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Vegetarian Roasted Baby Pig?

Vegetarian Roasted Baby Pig?
Originally uploaded by CACTUSmango

The only foods I can eat with the word baby in them are veggie in nature, like baby corn, baby portobellos, baby bamboo shoots, baby spinach, etc. Truthfully, I don't think I could eat actual roasted baby pig. Count me in the group of Filipinos that refuse to eat Balut. It just seems wrong. Even though I consider myself quite adventurous when it comes to eating fare from around the world, there's some foods that just elicit a confusing reaction that's both intriguing and disturbing.

During my highschool senior year, I explored the vegetarian diet. I wasn't a true vegetarian, since I ate eggs, cheese and seafood. I abstained from beef, pork and chicken. Which was a task considering mom makes the best Chicken Adobe, Sinigang, Kare Kare and Terrific. It was "Hello" to salads, garden burgers, tofu, and a lots of Taco Bell bean burritos. That year, I tricked a group of my carnivore buddies with Garden Burgers topped with all the regular burger fixings and treated my aunt & uncle with mock scrambled eggs, made with tofu. They were completely fooled as they gobbled every last bite.

While, I re-entered the ominvore population shortly after moving to the Philippines for college, I stil don't think that I would be even remotely brave enough to try the Vegetarian Roasted Baby Pig, had it been available. Who knows, someday, I may muster the courage to try this...but, for now, I'll stay away.

Join Cocoa Daisy + DWP Hybrid Challenge!

Whew! I just finished making a simple Hybrid How-To. Well, the result looks simple, but, the process of making it was time consuming. I really do hope it's well recieved across the tra-digital scrapbook communities. I have to give a shout out to Chia Wang, who inspired me to get this particular tutorial done. She's a Cocoa Daisy fan and eagerly bought our Posh Picnic kit. She gave me alot of helpful feedback and I'm so thankful for that! Well, Here's a slideshow of the tutorial, but to read the instructions visit the

Hello Hybrid! (How To) Album that I created on DreamingwithPixels.ning.com 's new forum/gallery.



Find more photos like this on DreamingWithPixels.com

I also made a PDF for this and you can download it free here:
Hello Hybrid (How To) PDF
Check out the New hybrid layouts by Cocoa Daisy Divas Anja Wade (Visit Her Blog: A Pocket Full of Licorice) and Kissy aka Christine Drumheller (Visit Her Blog: Paper Rhino).




Kissy Relax





Anja Walk About!





Aren't these awesome! These two layouts show tons of ways of how to make a digital kit, work in your next Hybrid creation! Posh Picnic also has a sheet of printable Paper Drink Parasols and a cute vintage chair and frame too!



Posh Picnic and Gazebo are available now at CocoaDaisy.com

For more inspiration, also check out what Cocoa Daisy's Guest Designer Debbie Shuch created with Gazebo. Read Never A Dull Moment for more about this talented artist and to see more photos of her creations with Gazebo




Please visit the official challenge thread at CocoaDaisy.com, here, to submit links to your creations:
Gazebo+Posh Picnic Hybrid Challenge

Hybrid-Hibernating: The New Trend

This is Sam. He's finally giving "HYBRID" scrapbooking a try. See how his entire butt eclipses the album and papers, while his paw rests on the keyboard. Hence, "Hybrid-Hibernating"! Oh, well, we gotta give him props for trying.









Isn't he so friggin' cute, though? Oh, hey now! Snap out of it! I'm workin' here!
"uhm, excuse me? hello?! kitty!" you're blocking the view

of my newly aquired Making Memories Noteworthy 8x8 Mini Album.





ah! thank you! that's a much better view! Now we can see the cute Kaiser Pearls, rich Indie Ribbon from American Crafts, and papers by Sassafrass Lass and Narratives by Karen Russell.

I picked these up at the LSS Scrapbooks, Etc. But you can order these in Cocoa Daisy's new kit for June called GAZEBO. As if you didn't already know! These little pretty items will get magically morphed into a hybrid album using our very own Posh Picnic kit. It comes complete with 8 8x8 quickpages, among a gazillion other stapled ribbons, sashes, clipping masks, papers and frames...all color coordinated to go with GAZEBO! Now isn't that thoughtful? Well, I better get to scrapping these things, before my cat Sam decides to sit on it again!

Gazebo|Posh Picnic Hybrid Challenge

What's a better place to have a Posh Picnic than in a Gazebo? A Hybrid Challenge of course!

(ok...that was a silly analogy...but, I couldn't resist!) The ladies of DWP and the gals at Cocoa Daisy are going to embark on something, to my knowledge, is kinda funky fresh! What do I mean? Well, we want to see what you can create using Cocoa Daisy's Gazebo kit and DWP's Posh Picnic kit, it's that simple! It can be anything at all: cards, iron t-shirts, postcard, mugs, bag inserts, scrapbook pages, albums, brag books, ATCs, what ever you are excited about making. Sound like fun! OK! Come on and join us today in our GazeboPosh Picnic Hybrid Challenge!

Great Things for 2008

Here at DWP we've been keeping things on the down low, low down, hush hush. But, you can get the sneaky sneak of our first two collabs, here on our blogs>>mine, jo's and Brooke's blog...creative a.d.d.