Carrie

The Creative Salad New Website

Welcome to our new website, The Creative Salad!

We’re so excited about the new URL and updated layout for our family website. After being hosted at carriespritzer.com and spritzerleyba.com for almost ten years, we’re thrilled to have a new URL that fits our family and is much easier to remember.

Our blog, The Creative Salad, documents our family’s attempt at leading a more creative, playful, inquisitive, and environmentally-friendly life.

We have a new RSS feed that you can subscribe to here in order to never miss a post!

We now have a Facebook page too, so you can follow along and get a glimpse at the inner workings of life with the Spritzer Leyba family, as well as receive updates in your Facebook feed whenever we update the site.

As always, you can follow us at Twitter as well for more personal family anecdotes.

I still have many tasks to complete, including adding featured images to each of the posts (that’s the square images you see to the left of the post titles), update all the links within the posts that still point to our old site, add categories to most of the posts, and more. So, please be forgiving over the next few weeks as we settle in and smooth out all the hiccups.

What do you think?

Father’s Day Picture Pencil Holder

Father’s Day has been renamed Daddy’s Day in our house. Every time I talk about Father’s Day, our daughter is quick to remind me, “No, Mom! It’s Daddy’s Day and it’s in June.” In this day and age, who is this Father person anyhow?! Our daughter calls David, “Daddy,” and there’s an end to it. Now if only I could remember that.

Well, June is upon us and it’s time for us to share our Daddy’s Day present for David.

And, in case, you’re wondering, I already blew this surprise for David. Last night I left it out in plain sight drying in the living room. Evidently he didn’t notice it on his own, it took me apologizing for leaving it out for him to notice. Whoops! Mama’s bad. I’m banking on him putting on a good show for our daughter come Sunday, June 18th.

This simple project took several days to complete, because of the drying time of each layer, so please plan ahead! (i.e. start now because Father’s Day is less than two weeks away!)

We gathered favorite father-daughter photos, resized each of them using Photoshop to between 1 and 2 inches tall, copied and pasted them all into a new document, and then printed that document on a single piece of plain printer paper.

After cutting them out, we marked each photo with the year it was taken, and then adhered them to heavy card-stock cut to fit around an (empty and clean) aluminum can.

We also wrote out some loving messages for Daddy, which I then resized using our color copier-printer so that they’d fit in the remaining spaces on the card-stock.

We then mod podged the card-stock to the can and used clothespins to hold the paper to the can while it dried.

Then we mod podged over the card-stock to seal the photos and add a glossy sheen.

Happy Father’s Day, David! Your girls love you.

New Site Layouts

After much hemming and hawing about what to do with my much neglected photoblog, I’ve decided to return to a more traditional journal format with hints of photographs here and there. Hopefully this will remove my guilt in not updating as often as I’d like and provide a less-rigid format to update friends and family with our daily happenings.

I’ve also redesigned our main site: please visit and let me know what you think!