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Hi, everyone!

Happy New Year! With a new year comes a new You’re Home with Jill—tomorrow night at 6pm ET! Did you see last Tuesday’s blog? I wanted to dedicate the month of January to showing you an easy way to rejuvenate your décor and I love the idea of making your own canvas wall art. Last Tuesday I showed you a fun idea for a kid’s room—dinosaur-inspired art! Tomorrow night, we’re moving into the kitchen—the hub of your home. It’s where you spend a great deal of time and it’s the perfect room to showcase your personality and tastes—literally!

Those are gourmet coffee bag labels modge-podged onto an ordinary piece of canvas. Just think of all the things you could use—soup labels, wine bottle labels, restaurant menus, or recipes from your favorite cookbook. Or, if you’re like me and have hand-written recipes from your grandma, you could even copy those and paste them on a piece of canvas along her photo. It would be like she’s cooking with you all over again. Also don’t forget about 3-D kitchen essentials, too. Imagine how interesting canvas could look with beer caps, wine corks, actual kitchen utensils, or even raw pasta—think various shapes and colors!

To be fair, I wanted my kitchen canvas to look a little more uniform and polish so I Googled coffee labels, made sure they were similar in size and feel, printed them, and modge-podged them on.

Have FUN with this. Here’s something to wet your whistle while you work: Virgin Mango Daiquiris!

This recipe is prepared with the Ninja 72-oz Ultima Blender (K40232).

Ingredients:

• 1 cup frozen mango chunks


• 2 Tbsp sugar


• 4 oz pineapple juice


• 1/2 cup pineapple chunks


• 1/2 lime, peeled


• 2 cups ice cubes

Preparation:

1. Let the frozen mango sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes.


2. Once partially thawed, place the mango chunks in the blender and add the rest of the ingredients. Blend everything together for about 1 minute, or until smooth. Pour the drink into glasses and serve with a garnish of your choice.

If you’re not sharing this smoothie with the kids, feel free to add a little tequila or your favorite alcohol of choice. It may be FOUR degrees outside, but if you’re in the comfort of your warm, cozy kitchen, it won’t be hard to visualize yourself on a beach with a Mango Margarita in hand! Just don’t forget the fancy straw—and a cocktail umbrella!

I’m off to tackle dinner for a hungry family—I think it’s a Santa Fe Glazed Chicken with Goat Cheese kind of night! Don’t you just LOVE 15-minute recipes? I’ll see you tomorrow at 6pm ET. STAY WARM!

From my home to yours,
—Jill