Oh what a Witchy Wednesday it is today 💜🖤
Leading into the night of All Hallows Eve, I needed something to get me through the night to bake some Halloween Treats 🍪, make some Boo 👻 Bags, and make some finishing touches on my Halloween costume.
Many Thanks to @alexasworldofmagic for making this day magical with @apothekaryco Limited-Edition Wellbound Box featuring Mindcraft. Perfectly paired to go along with @marvelstudios Agatha All Along 💜🖤 It’s a tincture that you can take to sharpen your mental powers and longevity.
I made myself a fun little mocktail to sip on to celebrate that last two episodes of Agatha All Along. No spoilers down this road. 💜🖤
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#pingpingpimz #agathaallalong #witchywednesday #disneyaapicreators #disneyaapi #disneycreators #marvel #marvelstudios #disney #disneyplus #apothekary
Okonomiyaki Night!
Thank You to @otafuku_us for sending all the things I need to make Okonomiyaki at Home!
Okonomiyaki can be a fun, interactive meal to share with friends and family. You can set up the base ingredients and you can customize what goes into it as well as on top of it!
There’s different styles of Okonomiyaki you can make. The most common way to enjoy it is Osaka Style where you mix cabbage into the Okonomiyaki batter. For a fun challenge I also made a Hiroshima Style Okonomiyaki where the ingredients are stacking on top of each other instead of mixed. Both came out delicious!
I hope you get a chance to try making Okonomiyaki at Home!
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#otafuku #otafukuambassador #okonomiyaki #okonomiyakiambassador #okonomiyakiexperience #foodreels #pingpingpimz
August 2015.
We found out we were expecting our first little love.
We dreamed up all of the possibilities.
We had a name.
Gwen Avery.
We were figuring out what life was going to be like when they arrived.
However they had other plans and we said goodbye to them two months later.
I still remember feeling like my heart was being wrung out like sponge. How could we love someone we’ve never seen with our eyes so fully and how were we going to love someone else when you feel so broken and drained of that love?
May 2016.
We went on our honeymoon at Disney World.
Surrounded by Disney Magic we focused on our love for each other. Excited for the day when we would grow our family even more.
February 2017.
Nine months(+ a week and a day) later.
We welcomed our Rainbow 🌈 Baby into the world.
Aubrey Isabella.
She’s made from pure love…and Disney Magic. ✨💖
We’ve told her that she’s a Rainbow 🌈 Baby.
When she asked what made her a Rainbow 🌈 Baby, we told her about Gwen and how much we loved them so fast. And how we hoped to love someone just as much and more. It used to be difficult for me to talk about our losses, but what we’ve gained has made our life so bright and so beautiful.
We just read a book for bedtime called, We Waited For You: Now We’re A Family by Cindy Chupack. It took everything in my being not to just start crying while reading it aloud to our girl. Every page rang true as if it knew what that feeling was of longing, wishing, and hoping. It reminded me to never take our blessings for granted.
Every day may not always be full of sunshine, but we will always have rainbows. 🌈
Happy Rainbow 🌈 Baby Day Sweet Girl!
#rainbowbabyday #rainbowbaby #wewaitedforyou #mamabear #momlife #disneyfamily #disneybaby #disneymagic #disneycommunity #aapi #disneyaapi #disneycreators #disneyaapicreators
D23 Night at the Packing District was magically delicious! ✨🥰
@disneyd23 @packingdistrict @ravensburgerglobal hosted a night of fun and food, a perfect pair to kick off D23 Week.
I got to try so many yummy dishes from all over the the Packing District.
A few of my favorites were:
🍓 The Perfect Bite from @piqueniqueoc
🌮 The Birria Eggrolls from @thekroft
There was Disney Trivia, live Demos for Lorcana, Villainous, and new co-op board game called Chronicles of Light: Darkness Falls.
What a fun night for a foodie and a Disney fan.
#d23 #disneycreator #disneyaapi #aapi #oc #visitanaheim #anaheimpackingdistrict #foodie #disney #disneygram #ravensburger #lorcana #disneylove #disneyreel
Say Hello to my Unicorn. 🦄 My Otamatone Unicorn 🦄 Deluxe. Thank You to @hameeus for hosting a giveaway to showcase our love for the Otamatone that granted me the chance to give this beautiful Otamatone a home! 🩷🩵💜
I couldn’t think of a better spot to play it for the first time than on our summer road trip. We started our first day in New Orleans with the iconic @cafedumonde for some beignets and frozen iced coffee! There’s always music playing in the streets of New Orleans. My Otamatone was ready to join in.
It was bustling and the energy in the air was palpable. I was a bit nervous to play at first. But as song after song I knew played, I started playing to Unchained Melody. Straining to hear, I had to lean into the Otamatone, which made me look like I was playing the Cello haha 😄
It’s so much fun learning to play the Otamatone! There’s a bit of musicality and puppetry that goes into it that I love figuring out as I go. I can’t wait to take my Otamatone on more adventures!
#otamatone #hamee #myotamatone #music #neworleans #nola #cafedumonde #beignets #roadtrip #summer #summerroadtrip #pingpingpimz #aapi #aapicreators
I love making music. 🎶
I learned how to play piano by ear when I was 8-9. Took a few lessons. I’ve been known to sing a diddy or too. But only a special select grouping of loved ones know my affinity for unique musical instruments. They know because they get the absolute privilege I hearing me learn to play them and watch me get giddy over figuring things out. 😁
The Otamatone is one of those special musical instruments. I picked up my first Otamatone on my first trip to Japan in 2015. Aside from being Mecha kawaii, it was a new challenge for me. At that point I’ve only played piano/keyboard and dabbled in guitar/ukelele. When I squished that face for the first time, I knew my world would never be the same.💖
I love that the Otamatone has been picked up by so many and has ignited a spark of creativity in the community. I brought home my second Otamatone on our last trip to Japan last summer. And I can’t wait to add to our Otamatone Family next year when we go back to Japan for the summer!
#MyOtamatone24 #music #musically #pingpingpimz #hameeus #otamatone #weirdinstruments #strangeandbeautiful #otama #musicalinstruments #synthesizer #musictoy #musical
A coffee without the caffeine? This is no April Fools Joke. I would know. I’m an April. 😉
I love coffee drinks but, I have a bit of a sensitivity to caffeine. ☕️ So what’s a gal to do if they love the taste of coffee but can’t have too much because of the jitters?! Lucky for me I discovered an Instant Chicory Powder from Straight From France. What is Chicory, you say? 🤎
Chicory is a root vegetable that is also commonly known as Endive. 🥬 The dried root of the Chicory is used as an alternative coffee due to the similar taste profiles they have. But what’s nice is that it has the taste of coffee without the caffeine. Which means it’s okay for the whole family to drink.
Straight From France’s Instant Chicory is super easy to make! You can enjoy it hot or cold. I went with an Iced Chicory with a Cold Foam on top. It’s low in calories and gluten free. Drinking Chicory has additional health benefits by being a great source of inulin, a prebiotic fiber that helps improve gut health and help satiate hunger.
So hyped to start my mornings with a cup of Chicory! Have you tried Chicory before? Let me know what you think! ☕️🤎
@straightfrance @stackinfluence #straightfromfrance #straightfromfrancepartner #frenchfood #foodlover #coffeetime #caffeinefree #chicory #aprilfoolsday #aprilfools #coffee #cafe #foodie #coffeealternative
I’ve got a bone to pick with you. Have you tried a bone broth that isn’t bone broth? Let me elaborate.
I like sippin’ on bone broth in the morning to get a boost of collagen and calcium to help support healthy hair, skin, and joints.
Boon Borth by Ecco Bella is unique in the way it has all the benefits of a traditional bone broth but completely vegan. The Golden Savory blend has 72 trace minerals, 12 grams of vegetable protein, and 25% of the daily value of calcium per serving.
While I may not be vegan, I appreciate trying out alternative ways of getting my daily collagen and protein intake. And when it takes great too it’s always a bonus! There’s Nutritional Yeast, Organic Turmeric, Ginger, Paprika, Dill, and Dulce Seaweed—Boon Broth is packed with umami flavor in every sip.
You can even use Boon Broth to add some tasty notes and nutrition to vegetable, rice, noodles. I sprinkled a little bit of some popcorn and it was delightful!
Do you get enough collagen on the daily? Would you try a Bone Broth that’s completely vegan? I did and I totally dig it!
@eccobella_beauty @stackinfluence #eccobella #eccobellapartner #broth #bonebroth #veganskincare #cleanbeauty
Maja Daja Day itinerary: Brekkie, Arcade, Tattoos..wait what?! 🧐
Don’t worry! They’re temporary tattoos, but elevated and created by a Pro Makeup Artist that’s paved the way in the Airbrush Special FX Tattoo industry.
I have the incredible honor to call her my friend. Grace X Lovejoy @ipaintflesh is the Founder and Creative Director of @tatbarlasvegas located in the heart of Chinatown. I met her while doing Event Photography back in 2016. I thought the concept of Airbrush FX Tattoos was so clever and fun. I’ve followed along on their journey and always try to make time to visit their studio whenever we’re in Las Vegas.
They’ve got a vast collection of designs to choose from. And the vision to take the images off the page and create literal art on which ever part of your body you’d like.
Aubrey wanted a kitty and since it was her first time visiting the studio, she hopped up onto the makeup chair and Grace skillfully airbrushed the designs onto her arms. One arm had a Taylor Swift inspired lyric with a fancy kitty. The other arm had a BTS inspired design.
I only learned recently about the significance the whale 🐳 🐋 that represents the loneliest whale in the world. Finding that even in times of anxiety or struggle, we’re not alone out there. So it’s fitting that we both got a whale with a sweet bond of hope that our songs—however different the tune may be, can be heard and a symphony of others around may share a connection.
I’m so happy to be able to share moments like this with our kiddo. She’s got a beautiful creative heart and mind and she was so excited to see the studio full of amazing works of art. I hope it inspires her to keep imagining and creating things uniquely her.
#pingpingpimz #tatbarlasvegas #airbrush #majadajaday
Hey Y’all! Miss Minutes is my Gal Pal! 🧡 No matter how cuckoo she can be.
I’m so stoked we get to see so much of Miss Minutes in Loki Season 2, Episode 3. She really shows her true colors and we get to see what makes our favorite quirky lil’ clock tick. @tarastrong breathes so much life into Miss Minutes giving her so much depth and personality! She’s charming and terrifying all at the same time! 🧡 I’d want to be on her good side for all time..always.
What’s your favorite Miss Minutes moment?
Loki Dress 💚 @heruniverse
Miss Minutes Bag 🧡 @loungefly
@officialloki @disneyplus @marvelstudios #loki #missminutes #marvelstudios #disneyplus #styledbymarvel #disneybound #disneybounding #loungefly #disneyparks #disneyphotopass #disneylandmagickey #disneyaapi #disneyaapicreators #disneycreators #pingpingpimz
It never ceases to amaze me when our girl has moments of being absolutely fearless. Especially when meeting someone as intimidating as The Queen. 👑❤️🗡️
It must’ve been her channeling Queen Elsa. ❄️💙
I see her grow and gain her own personality and perspective on the world around her and it makes me so proud that’s she’s my daughter. 💖 I’m pretty stoked she’s grown to love all things Disney. I hope she doesn’t grow out of it and will still want to run around the parks with us over time. ✨🏰
Kudos to The Queen! She was amazing didn’t skip a beat with her tone. It’s Magical Moments like this that make Disney Days that much more memorable.
#pingpingpimz #nationaldaughtersday #disneyland #disneyday #disney #disneycastmember #disneyworld #disneyaapi #disneyaapicreators #disneyfriendsclub #magicmoments #disneycreator
