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Magazine Submissions plus Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream and a $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

It snuck up on me and I’ll take that as a good sign.

Unlike the date of a one of my weight loss weigh-ins or a dreaded college exam, it wasn’t an occasion where I’ve been ticking off the days. And that’s good. That means I enjoy what I’m doing, creating a space on the web to showcase a subject I love, FOOD, and celebrating some incredibly talented bloggers who do the same. And I have you, my readers, to thank for that.

So light up the sparklers, I’ve passed the milestone and am happily celebrating my one year blogoversary.

I started Foodie Crush the blog as a way to create awareness for my dream of creating an online magazine featuring food bloggers, their recipes and personalities. Along the way I’ve made some incredible online-that-turned-into-real-life relationships, created some fun new projects and connected with wonderful readers.

I launched Foodie Crush magazine last December and thanks to so many of you I’m publishing another issue that will continue to feature inspiring recipes and food blogging personalities. I’m happy to announce the next issue of Foodie Crush will be the Summer 2012 issue will be ready for summertime cooking this July.

Like last issue, I’ve created a space within the magazine to feature your submissions, your recipes and your photography. This issue’s theme is cold, frosty and perfect to chill out with this summer: Cool Treats to Beat the Heat.continue to the recipe… about Magazine Submissions plus Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream and a $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

Homemade Irish Cream

Homemade Irish Cream | foodiecrush.com

The day called for a strong cup of coffee with a little something extra.

I should have been cooking the recipe for stufffed mushrooms that I had bought all of the ingredients for and had now been sitting in the refrigerator for the past week and a half. I should have been sifting through my props, setting up my backgrounds and taking photos of that well-intended-but-now-imaginary recipe. I should have been creating my next post. And the other four I had planned to tackle over my Christmas vacation.

But I couldn’t.

It was like I was frozen—in a completely-opposite, turned-around, frenetic and scattered sort of way. That way when you know you have so many different agendas on your to-do list that you just. can’t. focus.

So what did I do? Oh, I decided that I should de-clutter the closeted cupboards in my laundry room/office. FOR TWO DAYS. Um, why? No, not because anyone else but me sees inside them nor was I looking for something I couldn’t find.

Or was I?

After an insanely intense 9-month period that included working at a full-time job, teaching as an adjunct professor one night a week, creating another start-up business, working on freelance gigs (including my first paid photo shoot), launching the blog, launching the magazine and still trying to be a semi-present mom, wife, daughter and friend, I now realize I was just plain burnt. Burnt out. Rubber on the road. Done.

I thought I could do it all. Afterall, I always had.

continue to the recipe… about Homemade Irish Cream

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