red & white stripestrips to the LA templepainting my nails blueworking on projectssleeping in & waffle breakfastsfinding something yellow at the thrift storeaaron finally having a day off!aft...
Great news! Emma from Emmadime asked me to be a new contributor on her blog (!!), and my first post is up today! Check out our new SIMPLY WHOLESOME series HERE. Im sharing how to prepare dried black ...
yesterday was one of those days where i had big plans. big plans to be super productive, and take advantage of every last second to get stuff done. silly me! i should know by now that things (read: l...
This past weekend was Mothers Day, and since Im not a mom yet and not pregnant, I think it would have been easy for me to have been a real downer. But I have been so incredibly blessed in my life to ...
i dropped aaron off at the airport on monday, and instead of coming home to an empty apartment (which is always a little sad), i went thrifting....and, lucky for me, found this beautiful green velvet...
happy friday! i used my bedspread as my guinea pig to learn the free-lensing photography technique shown in this post on elsies blog. so much fun! also, i feel like a broken record every time i say t...
yesterday i was feeling a bit a lot unmotivated, until i remembered that the next day (today) was a new month! i perked right up at the thought of having a fresh start, and decided on some things i w...
somewhere in my life ive developed this paranoia that if i dont write something down that im supposed to do, then i will forget to do it....which is funny because i actually dont consider myself a ve...
cinnamon.my new shoes.sister-in-laws birthday party this weekend.good hair days! (very few and far between for me these days)barbecuing kebabs on a monday night.new music. (thanks staci!)some photobo...
a couple weeks ago i mentioned my goal of eating 30 servings of vegetables during the week, and some people commented asking to see some of the ways i ate my veggies. i debated whether or not i shoul...
happy wednesday! yesterday was a little bit of a frustrating day, and usually my only cure for that is a good nights sleep and a yummy breakfast. so thankfully i am feeling much better today. :) also...
ive been using apple cider vinegar as a facial toner and drinking it as a "tea" (see recipes below) for over a year now, and am such a firm believer in the stuff. it is probably one of the mo...
this weekend was really wonderful. i wore my favorite necklace and pair of earrings (the same ones i wear practically every day), i got to wear my "winter coat" a couple times, i made english...
a couple weeks ago my friend asked me if i had any brussels sprouts recipes on my blog, and then the next day my sister asked me the same exact thing! which i took as a sign that the "recipe"...
four years ago from saturday (on march 24, 2008), aaron finally put a ring on my finger and asked me to marry him and be his wife for forever. if thats not celebratory-worthy, then i dont know what i...
that a girl can never have too many white t-shirts. // how to make irish soda bread, and another fun way to use my mini cast iron skillets. // that not even an irish holiday could keep us from our fa...
i made irish soda bread earlier this week (in honor of the upcoming holiday!), and used it to make pesto & white cheddar paninis yesterday for a little wednesday morning brunch. the irish soda br...
meet the most recent addition to our little family....the honey scoop! also known as an ice cream scoop, just re-purposed so that my job of scooping out the now-crystallized honey from our 48-pound b...
i cant even begin to tell you how happy i am that gone are the days of 3pm sunsets! those havent been happening since december, but still....thank you, daylight savings! (or is it...curse you, daylig...
last week was busy busy, but our sunday was so rejuvenating! i wore my favorite yellow skirt to church, and we enjoyed our after-church snacks together in our sunday best. i had an apple, and aaron h...
aaron was gone all last week traveling for work, so i was left to my own devices here at home....mostly just trying to keep myself busy to make the time go quicker until he got back. i ended up rearr...
i bit into a raw radish one time three years ago, and i havent touched them since. im not sure what i was expecting, but i was not a fan! i wasnt as much of a vegetable eater back then though, and i ...
hope you all had a wonderful valentines day! to celebrate the holiday we spent the afternoon in san juan capistrano having lunch at The Ramos House Cafe. weve been wanting to go there ever since we m...
i cant believe it took me 12 days into february to make a food that is heart-shaped, but yesterday was finally the day. i made heart-shaped biscuits and scrambled eggs for breakfast. it was always a ...
ive always been inspired by color charts [like gerhard richters or the few on my "art is beauty" pinterest board], so i had the idea to make an over-sized color chart to put on a wall in our ...
we were directed by the advent to try a new restaurant, so we went to lunch yesterday at rutabegorz. i have always been partial to going out to eat for dinner (instead of lunch), but aarons been tryi...
the advent has begun! i made this simple advent calendar for aaron and me to count down the days until Valentines Day. inside each brown envelope are 14 fun little things for us to do together, like ...
i made this heart garland last week after seeing it on my friend Lauras blog, and weve only had it up for a few days but already i cant even remember how we ever celebrated valentines day without it!...
today i am especially grateful for....afternoon power napsnew pairs of blue jeansbright colorsspinach & bleu cheese saladsjanuary in california [80 degrees today & tomorrow!?]daily trips to t...
i can think of quite a few things i have inherited from my dad [i.e. facial features, personality traits, certain characteristics, etc.], but my most recent acquisition is a pair of glasses he wore d...
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