Fiber handbag – Now with more fiber

Daddy Likey posted about this a few months back (before she took a hiatus…*sniffles*). It just so happened to come with a haiku, too:
If you put your mouth
where your money is, at least
you’ll get some fiber.

If she were currently blogging, I would’ve made you go over there to see that awesomeness, but because she’s not, this is pure, public theft. I’m not bitter that she abandoned us or anything. *glares at the woman who claims she’s too busy to blog right now, if she happens to find her way over here through some stalker-esque backlink checking*  Pfft. :P ;)

Beans rock….and other reasons to sort your beans

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 A while back, Monica over at Run, Eat, Repeat did a tutorial on cooking your own beans instead of grabbing them from a can. This is something I do constantly, so no real shocker there.

What shocked me was that her grandma told her horror stories of people breaking their teeth from biting down on a rock, but she’s never found a rock in dry beans! I know she buys them in bulk, in small quantities, and probably of a much better quality than I ever do, but it still sorta threw me off that it sounded almost like a myth to her, lol.

I don’t have a bulk store anywhere near me, so I buy a large bag of beans at the grocery store. And I most definitely sort them.

Here’s why:

Rocks in beans

That’s from a little over half a bag. That’s definitely more than I usually find, but still, doesn’t really surprise me any either.

You can see a couple “ugly beans” in there, too, which is another reason why I sort them. Even if I find only a rock or two, I tend to find a few really ugly beans that don’t seem fit to eat. I sort at least twice (usually I sort once on the table, and then again as I push them off the table into a bowl or strainer) and then also rinse to pick out any debris or really wrinkled, funky beans that might float to the top.

Ice cream nail art – No biting your nails!

So while looking up Katy Perry pictures, I ran across some awesome nail art. Check out this ice cream cone painted onto a fingernail:

Better yet, here’s the tutorial for how to do it, plus a shot at all the nails on that hand which have other variations of ice cream treats. Yum.


I found some others, too, but they’re quite a bit different. It’s actually 3D!

From iKandy
If you can’t be bothered to do it yourself, you can buy nails with charms already attached like these:


Or these:

Or you could make your finger look like it’s actually part of the ice cream creation, too:

Or heck, why spread out the sweet treats to multiple nails when you could put them all on one even:


Or how about getting right to the source of the ice cream with this route of Ben and Jerry’s instead?


Maybe paint with ice cream shaped nail polishes

If painting your nails or wearing fake acrylic ones just isn’t your thing, you could always just store your nail care stuff in an ice cream zippered pouch instead:

Okay, okay, that’s more than enough, lol.
No wait, one more. Doesn’t this shape just beg to be turned into an ice cream cone nail instead?