Having a blog can be a lot of work. {Especially for someone like me who pours her heart into the things she loves} …and this blog is definitely something I love. I can easily put 30 hours a week into this. Part because I am crazy. Part because this is my passion. Part because I…
holidays
Homemade Candy Buttons
So yesterday I paid an overdue visit to the mall. {And by overdue, I mean it’s been about a week}. So yes, there I was at the mall, browsing through several stores and this thought overwhelmingly hit me: My God, do these stores just suck! Now friends, this isn’t the first time I have thought this,…
Vegan Marshmallow Hearts
It’s that time again! Holiday-themed food time. {applause} And what better way to kick off our month of Valentine’s Day treats than to make homemade candy?! I never thought making candy would be so fulfilling to my soul. But I spent almost 4 hours in the kitchen yesterday making candy with the biggest smile on my…
Homemade Fortune Cookies
If you were to open my wallet, you would find a dozen fortune cookie messages tucked inside the side panel. I have grown fond of saving all of the fortunes from the cookies I have opened in the past few years. Consider them like collector’s coins. Except they are paper. Inside a cookie. Some range from…
Grandma is sitting this one out on New Year’s…
This is the funny thing about holidays that require me to stay up into the wee hours of the night: I usually don’t celebrate them. (thankfully that only makes 1 holiday missed for the year) You see friends, I am what you call a “grandma”– no offense to the real grandmas out there. It’s just that I am…
Let us raise our glasses.
Hi, my friends! I hope that you all had a very merry holiday season. I missed you all so much in these past few days– it’s so good to be back. I had a really lovely, long holiday weekend full of: biking riding along the beach, sunbathing on the front porch, wine drinking, and hanging…
All I want for Christmas is new self-esteem (and french toast).
Virtual Advent Calendar: Being creative doesn’t mean that you need to go to extremes to impress people. Sometimes all it takes is to see things from a different perspective and to present it to someone from a new angle. That is the secret to creativity. Nothing fancy or far off concepts to understand. It has taken…
