the menu
Christmas Eve:
pot roast via Mr. Crockpot & a pre-dinner cheese plate (featuring the wonderful cranberry Wensleydale), homemade peppermint ice cream
Christmas Morning:
Goat Cheese & Hashbrown Quiche, Chicken-Apple Sausage & normal pancakes
Christmas Dinner:
Turkey dinner with all the fixin’s, with Grasshopper [...]
From our little family to yours, I hope your holidays were filled with love and warmth!
I was lucky enough to have been tagged by two lovely pals, michelle & kate, with a “share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself” tag game. Now, I’ve happened to see this one pop up just about everywhere, so I thought I’d add a twist and end the tagging with me.
So… I asked [...]
Just in case you need to make some last minute presents, whip out your ice cube tray, some silly little toys and buy some soap, follow these directions.. and you’ll be all set!
The next time I ice cookies… I want them to look this good! [thank you jimmy pickering]
So the felt wasn’t my best friend yesterday morning… so I stopped fighting it and just let it be. And the snow/icicles are happily trying their best to be ‘kid chic’ and awesome.
But it’s our house… in gingerbread… and I’m pretty darn happy with the end result!
Oh… and for a refresher… [...]
So guess who went crazy and followed Eddie’s tutorial?!? Stefanie just left this comment over on the ornament wreath thread, and I just “had” to share her awesomeness with everyone else! I’ll be sure to update this post with a link to her blog post about it as well!
I think [...]
There is a store near Mr. M’s workplace that is full of Russian goodies, and the windows are lined top to bottom with all sorts of nesting dolls. We’ve always joked that putting some of them in our windows at home may help us make more friends on our block, since we have [...]
Get your own – Open publication
I’ve yet to run across anyone’s own personal gift guides published on the Internet (this one was created using ISSUU)… so this one will be the first, but also one of the best general gift guides I’ve seen around!
Great [...]
How simply awesome are these gingerbread NYC creations by chez larsson?!? I love the 1-D/3-D aspect of them… and both are amazingly crafted with that frosting! Wow!
As Hanukkah comes around the corner, I’ve gotten excited about seeing packages of matzo meal pop up in grocery aisles and my mouth instantly starts craving applesauce and latkes. Now, my grandmother is nowhere near Jewish, but I do remember her getting me hooked on the little cakes back when I was little. In college, [...]
Start shopping the closeout Christmas sales now for gorgeous holiday ball ornaments… so you can hang these wreaths all over your house next year! Eddie Ross (of Top Design fame) has a simple tutorial on his website for their creation — so go find a wire hanger STAT! If only these guys were a [...]
