It's hard to get a lot of outdoors time in the winter so I went all out on my summer deck setup. I picked up some decking slats to make three very colorful trellises. This gives us a little privacy from the house behind us and makes the deck feel a bit more cozy.
Epic fail on that series of king cake related posts. So sorry! Time slipped away from me but I have all the pictures uploaded and ready... 🤔 So I'm writing them up and saving them for next year—this time earlier in the season! I had a recent realization that might seem quite obvious based on…
Colorfully, organically and all the ways I've experimented with!
I decided to spread some holiday cheer this year in the form of cookies! 🍪 So naturally, I went straight to level ten baking nine different cookie types (ten if you count the one I threw out...). I thought it would be fun to have a cookie box that is more like a box of…
This salad needs a better name but I don’t think I’m the one to come up with it. This is a salad I discovered many years ago and just love it. There are a hundred variations out there so I wanted to document my personal twist.
Happy Halloween y’all 👻 🎃 https://youtu.be/zA4OjrpVsiY Photo by Tengyart on Unsplash
I participated in an hour long meditation journey this morning. It was a great chance to relax and reflect. Something that came to me was this poem that I've loved for years. I'm surprised I haven't written about it before because it's always in the back of my mind. Let me not to the marriage…
I wanted to make a special and delicious cake for my mom's recent birthday. She doesn't love chocolate (weird - I know!) but I also go for chocolate everything so I wanted to mix it up. For some time now, I've wanted to make a champagne themed cake but in this case went all in…
A new craft I’ve picked up during the pandemic has been making miniatures. There’s something amazing about how realistic miniatures can look if you include the right details. But other details can be left out entirely without issue. I’ve decided to design my own miniature kit of a New Orleans style shotgun house. Specifically one…
It’s just like Hamlet said: To thine own self be true. Uhh, Hamlet didn’t say that. I think I remember Hamlet accurately. Ha, well I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn’t say that. That Polonius guy did.– Clueless We talk a lot about being our true selves but what is your true self? For…
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