Valentine’s Day is tomorrow! I don’t know about you, but January just felt really slow. While I don’t wish away any season, with the ice storm and then the snow storm we had in Charlotte (11 inches! what a record), I’m ready for a little bit of warmer weather. The…
Happy almost Valentine’s Day! I wanted to play around with some new tools I bought and thought it’d be fun to incorporate them into different cookie sets. The wet-on-wet technique of the hearts is also a fun design to do. It’s simple yet elegant. But the new technique I wanted…
I can’t believe Christmas is just a few weeks away! There are still presents I need to buy and cookies for friends and neighbors I need to bake. Ahh, tis the season. I had a day last weekend to decorate some sugar cookies, so here are pictures from my small…
February is birthday month in our house. It’s my husband’s, mom’s, and grandma’s. My husband turned the big 4-0 early in the month. We had friends come over for games and food, and just did a low-key party. I found some fun party games for our group and reminisced about…
It snowed last night in Charlotte. The second time in a week. It’s unheard of here, as locals tell me. (This is my second winter here and last winter snow came down once, but didn’t stick.) The first snow was a sleet and freezing rain mix, so making snowballs and…
I love fall. There’s just something magical in the air when the season changes, especially when the summer has been hot. Right now, the weather is in the low 80s and the nights are cooling down. The leaves have just started to change color and the squirrels in my trees…
The sun is out, the flowers are in full bloom, and the weather is getting warmer…that can only mean one thing. Summer is here! This is my first official summer in the South and I am trying to get used to the humidity and warmer temperatures. It is very different…
This is the first Mother’s Day I am not spending with my mom. It’s certainly a lot easier to see family when you live closer! (The picture below is my my mom and sisters horseback riding at Black Butte, Bend in 2019. We went on a girls’ week there and…
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