Every year I purpose to write down all my favorite family recipes. You know the ones that make you think of Grandma, or Mom or other special people. I even associate certain food to special events in my life, like the witches brew my Mom made at my sisters November birthday when I was 10. {Read More…}
Most of you know we are a household of FIVE daughters! Doesn’t this cute vanity look like it would belong in a house with five little ladies? Well, that’s what I thought! Boy! Was I WRONG!!! The girls never sat in front of this cute vanity to fuss over their long beautiful locks, they never kept their hair brush {Read More…}
I have absolutely LOVED spending time in my garden this summer! I found myself wishing I had taken some notes last year so I would know a wee bit more about the different plants this year. So . . . . I decided to make a garden journal. A place to store extra seeds and write a {Read More…}
I am LOVIN’ the ombré look! Ombré means shaded or graduated in tone, and it is beautiful! I’ve also been enjoying the petal technique, which apparently has been around for a long time. So . . . I decided to put them together! Here’s a close up look With the blue tone, I immediately thought of the big {Read More…}
Around 20 years ago I worked for a small town gourmet bakery in my hometown. I felt like Little Red Riding Hood as I walked from business to business with a basket full of freshly baked muffins and scones. The scones were fabulous! Melt in your mouth, to die for yummy . . . but {Read More…}
I have been longing for an excuse . . . It’s true. I have been looking for justification to waste some time. Oh yeah. Some money too . . . I love those beautiful cookies that look as if the cookie maker has spent hours, days, maybe weeks to make. The royal icing kind. My {Read More…}
I saw a really cute idea on pinterest and have wanted to make it for a long time. The end of the school year rolled around and I was looking for something to make for the elementary teachers . . . Ah ha! the perfect opportunity to try making that cute idea I saw! {Read More…}
My Mom was cool! . . . and way ahead of her time. Before Pinterest was thought of, before there was even internet, my Mom came up with very fun birthday parties. Flutterby the clown came to my 7th birthday and she arrived in style! Being fashionably late, a handful of my school friends and {Read More…}
A few of the girls liked the idea of mini cabbages . . . My husband thought he didn’t like them . . . One of the girls said, “If you would have told me there was brussel sprouts in this I wouldn’t have eaten it”. Every single person in the house LOVED this recipe {Read More…}
I had one of those hang on the door and stare into the fridge moments the other night! I had some all natural Bratwurst in the freezer and a jar of apple sauerkraut that really sounded yummy. My Grandmother used to always fry potatoes for me when I would come to visit and I was hungry for that . {Read More…}
