Sorry to be a little MIA lately, we were out of town at an Aggie game all weekend and then I had two days of field work down south so I’ve been a bit behind on the blog front (and a bit cold everywhere!). But to make it up to y’all, today’s post is an… Read More
Today I have my recipe for the Ultimate Cookies & Goodies Party, Cardamom Orange Cookies with Browned Butter Toffee Icing! The base of the recipe is the standard Nestle chocolate chip cookie recipe but we zazzed it up quite a bit by adding a generous amount of one of my favorite spices to cook with,… Read More
Last month, I decided our entry console table area was just not cutting it anymore. There was just too much brown: brown wood table, brown wood art, brown wood mirror, tan/beige accessories…so I decided to paint the table. We got this table a few years ago from World Market for about $40 suuuuper on sale,… Read More
If you haven’t already, make sure you link up your creations to the TWO link parties that will be here every week, Talented Tuesday and On Display Thursday!! This fella, the Chocolate Stout Bundt Cake from Cooking in Stilettos, popped up on Pinterest not too long ago and I was immediately smitten, but not able to settle… Read More
This time change this weekend is all fine and dandy when we get that extra hour on Sunday but after that it’s going to be dark at 5:30 here which really puts a cramp in my evening-project-work-and-photographing style! And I’ve got a doozie going on right now that can go one of two ways right… Read More
I dedicated this weekend to knocking off some project work and while it impeded my sleeping in and my back, I luckily succeeded. My two main goals were to stain our new pergola and get my garden going for the fall. Done and done! I’ve long had a dream of us owning enough land… Read More
I often dream about being in a house large enough for me to have my own craft/project room, but also to have a space for Matt to have a man-cave as well. While we’re not even close to having that yet, we have been in the process of making over the office to be more… Read More
If it weren’t for the husband, I’d be almost a full vegetarian. Other than seafood and ham at holidays, I’m not much of a meat person at all and always want the sides more than the main dish. Large pieces of meat gross me out, especially chicken and beef, and up until I met Matt,… Read More
Many people hoard furniture, kitchen gadgets, collectibles, cats, all kinds of stuff. Me? I hoard shells and crap I find on the beach. So at this very moment in our garage, there’s an entire bag of driftwood, an entire bag of barnacles, a bag each of turkey wings, scallops, and cockle shells, an entire bucket… Read More
So maybe we’ve been jaded by the harshness of, and spoiled by the length of, our Game of Thrones episodes but the Walking Dead premiere last night just wasn’t all we thought it would be. I mean, it started off pretty cray-cray but then was a bit meh the rest of the time I thought. Again,… Read More