This Cozy Christmas tree I’m creating this year will be our seventh tree. And when I make a new tree I don’t get rid of the old one, as I type I am surrounded by seven Christmas trees. I am…
Weekend of Adventure!
Bear’s extended family owns a beach house down in LA, so every Thanksgiving, this is my view. It’s pretty heavenly snapping green beans to the sound of waves, but since Thanksgiving was so late this year we had to jam…
Year of Pleasures: Freckle Face
Those four little freckles just kill me.
Recipe: Winter Root Vegetable Gratin
This picture is from our Thanksgiving meal last year and it’s been sitting on my hard drive all year waiting to be seasonally appropriate again. I brought a friend with me to our family Thanksgiving, which meant that she was…
Year of Pleasures: Hot Glue Flower
Whenever I smell a hot glue gun, I think of Christmas. That seems to be when I have it out the most and that smell has imprinted on my brain next to poinsettias and tinsel. Working on my Christmas projects…
Project Put Together: Food Dehydrator
Trying to reduce my gluten intake means I need to find all new snack foods. I love snacking. Dangit, I love it SO MUCH! But I have to let go of the crackers and find something else to eat. When…
Year of Pleasures: Bird Neighbors
Up here in the mountains we live closer to nature than we ever have before. In Modesto the closest I got to wildlife was spiders and stray cats. Here I am regularly awoken by chirping birds as they play in…
Year of Pleasures: Study Help
Bear’s been asked to be the seminary teacher, which means that he gets up every morning at 5 to teach the teenagers about the scriptures. It’s a massive job and he’s lucky to be able to team teach, which helps…
Year of Pleasures: 1000 Cones
For years and years I’ve been promoting the work of the fine folks at Maximum Fun, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Where else do you find such reliable warmth? I was happy to donate to the kickstarter…
cat meme
It’s been a long week. I needed a laugh.