notes home to parents

August 21, 2011 10:11 AM

 Congrats Patricia!
Please contact me via email within 24 hours or a new winner will be chosen.

Recipe: Spenser's Sloppy Toms

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This one comes from the Neely's on Food Network, and is a family favorite.  I usually add a little extra spice cos that's the way my family likes it, but it is an excellent recipe just the way it is, so I will give it to you exactly how it is written on Food Network.

This picture is from the Food Network website (all others are mine)

Spenser's Sloppy Joes

Recipe courtesy The Neelys

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 25 min

Level: Easy

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 pounds lean ground beef
• 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 cup barbecue sauce
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce (recommended: Tabasco)
• 4 hamburger buns, split
• Barbecue sauce, for topping

Directions

Heat oil in a large skillet with straight sides. Add the bell peppers and garlic. Saute until tender, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the ground beef to the vegetables. Stir and cook about 8 minutes, until the meat is no longer pink and fully cooked.

Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, barbecue sauce, Worcestershire, and hot sauce into the skillet. Stir. Simmer until thickened, about 10 minutes. Serve on hamburger bun with extra sauce.

Freebies: Kids' Fluids Chart

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After a recent check-up at the doctor's office we decided we needed a way to make sure Big Sister is getting enough fluids.  She drinks milk in/with breakfast, but drinks water the rest of the day.   I've never figured out a way to get her to drink more milk until I had the doctor tell her she needs to be drinking 3 glasses a day.  We worked out a chart to be sure she's getting enough of all the right fluids- 3 glasses of milk, 2 glasses of water, and one glass of juice.


Here's what we do:
Milk- one in/with breakfast, one with her afternoon snack, and one with dinner.
Water- at school- she takes a small bottle with her to school and refills it once she has finished it.
Juice- I make her popsicles from juice using the Tupperware popsicle mold.  Now, I know this is only 2 oz, but she usually gets a little juice at some point in her day, so I am not so worried about it.  She enjoys the popsicle treat, and I am happy it's not completely loaded with sugar.

Here's a chart I made to help Big Sister remember what she has had already.  I gave her an off on Sunday since we are usually pretty busy that day.

Fluids Chart


Enjoy!

Happy New Year! {Vintage New Year's Cards}

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Here's wishing you all the best for the new year with two New Year's cards from my vintage greeting card collection.



Inside: Merry Christmas! Happy New Year!
Imprinted: The Boilinis, Bob, Evie, Judy and Roberta
Marked: M 154 Made in USA


Inside: Just around the corner, a new year waits for you,And here's hoping that it brings you worldsOf joy and gladness, too.Signed: Dina MetropulosMarked: Slim Jims by Hallmark15 NY 1-1Made in USA
This post comes very late on New Year's Day. I have a new foster puppy that we are welcoming into our home with lots of time and attention. Posts may be light until a forever home can be found for her. I promise to share her picture soon!
Happy New Year!

Merry Day-After Christmas

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I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday. I had a great holiday with my family hanging out, eating, playing, watching movies and relaxing. Here are a few Instagram pics from the weekend.

Our first ever Christmas goose. It was a very smoky affair. Have you ever made a goose? Was it dripping and smoking the whole time?

Abby Dog, sleeping one ear perkedWe were all pretty tuckered by the end of the day on Christmas, doggies included.A little Christmas knitting I made a very small baby blanket and a baby hat for my niece over the weekend.
It was nice to have a long weekend of relaxation and family time. Now it's back to work for a few days before the New Year. How was your Christmas? How did you spend the weekend?

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Thursday Vintage - Black Cape

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It's pretty much universally recognized that the cape is a timeless winter warm up. We've all heard of little red riding hood, right? This black beauty is a vintage cape that my great-aunt made years and years ago. The fabric is a synthetic fur and the clasp is a vintage pewter. Not only did she give me the cape, she also found the original pattern she used to make it and gave it to me as well.



The pattern is McCall 9911, copyright 1938. It's a fairly simple pattern with only three pattern pieces: yoke front, yoke back and a front/back. The gathered shoulder/sleeve is made from a rounded piece at the top of the front/back piece. The cape was made in the longest length. I think it would be really fun to have the short little one to wear out in the evenings.




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Font Friday - Folk Font

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Today's Font Friday is Folk by Marcelo Magalhães available for free on FontSpace. This fun all-caps font is available in solid, outline, shadow and sketch variations. This would be a fun font to use as a template for a word garland. In the above graphic I used the solid font and this retro graphic toolbox. I also set the type on a slight arch warp in Illustrator.

It's hard to believe that 2012 is almost over. It's been a pretty great year but I'm still looking forward to what's to come in 2013. I'm going to be taking a little weekend vacation to Pennsylvania so I'll be away for a few days. But, I'll be back in the New Year with lots more DIY goodness. (Actually, I do have something for you tomorrow so be sure to check back in then!)

Happy New Year!


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Free Printable - 2013 Calendar

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Just in time for the new year, here's a one page 2013 calendar in three colorways free for you to download and print. I've done a printable calendar for the last couple of years and it's something that I think about throughout the year.

This one is a little different this year. The whole year is on one page of 8.5 x 11 inches size of paper. The document has three pages, each with a different color theme (see other colors below). You can print all three and use them all yourself, or give them away as little new year gifts. The calendar uses the fonts Dude and Cubano from Lost Type Co-Op and Franklin Gothic for the numbers. I hope you enjoy these! Happy New Year!

Click here to download the calendar.

Please feel free to share the calendar and link to this post (not to the download link please).

Terms of use: This document is not for resale or profit. 




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Pink + Gold New Year’s Eve Party for HGTV!

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Our Pink + Gold New Year’s Eve party shoot was published last week on HGTV! I’ve been dying to share this with you! I will be working on a full post tomorrow with more details, but in the meantime…pop over to HGTV to see the highlights and download the free printables! 

PARTY STYLING/DESIGNS :: THE TOMKAT STUDIO
PHOTOGRAPHY :: TEN22 STUDIO
LOCATION :: INSPIRADOR
MODEL STYLING :: BECKI CROSBY, WHIPPY CAKE
CAKE/CAKE POPS/COOKIES :: INSPIRED OCCASIONS
FOOD/RECIPES :: BAKED BY JOANNA