I was sitting in the car for hour upon hour this weekend as my hubby and I made the six-hour plus drive each way from Phoenix to L.A. and back, so I did some catching up on my magazines. As you may remember, I LOVE magazines, but they tend to pile up around the house while I’m busy with other things. So I REALLY look forward to our road trips so I can have a few hours to flip through a stack of my favorites.
This time I thoroughly enjoyed my latest Fresh Home Ideas magazine. I can always tell when I got my money’s worth because I tear out at least a dozen pages for future reference and this one was no exception.
Here are some of the treasures I found on the pages:
- We bought some fresh green and wax beans at La Jolla’s Open Aire Market on Sunday morning (more on that later) and I found the perfect Roasted Beet Garden Salad with Goat Cheese recipe on the drive home. Unfortunately, I don’t see it on their web site so you would need to buy the magazine for it. If the beans make it long enough for me to try it, I’ll post it with pictures.
- I saw this great idea (above) with instructions on how to make an oil lantern from a Patron Tequila bottle. We don’t buy tequila, but I wouldn’t be afraid of going to a local bar and asking for their throw away bottles. Of course you can do the same thing with any unusual or eye catching bottle. I can just see the collection of different colors, heights, and shapes sitting out in the moonlight now!
- Then they shared several wonderful ideas on creative containers for fresh flowers. I have some hanging containers (also from Ikea) that are very similar to these below and I love the possibilities here.
- But the product that I can’t wait to get my hands on is this Japanese Masking Tape! As soon as we got home I had to look up the website where they sell it and I’ll be ordering a few rolls very soon just to try it out. They suggest decorating glasses for a one-time, easy to remove pick-me-up, but I can think of endless possibilities for these beauties. Think of mirrors, vases, trays, jars, even painted furniture and on and on…I SIMPLY LOVE IT! Or how about adding it to that trio of hanging rose vases above? How would you use it?
So many sweet ideas and so little time…well, at least I have the pages to put in my “craft ideas” binder if I can’t get to them right away. I’d love to hear your ideas on these things and let me know what your favorite magazine is for new ideas.
