Thursday, July 15, 2010

Meet Mark.


I decided to become a Mark. cosmetics sales rep. and wanted to let everyone know about Mark. products and let you know how you can try out some Mark. products and so on....

Some of you may know this about me but I am very into reading about celebs and trying out beauty products, make-up, and buying clothes that they promote or use/wear themselves. I absolutely love People's Stylewatch magazine that usually comes out once a month which contains all the lastest tips and trends for fashion, make-up, and all things related. I am always looking for great body and make-up products to try because I am not one of those people who has been using a certain make-up brand her whole life and refuses to use anything else. I always jump around with my make-up brands and see what I think. I am always on the search for the perfect foundation and powder since I have such oily skin and everything always claims to be the best. I also have never really worn much make-up because it always feels so heavy on my face and I can not handle that. So I also always try to find a great tinted moisturizer and powder because that's what I wear everyday. So after I bought the June/July 2010 issue of People Stylewatch with Lauren Conrad, known from The Hills on MTV, I decided to try out Mark. products. Since she was on the cover they always have a part where they ask them what there favorite products are or how to get a certain look they wear. They were showing you how you could get Lauren's healthly summer glow she always has. I was already sold before I knew what the products where, haha. I already knew she was a Mark. spokesperson from watching The Hills and seeing commercials on T.V. but I still had never seen any Mark. make-up and did not know anyone who used it so I never had tried it. After reading over the certain make-up products from Mark. that could accomplish this healthy glow I went to googling about it. I went to the Mark. website and looked over all the products that they had recommended in Stylewatch plus checked out everything they offered. I was amazed at the prices and bought some things to try out. Plus, I got free shipping and 2 free gifts and so I was very happy! About 2 days later my products arrived to my house which made me even more excited, who does not love fast shipping? :) I had ordered a lip gloss, tinted moisturizer, blush, highlighter and illuminating powder. I tried everything out that following weekend and loved it all! I thought WOW I do look like I am glowing! I was very impressed with the blush because I have always struggled with finding a good blush that shows up on my skin and will last more than 10 minutes. This blush lasted all night and was the perfect shade to give me that natural flushed cheek look. I am addicted to the lip gloss and use it all the time now and also use the illuminating powder everyday. It is what really gives you a clear brighter look and if you use the blush with it, it makes it even better. Even Justin said after the first time I used all the make-up he could tell a difference and thought my skin looked better. :)

So that was my story on how I tried Mark. and fell in love. I just ordered some other products from them to try as well and I hope I enjoy them as much as the others I have tried. So now I am spreading the word to all my family and friends and want you to spread it along for me as well. I will give you my information to my online Mark. store where you can review all of there products and order them online as well. I will be getting some catalogs with all there products as well that I can send you if you would like. They are coming out with the Fall 2010 party kit in a few weeks which will have all the new products for the Fall and samples. If you ever want to try a sample of something before you order it all you have to do is let me know and I will drop it by your house or mail it to ASAP! I am going to have a Fall 2010 Mark. party at my home in a month or two once I get the information and samples for the new products. If you would be interested in having a girl's get together or a Mark. party in your home let me know and I would love to bring everything with me for you and your friends to try out the products. You can always go to my online store and purchase any product at anytime or if you want me to place the order for you I can do that as well!

**Here is my store information and the Mark. products I started out using if you want to go to my store and check them out.

www.mymarkstore.com/krolling

List of Mark. products I recommend trying out first:
-Good Glowing Custom Pick Powder in After Glo $7
-Glow Baby Glow Hook Up Lip Gloss in Peek-A-Boo $6
-Get Bright Hook Up Highlighter in Golden $6
-Glowdacious Illuminating Powder in Shimmied Up $12
-Get A Tint Tinted Moisturizer Lotion SPF 15 in Honey/Golden $9

They gave me a free sample of the mark Break Out Plan Anti-Acne Gel Lotion to try and I loved it. When it is time for me to buy more moisturizer I am going to buy a jar of this and see if it helps or not plus it smells wonderful! It has apple and cinnamon extracts in the lotion to help with redness.

Thank you, happy shopping, and pass this along!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Pizza On A Bun!

Last night I decided to use up some food from our stockpile and decided to make mini pizza's on the leftover hamburger buns we had from grilling out Sunday night. We had some mild Italian sausage, pizza marinara, pepperoni's, etc. so I put it all together and VIOLA! we have mini pizzas on hamburger buns! You can use whatever your favorite ingredients are but here is what we did and it was DELIGHTFUL!

Pizza On A Bun
2-3 hamburger buns (cut in half so you will have 4-6 mini pizza's)
2 links mild Italian sausage, casings removed
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup green bell pepper, cut into small strips
pepperoni
1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2-1 cup Ragu Pizza Sauce
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Take a baking sheet and spray lightly with oil. Then place the bun halves on baking sheet with the white side up. Next take a medium skillet coat with cooking spray or olive oil then heat to medium-high. place sausage (casings removed) in skillet and cook until through. (I use a flat spatula to break up the sausage like you would when you do ground beef.) Drain the sausage after cooked and put to the side. Using the same skillet on medium heat saute the onions and bell pepper. Saute until the onion is clear and the peppers are soft, (I also added minced garlic here, oregano, basil, & Italian seasoning) then put aside. Now take a spoon and spoon out the pizza sauce on the buns. You can use as much as you like. Then place the sausage on the buns, following the peppers and onions. Then add your cheese and pepperoni. After you are done putting on your toppings place in the oven for 10 minutes or until buns are your desired crispiness.
Enjoy!!

House Pics....

Here are a few of the house! I've got to remember to finish taking the rest! Hopefully that will be done tonight! Enjoy!


The Den

The Kitchen

Dining Room

View of our side porch...

These are all I have for now! I will take the rest tonight hopefully and get them up ASAP!

Friday, July 9, 2010

Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas

I got this YUMMY recipe from The Fairhope Foodie's blog and she got it from Annie's Eats. It was so good and creamy! This is a keeper according to Justin and me! I made Spanish rice to eat along with them and it was just as great! I always buy the boxed Spanish rice (Publix brand or Zatarain's) but the trick to really good Spanise rice is to add a can of diced tomatoes, undrained. It really makes it so much better!! Hope you enjoy these as much as we did! Now go cook!

Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 packet of taco seasoning
1 cup light sour cream
1 cup Ranch dressing
flour tortillas ( I used the taco size)
salsa
4 cups shredded cheese (I used Mexican blend)
Trim the chicken breats of excess fat and cut into bite-size pieces. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil in a large skillet and saute chicken until cooked through, about 10 minutes. Add in taco seasoning and a few tablespoons of water. Cook chicken until all of the water is absorbed. Reduce heat to low to keep warm.
Meanwhile, mix up the sauce. Use a large bowl, combine half of the ranch and half of the sour cream and mix well, set aside. In a small bowl, combine the remainder of the two and mix well. Add chicken to large bowl and mix until chicken is coated.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees . Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish. Take a tortilla and spread the mixture in the small bowl evenly all over the tortilla, it takes less than 1 teaspoon. Then take the chicken mix and line it down the center of tortilla. Top it off with salsa and shredded cheese, to taste. Roll up tortilla and place seam side down on the baking dish. Repeat the steps until the pan is full.
Spread the remaing sauce over the tops of the enchiladas and top off with more cheese. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes, or until tortillas are crispy.

Updates & more..

HI! Ok, so I know I said on my last blog that I would be taking pictures and posting them of the house and that I have not yet! I'm sorry! Pictures are really coming this weekend though! I promise! :) I already took some this morning before work and will take the rest this afternoon and post them as soon as I finish!
We have been running around like a bunch of crazies these past few weeks and we are so happy that everything is starting to settle down again! We have all of our boxes unpacked and everything where we want it for now! We are still waiting on a few pieces of furniture to be delivered but after that we will have all of our furniture thank goodness! The only things we really have left to do is the decor! I have not hung anything on the walls yet because I just do not know where I want it to all go and we still have some things we need to buy, but I know all that comes in time! But, overall we are really enjoying the new house and are very happy to be in it!
We had a great 1st weekend in our new house and took advantage of our neighborhood pool which is directly across from our house! YAY! We met a fun group of people that live in the neighborhood and are looking forward to getting to know them better! They all want to put a fridge on our back porch so they can keep there beverages nice and cool and not have to walk all the way back to there own house! Haha. We told them we have one in our garage that they could all use if they needed to! We are already planning on going to the pool again this weekend! Ashlyn Kay has already checked out YaYa's pool and is super excited that she will get to use it!

We are finally back into our cooking routine but I only did one "new" recipe this week! It is not a very healthy one but you can modify it some to make it healthier! I am going to get some new ones to try this week and will post them and let you know what we thought! I do have a little recipe for a good healthly snack that we snack on all the time! I was buying the pre-made version from Publix but you did not get very much and it was pretty pricey! So I decided to come up with my own version and making it in bulk because we go through the stuff so fast!
Publix calls it "Organic Cranberry Harvest Mix", they use all organic nuts and cranberries in theres, which I did not use all organic because as we all know anything organic is way more expensive! Anyway, it is a trail mix type snack and here is what is all in it: Dried Cranberries, Almonds, Shelled Pistachios, and Cashews. It is so yummy! The Publix version has light sea salted nuts so it is the perfect sweet and salty combo that we all crave! So I bought a package or organic almonds and pistachios (lightly salted & shelled), a large can of Publix brand cashews (I got no salt added on these but you can get the lightly salted version), and a bag of ocean spray dried cranberries (no sugar added version). I put it in a big canister and mixed it all up and viola! it tastes the exact same and we got way more of our "treat" for less money! You can add more of whatever is your favorite out of the mix! We love the dried cranberries so I will have to buy a large package of those for next time instead of the regular sized bag! This could be a great "treat" gift to someone or a great "treat" for a trip! Everyone loves a good trail mix!

Switching back to Justin and me, we are really excited because we are going to the beach in 2 weeks and it is a much needed getaway! I have been so sad seeing everyone going to the lake or the beach every weekend and we have been sweating and moving heavy stuff! NO FAIR! :) So we are finally going to enjoy a nice relaxing weekend at Rosemary beach! We have never been there but Justin's boss Matthew and his family own 2 houses down there and love it and so we decided to try it out!

So long for now but I promise to post pictures by tonight! Everyone have a wonderful weekend!