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Plant-Powered Orgain Organic Protein Powder Pancakes

September 18, 2015 by Dagmar Bleasdale Leave a Comment

Adding plant based protein powder to your pancakes is such an easy trick to make them a superfood!

Do you follow me on Instagram? Then you know that I make green pancakes.

They are really green — I usually add a bunch of plant protein powder to the batter I make for our pancakes, and Don and Landon don’t mind.

It’s such a super-easy way to add wholesome protein, fiber, and vitamins to breakfast.

I recently was able to try another protein powder I haven’t used before: organic, plant-based Orgain Protein Powder.

Just the kind of product I want to try as a huge believer and supporter of organic food and as a vegetarian. [Read more…]

DIY Minecraft Birthday Party

August 26, 2015 by Dagmar Bleasdale 6 Comments

DIY Minecraft Birthday Party

Are your kids into Minecraft? Then you’ll live these DIY Minecraft Birthday Party ideas!

Last weekend, we took a little trip to Pennsylvania for one night. Landon’s cousin Logan was celebrating his 8th birthday.

He had a Minecraft-themed party, and his parents had done a great job pulling off a creative DIY Minecraft birthday party.

Since L is also obsessed with building things in Minecraft, I took note of all of their fun ideas.

Logan’s parents had bought bright green tablecloths and green paper cups and plates.

They found creative substitutes for a lot of the items you find in Minecraft for a fun candy table.

Red Vines were TNT, for example. That’s pretty clever, I thought.

Here is a list of the items on the Minecraft candy table:

Sticks = bread sticks
Emeralds, redstone, diamonds = sugar sticks
Carrots = baby carrots
Pumpkins = candy corn pumpkins
Building blocks = Rice Krispies
Cookies = chocolate chip cookie
TNT = red licorice Fish = Swedish fish
Torches = pretzel sticks with white chocolate and orange coconut
Gold = caramels in gold wrappers

Pretty great ideas, right?

Here is a link to free Minecraft printables for the candy table, and there are several others you’ll find when you google for them.

Here is my favorite idea for TNT.

Logan was Steve last Halloween, and a Creeper the year before, so they had brought the two costumes they had made for the kids to use.

This DIY Minecraft birthday party was a huge success with all the kids, naturally.

They were in the pool for hours and would fill up on all the goodies and hot dogs and pizza and Minecraft cake, and jump in the pool some more.

For favors, the kids were allowed to fill green bags at the candy table.

What kind of Minecraft ideas would you add?

Tour of My Mom’s Cottage Garden in Germany

July 26, 2015 by Dagmar Bleasdale 30 Comments

I promised you a post about my mother’s cottage garden when I ran out of time writing about my mom’s many antique collections in her house, and I figured Sunday is a good day to post it.

If you missed that post, here it is.

Put up your feet for a few minutes and enjoy a tour of this lovely cottage garden.

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What I Learned at the Haven Blogging Conference

July 22, 2015 by Dagmar Bleasdale

I’m back from the Haven blogging conference and had an amazing time, like last year. I learned so much more about blogging and social media, and how to grow Dagmar’s Home.

I flew from Westchester directly to Atlanta last Thursday.

After I check into the Hyatt, I met my roommate — sweet Jennifer Dawn who writes The Life of Jennifer Dawn.

We had found each other through the Haven Mavens Facebook group, where I posted that I was looking for a roommate. Haven is more fun with a roommate.

I freshened up, and I went to the reception.

I chatted with a few bloggers while we were in line waiting to get drinks…

…and then ran into Rhoda and the rest of the Haven team, and Jon Acuff. [Read more…]

Tour of the Bremen Marketplace and Schnoor, Germany

July 13, 2015 by Dagmar Bleasdale 14 Comments

We are back in New York, but I have many more pictures of our visit to Bremen, Germany, my hometown.

After we stayed with my friend Karen on her farm in the country, we took the train back to Bremen, where my mom picked us up.

Her sister also came into town for the day, and we all met up with my brother Oliver in the town center.

My brother is a tour guide and offers several walking tours of places in the center of Bremen. He had offered to give us a tour of the Marketplace and the Schnoor, two of my favorite spots in Bremen.

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DIY Minecraft Birthday Party

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