When I saw a link to this darling dahlia brooch tutorial on J. J. Heller’s blog, I decided it would be a fun craft for this weekend.   It took me a few hours to finish -longer than I thought – but that is probably because I sewed it instead of gluing it together.
Here’s how [...]

I’ve been in a curly-hair mood lately and  it occurred to me that waking up an hour early to curl my hair was kind of ridiculous, so I decided to try rag curls!  Yes, like they used to do in the “olden days”!   I just cut up some scrap fabric and rolled my hair up in [...]

Peanut butter & jelly – a classic combination!  When I saw these cookies in my February 2011 issue of “Martha Stewart Living”, I definitely wanted to try them… pb&j is usually my sandwich of choice when I pack my lunch, so I knew I would like these.  I thought they were pretty tasty and super [...]

This morning, I made Martha Stewart’s Dried Cranberry Shortbread Hearts. I’ve loved shortbread cookies since  my parents brought some home from Scotland when I was a little girl.  These are delicious, albeit a little messy & crumbly, and they kick off the first of hopefully a few valentine’s recipes I will be trying in the next month.

Dried [...]

This morning, I had the privilege of photographing little miss Lucy Claire, the 16-day old daughter of our friends Joe & Michele.  (P.S.  I photographed their wedding back in 2008… you can view the pictures here).   Lucy was really fun and easy to photograph.  So pretty too – she might have a future career in modeling! [...]

We just got back from a wonderful few days of skiing in New York with Funnel’s family.  Definitely a lot of fun.  ( You can view more pictures here).
But now that the ski trip is over and the holidays are over, winter seems like this huge, ugly giant that is just stretched out forever before [...]

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned it, but I really like the site, I heart love.  It has stuff like this:

and this:

and this:

It puts me in a good mood and gives me that same feeling I get when I see old couples holding hands.

Attention, chocolate lovers!  You need to try these cookies!

I had some Heath Toffee Baking Bits left over from my Christmas baking, and was looking for a recipe to use them, and I found this one for Chocolate Toffee Rounds.  I made them this morning and they are super rich and decadent.  They might have even [...]

Happy 2011!

I was trying to make some resolutions today for the coming year, and everything I came up with seemed silly.  Then I was reading my journal from last year and I was surprised to see that my resolution for 2010 was to try to live out 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18: Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything [...]