Fish Tacos

Have you ever had any Fish Tacos? Or am I the only one living in Meat and Potato land?

A few weeks ago, I found a recipe in one of our cookbooks for Fish Tacos. A friend of ours told us we must try them. I am not much of a fish eater, but I thought, what the heck. Something new to try. So we tried them. OMG! They are so delicious.

We didn’t follow the recipe completely. We adjusted it to our tastes.

I cooked the Tilapia and seasoned it up with some Mrs Dash Table Blend and Lemon Pepper and squeezed some fresh lime juice over the top. I pan fried it, but used some Olive Oil Pam, instead of vegetable oil or Olive Oil.

I chopped up some onions, tomatoes, avocado and grated cheddar cheese.  Instead of using lettuce, I used cole slaw mix (it called for just cabbage, but instead I bought a bag of cole slaw mix and called it good).

Layer it up inside a flour tortilla, add some sour cream and picante sauce and enjoy!

It is so very yummy!!! I was skeptical at first, but after one bite, I was completely hooked! Nom Nom Nom!

Honestly, there is some fish in there. It’s just covered up by the rest of the other goodies! And for all of you out there that knows that I don’t cook, believe it or not, I actually did cook the fish….Chris did all of the chopping this evening. Now the first time we tried this, I did it all! Swear!!!

Card love…..

I really need to come up with some better blog post titles! LOL. Here are the final three cards that I made over the weekend. I seriously love K and Company vintage style papers.

How can it feel like Monday…

….when it’s Tuesday? I am typically dead to the world on Mondays. However, last night I was feeling pretty good. But all day today, I have felt like I haven’t slept in a week. This is not good. Tonight is The Biggest Loser night. I must stay awake to see who goes home. I am ready for Make Over Week! When is it? I am hoping soon because Daris and Michael really needs some hair cuts!

I got me some cards done this weekend. I got some new K and Company paper in the mail on Friday (well, it’s not new on the market, but new to me). I couldn’t get enough of this paper. So very vintage.

Bang Bang for now!

WhatchaMaDoodles Cards

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Several cards more cards have been listed in my Store! Mother’s Day is in two weeks!

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I swear, I did make a mini album…

I seem to be churning out cards like no ones business. I am lucky to get one mini album made a week. I am going to have to change that….someday!
Right now, I have been sucked into the world of web design. Yes, I am redoing WhatchaMaDoodles.com. But in typical Tam fashion, I am just can’t find the right template to suit me. I could design my own….IF…I had a brain! However, I am afraid that if I actually try to learn the fine art of designing a WordPress blog, HTML and CSS, very important things in my brain would fall out to make room. Seriously, I can’t afford to lose the ability to remember where I left my purse or when my husband’s birthday is….oh wait, I can’t ever remember what day is his birthday. I know, I suck. (psst…I can’t remember the exact date of our anniversary either..all I know is that we got married the Saturday before Memorial Day in 2005..isn’t that good enough?)
Anywho, I have decided to abandon combining Tam’s Crazy World and WhatchaMaDoodles into one handy dandy location under the WordPress Umbrella. So My Crazy World will remain with Blogger and WhatchaMaDoodles will become a WordPress site. For my sanity’s sake, as well as my husband’s, it’s probably a good thing.
Oh, back to the mini album. I started this album BEFORE I left on my scrapping weekend. I finished it on Friday.



I love Pink Paislee’s 365 paper line. I think Orange is becoming my most favorite color.
Bang Bang for now. I am off to WhatchaMaDoodles.com to see how much more of a mess I can create!

You know what time it is….

……BIG FREAKING RACOON time! Yes, they are back. And they brought their stink bomb friend the skunk with them! Grrrrr. Yep, Spring is here! 

Other than that, everything is rather boring around here!

How about some more cards….

Bang Bang for now! I am off to cuddle on the couch with the hubs!

I hope you don’t ever get sick of my cards….

…especially this week.  Remember, I made 20 and I have only shown you 8 of them so far. :)

All of these cards, I have used Paper Trey Ink Stamps. Just in case you were wondering.

 

Toodeloooo. Chris and I are going to eat dinner and then we are going to cozy up on the couch and watch Gabrielle Inglesas: Live from El Paso.

Boy howdee, I am getting old….

…I am totally wiped out from my weekend. Man, the older the body gets, the longer it takes to bounce back.

I totally forgot to tell you about my drive to Tahlequah on Thursday evening. Oh what an adventure. Okay, I decided while I was at work on Thursday to go and get another one of those big rolley scrapping cart thingies. They were on sale and the one I have was bulging and I had three bags bulging as well. So I needed (yes NEEDED) another rolley thingy. So I went and got one. So that meant that when I got home I had to repack my supplies. I hadn’t even packed my clothes. So we get home and I am running around trying to pack everything up…nothing like waiting until the last minute. I was trying to leave before rush hour in Tulsa. Well, not happening.

I get everything packed and Chris loads it up in the truck. It’s 4:55 pm. RUSH HOUR has begun. Yuck. So I head out and I was trucking along weaving in and out of traffic, but all and all doing just fine. That didn’t last very long. I knew that traffic would start getting thick around Memorial Avenue. I was off a couple of miles. I hit grid lock at Riverside. Great! About 20 minutes later I am back on the open highway heading to the Muskogee Turnpike via the Creek Turnpike.

I see the Muskogee Turnpike exit coming up. What’s that? Oklahoma State Troopers! They are blocking my exit. Great! What now! I pull up to one of the Troopers SUV. A very nice older gentlemen exits the SUV and comes over. I rolled down the window and asked what happened. Apparently, an asphalt truck took the exit a little bit fast with a full load and rolled on it’s side, spilling it’s entire load. It’s going to be a while. Fortunately, the driver was okay. So the very nice State Trooper told me to take the Tulsa exit and then loop around and exit the Muskogee coming in other direction. Sounds easy enough…..yeah RIGHT!

I proceed to the Tulsa exit, totally miss the other Muskogee exit and end up driving back into Tulsa. I don’t want to go to Tulsa, I just came from Tulsa. Tulsa is in the wrong direction. So I take the first exit I can find. Usually, that wouldn’t be a big deal, since I can loop around and get on the highway that will take me to the Muskogee Turnpike. Or so I thought. Let me just say one word that will sum up my mounting problems….CONSTRUCTION!!! The exit I needed is blocked. Now I am getting pissed. Anyone that knows me knows that I am DIRECTIONALLY CHALLENGED. So what do I do, I call Chris. My wonderful husband, my best friend, my soul mate. He will get me out of this mess. Oh wait, Chris doesn’t know his way around Tulsa and he is in Sapulpa. His advice….”Honey take a deep breath and use your GPS on your Iphone”. Ummm, okay, I have GPS on my Iphone!?! Okay, news to me and since I am talking on my Iphone, the GPS is not doing me any good. In the mean time I am LOST! L O S T…LOST!  So I get on Hwy 51 and what do I see in the distance? The overpass with the first Muskogee Exit that is blocked. Well CRAP! I have made one big freaking circle. And I am back where the whole mess started. So what do I do? I just keep driving on Hwy 51.

And where does Hwy 51 lead? Who knows?! I don’t know! I am lost again. I keep driving, yelling, and trying to figure out how to do that GPS thing on my iPhone. Finally, I figure out the iPhone GPS thing, but it’s not much help since I don’t know where the heck I am on that little freaking map. It doesn’t matter that the blinking light is showing me where I am at, because I DON’T KNOW WHERE ‘AT’ is! Grrrr. So I call Chris again, almost in tears. Then I see it…..I see the sign…and it says “Coweta”. I am in Coweta. Okay, where the heck is Coweta and how do I get on the Muskogee Turnpike? Must stop and ask for directions.  I see a McDonalds in the distance. Must stop at McDonalds and ask for directions. Wait, don’t teenagers work at McDonalds? I don’t like teenagers. They will laugh at me. Oh who cares if they laugh as long as they know how I can get to the Muskogee Turnpike. I turn in to the driveway of McDonalds and see a very large farm truck coming my way. And behind the wheel is a very old man. Old men are nice. I start waving at him to stop. He smiles and waves back and keeps driving. Sigh! This is not getting much better. However, he must realize that I am waving him down and he stops and puts his truck in reverse and rolls his window down. I ask him how to get to the turnpike, he tells me to get back on Hwy 51 and keep going for several miles and I will run right into the Muskogee Turnpike.

By now it’s been over an hour since I left home. I should have already been within 20 miles of my destination. And the girls are waiting on me to get their so we can go to Sam & Ella’s for Pizza. I get back on Hwy 51 and finally find the Muskogee Turnpike. The rest of the trip was uneventful. I don’t think I could have taken anymore “events”.

I really need to learn that GPS thing on my Iphone!

Well if you have made it this far…thank you! Now, let me show you some cards.

 

Bang Bang for now. I think I am going to go to bed and watch The Biggest Loser until I fall asleep!

What a wonderful weekend!

I had a complete blast over the weekend. It was so nice getting away and scrapping with my OKC scrappin buddies! I can’t tell you just how much I laughed this weekend. I know at one point and time I was crying laughing so hard. I think my sides are still hurting! 

We met some super hilarious ladies from Tulsa who were there. I am going to have to crop with those two again! Talk about funny! I don’t know if we would get much done, but we would sure laugh.

I would show you pictures, but alas, I didn’t take my camera and only got a couple on my iPhone. Hopefully one of the OKC girls will email me pictures. I know there is one particular picture I don’t want to see, which is one take of me while I was fast asleep. I am imagining the worse..you know..mouth gaping open with drool! Man I hope not! LOL! If and when I get pictures I will post them. However, we took a vow that what happens in Tahlequah stays in Tahlequah, so you might not ever see any pictures! LOL! I got home around noon on Sunday and laid down for a nap. About 5 hours later I woke up! I was exhausted to say the least!

I didn’t get as much done as I had hoped. But I can’t complain with 20 cards complete, now can I?

Here are a few….

I have to get some packing done this evening…

Tomorrow after work, I will be heading out to Tahlequah, OK to spend 3 days with my scrappin’ buddies from the OKC area. I can’t wait. It’s going to be a fun filled weekend. I am sure I will have much to report on Sunday when I return.  All I am taking with me to work on is cards. So, how many cards do you think I will be able to complete?  I have a goal in mind, but I am not saying until I get back.

I will post before I leave tomorrow. I have a mini album to show you!  But for today, here are two more Mother’s Day cards.

Guess what I did yesterday…

…instead of blogging after work? I fell asleep. Yep, got home at 4 pm and by 4:30 I was sound asleep on the couch.  Chris woke me up at 6:30 and put me to bed. Next thing I knew the annoying alarm clock was screeching at me and it was 3:30 am!

I did get some Mother’s Day cards made over the weekend, in between working on some custom orders.

I got play with some new Pink Paislee and Fancy Pants paper!! WooooHoooo!

Here are a couple of cards…

Tomorrow I will post two more!

Bang Bang for now! Gotta go watch The Biggest Loser!

I got one more mini album to show you…..

But before I show you that mini album, I have a question to answer. Ali left me a comment on yesterday’s post asking me a question. She asked what kind of glue I use on my mini albums.  Ali, the glue I use is Fabri-Tac or Beacons 3 in 1.  Both are great and will not leave your paper all bumpy! However, word of warning, it STINKS. You get use to it, I can’t even smell it anymore, but realize it does STINKY POO!

I buy my Fabri-Tac at Wal-Mart and the 3 in 1 at Hobby Lobby. I am not sure what stores you have where you live, but I am betting that any craft supply type store should have it. Or at least I would hope so!

Now, for that 3rd mini album. It is my favorite. I just love those little houses. Soooo cute!

Have a super rest of the week and weekend. My work week is over and tomorrow I will be wrist deep in mod podge working on 3 custom orders!

Bang Bang for now!!!

What a windy day!

Man, I hate this time of the year in Oklahoma! It’s freaking windy! Now mind you, I have short hair, but this wind even messes it up! The HORROR of it all! And with the wind comes the allergies! Ugh!
Speaking of hair, I am off to get my hair cut. It needs to be shorter!
Here is another mini album I made. I love the cute little owl!





Fun, huh?

I am so in over my head!

I have had one of those panic moments! I will totally cut to the chase and not bore you with the details. But at 4:55 pm this evening WhatchaMaDoodles.com was gone. Gone…totally gone.

How? You ask? Because I AM AN IDIOT and in way over my head. I was trying to do something with the website that I have no business or know how to do. And the result…WhatchaMaDoodles.com GONE!

So what did I do? Well, there was A LOT of cussing, a little bit of crying, and dinner. After dinner, I enjoyed a nice long smoke break (don’t judge – it’s one of my few vices…okay, it’s one of my many vices) and then I came back in and logged into the hosting site and after about 10 minutes of more cussing and a little bit of crying, WhatchaMaDoodles.com is BACK! Whew!

Teach me to try to do something like plug in WordPress without help, again! Maybe I should just stick with what I know…Blogger! I will think about that another day!

On to something a lot more pleasant….MINI ALBUMS! I wub me some mini albums.

Bang Bang for now!