15 Delicious Spring- Summer Drinks Recipes

Hola Amigos, I have for you today my first round up post where I give you the best of our Spring -Summer Drinks so far. Just click on the highlighted link and it will take you to the recipe.
Whether you like smoothies, ice cream beverages, coffee, coolers or soda floats I can assure you, there is one or two you would love, just scroll down and enjoy!

Malts

Classic Vanilla Malt

Classic Chocolate Malt

Classic Strawberry Malt

Wine and Champagne Cocktails

Liquid Lime Lifesaver Cocktail

Fruity Frozen Sangria

Seasonal Fruit Smoothies

4-40 Strawberry Slush

Choco Banana Shake

Mango Cheesecake Smoothie

Banana Colada Smoothie

Triple Purple Berry Smoothie

Peach Raspberry Smoothie

Lemon Meringue Pie Milkshake

Coolers

Very Berry Hibiscus Cooler

 Soda Floats

Blueberry Ice Cream Soda Float

Coffee Drinks

Raspberry Coffee Smoothie

Thank You for visiting the blog today, I'm looking forward to share a second roundup of Full Summer Drinks with you soon, remember that everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,
Lizy

Sharing some tasty drinks at these Fabulous Parties:
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twelve O eight
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Fresh Eggs Daily
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Cuddlebug Cuties
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Do Small Things with Love

Paper Napkin Picnic Wreath

Hola Amigos! What a beautiful day we have today! I was inspired by today's sunshine to make a super easy and quick project Pinterest Inspired. You can find pretty ones like this one here or a bit more elaborate here. I went for the easy one after a trip to the dollar store. My Total investment $5.00. Not bad huh? I had the vine wreath already, so the rest was a piece of cake.

You will need: 1 vine wreath, 1 package of napkins (20 count minimum, I used 1 1/2), decorations optional!
Just spin the center of your napkin and stick it on your wreath, repeat until is all nice and fluffy..I like mine super fluffy,just like me, LOL!!!

Decorate it once it's finished is up to you.I used these!

One thing is as you all know...this is an indoor wreath being paper and all and for only a few bucks it's functional all year long just chance your napkins!

Well this is my quick weekend project...I'll be heading outside to enjoy the sun!

Besitos,

Lizy

Sharing a Hot Dog or two at these Fabulous Parties:
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Terracotta Garden Accents Updated

Hola Amigos! Do you decorate your gardens with Gnomes? How about the very popular and pretty Fairies?   Any Bird Lovers out there decorating with bird houses and baths? I'm sure one of my readers have a statue of kissing children or a cute duck that gets dressed up for every season.  I'm crazy about turtles! I've been collecting them since I was 5 years old and my Aunt Linda got me a Bean Bag one right about my size! It was huge!!! and I loved it.

I've had 3 terracotta turtles I brought from Panama many years ago. This harsh weather has played a number on them, after all they are made out of dirt, but all and all they are still looking pretty good! I wanted to give them a little makeover this Spring and bring some color in them.

First I primed all the turtles so it would be easier to paint any color I wanted.

For the first turtle I gave her a tribal, almost natural sophisticated look with twine circles and glass beads!

In gray with turquoise accents to match the glass beads that almost look like water drops on top of her shell.

The Second one, and biggest became a garden in itself, now I can patiently wait for my flowers to bloom
because I have my turtle garden I can place wherever I need a pop of color and cheer!

If you don't have a green thumb, this will solve your Spring fever and flower craving. You will have flowers for as long as you want, allergy free!

A few Accents make this beautiful walking garden even better, Butterflies are flowers best friends. A couple of butterflies hovering on the flowers give it a special touch.




You can't tell this poor gal is injured! I used to leave her out in the snow and there is only so much terracotta can take. One of her legs broke, but I didn't have the heart to throw away something I brought from my homeland so many years ago. I'm happy I kept her. I think she looks great!

My last turtle is truly a lady! So feminine on her pale yellow and grey classic color combination and her pearl and crystal buttons and lace daisies! oh and of course...some sparkle in gray glitter is a must!

This little critters are so cheap and available everywhere...why not "bling" one for mom (cute for little kids to make for Mother's Day) or for Grandma!...I'm sure they would love them!

I hope my little fun project today inspires you to go grab that old abandoned gnome you have sitting in the front porch and give him a makeover! I'm sure your garden or flower bed will take a whole new look to complement your brand new blooms!

Hopefully this weekend the weather will be good enough in your neck of the woods so you can go out and plant some tasty veggies or pretty flowers to go with your new and improved, animals, pots, gnomes or ducks!

Besitos,

Lizy

Bringing my Spring Critters for along to these Fabulous Parties:
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someday summer

I'm looking out my window, watching the mountains mound with snow.

It melts before it can reach us, so it falls to the ground as rain instead.

The sun is trying to shine, peeking through cracks in the clouds.

It's cold. 

Blankets are piled on the floor in every room.

We'll have curry for dinner. Extra spicy.

Last week we caught a glimpse. Of summer. 

The sun was warm. 

The day, long.

over the weekend

Such a good weekend!

My heart is so full after spending the springy-est Easter Sunday with my little family. 

The perfect end to our March (WHAT?! Where did March go?)



Friday. Pretty big day around here.....

We got.....The Chicks. Our girls.

We named them and gave them a home (uh, it's a box for now).

We'll be back to introduce the ladies tomorrow.....



We  played outside and colored

Washi Tape Spring Gumball Machine

Hola Amigos...Good Friday to you all! Today was a day I meditated about Love...Let's love each other as He Loved Us. Looking forward to the big celebration on Sunday, Easter Sunday!

Just a little note before getting into our project today, as you have noticed my pictures are now watermarked right in the middle due to some unscrupulous people stealing not only pictures but the entire content of my posts and claiming them as their own. This as we all know is illegal and I will try my best to at least deter them from doing so by having this stamp right on my picture. I have tried to make it not as intrusive so you can still appreciate the content. Thank You friends for your understanding.

Today I'm bringing you an easy last minute quick craft where I experimented with the current rage among crafters, Washi Tape. I didn't spend a whole lot of money on it either, my luck, I found it on sale at Target for  $1!!! Not bad if you want to give something new and unknown to you a try right?

Trying to find out a bit more about this Washi Wonder Tape, I learned it originated in Japan, Wa ( Japanese) Shi (paper)  and it's basically a natural fiber tape, a natural masking tape, pretty than the traditional but masking tape after all! Prices ranges depending on the quality, I was able to find them online  from $2.50 per individual roll to up to $8.00 per roll depending on the quality.

But back to our project, I decided to bring my good old Kiss Me Gumball Machine I used for St. Patrick's up to date with the season with a Spring Inspired Decor and Washi.

As you can see, I covered the base of my Gumball Machine with the Washi Tape and embellished it with a couple of flowers. 

The tape was fairly easy to use but it was a bit hard for it to stick permanently to the terracotta material. I made sure and used some ModPodge to keep it in place.

I painted pink the rest of the gumball's areas and put a little spring ribbon around the top one! I just love that ribbon, so festive, and matched the colors of all the designs on the Washi Tape which was a plus!

To top it all of, what else...a cute $1 store bunny I refinished it with white and metallic paints diluted in just a bit of antiquing medium.

A couple of eggs here and there and some moss...Voila! I just made a  very festive Easter Jelly Beans Machine to adorn the kids table for  Easter's brunch , kitchen counter or office desk throughout the entire Spring Season, watch it people will be stopping by very often! lol

So what it's my opinion about Washi...well..I think I rather use paint..Don't get me wrong, the greatest  advantage of Washi is that as any tape it's  easy to remove, just peel it off and you are ready for a new project,, but you could also cover some previous paint job with primer.

I believe that if it is used in scrapbooking, card design and origami it's an excellent tool since it comes in a variety of colors and designs and it's very flexible but resistant as well.

This is just my personal view of Washi. Perhaps you've found more creatives ways to use it than me and I would love to see your projects or for you to share your opinion. So far if you search the immense world of Pinterest on Washi, board after board you will find a few very creative projects but in the majority of them you will find Washi Tape use for what it is, a very fancy tape! 

Hope you got a little inspiration from today's project! Wishing you a very peaceful Good Friday Evening and an even better Holy Saturday.

Besitos,

Lizy

"Washing" with Fun at the Fabulous Parties:
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sixty degrees

sixty degrees. 

maybe that seems cold to you. ...

but to us.....

oh! to us, summer is just around the corner. 

there is talk of swimming and popsicles and late nights under the stars.

sixty degrees is shorts and taking off jackets. 

the breeze in our hair and the sun on our winter skin. 

sixty degrees is mud that jumps up our back and birds calling out from bare trees. 

sixty degrees is

Mango Cheesecake Smoothie

Hello Friends and good day to you all! Moving on with my Spring cleaning I'm workig on my refrigerator.
There are not that many of unused or old items there since every Sunday I go through the whole thing cleaning and tossing out those things that I know are not going to get eaten..like....Wednesday's left over tuna casserole!
But there's always that elusive bottom drawer where things get to "hang around" a little longer...out of sight, out of mind sort of speak..and that's where I found a package of Neufchatel cheese that I bought by accident  last Friday and  a couple of very ripened mangoes (yes I've been on a Mango kick lately!) . So before my mangoes expire I'm using them to make a cheesecake on the go...you know...just like my Apple Pie Smoothie! I want to free some space for Easter's treats and Ham!
Here we go then!

 Mango Cheesecake Smoothie

1 (8zoz) container of mango yogurt (frozen)

1/2 cream (chilled) 

1 Cup Peach Nectar (frozen) 

4 oz Neufchatel Cheese

The Pulp of 2 Mangoes

In a blender combine the yogurt, cream, nectar and cheese until smooth. Add the mango pulp until everything is smooth and creamy.

Listo!

Don't you love a recipe with only a few ingredients but packed full of flavor!

I tell you, I can live the rest of my life just on smoothies like this...well I have to replace the cream with something else, but that's another story.

Think about flavor possibilities using this simple recipe...just change the fruit flavor, nectar and yogurt and you can have a different flavor for every day of the week!

If you are missing the crunch of the cheesecake graham crackers crust, no fear guys, it's thick enough for you to dunk your favorite cracker, mine of course Chocolate Graham Crackers!

 Or just crush  a couple of them and sprinkle some on top!

Thank You for visiting my friends, tomorrow we will tackle the pantry...wonder what I'm going to find there! Stay tuned!

Never forget that everything tastes a lot better with imagination and a Pinch of Love!
Besitos,
Lizy

Bringing some on the go cheesecake to these Fabulous Parties
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