Janiece's Lensography

About Me 

Who is Janiece, anyway?

I'm an author and a homeschooling mom. I love to read, write, listen to music, explore the topic of spirituality, sew, garden, camp, play board games, hike, and more!

Our first Rocketmom's Assignment was to create an "About Me" lens. If you'd like to know more about me, this is a great place to start! This lens is a collection of my most favorite quotes, as well as some of my thoughts and a few photographs I've taken. From this lens, I think you'll get an even better glimpse into who Janiece is.

Just click the link below to read it!

My Favorite Quotes....And More!

As I sat down at the computer, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite quotes with you. But really, this is way more than that. This is about my thoughts, feelings, and beliefs on topics that have special significance to me. Perhaps you ar...

Vegetarian Recipes 

Here are some of my favorite vegetarian recipes!

My Cinnamon Apple Baked Beans Recipe is my most requested recipe by family members and friends. I often take it to potluck dinners, as well as serve it at home for a family dinner.

My Vegetarian Lasagna recipe is super easy to make since it doesn't require boiling the noodles. When you taste the final product, you'd never guess the noodles hadn't been boiled at all! Although I often serve this dish for special company, it makes a great "everyday" family dinner too! We really love it!

Minestrone Soup. Wow...how much I love this soup!

Corn, Bean, and Avocado Salsa is another one of our family favorites!

Click on one or more of the links below if you'd like to try some of my recipes.

Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup is one of my family's favorites! This recipe has evolved over the years as we've added new veggies to it and adjusted the seasonings. The recipe is flexible enough that if you are having someone over for dinner who doesn'...

Vegetarian Lasagna

This recipe for vegetarian lasagna is simple to make, and oh so delicious! It's special enough for a company dinner, yet easy enough for an everyday family meal. What makes this recipe so easy to prepare? There's no need to pre-cook the noo...

Delicious Vegetarian Curry Recipes

This is a collection of vegetarian curry recipes, including Curried Fruit, Vegetable Curry, Curried Squash, and Curry Beans. Most of the recipes are vegan too, or can easily be adapted to be vegan. You can also find curry cookbooks and fine spices f...

Corn, Bean, and Avocado Salsa...& Vegan Nachos!

Corn, Bean, and Avocado Salsa combines the flavorful tastes of cilantro, lime, corn, and red onion, with black beans and tomatoes. This is a great dish to have at home, serve at a party, or take to a pot-luck dinner! Vegan Nachos use many of...

Cinnamon Apple Baked Beans (And Other Baked Bean Recipes)!

Baked beans have long been a favorite for chilly winter dinners, summer picnics, and potluck dishes year round. This version adds the sweetness of honey and apples, along with the spiciness of cinnamon! It can be made in the crockpot or in your oven...

Easy and Delicious Crepes 

For breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, and dessert!

Crepe Central is the "Home Page" of my three crepe lenses. It has several crepe making and storing tips to help your experience with crepe making be even easier, more enjoyable and fun!

The majority of my crepe recipes are divided between my other two crepe lenses: Savory Lunch and Dinner Crepes, and Breakfast and Dessert Crepes.

Crepes Central!

Crepes are thin delicate pancakes that can be a wrap for anything from strawberries and chocolate, to cinnamon and apples, to grilled veggies, to spinach and cheese! Crepes can turn an ordinary meal into a culinary delight! Crepes can be filled and...

Breakfast And Dessert Crepes

On this page, you'll find my basic recipe for crepe batter, as well as several fillings and toppings for breakfast, dessert, or sweet snack crepes. My favorite? Hmm..that's a tough one! I really love the honey and lemon crepes...but the ban...

Savory Lunch And Dinner Crepe Recipes

This page is the home to several savory crepe recipes which make great meals for lunch or dinner, yet are also simply enough for a quick afternoon snack! My personal favorite? The Quesadilla Crepe! (pictured to the left) It's a lot like a quesad...

Travel, Vacation, Eating Out 

Where would you like to visit? Here are some places I've been and enjoyed!

In June of 2008, my family had the experience of going to Europe for three wonderful weeks! I've created two lenses about the trip so far (Manarola, Italy, and Venice) and plan on creating more, so if that's something that interest you, please check back soon!

Panera Bread - A Restaurant Review

I was recently asked to write a review of a restaurant, and since Panera Bread is one of my favorites, that's the restaurant I chose! Panera Bread is a bakery and cafe rolled into one. They make their own bread every night so it will be fresh f...

Connestee Falls: In the Land of Waterfalls!

Transylvania County, in North Carolina, has often been referred to as the "Land of Waterfalls." Brevard, North Carolina is the largest town in the county of Transylvania and is the home of many of these waterfalls, including Connestee Fall...

Venice! One of the Most Fascinating Cities In The World!

I've always held a special fascination for Venice, Italy. With it's gondolas and streets of water, carnival masks and beautiful and amazing architecture, Venice has long mesmerized and enchanted me. In June of 2008, my family had the adventu...

Manarola, Italy: A Beautiful Village On The Mediterranean

Manarola, Italy is one of five tiny towns in a section of the Italian Riviera known as Cinque Terre. Although Cinque Terre translates to "five lands," it actually refers to five villages that are all connected by a walking path: Monterosso...

Ash Grove Resort Cabins and Camping - A Camper's Review

Ash Grove Resort Cabins and Camping is nestled deep in the woods in Brevard, NC. The fourteen acres that make up Ash Grove host shady and secluded walk-to tent sites, four furnished cabins, five combination drive-to tent sites/RV sites, and a whole...

What Do You Know About South Carolina?

  What do you know about South Carolina?  Below you'll find information about South Carolina, including famous South Carolinians, important dates in South Carolina history, general information about the state, and more. There are also t...

Family Fun & Learning Too! 

Projects, Animals, and lots of fun!

Tadpoles To Frogs

My son and I have been watching the frog life cycle unfold before our eyes. Over the past few weeks, we've recorded in photos and text our discoveries as we observed frog eggs hatch into tadpoles, and then tadpoles grow, change shape and metamor...

Meerkats

Meerkats are adorable mammals in the mongoose family. The mongoose family consists of small, cat-like animals such as the Marsh Mongoose, the Flat-Headed Kusimanse, the Bushy-Tailed Mongoose, and many others. Yet, even though meerkats are cat-like an...

10 Ways To Make Math Fun

Has math become a battle at your house? Are you searching for ways to make math be more fun, as well as educational? During my years of teaching in the public schools, as well as my more recent homeschooling years, I've come up with a variety o...

How To Make Shadow Puppets!

Our homeschool co-op recently put on a shadow puppet play for our end-of-the-school-year program. It was so much fun! First we selected a story to act out. The story we selected had birds and other animals in it. The birds and other animals were ha...

Painted Lady Butterflies

My son and I raised two Painted Lady Butterflies from caterpillars, to chrysalises, to beautiful orange, brown, black, and white Painted Lady Butterflies! In the process, we learned a great deal about butterflies! Did you know that butterflies ne...

10 Things Kids Can Do On A Vacant Lot!

Many kids today seem nearly glued to their X-Boxes, DSs, Playstations, Gamecubes, TV's or other electronic devices. But what ever happened to good ol' outdoor fun? The kids in our neighborhood are unlike many in that they play outside a gre...

Great Board Games To Play With Your Family!

Our family plays a lot of games. In fact, we own (and play) over 120 board games. To us, playing games beats watching a movie, as when you're playing games, you're actively interacting together. Besides, purchasing a new game usually costs ab...

Ever Wonder What It's Like To Homeschool?

A typical homeschool day? I don't think such a thing exists. There are probably almost as many ways to homeschool as their are homeschooling families! This is how it should be too, as are any two kids really the same? They not only have varying l...

Spiritual Pregnancy Experiences 

Dreams, Intuition, Spiritual Signs

Spiritual Pregnancy Dreams

Meeting Your Unborn Baby In A Dream ...and more! Was a dream your first clue that you were pregnant? Have you ever dreamed about the appearance, health, personality, or gender of your unborn baby? Do you feel as if you've actually met your unborn bab...

The Spiritual Pregnancy

Have you ever dreamed something about your unborn child, and later discovered that your dream wasn't just a dream? That it was somehow real? Have you ever experienced pregnancy-related signs, dreams, or moments of inner knowingness, which prepared you...

Experiencing Pre-Birth Communication

Have you ever been aware of your baby communicating with you... before his or her birth? Perhaps you had an experience with pre-birth communication during a dream. Or maybe you experienced another form of pre-birth communication while you were medit...

Pregnancy Intuition And Inner Pre-Birth Communication

Did you KNOW you were pregnant, even before you were far enough along to do a pregnancy test? Perhaps you KNEW the gender of your unborn child, or that you were having twins? Or maybe you knew that you would be experiencing certain pregnancy complicat...

Spiritual Signs During Pregnancy

Did a spiritual sign let you know you were pregnant, or that you were having a boy, a girl, or even twins? Does it ever seem as if God, or Life, is trying to get a message through to you by the things you see, hear or experience in your daily life? Ma...

Spiritual Pregnancy Experiences 

True stories from people around the world

Spiritual Stories Of Pregnancy Intuition

"Even though I got a negative result on my first two pregnancy tests, I knew I was pregnant." "My grandmother knew I was pregnant before I did!" "At first I actually wanted a boy, but as the pregnancy went on, I just knew it was a girl." "I knew I wa...

Dreams Of Being Pregnant: Spiritual Pregnancy Stories

"I dreamed I was pregnant last night What does that mean?" "I woke up knowing I was pregnant today. It came to me in a dream." "I dreamed about a positive pregnancy test last night. Could I be pregnant?" Dreams Of Being Pregnant Did you dream that y...

Dreaming About Your Baby's Gender: Spiritual Pregnancy Stories

  "What does it mean if you dream of having a baby boy?" "I dreamed about a baby with a pink bow in her hair. Does that mean I'm having a girl?" "Do baby gender dreams mean anything?" Dreaming About Your B...

Signs Of Divine Guidance During Pregnancy: Spiritual Pregnancy Stories

Did a spiritual sign let you know you were pregnant, the gender of your baby, or that you were having twins? Perhaps a spiritual sign warned you about complications within your pregnancy, or alerted you to what you could do to prevent them? Spiritu...

Spiritual Pregnancy Experiences 

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Have A Spiritual Pregnancy Story To Share?

Have you ever dreamed you were pregnant...and then found out you were? Have you experienced a spiritual sign or intuition about your pregnancy or unborn baby? Or maybe you've communicated with your unborn baby via your thoughts? Spiritual Pregnancy Ex...

Spiritual Pregnancy Experiences Survey

Did you first find out about your pregnancy from a dream? Did you learn anything about your baby or pregnancy from a spiritual sign or a dream? Do or did you simply KNOW things, from deep within you, about your pregnancy, delivery, or baby? Would you...

Love Hummingbirds? Looking for some Halloween Fun? 

Products for sale

Everything Hummingbird!

Hummingbirds are fascinating creatures! They get their name from the humming sound made by the rapid beating (60 to 80 beats per second) of their wings. Hummingbirds range in size from about 2.25 inches (the Bee Hummingbird, which isn't much b...

Haunted Halloween Supplies

Are you planning a Halloween party? Shopping for scary Halloween yard decorations? Looking for pumpkin carving kits? Searching for just the right indoor Halloween decoration? Hoping to find a great Halloween How-To book? Come on in....we've b...