Cast Iron Skillet Apple Crisp

Another October means another trip to the orchard, bringing home more apples than I know what to do with. Paige has become pretty into our seasonal fruit picking trips (and I get pretty into dressing her for the occasion). She did surprisingly well this summer collecting blueberries and peaches, not eating a single berry until […]

DIY Bunny Ears for Kids

Easy no sew bunny ear DIY headband for kids! I first whipped up a pair of these ears for Paige last year with whatever fabric and material I had laying around. I loved how they came out and was even more surprised that she kept them on her head while hunting for eggs! After finding […]

Lemon Lavender Cake

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I’ve hit the 39 week mark of this pregnancy and we decided to take a much needed day off from working on the new house.  Even the pup has been relaxing with us today!  So while we were lounging on the couch, binge watching a Nexflix murder documentary, I thought it’d be a good time […]

Garden Baby Shower

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You know when you’re planning a party and you decide, “I’m just going to keep it simple.  We’ll have it at the house, set up outside.  It’ll be casual.  No big deal”.  Then you start pulling together the guest list, thinking about a menu, panicking about the weather and looking around your house at everything […]

Velvet Hair Tie DIY and Baby News!

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I can’t believe it’s been, embarrassingly, two months since I last blogged – but I feel like I have a good excuse!  Time is flying by over here and our days have been spent working, house hunting, and training our puppy.  We’re trying to get these big things done before our baby arrives in July.  […]

Lace Gingerbread Cookies

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Getting this recipe up before December 25th is the real Christmas miracle.  Life has been a little different around here since my last post.  If you’ve been following along on Instagram you’ll know Erick and I recently got a new puppy! (Ranger, an eleven week old Siberian husky).  So between adjusting to life with him, […]

Preserving Your Wedding Bouquet – DIY

Wedding Bouquet DIY_Twine And Braids

I’ve been married for five months now and I’m still wrapping up wedding items, including a wedding album I still need to put together and a dress I should probably do something with.  But one thing I tackled recently was this DIY to preserve a tiny bit of my wedding bouquet.  The day after my […]

Weekend in the Adirondacks

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Erick and I are feeling relaxed and refreshed after spending the weekend in the woods of the Adirondacks.  We both turned thirty in the beginning of September and decided to plan a fall getaway to celebrate.  While we were considering where to go we looked into a few ideas; a bed and breakfast somewhere in […]

Autumn Porch Decor

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Erick and I are quickly learning how exhausting (and time consuming!) house hunting can be.  So we were both happy to take the past Sunday off so he could watch football and I could spend some time sprucing up our back porch for autumn.  After living in an apartment for four years I’ve been eager […]

Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake With Lavender Glaze

Blueberry Pound Cake_Twine And Braids

This is the first recipe post I worked on and photographed since we moved, and let me just say, it was hard.  I have less counter space and most of my kitchen supplies are in storage.  I also could not figure out where I was going to take the photos.  I started on the back […]